When Meg mentions Hercules' name again, this helps Pain and Panic suddenly remember the person they failed to kill as a baby, making Hades furious with them. Meg mentioning Hercules' name initially puzzles Pain and Panic, as the name sounds familiar to them both, but they don't know why Pain suggests that perhaps they owe Hercules money. Some years later, Hades discovers that Hercules is still alive when his slave Megara mentions a man named Hercules interfered when she tried to recruit Nessus, the river guardian, into joining Hades' team. However, Pain decides it is better for them to not tell Hades of their failure than to admit it. Unaware of this, Pain and Panic attack him in the guise of snakes and discover that because he did not drink the last drop, he has retained his godly strength and they are beaten back. However, they are startled by Aclemene and Amphitrion before they can give the baby the very last drop of potion. After they manage to do so, they then feed Hercules a potion, which would make him mortal and kill him. They are ordered by Hades to kidnap the baby god Hercules. In Hercules, Pain and Panic's main role is as comic relief. His yellow eyes are much larger and set even closer together, and his lower eyelids having a darker shade of blue. His nose is enormous and pointed, with prominent nostrils, sharply contrasting with Pain. Panic does not have hair like his friend and instead has much larger horns that are the teal color as his skin, unlike Pain's black ones. His wings, which have teal-blue membranes, seem too small and seemingly useless as Pain. His arms, though just as thin as Pain's, are much longer and end in four-fingered hands, as are his legs, which end in two-toed feet with navy toenails. Panic is much thinner and taller than his partner, with very even and straight teeth, as opposed to Pain's jagged, pointed ones. When he shapeshifts, it is usually into something tall or thin (or both) and colored in blue tones. However, he is easily spooked, which causes accidents and messes up plans. While he is slightly less cunning than Pain, his paranoia means he is very much more cautious and rather cynical at times, so he might actually be the smarter one of the two. Panic (voiced by Matt Frewer) is the thin green-blue imp with long horns. His yellow eyes are set very close together, with a thin, black uni-brow, and his upper eyelids having a darker shade of purple. His nose is very small and a darker shade of pink than the rest of his skin. Pain's hair is maroon and styled into two horns, with his real, black horns sprouting out just behind, and his pointed tail is the same color as his hair. His wings, which have purple membranes, seem too small to actually fly with. His arms, though just as thin as Panic's, are spindly and end in four-fingered hands, as are his legs, which are much stockier and end in two-toed feet. Pain is much shorter and wider than his partner, with a large mouth filled with sharp teeth. He is the more assertive of the duo, and while more cunning, less likely to think things through properly, which is what gets him into painful situations. When he shape-shifts, it is usually into something short or fat (or both), and generally colored in red tones. True to his name, he is repeatedly injured through the film and animated series. Pain (voiced by Bobcat Goldthwait) is the fat purple-red imp with little horns and a bitten bat wing on the left side. Hades uses them as pawns in his schemes, including keeping an eye on Megara, shifting into bunnies, gophers, chipmunks, and birds to do so, and when he loses his temper, he occasionally uses them as punching bags. Their shifting abilities do not seem to extend to voice-mimicking, and they have to do the best they can with their own voices. Their shape-shifting abilities extend to being capable of shifting only part of their bodies, shifting into shapes both larger and smaller than they themselves are, and even more importantly, merging into a single form however, this seems to be a more temporary and harder-to-control ability. They appear to be immortal and capable of regeneration, but due to being demonic rather than godly, both imps are capable of feeling pain. Neither Pain nor Panic are especially loyal to Hades, and serve him only because they fear him and possibly because he owns their souls.
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