Everybody knows that Hades makes an excellent evil guy for modern media. ( if you forget that hes just a hardworking grumblepuss that loves his wife and kids)
Hes the god of the dead!!! That’s evil right!?
But I’m here to say that’s hokey, and having hades as your BBEG ( big bad evil guy) shows you lack creative drive.
If your going to have a good bbeg in the greek myth genre, I would go as far as to say Hephaestus is the greatest choice out there.
Think about it. He was cast off Olympus by his parent for simply having a noodly leg.
His intelligence is on par with the likes of Athena in regards to craftsmanship, yet remains unrecognized.
His wife left him for another man ( regardless of if you follow the classical thier still married but hes a cuck it still applies)
Hephaestus is the god of fire, creativity, industry, craft, and metalworking.
Hes building an unstoppable robot army in his foundry under Mt. Etna.
Every creation of his that has been stopped by prior heroes, from the Stymphalion crowd to the mighty Talos( his giant gundam oc) were merely prototypes to test the design, and thousands of millions more models are being pumped out on a daily basis and his invasion plan is almost about to begin.
Protagonist of story has to find away to stop Forge Daddy from setting the world ablaze, and casting the remains of humanity in plaster and bronze.