Thor. It's my last day of Zeus-ing about and I'm going to enjoy it." Getty Images With Crowe's role all but solidified, the inclusion of Zeus opens up a huge possibility for the future of Marvel movies in using their roster of Greek-god-based characters. Including, of course, Zeus' son Hercules. The Marvel comics version of Zeus, and indeed the rest of their mythology-based characters, is mostly based on the one in Greek legends, but with some extra superhero zhuzh going on. He's one of the Olympians — the human-appearing beings who come from the dimension Olympus (rather than the mountain). Like in the myth, he's the god of the heavens, sky, weather, and can smite people with lightning bolts. And just like in the myth, Zeus is a total horndog.