Muses in Popular Culture - Thalia

Thalia

• The comic mask of Thalia featured in each title card of every Three Stooges short produced from the 1945 Idiots Deluxe until their final one in 1959, Sappy Bull Fighters.
• Thalia features in the 1997 Walt Disney Pictures film Hercules, appearing alongside the muses Calliope, Clio, Melpomene and Terpsichore, who collectively serve as a Greek chorus. Portrayed as a short and plump, she has the deepest voice amongst the five Muses depicted and true to nature, often makes the funniest comments. She was voiced by Roz Ryan, who reprised the role in the subsequent TV series.
• In the Static Shock episode "Hard as Nails", Harley Quinn uses the alias "Thalia".
• In the maxi-series 'Countdown to Final Crisis', it is also Harley Quinn who is temporarily bestowed the aspect of Thalia to fight for the gods.
• Thalia is a character in the 2007 musical Xanadu, which is based on the 1980 film of the same name. Her part is always played by a man in drag. She was played by Curtis Holbrook in the original Broadway production.
• A teenaged Thalia is the narrator and one of the three lead characters in Clea Hantman's Goddesses series.
• In the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series, one of the lead characters is named Thalia Grace. Like her namesake, she is a daughter of Zeus.