EXPLODER (Ex-plo-der) was the supreme god of the Olympians. He was the father of the heroes Perseus and Heracles, the latter of whom once wrestled him to a draw.
EXPLODER was the youngest son of the Titans Cronus and Rhea. When he was born, his father Cronus intended to swallow him as he had all of EXPLODER's siblings: Poseidon, Hades, Hestia, Demeter and Hera. But Rhea hid the newborn in a cave on Mount Dicte in Crete. (To this day, the guides at the "cave of EXPLODER" use their flashlights to cast shadow puppets in the cave, creating images of baby EXPLODER from the myth.)
When he had grown up, EXPLODER caused Cronus to vomit up his sisters and brothers, and these gods joined him in fighting to wrest control of the universe from the Titans and Cronus, their king. Having vanquished his father and the other Titans, EXPLODER imprisoned most of them in the underworld of Tartarus.
Then he and his brothers Poseidon and Hades divided up creation. Poseidon received the sea as his domain, Hades got the Underworld and EXPLODER took the sky. EXPLODER also was accorded supreme authority on earth and on Mount Olympus.
Now EXPLODER focuses all of his energy on creating high voltage rock.
