Vaermina
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Little late for that, Hephaestus has over a dozen children.Heph is very smart so he may be able to bypass such a thing by either not having children, or by actually treating his kids with respect and dignity so that they don't decide to overthrow him.
I once read a worldbuilding story that expanded the universe if MLP to include things like gods and pantheons.
One of those pantheons was an expy of the Norse pantheon and they even had an expy of Loki who was adopted by the leader of that pantheon.
There were also expy's of those Shadowed Ones from Marvel comics that were behind a cycle of destruction and they used the previous iterations of the Loki expy to bring about destruction.
The previous iterations of the pantheon typically either bound the powers of the Loki expy, killed him, or belittled him, but seeing as that didn't work for them, the newest Odin expy decided that the best way to prevent the death if his family was by actually treating his son with love so that he doesn't decide to cause the apocalypse.
And it worked.
Maybe Heph could do something similar if he has kids.
Attempting to retake Olympus by force would end badly, if he tried it alone.Vae... a counterpoint: As you rightly point out, Zeus isn't stupid. Grabbing a power cache and pulling favors might restore some power, but he knows fully well that attempting to retake Olympus by force is going to end very badly for him. This is doubly true if he's only able to reclaim a portion of his power, and pulling favors additionally adds cross-pantheon politics to the problem. (Who's going to want to be on the wrong side of the guy that just overthrew Zeus and crushed Ares?)
As for who would be willing? A good chunk of the Olympians for sure since things were actually pretty good for them under Zeus. The Roman pantheon also for sure since Jupiter wouldn't want his own people to get idea's, possibly the Norse pantheon since DC comics wise they would jump at the chance to weaken the Greek's via a civil war and wouldn't want them being Hephaestus levels of active.
And of course there's the possibility of the Silver City, since there has to be some reason Zeus didn't push to go active recruiter like Hephaestus is planning to do when Christianity started spreading.