Queen Hera did not have a particularly good reputation among ordinary people, but she was certainly famous enough. Never mind whether she spent every day beating up mistresses; she appeared in virtually every well-known Greek Mythology story, so she had plenty of fame.
And from that, one could infer in reverse that Hera was capable. After all, in the Marvel Universe, most people knew only Odin and not Frigga. The so-called Queen of the Gods merely played a supporting role to the God King, while Hera could always stand against Zeus.
Although she had never managed to stop him, in most stories, those lovers—and even Zeus himself—feared Hera. That showed the Queen of the Gods' formidable reputation.
But Hera was the goddess of marriage, and her divine office doomed her to be bound to Zeus. She could hardly preside over marriage and then get divorced herself, could she?
Hera also knew that her fundamental interests aligned with those of Zeus and Mount Olympus. So, her so-called beatings of mistresses were merely for show. For all the fighting, no one had truly been beaten to death. In truth, since they did not touch Hera's core interests, she could not be bothered to care.
Therefore, to sideline Zeus and install Hera, Hera first had to feel that her core interests had been threatened. She needed to recognize fundamentally that Zeus was beyond saving, and that if she continued indulging him, both she and all of Mount Olympus would be in danger.
So what were Hera's core interests?
The answer was obvious if one thought about it. None of Zeus's enormous pile of sons and daughters by his mistresses had ever truly shaken Hera's position. The more outstanding among them, such as Apollo and Hermes, were merely major gods, equal in rank to