![]() Hades, realizing that Megara is Hercules' weakness, confronts Hercules and offers him a deal: he will ensure Megara's safety if he gives up his strength for 24 hours. Hercules, ecstatic from the date, refuses to believe Phil's warning about Megara, prompting Phil to quit. He leaves to tell Hercules of Megara's association with Hades, but does not hear her refusal to help destroy Hercules. However, Phil ends the date, being enraged at Hercules for skipping training. At first, she was trying to learn his weaknesses, but she eventually fell in love with him. Later on, Megara convinces Hercules to play hookie and on a date. However, he cannot tell Hercules what that means, as he must figure it out himself and "look inside his heart". Upon meeting with Zeus, Hercules believes himself ready to rejoin the gods, but Zerus tells him that his celebrity status is not enough to regain his immortality, as being famous is not the same as being a "true hero". After defeating the Hydra, Hercules continues his heroics and becomes famous throughout Greece. His victory earns him newfound fame and adoration from the citizens of Thebes as well as the anger of Hades. However, the Hydra's heads multiply and overwhelm him until he smashes his fists into the mountainside, causing an avalanche that buries the Hydra under a mountain of rocks. A crowd of Thebans watch as Hercules faces the Hydra although he struggles to fight it and it swallows him whole, he cuts his way out by decapitation. After freeing them, Hercules inadvertently releases a giant serpent-like creature, the Hydra. Megara appears and lures Hercules into saving two boys, who are actually Pain and Panic in disguise, who are trapped in a cave in a rocky canyon. Meanwhile, Hercules arrives in Thebes and announces himself as a hero, only for the Thebans to dismiss him as an amateur and refuse to give him a chance to prove himself. Unbeknownst to Hercules, Megara is unwillingly working for Hades and relates the events to him through this, he learns that Hercules is still alive and plots to kill him at the start of his career. Along the way, Hercules saves Megara from Nessus, a centaur acting as the river guardian, and falls in love with her. Having reached adulthood and passed his training, Hercules sets off with Phil to become a hero in Thebes. Phil initially declines returning to the hero training business, unconvinced that Hercules was the son of Zeus, but is convinced after Zeus strikes him with lightning. ![]() Zeus tells Hercules that he must prove himself a true hero and instructs him to find the trainer of heroes Philoctetes (or "Phil"), while giving him the winged horse Pegasus to assist him in his journey. Shortly afterward, Amphitryon and Alcmene inform Hercules that he is adopted, inspiring him to visit the temple of Zeus, where he learns of his godhood. Zeus and the other gods discover the kidnapping too late, and because Hercules is now mortal, he cannot return to Mount Olympus.Īs a teenager, Hercules is unable to control his godlike strength and struggles to be accepted by others, which worsens when his clumsiness and uncoordinated strength leads to him accidentally destroying a marketplace. The couple then adopts the child, considering his arrival a gift from the gods since they are childless. However, the arrival of two mortals, Amphitryon and Alcmene, causes Hercules to miss the final drop of the potion, causing him to retain his superhuman strength despite becoming mortal. Knowing that, as a god, Hercules is immortal and invulnerable to harm, Hades sends his lackeys Pain and Panic to kidnap Hercules and turn him mortal using a magic potion. However, Hercules' evil uncle Hades, who wants to take control of Olympus and the world, along with all of creation, is enraged at this. In the original movie, instead of being the demigod son of Zeus and the mortal Alcmene, Hercules is born on Mount Olympus as a god to Zeus and Hera. As a hero, Hercules wears a brown-orange brass Cuirass-like tank armor tunic with a blue cape. ![]() However, Hercules still retains some of his teenage flaws, such as being shy and awkward. After completing his hero training, Hercules physically changes from being slender to being top-heavy and muscular, having larger biceps and pectorals and a thicker neck, as well as a more confident stance. ![]() As a teenager, Hercules is depicted as tall and thin, with exaggerated proportions. Young Hercules wears a one-sleeved Greek tunic. He is a young man with orange hair and eyebrows and blue eyes. In the movie, Josh Keaton voices Hercules as a teenager, Tate Donovan voices him as an adult, and Roger Bart provides his singing voice in " Go the Distance". Hercules is the titular character of the franchise, who is based on the mythological Heracles, commonly referred to by the Roman spelling, Hercules.
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