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Seekquaze1 wrote: Kronos300 wrote: Normally, people idolize Hercules for being a great hero and paragon of men.

I think Rick intended to make his readers to look at Hercules from another point of view. Maybe he intended to highlight the point that just killing a bunch of monsters and being popular doesn't make anyone a great hero.

And its true. Hercules had so many affairs, killed anyone and everyone when he got temper tantrums and was pretty psychotic.

In all of his stories, sons of Poseidon are depicted as villains, and if you look at the list of people Hercules killed, many of them are sons of Poseidon. The problem I have with this view is that it ignores Hercules' good qualities. His willingness to undergo punishment when did did kill someone unlawfully or who did not "deserve it." He endured this to the point of humiliating himself by dressing up as a woman. His willingness to do whatever he could to help a friend. The fact that many of the people he killed were either tyrants or wronged him first. Did he have anger-management issues? Yes, but he was not a psychotic killer that went around killing anything that annoyed him. That was only a small part of his character.

The dressing up as a woman part doesn't count. That was a punishment from Zeus, for purposely killing a good friend because of an insult offered to Hercules from the boy's father. Hercules took the punishment, but he vowed to get revenge on his friend's father , because he blamed him for being sent to the queen.