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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.