The Disturbing REAL STORY Behind Disney's Hercules

The messed up origins of Hercules.
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Many of us know the Disney movie, “Hercules” as a feel-good story about a hunky Greek God. In the film, Hercules was turned into a demigod by the nefarious Hades. He had to perform several acts of heroism in order to reinstate his God status and return to Olympus with his parents, Zeus and Hera. Luckily he still had his superhuman strength. But things got complicated when he fell in love with Megara and sacrificed himself to save her. Because of his selfless heroic act, his God status was returned and he was allowed to return to Olympus. But he decided to stay with his mortal true love instead. Aw, so sweet! But that’s not how the real story goes.

The Disney film is a pretty big departure from the way Greek mythology tells the story of Hercules. Ancient tales describe his journey as one of revenge, savagery, and madness. Here’s the disturbing real story behind Disney’s “Hercules.”

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[InvincibleRage]

The real one would've been a hell of a great adult rated R live-action film.

[pinkunicorn]

I actually knew all this lol. Hercules actual name was Heracles and he was named after Hera. His Roman name is Hercules.

[biancadiangelo]

Technically, Hercules is his roman name. His greek name is Heracles. Also Diana is the roman version of Artemis.

[billle]

The movie basically broke the original mythology

[nicolecailles]

1.Eurytheus is herc's cousin
2. Eurytheus played the insanity card for herc, herc tried to kill himself
3.The first few labors were told incorrectly
4.Aplollo never said Herc could go to olympus
5. The centaur story is not real/ the other few labors were also told incorrectly
6. hippolyta kindly gave the belt to herc but the amazons thought herc was kidnaping hippolyta and started a fight
7. the golden apples were not zeus' and atlas only helped herc because atlas thought he could trick herc into holding the world but it did not work
8. hera and Zeus did not bring Hercules up to be a god, Hercules married a goddess

[eve]

"So that's the real story behind Hercules" That's not the real story about Hercules. *That's quite accurate but a few things like the ending weren't

[evanchu]

The greek name of Hercules is actually Heracles, translates to "Hera's glory"

[codybrooke]

I love Greek mythology, and you guys hit most of the points of the story right on the spot. I watched Hercules after knowing the Greek story, and I was enraged about how incorrect it was. (Because I'm this kind of person, I even made a list of all the things wrong with it. The grand total: 291 things.)

[geraldgrenier]

Apollo on charged Heracles (aka Hercules) with 10 tasks, but the King said he cheated on 2 of them and give him "make up tasks" bring the number to 12

[KellyClement]

I heard in the town Hercules and his family lived, a mist was swept into the land from a nearby volcano. The inhabitants of that town showed signs of dementia, but only Hercules became violent.

[RomanusVII]

Btw, that picture with “real” was not Hercules, but it was St. Michael the Archangel, an angel.

[aeivie]

Actually Hercules died then became a god

[islandboy]

Childhood memories destroyed🙁
But awsome video🖒🖒🖒

[CDHfilms]

They should've made a movie about "Perseus" At least he would've had a happy ending.

[KoninaCosplay]

Actually I'm Greek and what you said about the snakes is a mistake. Ιn fact Hercules drowned the snakes. But it's a good video

[supermen]

Maybe Hercules in this universe is his reincarnation to live life without his past sins and a course this is same for the Zeus and Her.

[koopalibrary]

For some reason Hercules real story sounds more like a person whose father cheated on his wife. Whom as a result was not accepted by his stepmother and not accepted into their household. As a result Hercules grew up with a lot of issues with anger problems whom blamed his stepmother for all of his problems. In one of his fits of rage he ended up killing his wife and children. Out of fear of the consequences he fled. Eventually he was rightfully imprisoned and forced to do manuel labour and/or forced to fight as a gladiator. He hated the king for that. Even in prison he ran into trouble and killed a bunch of his fellow inmates/gladiators. He was then forced into duty when the country ended up in war with a neighbouring country where he stole a bunch of loot. But he needed to allow the king (his overlord) the pick. And he got what was left over. In the end he died and rested in so-called peace.

[CocoaJae]

Heracles (Greek) Hercules(Roman) didn’t steal the queen of the amazons belt, she was actually going to give it to him. Hercules and the Queen both agreed to meet and have some food and wine. Hera found out and disguised herself as one of the Amazon women and told them Hercules was planning on killing the queen and taking her belt. The Amazon women stormed towards where Hercules and the queen were meeting, hence making Hercules think that the queen was trying to ambush him. He then killed her and collected the belt. You’re welcome 😊

[nomercy]

They actually made a movie in 2014 of Hercules being half mortal and half human and hera sending two snakes but Hercules takes them out as a baby

[glendiousplayz]

When they don’t know the real fking source of hercules