Profile: Hercules

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Zeus (father), Alcmena (mother, deceased), Gaea (great-grandmother), Ouranos (great-grandfather), Cronus (grandfather), Rhea (grandmother), Amphitryon (step-father, deceased), Pylius (adoptive father, deceased), Licymnius (uncle, deceased), Neptune, Pluto (uncles), Electryon (maternal grandfather, deceased), Hera, Demeter, Hestia (aunts), Ares, Apollo, Dionysus, Hermes, Hephaestus (half-brothers), Iphicles (half-brother, deceased), Argeius, Melas, Oenonus (cousins, deceased), Aphrodite, Athena, Artemis, Eileithyia, Helen, Discord, Iris, Persephone, Pandia (half-sisters), Megaera (first wife, deceased), Deianeira (second wife, deceased), Hebe (half-sister/third wife, separated), Iolaus (nephew, deceased), Eurystheus (cousin, deceased), Macaria (daughter, deceased), Alexiares, Anicetus (sons by Hebe), Telephus (son by Auge, deceased), Hyllus (son by Deianeira, deceased), Ctessipus (son by Deidameia, deceased), Lamus (son by Omphale, deceased), Cleodaius (son by unknown servant girl, deceased), Tlepolemus (son by Astyoche, deceased), Scythes, Gelonus, Agathyrsus (sons by unknown priestess, deceased), Celtus (son by Celtina, deceased), Fifty unnamed sons by the fifty daughters of King Thespius (all deceased), Hylas (foster son, deceased); Alexander the Great (unconfirmed descendant, deceased), Argos, Arimathes (alternate future sons), Bombshell (alternate future daughter), Perseus, Pelops, Tantalus, Lynceus, Epaphus (ancestors, deceased).

• True Invulnerability: As one of the most powerful Olympian gods, Hercules has Incredible protection from physical and energy attacks.
• Resistance: Hercules has Unearthly Resistance to Fire, Cold, and Toxins.
• Invulnerability: CL1000; like all Olympians, Hercules is immune to Disease and Aging.
• Immortality: CL1000 true immortal; Olympians are immortal on the Earthly plane, if reduced to 0 Health and Shift-0 Endurance, do not die. Their Karma reserves (including that in pools with others) are reduced to 0 and they automatically began healing. In the dimension of Olympus and in other planes, the immortal Olympians (including Hercules) may be slain. If an Olympian is wounded, his or her godly life force will enable him or her to recover at a superhuman rate. It would take an injury of such magnitude that it incinerates an Olympian or disperses a major portion of his or her bodily molecules to cause him or her to die. Even then, it may be possible for a god of greater or equal power, or several gods acting together, to revive the deceased Olympian before the god's life essence is beyond resurrection.
• Regeneration: Unearthly 
• Warrior Madness: Hercules can be easily angered and can fly off into a berserker rage if offended. Ignore all Stun results; All attacks are at (+1CS), & Unearthly resistance to mind control and other mental attacks. A successful Psyche FEAT must be made to come out of it. 
• Hyper-Leaping: Hercules has extremely powerful leg muscles and can leap with Shift-X ability.
• Allspeak: Do to the Allspeak (also called All-Tongue), Hercules can communicate in all languages, Earth's dialects, and various alien languages.

Weapons Specialist: Bow & Marksman (+3CS); Wrestling (Pankration); Weapons Master (all forms of weaponry used in ancient Greece); Sharp Weapons; Blunt Weapons; Thrown Weapons; Boxing; Brawling; Bilingual: Greek and English. Hercules also has extensive knowledge of Ancient Greek Lore, Olympian Lore and Mythology as a Olympian god.

Extremely muscular physique.

Hercules is a master at hand to hand combatant particularly skilled in Greco-Roman wrestling and his own invented form, Pankration. He has defeated powerful opponents using a deadly combination of his vast strength and his impressive fighting skills. He is one of the greatest combatants to have ever walked the earth. Even Thor who is another mighty combatant admitted Hercules as slightly better than himself in that particular aspect of hand-to-hand combat.

Hercules is well known for his mastery over the bow which rivals or even surpasses that of legendary archers such as Trickshot and Hawkeye. He is one of the greatest archers the world has ever seen (because of his bitter memories of Nessus's treachery and Deianeira's suicide, he prefers not to use them).  Hercules is also highly skilled and experienced, with all forms of weaponry used in ancient Greece (He is also able to throw javelins and throwing discs with great aim and overall accuracy).

In Greek Myth Hercules is famous for his Twelve Labors, but he is also known for instituting the first Olympic Games in the ancient Greece city of Elis, in honor of his father, Zeus. It is said that Hercules taught men how to wrestle and measured out the stadium for the length of the footrace.

His struggles made Hercules the perfect embodiment of an idea the Greeks called "pathos", the experience of virtuous struggle and suffering which would lead to fame and, in Hercules' case, immortality.

Although not a true physical weakness, Hercules is easy influenced by beautiful Woman, and his womanizing skills are legendary.

• Weapon-Golden Mace: This enchanted CL1000 Adamantine weapon, forged for Hercules by the Olympian god Hephaestus and in Hercules hands inflicts up to Shift-X Blunt damage.
• Nemean Lion Skin: Unearthly True Invulnerability; The skin of the Nemean Lion protects Hercules from all physical and enerygy attacks.

Hercules' love of combat and sense of fair play prevent him from using his Golden Mace and Nemean Lion Skin armor frequently.  However, when the situation does arrive for him to use them, these two items combined with Hercules natural strength and invulnerability turn Hercules, who is already a formidable combatant, into an almost unstoppable force of Olympus.

Avengers, Champions, Defenders, Heroes for Hire, and Olympian Gods (any that he is on good terms with at the time).

• The Gift: Hercules lives for adventure and to bestow his "Gift" (a mighty punch) on miscreants.

Hercules is the son of Zeus, king of the Olympian gods, and a mortal woman who lived in ancient Greece some three thousand years ago. Recognizing the need for a son who would be powerful enough to defend both the Olympian gods and humanity from future dangers he foresaw, Zeus seduced Alcmena in the guise of her husband, King Amphitryon of Troezen. Thanks to Zeus's enchantment, Hercules was born with the potential for extraordinary strength, which he first displayed before he was even one year old by strangling two serpents which attacked him. As an adult, Hercules is best known for his celebrated Twelve Labors, which were performed in part to prove his worthiness for immortality to Zeus (One of these Labors, the cleansing of the Augean Stables, was actually performed by the Eternal called the Forgotten One, who was sometimes mistaken for Hercules). 

In the course of these Labors, Hercules provoked the wrath of three immortals who remain his enemies to this day. By slaughtering the man-eating Stymphalian Birds, he enraged the war god Ares, to whom they were sacred. In temporarily capturing Cerberus, the three-headed hound that serves as guardian to the Olympian underworld, Hercules offended Pluto, the lord of that realm. By killing the Nemean Lion, the Hydra and other creatures spawned by the inconceivably grotesque and powerful monster Typhoeus, Hercules gained the bitter enmity of Typhon, the immortal humanoid offspring of Typhoeus and a Titaness.

However, it was the centaur Nessus who caused Hercules' mortal demise. Nessus kidnapped Hercules' wife Deianeira, whereupon Hercules shot him with an arrow. Feigning a wish to make amends, the dying centaur told Deianeira how to make a love charm from his allegedly enchanted blood, aware that it was now tainted with the lethal poison of the Hydra, in which Hercules had dipped his arrows. Some time after Nessus' death, Deianeira, distraught over her husband's latest infidelity, rubbed the supposed love charm into Hercules' shirt. Zeus then intervened, consuming the pyre with his thunderbolts and bringing Hercules to Olympus to be made a true immortal.

In an alternate future of the 23rd century, Hercules is the sole survivor of the Olympians, after Zeus had decided that the time had come for them to leave this plane of existence. Hercules then left Olympus to become the father to a new race of gods.