Ercole Visconti

**Ercole Visconti** is the main antagonist in the Disney/Pixar animated feature film, Luca.

## Background

Ercole Visconti is the 18-year-old bully of the small Italian town of Portorosso and repeat champion of the town’s Portorosso Cup race. He’s a Vespa-owning, pompadoured blowhard who believes that everyone loves him and enjoys watching him eat sandwiches. He has two worshipful followers, Ciccio and Guido, who accompany him everywhere, ready to do his bidding.

## Physical Appearance

Ercole is a tall, tan-skinned young man with dark brown hair that is slicked back and brown eyes. A slight, barely-visible mustache lies just below his nose. He wears a dark blue tee-shirt with light blute stripes, blue-grey shorts and black dress shoes. He also has a hot pink sweater tied around his neck like a scarf.

## Personality

From his first to last appearance, Ercole is a very cocky and stuck-up person. He is a huge narcissist and only cares about himself. He shows a hatred towards Giulia, Luca and Alberto, and after Luca and Alberto's sea monster forms are revealed, he tries (and fails) to kill them both, showing a hatred to the sea monster race like the town of Portorosso used to.

After he is thrown in the fountain and betrayed by Guido and Ciccio, it is unknown if his personality has changed or stayed the same.

## Appearances

### *Luca*

In the Italian seaside town of Portorosso, Ercole has gained a notorious reputation as the local bully as a result of having won the town's annual Portorosso Cup five times in a row and constantly bragging about it to everyone, as well as constantly flaunting himself by loudly riding his Vespa through the town square and streets whilst blaring loud music from a radio. The children of Portorosso fear and hate him for his bullying, whilst the adults see him as an annoying nuisance. When he arrives into town on a shiny red Vespa with his two goons, Ciccio and Guido, carrying a sub for him, Luca and Alberto, having arrived to Portorosso to flee from Luca's parents, accidentally earn his ire after Luca kicks a ball that hits Ercole's Vespa, making it fall over (with Ciccio saving it from getting any major scratches). Upon learning that Luca was responsible, Ercole decides to mock him before threatening to dunk his face in the fountain, exposing him as a sea monster. Luckily, a girl named Giulia, who loathes Ercole for costing her the chance of winning the Portorosso Cup, saves Luca and Alberto just in time and takes them away, while Ercole eggs them on one last time by telling to go start a club "for losers".

Later, when Luca, Alberto and Giulia earn enough funds to buy their participation in the race, Ercole, Ciccio and Guido arrives to sign up for the race as well. After signing up, Ercole sees the three heroes signing up as well and orders Ciccio to steal their entry money. However, when Luca insults him by calling him a catfish (a bottom-feeder with sad little whiskers), Ercole decides to allow them to enter the race with the intention of destroying them.

During the days leading to the race, Ercole soon becomes suspicious of Luca and Alberto, as he discovers signs that they might be sea monsters. During the final day of training, Luca and Alberto get into an argument when the former suggests going to Giulia's school in Genoa to learn more. When Giulia catches up, Alberto decides to expose himself in front of Giulia, expecting Luca to do the same, but Luca, out of panic, calls Alberto out. This one act, coupled by Giulia's screaming, catches the attention of Ercole, who tries to capture Alberto with the intention of winning the prize money.

The next day, Luca, Giulia and Ercole are ready to begin to Portorosso Cup. Before the swimming portion, Ercole pours a whole container of olive oil onto Ciccio to make him more streamlined, revealing his cheating tricks. The race begins, but Ciccio struggles to complete his portion as fish are nipping at his body, allowing Giulia and Luca to complete the first leg. When Ciccio finally finishes the leg, Ercole forces Guido to the table to complete the second leg, which involves eating a whole plate of pasta. When Giulia manages to complete her plate, Ercole impatiently shoves the remaining pasta into Guido's mouth (much to the dismay of another participant, as she points out he's cheating) and quickly tags himself in to catch up with Giulia. At the same time, Luca manages to complete his plate and gets on his bike to finish the final leg.

As the bikers ride up the hill, Ercole manages to beat out Giulia, but Luca arrives and passes him up. Unfortunately, at this time, it begins to rain, jeopardizing Luca's chances of winning the race as the water would expose him as a sea monster. However, Alberto, having a change of heart, quickly catches up to Luca. Ercole decides to sideswipe Alberto, causing him to drop his umbrella and expose his sea monster identity. When Ercole sees the monster Alberto is, he quickly captures him, but Luca, wanting to save his friend, decides to expose his true self and rescues Alberto. As they race down the hill, Ercole starts acting more blatantly unhinged and obsessed with the idea of killing the two.

When Luca, Alberto, Giulia and Ercole get close to the end, Giulia decides to crash her bike into Ercole's to stop him from harming her friends, but she gets hurts herself in the process. Concerned for Giulia's safety, Luca and Alberto go help her up, but this results in the townspeople surrounding them, with the fishermen ready to kill them, alongside a deranged Ercole, who tries to rally the townsfolk that they are afraid of them because they are sea monsters. However, Luca puts his foot down and tells the bully off, saying that just because they're monsters doesn't mean they should be the subject of shunning. Massimo, having grown fond of the two boys and because they were looking after his daughter, tells the townsfolk that they are the winners of the Portorosso Cup on a technicality (their bike crossed the finish line). However, Ercole refuses to accept this and once again tries to convince everyone to kill them because they are monsters and that their win shouldn't matter, but when the townsfolk realize that they're harmless (and not wanting to get on the wrong side of Massimo), they decide to spare and leave them be. After Luca, Alberto and Giulia break his harpoon, Ercole demands Ciccio and Guido to give him another one and then insults them by calling them idiots and tells them to "be useful for once in their pathetic lives." Finally fed up with his constant mistreatment, they proceed to toss him into the fountain, shrinking his wool sweater and finally ending his winning streak, alongside his reign over Portorosso, Ercole is last seen crying over his wet and shrunken sweater, upset that he lost the cup and his reputation.

## Trivia

* Ercole's actor, Saverio Raimondo, reprises his role as Ercole in the Italian dub.
* Enrico Casarosa had confirmed Ercole's age to be around 18 or 19, meaning he has lied about his age being 16 for about two years.
	+ With this being said, Ercole had won the Portorosso Cup since he was around 13 or 14 years old.

## Gallery

### Concept art

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### Screenshots

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