Some Stuff Heracles Did (Pt.1) - Greek Mythology Explained

**Some Stuff Heracles Did (Pt. 1) - Greek Mythology Explained** is the 6th episode of Jake Doubleyoo's series Greek Mythology and the 14th episode of his Mythologies series overall.

## Synopsis

*Hey check it out it's everyone's favorite hero, H̶e̶r̶c̶u̶l̶e̶s̶ Heracles, and his famous t̶w̶e̶l̶v̶e̶ ten labors.*

## Plot

Jake Doubleyoo starts the episode by asking the normal question of the episode as usual but in a jokingly vain sort of way before starting the episode.

Zeus loved women quite a lot but not all the women felt quite the same about him, one day Zeus saw a lady named Alcmene but she was unfortunately already married to a dude named Amphitryon. Zeus was disappointed as he would apparently never cross the sanctity of marriage (despite doing so multiple times) so he transformed himself into Amphitryon and had Helios make the night unnaturally long so he could romance Alcmene. The next day Amphitryon came home to his wife's confusion and surprise and the 2 realized that it was Zeus' fault causing them to say "Not Again, Zeus!". Alcmene later on gave birth to 2 children named Alcaeus and Iphicles who were twins from both Zeus' romancing and Amphitryon's romancing (which apparently a real life thing). However remembering what Hera does to those that have extra-marital affairs with Zeus and produce children she abandoned Alcaeus. Athena later found the child and brought him to Hera and renamed to Heracles causing Hera to breastfeed the baby, this gave Heracles a major strength boost, afterwards Athena brought him back to Alcmene and Amphitryon.

Hera realizing her stepdaughter had tricked her sent 2 snakes to kill Heracles but due to the strength he gained he did not mind them. As Heracles grew so did his strength and he had a minor temper, so when his teacher Linus gave him some constructive criticism on his music skills Heracles killed him. When the Police Officer arrived, Heracles not wanting to get in trouble due to his temper lied and stated that he acted in self defense due to Linus "attacking him" which they bought. Amphitryon becoming afraid of Heracles strength as he grew gave his stepson the job of watching the cattle which Heracles did but due to his strength always found something to kill. Later on after killing the Lion of Cithairon and making a pelt out of its body he went to show it off only to be met King Erginos's minions who stated that the king decided he wanted a tribute from Thebes because he is king and nobody can do anything about it. This angered Heracles who ripped their noses and hands off to give back to the king as tribute, the minions came back to the king and explained the story and how they told Heracles that what he did wasn't an acceptable tribute but he didn't care.

Erginos angered by this attempted to invade Thebes leading to Heracles easily killing all of his soldiers and then ripping off the king's butt before handing it back to him. This led all of Thebes to believe that Heracles was awesome and so the king Creon gave his daughter Megara to Heracles to be his wife as a thank you for saving the city. Hera however, tired of hearing that Heracles was a hero went down to earth and shot him with an Angry Ray to manipulate him into killing his wife and children. Heracles saddened by this went to the Oracle of Delphi who informed him he had a cousin named Eurystheus and told him if he did 12 labors, only for Apollo to remind her it's 10, that he could become a diety. Heracles was overjoyed by this and jokingly stated he should of killed his family years ago, Heracles then went to his cousin who told him his first task is to kill the Nemian Lion unbeknownst to Heracles, Eurystheus was jealous of him and so was attempting to get him killed but Heracles came back with the lion in a millisecond. Eurystheus was shocked by this as the Nemian Lion can't be stabbed so Heracles stated he just choked the lion to death, suddenly the citizens started to come out to sing Heracles praises and an Old Man offered to let Heracles mate with his Old Man's 50 Daughters. Eurystheus getting more and more jealous by the minute gave the next task that being to kill the Lernaen Hydra, so with his half-nephew Iolaus and they arrived at the swamp where the hydra lived.

However Heracles found that his normal brute force tactics weren't very suited for this task, however with his half-nephew's help the 2 burned the hydra and Heracles used its blood to make poison arrows. Heracles then went back home with the hydra but Eurystheus still very jealous of Heracles told Heracles he broke an unspoken rule by using his half-nephew's help so it went form 10 to 11 labors. Heracles' next task was to capture the Gold Antlered Seranian Hind however the creature was super fast so Heracles had to run just as fast, Heracles chased it for a year and when it got tired captured it. Heracles walking back home met up with his half-sister Artemis who told Heracles that if heart the deer she would kill him. Heracles informed her he had no thoughts of killing the creature and was just capturing it to atone for murder, Artemis was fine with this as long as he let the deer go after which as soon as he showed it to Eurystheus it ran off. Heracles then decided to take a break because Jake at the time of animating this episode needed a break due to animation taking time and so decided to settle on a "To be continued"

## Characters

* Zeus
* Alcmene(debut)
* Amphitryon(debut)
* Heracles/Alceus(debut)
* Iphicles(debut)
* Athena
* Hera
* Linus(debut; death)
* Police Officer(debut)
* Lion of Cithairon(debut; death) (remade into loin cloth)
* King Erginos(debut)
* King Erginos' Minions(debuts)
* Creon, King of Thebes(debut)
* Megara(debut; death)
* Heracles, Jr(debut; death)
* Heracles, Jr, Jr(debut; death)
* Heracles, Jr, Jr, Jr(debut; death)
* Heracles, Jr, Jr, Jr, Jr(debut; death)
* Oracle of Delphi(debut)
* Apollo
* Nemian Lion(debut death)
* Heracles Fan Girl(debut)
* Heracles Fan Boy(debut)
* Old Man(debut)
* 50 Daughters(debuts)
* Lernanen Hydra(debut; death)
* Iolaus(debut)
* Gold Antlered Seranian Hind(debut)
* Artemis