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* GoodSamaritan: Hugo is just a humble and generous soul who helps out when he can because he's usually passing through, and it's basically no trouble for him. There is a hint that he's a bit of a showman and enjoys showing off his miraculous feats of strength, but it's always to help people.
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* GoodSamaritan: Hugo is just a humble and generous soul who helps out when he can because he's usually passing through, and it's basically no trouble for him. There is a hint that he's a bit of a showman and enjoys showing off his miraculous feats of strength, but it's always to help people.people, and he always plays off any praise with a magnanimous ThinkNothingOfIt.
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''Hugo Hercules'' was an American weekly comic strip published in the ''Chicago Tribune'', written and drawn by Wilhelm Heinrich Detlev Körner. It ran for five months, from 7 September 1902 to 11 January 1903, totaling seventeen strips. Despite its short run, it's considered one of the earliest {{Superhero}} comics, if not ''the'' first.
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''Hugo Hercules'' was an American weekly comic strip published in the ''Chicago Tribune'', written and drawn by Wilhelm Heinrich Detlev Körner. It ran for five months, from 7 September 1902 to 11 January 1903, totaling seventeen strips. Despite its short run, it's considered one of the earliest {{Superhero}} comics, if not ''the''first.
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''Hugo Hercules'' was an American weekly comic strip published in the ''Chicago Tribune'', written and drawn by Wilhelm Heinrich Detlev Körner. It ran for five months, from 7 September 1902 to 11 January 1903, totaling seventeen strips. Despite its short run, it's considered one of the earliest {{Superhero}} comics, if not ''the''
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* PublicDomainCharacter: The character wasn't a big hit, and is arguably only remembered in retrospect because [[Franchise/{{Superman}} a similar character]] would soon eclipse him in popularity and birth a brand new [[{{Superhero}} genre]].
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* PublicDomainCharacter: The character wasn't a big hit, and is arguably only remembered in retrospect because [[Franchise/{{Superman}} [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} a similar character]] would soon eclipse him in popularity and birth a brand new [[{{Superhero}} genre]].
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* SliceOfLife: This is basically the format of the series–it's very light-hearted and there's no overall plot or MythArc besides the day-to-day antics of an impossibly strong man lending a hand to people in various forms of need.
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* GoodSamaritan: Hugo is just a humble and generous soul who helps out when he can because he's usually passing through, and it's basically no trouble for him. There is a hint that he's a bit of a showman and enjoys showing off his miraculous feats of strength, but it's always to help people.
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* SuperheroPrevalenceStages: The Early Stage. Hugo's the one and only superhuman, and his villains are either regular human criminals, or [[TalkingAnimal inexplicably sentient, but otherwise normal, animals]].
* SuperheroPrevalenceStages: The Early Stage. Hugo's the one and only superhuman, and his villains are either regular human criminals, or [[TalkingAnimal inexplicably sentient, but otherwise normal, animals]].
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PublicDomainCharacter: The character wasn't a big hit, and is arguably only remembered in retrospect because [[Franchise/{{Superman}} a similar character]] would soon eclipse him in popularity and birth a brand new [[{{Superhero}} genre]].
* SuperheroPrevalenceStages: The Early Stage. Hugo's the one and only superhuman, most of his heroic acts are to rescue people from entirely mundane dangers (like a falling safe or a house fire), and his villains are either regular human criminals, or [[TalkingAnimal inexplicably sentient, but otherwise normal, animals]].
* SuperheroPrevalenceStages: The Early Stage. Hugo's the one and only superhuman, most of his heroic acts are to rescue people from entirely mundane dangers (like a falling safe or a house fire), and his villains are either regular human criminals, or [[TalkingAnimal inexplicably sentient, but otherwise normal, animals]].
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''Hugo Hercules'' was an American weekly comic strip published in the ''Chicago Tribune'', written and drawn by Wilhelm Heinrich Detlev Körner. It ran for five months, from 7 September 1902 to 11 January 1903, totaling seventeen strips. Despite its short run, it's considered one of the earliest {{Superhero}} comics, if not the ''the'' first.
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* FlatCharacter: Hugo. Besides his selflessness, he doesn't have that much of a personality. For his appearance in ''League'', Alan Moore reinvented him as a HitManWithAHeart MrViceGuy who casually murders [[Literature/{{Gladiator}} Hugo Danner]] and is heavily implied to be [[Myth/CelticMythology Cú Chulainn]].
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The titular Hugo Hercules is a gentleman with SuperStrength, who spends his time using his power to help damsels, deal with criminals, and tussle with unruly animals. That's more or less it. No capes, no cowls, no doomsday machines, no aliens wishing to exterminate half the universe. Just the day-to-day life of a well-meaning man who just so happens to have inhuman strength.
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The titular Hugo Hercules is a gentleman with SuperStrength, who spends his time using his power to help damsels, deal with criminals, and tussle with unruly animals. That's more or less it. No capes, no cowls, no supervillains, no doomsday machines, no aliens wishing to exterminate half the universe.machines. Just the day-to-day life of a well-meaning man who just so happens to have inhuman strength.
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''Hugo Hercules'' was an American weekly comic strip published in the ''Chicago Tribune'', written and drawn by Wilhelm Heinrich Detlev Körner. It ran for five months, from September 7, 1902 to January 11, 1903, totaling seventeen strips. Despite its short run, it's considered one of the earliest {{Superhero}} comics, if not the first.
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''Hugo Hercules'' was an American weekly comic strip published in the ''Chicago Tribune'', written and drawn by Wilhelm Heinrich Detlev Körner. It ran for five months, from 7 September 7, 1902 to 11 January 11, 1903, totaling seventeen strips. Despite its short run, it's considered one of the earliest {{Superhero}} comics, if not the first.
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* ProtoSuperhero: The very first one, in fact.
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* ProtoSuperhero: The very first one, one in a comic format, in fact.
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The titular Hugo Hercules is a gentleman with SuperStrength, who spends his time using his power to help damsels, deal with criminals, and tussle with unruly animals. That's more or less it. No capes, no cowls, no doomsday machines, no aliens wishing to exterminate half the universe. Just the day to day life of a well-meaning man who just so happens to have inhuman strength.
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The titular Hugo Hercules is a gentleman with SuperStrength, who spends his time using his power to help damsels, deal with criminals, and tussle with unruly animals. That's more or less it. No capes, no cowls, no doomsday machines, no aliens wishing to exterminate half the universe. Just the day to day day-to-day life of a well-meaning man who just so happens to have inhuman strength.strength.
Hugo would later appear as a prominent character in ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen''.
Hugo would later appear as a prominent character in ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen''.
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* MagicRealism: Hugo has SuperStrength and [[TalkingAnimal animals can talk]], and there's never any explanation for either.
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* MagicRealism: As down-to-earth as you can get in regards to the genre it started. Hugo has SuperStrength and SuperStrength, [[TalkingAnimal animals can talk]], and there's never any explanation for either.either, but Hugo's world is otherwise completely grounded in reality.
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* SuperheroPrevalenceStages: The Early Stage (''very'' early at that): Hugo's the one and only superhuman, and his villains are either regular human criminals, or [[TalkingAnimal inexplicably sentient, but otherwise normal, animals]].
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* SuperheroPrevalenceStages: The Early Stage (''very'' early at that): Stage. Hugo's the one and only superhuman, and his villains are either regular human criminals, or [[TalkingAnimal inexplicably sentient, but otherwise normal, animals]].
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* ProtoSuperhero: Hugo. He's got supernatural abilities, helps people, and stops criminals...
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* ProtoSuperhero: Hugo. He's got supernatural abilities, helps people, and stops criminals... The very first one, in fact.
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* ProtoSuperhero: The very first one, in fact.Hugo. He's got supernatural abilities, helps people, and stops criminals...
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* UrExample: Of the {{Superhero}}, being about a man with a superhuman ability who uses said ability to help people in need.
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* UrExample: Of the {{Superhero}}, being about Being a man with a superhuman ability abilities who uses said ability to help people helps those in need.need, Hugo is arguably the very first traditional {{Superhero}} ever created, predating even the likes of Radio/TheShadow, ComicStrip/ThePhantom, Radio/TheLoneRanger, and Anime/GoldenBat.
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* MundaneUtility: Hugo mostly uses SuperStrength to simply manipulate things nobody else could, such as pulling an entire train and picking up an elephant.
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* MundaneUtility: Hugo mostly uses SuperStrength to simply manipulate things nobody else could, such as pulling an entire train and to help the people on it get to their destinations, or picking up an elephant.elephant to entertain a crowd.
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* {{Crossover}}: "Hugo Hercules Saves Four Comic Supplement Lives", where Hugo helps out four characters from ''Archie and Boggs'', another Chicago Tribune comic strip, escape a burning building.
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* {{Crossover}}: "Hugo Hercules Saves Four Comic Supplement Lives", where Hugo helps out four the main characters from of ''Archie and Boggs'', another Chicago Tribune comic strip, escape a burning building.
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* FlatCharacter: Hugo, as he has no real flaws, and has perfect control over his SuperStrength, so he never causes any lasting damage, not even to his adversaries.
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* {{Crossover}}: "Hugo Hercules Saves Four Comic Supplement Lives", where Hugo helps out four characters from ''Archie and Boggs'', another Chicago Tribune comic strip, escape a burning building.
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* SuperheroPrevalenceStages: The Early Stage (''very'' early at that): Hugo's the one and only superhuman, and his villains are either regular human criminals, or [[TalkingAnimals [[TalkingAnimal inexplicably sentient, but otherwise normal, animals]].
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* FlatCharacter: Hugo, as he has no real flaws, and has control over his SuperStrength so good that he never causes any real damage.
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* ProtoSuperhero: Hugo has the honor of being the The very first one.one, in fact.
* SuperheroPrevalenceStages: The Early Stage (''very'' early at that): Hugo's the one and only superhuman, and his villains are either regular human criminals, or [[TalkingAnimals inexplicably sentient, but otherwise normal, animals]].
* SuperheroPrevalenceStages: The Early Stage (''very'' early at that): Hugo's the one and only superhuman, and his villains are either regular human criminals, or [[TalkingAnimals inexplicably sentient, but otherwise normal, animals]].
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* UrExample: Of the {{Superhero}}, being about a man with a superhuman ability who uses said ability to help people in need. It's as simplistic as you can get in regards to the genre, too; SuperStrength is the one and only power Hugo has, and there're no other superhumans to speak of but him.
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* UrExample: Of the {{Superhero}}, being about a man with a superhuman ability who uses said ability to help people in need. It's as simplistic as you can get in regards to the genre, too; SuperStrength is the one and only power Hugo has, and there're no other superhumans to speak of but him.
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''Hugo Hercules'' was an American weekly comic strip published in the ''Chicago Tribune'', written and drawn by Wilhelm Heinrich Detlev Körner. It ran for five months, from September 7, 1902 to January 11, 1903, totaling seventeen strips. Despite its short run, it's considered one of the earliest, if not ''the'' first, earliest {{Superhero}} comic.
comics, if not the first.
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* FlatCharacter: Hugo, as he has no real flaws, and has control over his SuperStrength so good that he never causes any real damage.
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* UrExample: Of the {{Superhero}}, being about a man with a superhuman ability who uses said ability to help people in need. It's as simplistic as you can get in regards to the genre, too; SuperStrength is the one and only power Hugo has, and there're no other superhumans to speak of but him.
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The titular Hugo Hercules is a gentleman with SuperStrength, who spends his time using his power to help damsels, deal with criminals, and tussle with unruly animals. That's more or less it. No capes, no cowls, no doomsday machines, no aliens wishing to exterminate half the universe. Just the day to day life of well-meaning man who just so happens to have inhuman strength.
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The titular Hugo Hercules is a gentleman with SuperStrength, who spends his time using his power to help damsels, deal with criminals, and tussle with unruly animals. That's more or less it. No capes, no cowls, no doomsday machines, no aliens wishing to exterminate half the universe. Just the day to day life of a well-meaning man who just so happens to have inhuman strength.
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* UrExmaple: UrExample: Of the {{Superhero}}, being a man with a superhuman ability who uses said ability to help people in need.need. It's as simplistic as you can get in regards to the genre, too; SuperStrength is the one and only power Hugo has, and there're no other superhumans to speak of but him.
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* MagicRealism: Hugo has SuperStrength and [[TalkingAnimals animals can talk]], and there's never any explanation for either.
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* MagicRealism: Hugo has SuperStrength and [[TalkingAnimals [[TalkingAnimal animals can talk]], and there's never any explanation for either.
* ProtoSuperhero: Hugo has the honor of being the very first one.
* ProtoSuperhero: Hugo has the honor of being the very first one.
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* UrExmaple: Of the {{Superhero}}.{{Superhero}}, being a man with a superhuman ability who uses said ability to help people in need.
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The titular Hugo Hercules is a gentleman with SuperStrength, who spends his time using his power to help damsels and tussle with unruly animals. That's more or less it. No capes, no cowls, no doomsday machines, no aliens wishing to exterminate half the universe. Just the day to day life of well-meaning man who just so happens to have inhuman strength.
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The titular Hugo Hercules is a gentleman with SuperStrength, who spends his time using his power to help damsels damsels, deal with criminals, and tussle with unruly animals. That's more or less it. No capes, no cowls, no doomsday machines, no aliens wishing to exterminate half the universe. Just the day to day life of well-meaning man who just so happens to have inhuman strength.
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* CatchPhrase: "Just as easy.""
* MagicRealism: Hugo has SuperStrength and [[TalkingAnimals animals can talk]], and there's never any explanation for either.
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* SuperStrength: Hugo's primary power.
* TalkingAnimal: Animals can speak in Hugo's world.
* UrExmaple: Of the {{Superhero}}.
* MagicRealism: Hugo has SuperStrength and [[TalkingAnimals animals can talk]], and there's never any explanation for either.
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* SuperStrength: Hugo's primary power.
* TalkingAnimal: Animals can speak in Hugo's world.
* UrExmaple: Of the {{Superhero}}.
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The titular Hugo Hercules is a gentleman with SuperStrength, who spends his time using his power to help damsels and tussle with unruly animals. That's more or less it. No [[Franchise/Superman capes]], capes, no cowls, no doomsday machines, no aliens wishing to exterminate half the universe. Just the day to day life of well-meaning man who just so happens to have inhuman strength.
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* CatchPhrase: "Just as easy."
* CatchPhrase: "Just as easy."
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''Hugo Hercules'' was an American weekly comic strip published in the ''Chicago Tribune'', written and drawn by Wilhelm Heinrich Detlev Körner. It ran for five months, from September 7, 1902 to January 11, 1903, totaling seventeen strips. Despite its short run, it's considered one of the earliest, if not ''the'' first, {{Superhero}} comic.
The titular Hugo Hercules is a gentleman with SuperStrength, who spends his time using his power to help damsels and tussle with unruly animals. That's more or less it. No [[Franchise/Superman capes]], no cowls,
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The titular Hugo Hercules is a gentleman with SuperStrength, who spends his time using his power to help damsels and tussle with unruly animals. That's more or less it. No [[Franchise/Superman capes]], no cowls,
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