* In ''{{Alcestis}}'', Herakles (Hercules) visits Admetus, a man famous for his hospitality. Learning that Admetus just lost his wife, he decides to pay his host back by beating up Death, thereby bringing her back to life.
** This is kinda par for the course for Herakles. His whole existence revolved around being physically strong enough to ignore physics and punch out whatever he damn well pleased.
** Herakles also beat Ares in a straight-up fight (not that this is impressive, for being the god of war he's pretty much a sissy), and later on fought Apollo over a temple and managed to stand on even ground with him. This being the same Apollo that basically shooed Diomedes away--and Herakles didn't have anyone backing him up for that fight. He also intimidated Charon into helping him and almost shot Helios out of the sky until the sun charioteer gave him a boat. This in addition to all the monsters he took out. [[{{JustifiedTrope}} It's not surprising though,]] he was pretty much bred to beat the hell out of things that other mortals couldn't.

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* In ''{{Alcestis}}'', Herakles (Hercules) visits Admetus, a man famous for his hospitality. Learning that Admetus just lost his wife, he decides to pay his host back by beating up Death, thereby bringing her back to life. Herakles' whole existence revolved around being physically strong enough to ignore physics and punch out whatever he ''damn well pleased''.
** Herakles also beat Ares in a straight-up fight (not that this is impressive, for being the god of war he's pretty much a sissy), and later on fought Apollo over a temple and managed to stand on even ground with him. This being the same Apollo that basically shooed Diomedes away--and Herakles didn't have anyone backing him up for that fight. He also intimidated Charon into helping him and almost shot Helios out of the sky until the sun charioteer gave him a boat. This in addition to all the monsters he took out. [[{{JustifiedTrope}} It's not surprising though]], he was pretty much bred to beat the hell out of things that other mortals couldn't.

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