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''The Legend of Hercules'' is a 2014 film starring Creator/KellanLutz as the titular Greek hero of Myth/ClassicalMythology, who is destined to stop the mad king Amphitryon's rule. It also stars Creator/ScottAdkins and Creator/LiamMcIntyre, and is directed by Creator/RennyHarlin.

!!This film provides examples of:

%% * Adaptational Heroism: Hera supports Alcmene and Hercules in this version.
%% * Adaptational Villainy: Amphitryon and Iphicles, the foster father and half-brother of Hercules.
* AdaptationSpeciesChange: Chiron is a centaur in the original myths, but here he is a normal human.
%% * Adrenaline Time: [[FollowTheLeader In the style]] of ''Film/ThreeHundred''
* AndNowYouMustMarryMe: Iphicles tries to force Hebe, Hercules's love interest, into a marriage.
* AncientGrome
** Hercules becomes a gladiator. The Romans invented GladiatorGames, not the Greeks.
** The Greek soldiers use a ''testudo'' formation, and call it by that (Latin) name.
** The name Hercules itself is the Roman form of the Greek Herakles.
* AttackingThroughYourself: This is how [[spoiler:[[TheDragon Iphicles]] is killed when he holds [[LoveInterest Hebe]] hostage. She stabs herself through ''the chest'', barely missing her heart to hit his through her back, and amazingly survives]].
* BloodlessCarnage: To the point that what seems like a decapitation ends up with the dead person having his helmet knocked off with the head still on his shoulders.
%% * Breaking TheBonds: When Hercules is chained up.
* CastingGag: Creator/KellanLutz, a devout Christian in real life, playing the Greek demigod Hercules.
* CombatByChampion: Amphitryon conquers Argos by killing the King. Hercules at the end [[MeaningfulEcho makes a similar offer to Amphitryon]] but the latter refuses.
* EverybodyLovesZeus: Hera allowed her husband to cheat on her with Alcmene so that Hercules could be born and become a hero to Greece.
* FakingTheDead: Hercules is at first known by his birth name Alcides, but was named Hercules by Hera. After surviving an UriahGambit, he takes the name Hercules so that Alcides can be reported as dead.
%% * Gladiator Games: Hercules is forced into these when he is enslaved.
* AGodIAmNot: Hercules says he's just a man despite being the son of Zeus.
* HijackedByJesus: Hercules's conception. Instead of Zeus having sex with his mother Alcmene while [[BedTrick disguised as Amphitryon,]] Hera appears to Alcmene to tell her that she can become the mother of Zeus's son who will deliver the land from evil. Alcmene allows it, and Hera names the son Hercules. This is rather evocative of the angel Gabriel appearing to Jesus's mother Mary as told in [[Literature/TheFourGospels the Gospel of Luke]] in Literature/TheBible.
* InNameOnly: The story has little to do with the legend of Hercules. If anything it feels like it steals a thing or two from the [[Film/{{Thor}} 2011 film adaptation]] of Creator/MarvelComics' ''[[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]]'', most obviously the conflict between a fair haired hero (Hercules) and his evil dark haired brother (Iphicles).
%%* The Lancer: Sotiris.
%% * The LegendOfX
%%* Made ASlave: Hercules and Sotiris.
%%* Made OfIron: Hercules. He's a demigod after all.
%%* Mr Fanservice: Hercules, naturally.
* MysticalPregnancy: Possibly combined with ExpressDelivery. Zeus somehow impregnates Alcmene without taking a physical form. She starts to act up in bed even though there is apparently nobody else present.
%%* Physical God: Well, Hercules. Hera appears in physical form.
%% * Redshirt Army: Sotiris' army, minus Sotiris himself and Hercules.
%% * Roaring RampageOfRevenge: Hercules, after [[spoiler:Chiron]] is executed.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: One of the opponents Hercules has to face is called Humbaba. This is the name of an enemy of the [[Myth/MesopotamianMythology Mesopotamian hero]] [[Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh Gilgamesh]], and thus [[CrossoverCosmology not even from Greek mythology at all]].
* ShirtlessScene: Hercules with Hebe. Not counting the scenes where he fights without chest armor.
* ShockAndAwe: In the final battle, Hercules calls upon Zeus who charges his sword into a lightning whip.
%%* Sword AndSandal
* UnexplainedRecovery: During the climax, Hebe [[spoiler: stabbed herself to kill Iphicles and seems to die herself. Then, the next scene we saw her completely alright without a single explanation about how she survives.]]
* TheUnfavorite: Iphicles is this compared to Hercules, fueling his antagonism, due to his mother focusing more on raising Hercules as the chosen hero that is destined to stop a great evil while his father blatantly regarded him as a disappointment. He makes it a point when attempting to force Hebe to marry him to demand that she will bear his children and she will love them equally afterwards.
* UriahGambit: Hercules is sent away to the wars in Egypt so he can be disposed of.
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