History ComicBook / HerculesTheThracianWars

* RapePillageAndBurn: What happens when Cotys's general Sitalces lets the newly-trained army loose on a Triballi village. Hercules and his companions are against it, but can only stand by and watch as the village is raided and its inhabitants quickly slaughtered. The narrator makes it clear that the ones who died are the ''lucky'' ones.

* RapePillageAndBurn: What happens when Cotys's general Sitalces lets the newly-trained army loose on a Triballi village. Hercules and his companions are against it, but can only stand by and watch as the village is raided and its inhabitants quickly slaughtered. The narrator makes it clear that one ones who died are the ''lucky'' ones.

* OurCentaursAreDifferent: Subverted: Meneus thinks he sees one, but it's actually a man on horseback (the Greeks of the time only use chariots in mounted warfare).

* ShroudedInMyth: The Thracians gossip about Hercules being the son of Zeus and his Twelve Labours. Hercules doesn't deny it, and kills a man for suggesting he's really a mere bastard whose mother blamed her pregnancy on Zeus.

* ActionGirl: Atalanta, the Amazon and devotee of Artemis the Huntress.
* AmazonChaser: Meleager is infatuated with Atalanta. Though she's not interested as she doesn't swing that way.

* CallThatAFormation: The Greeks drill the Thracians into a disciplined army, teaching them the value of a shieldwall.

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Autolycus (son of Hermes, god of thieves) can't help but make the situation worse by trying to make it better for himself, such as replacing a sleeping draught with poison. During a fight, he also asks Amphiaraus if he's destined to be die backstabbed, and only starts covering the seer's back once he hears "No". He is completely loyal to Hercules though.

* GoryDiscretionShot: Hercules loses it when a sniper takes out Meneus and rips him apart with his bare hands. It happens just off page, with some flying bits.

* KillTheCutie: Meneus, the youngest and most innocent of the group, is killed by a sniper. Hercules rips the man apart for this.

* OurCentaursAreDifferent: Subverted: Meneus thinks he sees one, but it's actually a man on hrseback (the Greeks only use chariots in mounted warfare).

* UnwantedRescue: Meleager saves Alalanta from getting killed more than once, problem is [[DeathSeeker she wants to die.]]
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Hercules is always barechested.

* DrillSergeantNasty: While instructing the Thracians in the use of formations, Hercules gives Tydeus free reign to kill them if he can, so they're motivated to learn fast.

* BiTheWay: Most of the Greeks; the Thracians gossip about it as a matter of fact, Autolycus has an eye on the female ''and'' male slaves, and Meneus is strongly hinted to be Hercules' ''eromenos'', . Except for Atalanta who's gay but not a Lesbian (from Lesbos).
** This was one of the things {{Bowdlerized}} out of the film, leading Creator/AlanMoore (no relation) to call for fans to boycott it. The other was the studio's refusal to let Steve Moore be involved in the film's creation.

-->'''Soldier:''' Zalmoxis, protect me!
-->'''Amphiaraus:''' Not while Zeus protects ''me!''

-->'''Hercules:''' I am Hercules, son of Zeus, who kneels to no one but his father.

* ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike: Meleager saves Alalanta from getting killed more than once, problem is [[DeathSeeker she wants to die.]]

'''''Hercules: The Thracian Wars''''' is a 2008 miniseries loosely based on Myth/GreekMythology, written by [[ComicBook/{{TwoThousandAD}} Steve Moore]], illustrated by Admira Wijaya, and published by Radical Comics.

* SettingUpdate: A minor one. Christian chronology puts Heracles' killing of Linus in 1264 BCE and his death and deification in 1226 BCE. This would mean the Pharaoh at the time would have been Ramses II. "Knives of Kush" does not feature Ramses as pharaoh but instead his grandson(s) Seti II and Amenmesse (the former's possible half-brother), updating the setting not to Ramses' time but to the civil war of the Nineteenth Dynasty.