History Comicbook / TheIncredibleHercules

* ReallyGetsAround: Hercules.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: Herc and Cho. ''[[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Fall of an Avenger]]'' solidified it.

* YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe: "[[GenreSavvy Why do you persist in talking in old-timey Shakespeare talk?!]] [[FakeNationality We're from Greece!]] [[FridgeLogic From two thousand years before Shakespeare!]] [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments IT MAKES ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE!]]"

* TheAlcoholic: After losing Taylor Madison, his immortality, the disbanding of the Avengers and the apparent death or Thor and the entire Asgardian pantheon, Hercules, who was always a big partier, has degenerated into a full-blown one.

* TheAlcoholic: After losing Taylor Madison, his immortality, the disbanding of the Avengers and the apparent death or Thor and the entire Asgardian pantheon, Hercules, who was always a big partier, has degenerated into one.

* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: The fate of the Olympians, after Zeus determines that mankind has evolved beyond the need for gods.

* WorldsStrongestMan: Issue #222 is the one which established that Thor and Hercules are equals. The two men (the strongest gods of their respective pantheons) arm wrestle each other on Mount Olympus. The contest ends in a draw when the table shatters under the weight of such manlieness.

* LeeroyJenkins: During the "ComicBook/UnderSiege" storyarc, a drunk Hercules refuses to wait for Wasp and Captain America to come up with a plan to retake Avengers Mansion from the Masters of Evil and not only gets his ass kicked, but also Wasp and Cap when they try to save him.

* HeelRealization: Hercules, upon encountering a huge, massively-muscled and intimidating looking alien called a Pheragot, Hercules, despite the creature making absolutely no hostile moves, immediately strikes the Pheragot with a tremendous punch. All in attendance are shocked and repulsed, as the Pheragot race is known as the most benign, peace-loving species in the known galaxy. Hercules himself is deeply shamed, especially when the Pheragot makes no move to defend himself and merely sits on the floor, sobbing and weeping. It is at that point that the Lion of Olympus begins to see that his JerkAss BloodKnight behavior needs to be seriously toned down, and he genuinely starts to think before he acts and consider others' feelings.

* MonumentalTheft: A group of religious zealots who worship Galactus use advanced technological means to entrap and steal entire ''planets'' for the World Devourer, to serve as sacrifices to atone for the sins of their race.

* MonumentalTheft: A group of religious zealots who worship Galactus use advanced technological means to capture '''planets''' for the World Devourer, to serve as sacrifices to atone for the sins of their race.

* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhere: Hercules almost pleads this in battle with his apparently genocidal father.

* LastOfHisKind: After Hercules' father Zeus and the rest of his extended family AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence, the Lion of Olympus is left as the sole survivor pf the Greek Pantheon.

* FishOutOfWater: Like, ''WOW''. Not only is Hercules a native of Earth travelling through far-flung alien galaxies, he's also from a race of SufficientlyAdvancedAliens whose fame and overall influence peaked around three thousand years ago.

* BewareTheSuperman: Arimithes, Hercules' bastard son by Layana Sweetwater, is the realization of this trope, at least in the beginning. He has all the power and inhuman durability of his father, and, misled by his vengeful, power-hungry mother, uses his gifts to violently carve out an empire for himself.

** Decades later, Hercules faces off with Galactus once again in defense of a planet. Enraged at the Devour of Worlds' seeming ignoring of him an enraged Hercules leaps up to Galactus' face and unleashes a thunderous blow... that literally knocks the air out of the giant, causing him to deflate and fly off (it was a balloon decoy)!

* HeelRealization: Hercules, upon encountering a huge, massively-muscled and intimidating looking alien called a Pheragot, Hercules, despite the creature making absolutely no hostile moves, immediately strikes the Pheragot with a tremendous punch. All in attendance are shocked and repulsed, as the Pheragot race is known as the most benign, peace-loving species in the known galaxy. Hercules himself is deeply shamed, especially when the Pheragot makes no move to defend himself and merely sits on the floor, sobbing and weeping. It is at that point that the Lion of Olympus begins to see that his JerkAss BloodKnight behavior needs to be seriously toned down, and he genuinely seeks to consider others' feelings.

* LockedIntoStrangeness: At one point, in a fit of seeming madness, Zeus, king of Olympus, calls back the godly powers of all his children, including their immortality . This causes his son Apollo to die of old age, and Hercules, who dreamt of this event, wakes from his seeming nightmare with streaks of white in his mane of otherwise reddish-brown hair.