Identity: Heracles of Thebes
	Group Affiliation: Gods of Olympus, former member of the Champions, member of the Avengers
	Base of Operations: Olympus. When Hercules is with the Avengers, he is based in New York City
	First Appearance: THOR ANNUAL #1
	Side: Good
	Sex: Male
	Age: Immortal
	Height: 6' 5"
	Hair: Dark Brown
	Eyes: Blue
	Level: 14th
Experience: 104,000
Training: +1 Accuracy with HTH Combat
1. Body Power (Olympian Physiology): Hercules share many traits with his fellow Olympians. Like all Olympians, he does not age and is immune to disease. Although he can be wounded in battle, he cannot die by any convential means (his Healing Rate is doubled when he reaches 0 HPs). Hercules does have a greater resistance to physical injury than most Olympians (Invulnerability 20 Points) and he uses his full weight for determining Carrying Capacity/HTH Damage. He can hold his breath for a superhuman length of time (total 80 Turns, PR 1/turn).
2. Heightened Endurance B +60
3. Heightened Expertise (Extensive Martial Training): +4 to Hit with ancient weapons (clubs, maces, bows, etc.).
4. Heightened Strength B +100
5. Natural Weaponry (Extensive Martial Training): +9 to Hit (includes Training Bonuses), +15 Damage (includes Training Bonuses)
6. Special Weapon (Golden Mace): Forged by the god Hephaestus from enchanted adamantium (the mace is indestructible), it has a +5 to hit bonus and does HTH +3d10 Damage.
Weight: 325 lbs.	Basic Hits: 7	Agility Mod: -2
Strength: 120	Endurance: 80
Agility: 20 (includes Training Bonuses)	Intelligence: 11
Charisma: 20	Reactions from:   Good: +3     Evil: -3
Hit Mod. (8.4) (10.2) (1.9) (1) = 162.792		Hit Points: 1140
Damage Mod.: +2	Healing Rate: 13.3
Accuracy: +3	Power: 231
Carrying Capacity: 564,200 lbs.		Basic HTH Damage: 8d10
Movement Rates: 220" ground.
Det. Hidden: 8%	Det. Danger: 12%
Inventing Points: 15.4	Inventing (33%):
Origin and Background: (Olympian God) Hercules is the son of Zeus, king of the gods of Olympus, and Alcmena, a mortal woman who lived about three thousand years ago. Recognizing the need for a son who would be powerful enough to defend both the Olympian gods and humanity from future dangers he foresaw, Zeus seduced Alcmena in the guise of her husband, King Amphitryon of Troezen. Thanks to Zeus's enchantment, Hercules was born with the potential for extraordinary strength, which he first displayed before he was even one year old by strangling two serpents which attacked him. As an adult, Hercules is best known for his celebrated Twelve Labors, which were performed in part to prove his worthiness for immortality to Zeus. (One of these Labors, the cleansing of the Augean Stables, was actually performed by the Eternal called the Forgotten One, who was sometimes mistaken for Hercules.)         In the course of these Labors, Hercules provoked the wrath of three immortals who remain his enemies to this day. By slaughtering the man-eating Stymphalian Birds, he enraged the war god Ares, to whom they were sacred. In temporarily capturing Cerberus, the three-headed hound that serves as guardian to the Olympian underworld (not to be confused with the shape-shifting giant of the same name), Hercules offended Pluto, the lord of that realm. By killing the Nemean Lion, the Hydra, and other creatures spawned by the inconceivably grotesque and powerful monster Typhoeus, Hercules gained the bitter enmity of Typhon, the immortal humanoid offspring of Typhoeus and a Titaness.         However, it was the centaur Nessus who caused Hercules' mortal demise. Nessus kidnapped Hercules' wife Deianeira, whereupon Hercules shot him with an arrow. Feigning a wish to make amends, the dying centaur told Deianeira how to make a love charm from his allegedly enchanted blood, aware that it was now tainted with the lethal poison of the Hydra, in which Hercules had dipped his arrows. Some time after Nessus' death, Deianeira, distraught over her husband's latest infidelity, rubbed the supposed love charm into Hercules' shirt. After putting aflame. Zeus then intervened, consuming the pyre with his thunderbolts and bringing Hercules to Olympus to be made a true immortal.         In an alternate future of the 23rd century, Hercules is the sole survivor of the Olympians, after Zeus had decided that the time had come for them to leave this plane of existence. Hercules then left Olympus to become the father to a new race of gods.         Note: Origin and Background text is from "The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe #5" (Deluxe Edition) and is used without permission.
Areas of Interest: Scholar (Great Olympian Battles) & Sports
Legal Status: Citizen of Olympus with provisional United States citizenship due to his Avengers status.
Training Bonuses:     2nd Level:  +1 Damage with HTH Combat     3rd Level:  +1 Accuracy with HTH Combat     4th Level:  +1 Agility     5th Level:  +1 Damage with HTH Combat     6th Level:  +1 Accuracy with HTH Combat     7th Level:  +1 Agility     8th Level:  +1 Damage with HTH Combat     9th Level:  +1 Accuracy with HTH Combat     10th Level:  +1 Agility     11th Level:  +1 Damage with HTH Combat     12th Level:  +1 Accuracy with HTH Combat     13th Level:  +1 Agility     14th Level:  +1 Damage with HTH Combatc
Note: This is the Immortal Hercules.

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