However, one god is upset about the new arrival: Hercules' evil uncle Hades, who wants to take control of Olympus and the world along with all of creation. In the original movie, instead of the demigod hero son of Zeus and the mortal Alcmene, Hercules was actually born on Mount Olympus with all the powers of a god, and his parents were Zeus and Hera, the latter of whom has been re-imagined as a loving mother instead of a spiteful stepmother. As a hero, Hercules wears a brown-orange brass Cuirass-like tank armor tunic with a blue cape.

However, even as an adult, Hercules still retains some of his teenage flaws, such as being shy, awkward, and his clumsiness. After completing his hero training, Hercules physical changes to being top-heavy and muscular, having larger biceps and pectorals and thickened neck, as well as a stance that changes from stooped and pigeon-toed to upright, with the chest puffed out and his feet now nicely turned out. As a gawky and awkward teenager wearing a one-sleeved Greek tunic, Hercules is depicted as tall and thin, with broad, but stooped shoulders, extraordinarily long arms and legs, huge hands and pigeon-toed feet, a long skinny neck, and oversized ears. Hercules is represented an overgrown gangly youth who doesn't know his own strength goes about inadvertently destroying things or humiliating himself. His appearance is a handsome young man, with orange hair, eyebrows and wide blue eyes. In the original movie, Josh Keaton voiced Hercules as a teenager, while Tate Donovan was the hero as an adult, and Roger Bart was Hercules' singing voice in the song ' Go the Distance'.

He is based on the mythological Heracles, most known under the Roman spelling Hercules. Hercules is the title character of the franchise.

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