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This is the story of a time long ago - a time of myth and legend, when the Earth was still young. The ancient gods were petty and cruel and they plagued mankind for their sport. Plagued them with suffering and besieged them with terrors. For centuries the people had nowhere to turn, no one to look to for help. Until he arrived.
He was a man like no other. Born of a beautiful mortal woman but fathered by Zeus, king of the gods, Hercules possessed a strength the world had never seen, a strength surpassed only by the power of his heart...
No matter the obstacle, as long as there were people crying for help, there was one man who would never rest - Hercules!
1 - Hercules and the Amazon Women
- In a dark forest, three scared men whisper, trying to hide
from something. They comment on how they should turn back, and
how no one has ever made it out alive. Something is watching, and following them. One of the men is grabbed and beaten to death, the second grabbed and killed. The third man, Pithas, runs as fast as he can he and barely makes it out to the edge of the forest with the creature hot on his tail, but the creature stops.
- Elsewhere, Hercules has arrived to attend Iolaus' wedding to Onya. However, they hear a child crying and they ask her what is wrong. She is surrounded by bones of men, she tells Hercules that a monster ate her father. As Hercules comes closer the child mutates, first strangling him, then melting into the ground. Out of the ground leaps a serpent-like hydra. Eventually Hercules and Iolaus kill the hydra with fire. A peacock feather found at the scene shows that this was all the work of Hera.
- Hercules and Iolaus pay a visit to Alcmene. Iolaus invites them to dinner, Onya is cooking. Alcmene washes Hercules' feet, he presents her with spices from Alturia. She then goes off to get a bandage for his wound. and asks what happened. Hercules tells her. Alcmene knows that Hera is the cause. Zeus shows up to talk to Hercules. He comments on how Alcmene still loves him, then how he can't stop Hera. Zeus tells Hercules how proud he is of him, and he's sorry for being a bad father. Hercules tells Zeus to stay away from Alcmene.
- Pithas is wandering though town. Two men harass a girl, Pithas bumps into that girl and apologizes for bumping into her as though scared of her.
- Iolaus is helping Onya prepare dinner, then goes out to talk to Hercules. She brings out the food to serve, then screams, a man was looking in the window. Hercules goes out and demands explanation. Pithas explains that his village is under attack by beasts from the surrounding woods. They are prisoners in their own village, Gargarensia.
- Iolaus talks Hercules into bringing him along, as their last chance to fight together, and as his wedding present. Onya tells Hercules she is counting on him to bring Iolaus back to her, to marry her.
- When they have reached the village, all the villagers comes forth, the villagers are all men, not a women in sight. Iolaus and Hercules ask about this, Pithas responds that the beasts took them years ago. Hercules asks then how are their young boys in the village. The explain that they find them on the shore and care for them as their own.
- Hercules and Iolaus head out into the woods. They comment on how petrified the men were. They see, stung up on a tree, two dead men. They hear a noise over in a clearing and rush
over toward it, ready for a fight. They feel the creatures
watching them.
- Lots of these "beasts" jump down from the trees surrounding them wielding various weapons. The first attack is by ropes, one almost strangles Iolaus. A fight ensues but soon retreat up into the trees. Hercules and Iolaus continue to walk through the clearing, which is covered in wood chips. Hands reach up from the wood chips, grabbing their ankles, and Iolaus's
sword. Hercules walks on slowly, then pulls up from under the
wood chips a "beast" suddenly from the ground pops lots of
creatures again surrounding them. Another fight ensues. Iolaus is hurt by one of the creatures, he runs off with a vengeance to hurt the creature. He gets a hold of it, her mask comes off. Iolaus shouts, "They're women!" as she stabs him. Iolaus dies and Hercules is captured.
- The women's Calvary surrounds him and brings him through their camp to the Queen. The camp contains only women, militant woman, welding swords, teaching fighting skills. He is brought to Queen Hippolyta. He discovers he is in the city of Amazons. Lysia pushes him to the ground, he is told to wash Hippolyta's feet, but he refuses. She says how he won't do a women's job, then goes on about how weak he is. Her troops leave and she is left with Hercules. They debate over how women are treated, what makes a man, or a women. Hippolyta picks up a magical blue candle, and makes Hercules relive moments of his life through dreams.
- He is a young child. Alcmene leaves the room, Zeus shows up. He talks to baby Hercules about women. Hippolyta explains that even as infants boys are taught women are nothing. Women are toys to be used then thrown away. She comments on how that thinking doesn't change as he gets older.
- Next Hercules and Iolaus are in fighting class. They listen to their instructor as he tells them when they fight, fight
to the death; emotions are for the girls, the weak, get rid
of them; and you are known by the enemies you make, so make
good ones. Hercules and Iolaus promise to die together.
Hippolyta comments, when has a man brought life into this world? Men only bring death.
- Back in the present, Hercules is in a fetal position on the floor, grieving over Iolaus. Hippolyta is surprised by this spark of humanity. She asks him "Can you love a woman like you loved Iolaus?" Hercules tells her that he can change. She says "NO." He says that she has become just like the men she hates. Hippolyta has had enough and lowers a cage over Hercules.
- Three Amazons show up, the first is a young girl who's never seen a man. The second is a girl of about twenty who asks Hercules if its true that in someplace men and women live together. The third is older than thirty, she asks if when Hercules was in the village he saw a boy of about ten, and
was he doing well. Hercules answered that his name was Franco
and he was doing well, was that her son. She denied it.
- Lysia walks in shooing them away, then tells Hercules if she was in charge he'd be dead already. Zeus shows up after she leaves. He explains you never can understand women. Hercules
reveals it's not the cage keeping him, its Hippolyta. He says to Zeus that he is wrong about women. Zeus then warns him the
Amazons are Hera's favorite and to watch out.
- Hippolyta is praying to Hera. Hera wants to know why he is still alive. Hippolyta is not sure he is the enemy. Hera orders her to kill Hercules then attack Gargarensia. Hippolyta goes to kill Hercules but he's already escaped to warn Gargarensia.
- Back in Gargarensia Hercules is telling the men to get ready to defend themselves. Pithas then has to explain that the Amazons don't come to kill.
- At moonrise, the Amazons prepare for the attack. Hippolyta reminds them to stay only until the sound of the horn. They ride on the village. In the village Hercules tells the men they know what to do so go do it. He is to take care of the horn. They go off to prepare.
- When the first Amazon enters the man's house she orders "Take off your clothes." He says that first he'd like to talk about her, maybe share a drink, so they do. The second man's house he is ordered to take off his clothes, but first asks for her name, because he wrote her a love song. Without her name it has no title. At the third house Franco asks to see his mothers face. Pithas and her talk about their children.
- Lysia enters a tent where Zeus is. Zeus says "Please be
gentle with me, or rough if you like." He offers her a chocolate. Lysia says "The rules are no talk, just sex." Zeus reclines and says "As you wish."
- Hercules comes upon Queen Hippolyta grooming her horse. Hippolyta can't find it in her heart to kill Hercules even though she knows that Hera wishes it. Hercules asks her not to blow the horn and separate the men and women. They deserve and need each other. Hercules and Hippolyta kiss each other.
- In the morning the Amazons are still there, Hippolyta finally blows the horn. They no longer hate each other when they get back to their homes, the women enjoyed themselves. They talk happily about what happened. The men are absolutely giddy. "The women will come back 'cause they will want more. Our clothes will be mended and we will eat better..." Hercules shames them because that attitude got them in this mess in the first place and they have to change.
- Hippolyta is praying to Hera. Hera possess Hyppolyta after she disobeyed her. Hera is in Hippolyta's body now, controlling her. Lysia goes to thank Hippolyta for delaying the blowing of the horn, saying the women have never been so happy. Hera (everyone else is seeing her as Hippolyta) demands an attack on Gargarensia, to burn it to the ground, and kill every living thing.
- The men are ready at the edge of the village with bouquets of flowers. The women ride on, attacking. Pithas calls to the mother of his child. Hera says to kill him. Lysia jumps off her horse to do it but the mother of his child yells to her "No, don't." Lysia doesn't and Hera, disgusted, jumps off her horse "I'll do it." Hercules stops her. He realizes that this is not Hippolyta but Hera.
- Hera and Hercules fight. He can't kill her because he doesn't want to hurt Hippolyta. He rides off and Hera takes off after him. Zeus shows up and tells Hercules to run, to keep out of her way. Hercules states that he can't count on help from him. Zeus disappears. Hera and Hercules fight again. Hera is doing well because Hercules won't hurt Hippolyta. Hercules tries to get through to Hippolyta but he can't. Hera is about to kill him when Pithas saves him, causing Hera to kill Pithas. Hera forces Hercules to a bridge, it is broken and it falls off into a waterfall, and rocky bottom. Hera states she won't let both of them live, one must die. Hercules says that if one must die it should be him. Hera laughs and bids him to live without her, and jumps off the bridge, killing Hippolyta.
- Hercules caries Hippolyta's body back to the village, the Amazons take it and put it on the horse. Franco cries about losing his father. Hercules runs to Hippolyta's templeHe tell Zeus to use the candle to change all that has happened. Zeus blows out the candle in Hercules' face. Everything goes in reverse till he is back in the dining room with Onya serving dinner. Pithas has just appeared at the window. Hercules goes to talk to him. Hercules tells Pithas to treat the Amazons as equals and not as enemies. Maybe wash their feet. The plan works.
2 - Hercules and the Lost Kingdom
- Hercules saves Troy from a curse by Hera and allies himself with Princess Deianeira, whom he rescues from a sea monster. Eventually, Hercules leads her to a camp of refugees from the city, which has been taken over by Hera's Blue Monks. Hercules helps the refugees take back the city.
3 - Hercules and the Circle of Fire
- Prometheus leads Hercules and Deianeira to the eternal source of all fire on earth (the Eternal Torch) atop the Ethion Mountains but Hercules must fight Zeus as well as Hera to retrieve it to prevent the world from plunging into an ice age.
4 - Hercules in the Underworld
- When spirits begin leaving the Underworld (because of a giant hole created by Hera) and killing the living, Hercules travels away from his wife and family to discover the Cerberus has gotten loose.
5 - Hercules in the Maze of the Minotaur
- Hercules and his loyal friend Iolaus is summoned to Alturia to save a group of young people from a vicious minotaur which not even Zeus can restrain. Hercules discovers it is Ares that's terrorizing the locals. Along their journey to find the minotaur, Hercules and Iolaus (along with Zeus, who "pops" in) recall their past adventures.