Hercules (Myths and Legends)

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He can withstand blows from Thor, [140] and possesses a complete resistance to high caliber bullets. Hercules also aids fellow Greek god Ares against the Japanese gods when they attempt to overrun Olympus.

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In the twentieth century, the Farnese Hercules has inspired artists such as Jeff Koons, Matthew Darbyshire and Robert Mapplethorpe to reinterpret Hercules for new audiences. While being interviewed, Beatrice slyly denies overhearing any conversation but tells him of several suspicious stories of Jean making medicine or a pot of tea for Mrs Oldfield which the nurse poured away or changed before the patient could take them. Lady Carmichael is thrilled to think that Poirot has visited to investigate some special crime but the detective tells her he is simply there to tame four wild horses. The school is suddenly visited by Captain America, who asks that the facility be used to hold the younger members of the X-Men until the fighting is over. After dealing with a disruption in New York City caused by the Olympian Ares, the Avengers travel to Olympus and free both Hercules and the Olympian gods who have been turned to crystal by Ares using the Ebony sword.

By the end, "The Capture of Cerberus" has events that correspond with the twelfth labour with almost self-satirical convenience. Due to the mutagenic properties of Spider-Man's powers, Spider-Herc mutates into Herc-Spider mid-battle.

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Although killed in battle, Hercules and many of the Avengers are resurrected by the entity before dying. Mrs Rice suddenly has an idea and wonders if the hotel management and the police are open to bribery. The Scotland Yard detective finds out that Andersen is a German chemist, expelled from a university there by the Nazis because he had a Jewish mother and that there is nothing suspicious about the deaths of the women whose names have been supplied by Miss Carnaby. Poirot is asked to help the prime minister, Edward Ferrier, whose predecessor in the role was his father-in-law John Hammett, now Lord Cornworthy. Despite the girl being found, Poirot speaks with Detective Inspector Hearn, who has been dealing with the case and is no nearer to solving the mystery of how the girl disappeared.

Harold runs after him and is in time to see Elsie throw a paperweight at her husband in self-defence.

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In front of the startled woman, Poirot begins to scrub the picture with turpentine whilst telling her that Winnie never made the trip across to France.He is carrying a spanner and screams at Elsie, accusing her of having an affair just as one of the Polish women had told him. In feeding the child from her own breast, the goddess inadvertently imbued him with further strength and power. Some have taken this as Tacitus equating the Germanic Þunraz with Hercules by way of interpretatio romana.