The Hercules: Comparing The Book And Movie

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The Hercules graphic novel and movie include examples of Hercules with a friend,him in an ancient setting,and a hydra ; yet both are different. In the graphic novel Hera is a enemy on the other hand in the movie she is his mother.
In the movie Hercules starts as a mortal and ends as a god in contrast in the graphic novel he starts as a god ends as a mortal. While in both the movie and the novel he fights a hydra the novel starts with 150 heads and the book starts with 1 head. The climax is also different In the novel the climax is when he attacks the hydra but in the movie it is the attack on Olympias. He has no gifts from the gods in the movie but in the novel he had gifts from the gods. His family had a different ending to,in the

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