5 Non-Villains Who Could Serve As Antagonists In Future Thor Movies

3. Hercules

Hercules Marvel I think bringing Hercules in to the Marvel Cinematic Universe is a fantastic idea - as I've mentioned before - and prior to potentially joining the Avengers he could be introduced as a friendly rival of Thor's (a friendly rival whom gets in to fist fights with him a lot). Having delved in to Norse mythology with Thor, I see no reason why Marvel shouldn't want to introduce characters from Greek and Olympian mythology - a category that Hercules (who is Greek, not Roman, in the Marvel comics, as he is based on Heracles) falls in to. He is a real powerhouse who is a highly skilled hand-to-hand warrior and who possesses powers such as superhuman strength, speed, stamina, reflexes, endurance and durability, essentially immortality, a healing factor, an immunity to all Earthly diseases and a limited resistance to magic. As the son of another Skyfather (Zeus), but from a different pantheon, Hercules has been shown as a big rival of Thor - he defeated Thor when they first met, after Thor had been stripped of power, but Thor would then go on to save Hercules from Hades. The two brawled a lot, even after that, but Hercules has generally been shown to be an associate of the Thunder God €“ and indeed other heroes €“ as part of the Avengers (as well as numerous other heroic super-teams) and it would be great if he joined the MCU Avengers after initially fighting with Thor on the big screen.
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