After freeing two boys (Pain and Panic in disguise) from under a boulder, Hercules unintentionally releases the Hydra, a giant serpent-like creature, an unintended consequence of a seemingly virtuous act which has been set up as a fixed contest by Hades to kill the young hero. Unbeknownst to them, Meg is working for Hades (albeit unwillingly), and relates the events to the Lord of the Underworld, by which he learns that Hercules is still alive. On his way, Hercules saves Megara from Nessus, a centaur acting as river guardian. Having reached adulthood and passed his training, Hercules sets off with Phil to become a hero in Thebes.
Phil at first declines returning to the hero training business, but is convinced by Zeus. Zeus tells Hercules that he must become a true hero, instructing him to find the trainer of heroes Philoctetes (or "Phil"), while giving him the winged horse Pegasus to assist in transportation. This inspires Hercules to visit the temple of Zeus, where he learns his godhood. Shortly after, Hercules is told about his adoption by Amphitryon and Alcmene. Growing up into a teenager, Hercules has difficulty being accepted by others, due to not being able to control his own strength and his clumsiness which leads to him accidentally destroying a marketplace. Zeus and the other gods discover the kidnapping too late, and because Hercules is now mortal, he cannot return to Mount Olympus. The couple then adopts the child, considering his arrival a gift from the gods since they are themselves childless. However, the arrival of two mortals, Amphitryon and Alcmene, causes Hercules to miss the final drop of the potion, causing him to retain his godly strength. Knowing that as a god, Hercules is immortal and invulnerable, Hades sends his two lackeys, Pain and Panic, to kidnap Hercules and turn him mortal by means of a magic potion. 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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