Hercules Has Gotten Way More Relatable — And Less Gay — In The Past 2,700 Years — buzzfeed.com

The new Hercules apparently wants its masculine hero to be eminently relatable. “I only want to be a husband and a father,” he says. “I am no hero,” this humble Hercules, played by Dwayne Johnson, contends. “Become the Legend,” offers the website of the new Hercules, pressing you to put an image of your face in a hole underneath the hero’s lion skin. Yet this modern modesty twist — Hercules as a family man who sees himself as a normal person who happens to be exceptionally strong — is fundamentally at odds with the hero’s ancient origins.

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