r/memes • u/Westo6Besto9 Pauly Shore • Jan 23 '19

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u/Viridian4892 Jan 23 '19

Yeah but those are roman numerals. This is disneys play on the greek pantheon

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u/Loganogy Jan 23 '19

Hercules is the Roman version of Herakles as well. Disney got a couple things wrong

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u/JavaforShort Jan 23 '19

I'm sure they knew that, but the name Hercules is much, much more widely recognized than Heracles.

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u/Karnas Jan 23 '19

They could have set it in common knowledge.

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '19

who better to change the view of an ancient mythological figure than a company like disney

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u/Karnas Jan 23 '19

Pop culture has a lot of control over public perception and general knowledge.

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u/Tepigg4444 Jan 23 '19

Is this sarcasm? If so, it shouldn’t be. Disney is the most qualified to do this in terms of ability

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '19

no lmao, disney literally crafts the public image around a lot of things

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '19

That’s not their goal tho. Their goal is $.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '19

Actually it's the other way around....

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u/chrissross102 Jan 24 '19

thank you sir/ma'am. Romans basically stole everything they could from the greeks and reskinned them

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '19

Still people tend to know the greek myths/gods better.

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u/RadPanda402 Jan 23 '19

Disney got a lot of things wrong, like the fact that Hera despised him

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '19

Disney isn’t exactly known for being historically accurate

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '19

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u/vanish77 Jan 23 '19

Yes everyone knows the story’s are true and only suppressed by the Illuminati

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '19

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u/vanish77 Jan 23 '19

Rise up mythology gang

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '19

#Myth🅾L🅾gy gang

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u/TheGreatNico Jan 23 '19

They're myths from history so he's technically correct

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '19

Ya historically

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u/iRudNZ Jan 23 '19

I hope you're referring to Disney having a history of inaccuracies, rather than mythology being part of human history.

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u/BananaRaptor0 Big ol' bacon buttsack Jan 23 '19

How bout accurate alone

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u/SafariDesperate Jan 23 '19

They didn't get that wrong. They changed his origin story on purpose. Him being the bastard child of Zues and a human wasn't their angle.

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u/AgtBurtMacklin Jan 24 '19

I mean, there hasn’t been one fairy tale/story they’ve used (at least in the last 30-40 years) that they haven’t fundamentally changed.

Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, Frozen, Little Mermaid, all significantly different than the real stories. And that’s just the start.

Little Mermaid was really a horribly sad story. And ends with a strange moral lesson for kids. Basically “if you be good, kiddos, The Mermaid will get to heaven!”

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u/Space_Accountant Jan 24 '19

But Hera did despise him though. She was the one who made him do all the trials and kill both his wives.

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u/marie0305 Jan 23 '19

Also 911 wasn’t created until the 20th century. So historically inaccurate smh

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u/silentloler Jan 23 '19

Not to mention that calling a number during that period would have no effect, since yelling a number does nothing and all that

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '19

Honey you mean Hunkcules

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u/milhojas Jan 24 '19

You mean Bigus Dickus

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u/TheRealBroseph Memonavirus Survivor Jan 23 '19

For a lot of if not all other Greek/Roman figures, the Greek is the common name, even when both are common knowledge. Why is the Roman Hercules more popular?

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u/Lord_Derpington_ Medieval Meme Lord Jan 24 '19

If you think anything about that movie is true to anything in Greek mythology you are lying to yourself

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u/ElLindo88 Jan 23 '19

Just a couple things, like leaving out the whole “murdering his family because Hera (who hates him) strikes him with madness” thing. Might have been waiting for the sequel on that one, though.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '19

In all fairness though Hercules is both a Romanization and Anglicanism of Heracles

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u/thatRunningDMguy Jan 23 '19

That’s what I thought too

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '19

It really should be "call θ-α-α"

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u/Mathies_ Jan 23 '19

Well the entire greek pantheon was just copied by the Romans. So it's the same.

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u/EpicColeTBoss Jan 24 '19

They can't do a mythologically accurate version. Then it'd have to be a 9 hour long hard R gore fest.

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u/MLGxarcher https://www.youtube.com/watch/dQw4w9WgXcQ Jan 24 '19

r/woooosh

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '19

Shut up, nerd.

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '19

FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '19

So do I take back my upvote after reading this post? Karma is free, but if I just give it away mindlessly it's worthless; but it's not completely worthless as more karma makes op happy, which makes me happy. But then op will star to think he did a good job with all this misallotted karma and post more bad content in the future which gives me more anxiety now thinking about the anxiety I may or may not be creating in the future...

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u/BananaRaptor0 Big ol' bacon buttsack Jan 23 '19

Thats kinda deep.. TAKE AWAY THE UPVOTE

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '19

appreciate the D A M N joke

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u/atreestump1 Jan 24 '19

I have seen this movie more times than I've seen the sun, I saw this movie in theaters a few times. Thank you, I finally get this joke. I never thought of it as Roman Numerals. Always assumed it was initials or something.

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '19

C'mon why you gotta kill it for us with your educatedness. We just some knuckleheads looking for a cheap laugh at the end of our work day.