TV's Hercules Star Lends His Voice to SMITE Namesake

[Jake Martinez]

Its a cool little cross-promotion that makes sense given the nature of the game. Here's fingers crossed that we see a playable "Xena" hero at some point down the line, voiced by Lucy Lawless!

Closest God to Xena is now Bellona, but she doesn't have Xena's Chakram Boomerang.

Also it's Gods, not heroes.

I mean technically Hercules is only supposed to be a hero. Don't let the Disney movie fool you. So if they assigned him as a god they could just as arbitrarily make her one too.

I'm pretty sure that Heracles is a demi-god, I mean his dad is Zeus and we know that the ancient Greeks used to built altars to him and make sacrifices on them like they did the other Gods in their pantheon, and he had his own cult and specifically dedicated temples. Just sayin' his "godhood" seems pretty legit to me by that standard.

 

[Mechamorph]

Its a cool little cross-promotion that makes sense given the nature of the game. Here's fingers crossed that we see a playable "Xena" hero at some point down the line, voiced by Lucy Lawless!

Closest God to Xena is now Bellona, but she doesn't have Xena's Chakram Boomerang.

Also it's Gods, not heroes.

I mean technically Hercules is only supposed to be a hero. Don't let the Disney movie fool you. So if they assigned him as a god they could just as arbitrarily make her one too.

My post was more pointing out that Characters in Smite are called "Gods" not "Heroes"(from LOL), not the actual status of Hercules himself as Demigod/Mortal whatever.

For example In Smite we have Sun Wukong and Guan Yu. Sun Wukong is just a Powerful Monkey, While Guan Yu was just a Mortal Warrior, but are called "Gods" in the game nonetheless. Also there's Scylla and Arachne, both are literally monsters.

Didn't Hercules ascend to godhood after all the trials or somesuch though? And Guan Yu has been called god of war by people that came after him IIRC. Not disagreeing with you or anything mind you.

Actually Hercules is at minimum a demigod and in some versions of the myths he ascended to become the God of Strength, going on to defend Olympus from Giants.

Both Sun Wukong and Guan Yu were deified at the end of their legend. Both are still worshiped by the Chinese to this day.

Captcha: towever of strength (how fitting)

 

[RaikuFA]

Its a cool little cross-promotion that makes sense given the nature of the game. Here's fingers crossed that we see a playable "Xena" hero at some point down the line, voiced by Lucy Lawless!

Closest God to Xena is now Bellona, but she doesn't have Xena's Chakram Boomerang.

Also it's Gods, not heroes.

I mean technically Hercules is only supposed to be a hero. Don't let the Disney movie fool you. So if they assigned him as a god they could just as arbitrarily make her one too.

My post was more pointing out that Characters in Smite are called "Gods" not "Heroes"(from LOL), not the actual status of Hercules himself as Demigod/Mortal whatever.

For example In Smite we have Sun Wukong and Guan Yu. Sun Wukong is just a Powerful Monkey, While Guan Yu was just a Mortal Warrior, but are called "Gods" in the game nonetheless. Also there's Scylla and Arachne, both are literally monsters.

Didn't Hercules ascend to godhood after all the trials or somesuch though? And Guan Yu has been called god of war by people that came after him IIRC. Not disagreeing with you or anything mind you.

He did the trials because he wanted to be redeemed for killing his wife and kids after Hera made him go crazy.

Yes I know why he did them, but that wasn't what I was speaking of.

My mistake. I misread it as why he did the 12 labors.