I ship it

Destiel <3

I UNDERSTAND THAT REFERENCE

Because the marketing department realizes that today's big demographics require surface level depth only. They don't care for a back story.

This was a good post until the Supernatural reference.

In the real story of Hercules, Hercules is the bastard son of Zeus and a woman besides Hera whose name escapes me. Because of her jealousy, Hera caused a madness to fall upon Hercules in which he killed Meg (who was his wife) and their kids. This is why he had to do all the labors - as a punishment.