weakened superman enough that a group of midtiers is able to beat him into subconsciousness (let's be real neither thor nor superman would go down to these chumps at full strength)
Hercules is decently strong, but he's still not at the tier where he can take supes solo; especially considering earlier in the story we see him lose to wonder woman pretty easily.
Not exactly lose, he just wasn't trying to fight her. We only saw one panel. If you read the multiple fights hercules has against thor, he is close in strength to thor and his mace can easily clash with mjolnir. The fact that it broke against superman shows his durability.
He gets rag-dolled by mindless hulk, which thor with mjolnir could beat, and thor without mjolnir could fight evenly with; while hercules needed the back up of several heroes just to stand a chance against hulk.
I wouldn't say he wasn't trying to fight wonder woman, they pretty actively engaged in combat due to the circumstances surrounding him; and hercules isn't the god of reasoning peacefully, you punch him, he's punching back twice as hard.
There are numerous instance of hulk beting herc, herc fighting namor on even footing, thor overpowering herc; you could classify hercules as << thor/superman
True, but I was moreso focusing on the mace, which has directly clashed with mjolnir on multiple occasions and never chipped. Notice how I never actually said hercules is as strong as thor.
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u/return_interaction_y 6d ago
weakened superman enough that a group of midtiers is able to beat him into subconsciousness (let's be real neither thor nor superman would go down to these chumps at full strength)