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Born in the star-studded luxury of The Apex Penthouse, baby Hercules is target number one for Hades, a ruthless music mogul and ruler of "The Down-Low." Hades wants to overthrow Zeus and take over the city, but a prophecy warns that Hercules will stop him. Hades sends his two bumbling corner hustlers, Pain and Panic, to inject the baby with a street serum designed to strip away his divine spirit. The job gets interrupted, leaving Hercules stranded in the working-class neighborhood of The Mortal Flats. He retains his god-like, earth-shattering physical strength, but loses his memory of where he came from. Cut to twenty years later. Hercules is a beautiful but deeply awkward misfit who doesn't know his own strength, constantly breaking things and accidentally tearing up the neighborhood. After a spiritual encounter with a monument of his birth father, Zeus, Hercules learns he is a displaced god. To return to The Apex, he must prove himself a "True Hero" on the streets below. Zeus sends him to Philoctetes ("Phil"), a legendary, washed-up, gruff boxing trainer living in a gym filled with old trophies. Alongside his childhood best friend and hype-man, Pegasus, Hercules trains to become a heavyweight champion and local savior, fighting off Hades' supernatural street gangs and literal monsters (reimagined as runaway industrial transit trains and corrupt corporate mechs). Along the way, he falls hard for Megara ("Meg"), a fiercely independent, cynical street-stylist who is secretly indentured to Hades. To save the city and the woman he loves, Hercules must realize that true heroism isn't measured by the size of your muscles or your fame, but by the strength of your heart.