The myth of Hercules: 12 labors in 8-bits - Alex Gendler
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Hercules - son of Zeus and champion of humankind - stricken with a temporary curse of madness, has just committed the most unspeakable crime imaginable. Seeking to atone for the deaths of his family, Hercules must complete twelve impossible tasks that pit him against invincible monsters and unfathomable forces. Alex Gendler retells this epic series of adventures.
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Hera to me is the third worst Greek Goddess
You know that it’s herakles not hercules right?
@@Snowball-qr6xx Exactly named after the goddess who hates your guts
It’s spelled Heracles.
“Did you just shoot the sun?”
“Yeah”
“I like the way you think, get in.”
Best comment
Biden’s cabinet gonna be 💥💥💥
@@stephydare8324 how does it feel to know your messiah trump lost? How do you even sleep at night?
🙌
i too watch family guy
The heroes are the animators
The Sultan they actually credit some of the Greek gods in the credits. I thought that was rather humorous. You can tell the real ones from the joke ones because the real ones are in red text and the joke entries are in white.
Ikr
Talon Greenlee haha good one
Indeed
I love how dionysus was the FX programming even thou hes the damn god of drunken idiots!
1:08 Labor #1 The Nemean Lion
1:55 Labor #2 The Lernaean Hydra
2:20 Labor #3 The Ceryneian Hind
2:59 Labor #4 The Erymanthian Boar
3:18 Labor #5 The Augean Stables
3:49 Labor #6 The Stymphalian Birds
4:06 Labor #7 The Cretan Bull
4:13 Labor #8 The Mares of Diomedes
4:31 Labor #9 The Belt of Hippolyta
4:58 Labor #10 The Cattle of Geryon
5:49 Labor #11 The Golden Apples
6:22 Labor #12 (Final Labor) Cerberus
Nice stamps
12: The.... Cerberus?
xd i love that doggie
Wont lie this good make a sick indie game
Why do these places have weird names?
2: Your nephew helped? Doesn't count!
5: Wait, you were paid?! Disqualified!
This style is so cool and the little details or jokes are adorable, like the water flooding away the guy‘s clothes or the gods being listed in the credits. This is the best ted-ed video I‘ve ever watched
agreed!!!
-Hercules annoyed by sun.
-Hercules shot the sun.
-Helios : "Damn, that lit."
this comment has 777 likes dont break it okay
@@elbowsbuns1896 oh well moving on
thats lit take my stuff
@AcidicGamer now 1k like
Is helium named after Helios?
Hades: “You can borrow my dog as long as you don’t hurt him.”
Hades is the most chill deity of ALLLLL the other deities despite zeus cheating him and leaving him to rule the underworld
Ohh Yoy gotta love Hades
@@dogpenguin1239 ikr
DragonofEpics uncle hades is daaaaa besttt
the fact that this have 444 likes make me don't want to ruin it but oh well
The Myth of Hercules has potential for a great indie game. The artists behind the pixel art and animations of these video are absolutely amazing.
Lol, these are all derive from old NES games.
Atlas: *returns with the apples*
Hercules: I'm about to do what's called a pro gamer move
Always! ;)
This needs to be an actual game
Yessss
Yes! Yes!
Yes!
Yes!
Yes!
For my 'essay' (aka an EPQ), I doing this. I hope that it just goes well.
@@1ce_s0n1c is that a JOJO REFERENCE
@@lightlysalted7790 the answer is my reply above
"a giant with three heads, and three bodies."
so... three giants?
I was thinking the same😂😂😂
No... They are connected at the torso
Nah its like a conjoined twin, but its three bodies and head. But they all belong to one person
that's what i thought
no there's only one set of legs
I am not a native English speaker, and also the one who afraid of reading ancient myths because of too many hard words to start and persist in reading it. This video truly helps and I am really grateful for Ted ed’s devotion with free payment! Thanks god!
i hope u have a gd time learning english, and that u become fluent in it asap
The face of Cerberus when he started walking was great
Hera logic: Husband does the adultery. Hates Hercules
Similar to Caitlyn Stark and Jon Snow.
Well Zeus cheated a lot and hera is the goddess of marriage so I could understand why she got mad easily
S. S. It’s because it was believed gods didn’t have consequences because of their divinity making them above being penalized for wrong-doings.
@@Jobe-13 damn, that makes sense
S. S. It was one key trait that separated the gods from humans.
>annoyed by desert
>shoot sun because why not
>Helios straight gives me his chariot because hes impressed
>win
Be me
I would've flipped Hercules of if I were helios.
Mad lad
I bet, when he shot the arrow, Helios is like "Well god damn boy! you did that?"
@@orangutank626 The funny part is, Helios is also the one who moves the sun with his chariot. So it might be also something, along "Hey buddy, I noticed you shot at me. Was a good hit on my sun. Take my car, which is the sun/is attached to the sun."
4:00
4:11
Hercules dancing is downright adorable i--
4:06
"ez ur bad"
*dances*
Hercules: "Amazon queen, I have come for your-"
Amazon Queen: "Just take the belt."
Hercules: "Oh, cool."
But in reality it didn't happen like that ..... In reality Heracles slept with the queen, cheated on her and ran away with belt
@@kaaphiqueerious7707 damn-
it was supposed to be a metaphor of testing his virility - accdg to my humanities prof back in uni :)
Mihir Kaushal, all legends are 30% exaggerated.
He clapped em cheeks
If Zeus was a hand sanitizer, his bottle would say
"Causes 99.9% of problems in Greek Mythology because I couldn't keep it in my pants."
"God of one night stands"
-Oversimplified Productions, Red
They didn't own pants thou
@@shadaiwee-ellis1023 I guess that's why he couldn't keep it in his pants.
to be fair his illegitamate offspring also solve a lot of the problems in fact doesn't hercules win the war of titans and gods ? ironically if zeus wasn't a player the gods would have been defeated
Most of the gods couldn’t keep it in their pants lol
Crazy, epic, and heroic, I love this story and the way it was made! You rock Ted-Ed!
I personally love the thing with atlas.
Atlas was tired of holding the damn thing that he did not want to swap again, but heracles told him "yea sure, but I would need to fix my posture, can you hold the sky for me for a bit". But when atlas grabbed it again heracles just ran off with the apples.
Atlas: CURSE YOU JERKULES!
5:19
Helios: Bruh, you did that?
Hercules: Yeah, bruh
Helios: Nice...
Taste my chariot of supra bruh
Ok bruh, smell ya later!
smell ya later, bruh !
@@nepunepu5894 Dude, that's like, sick bruh!
Now I just have to get home without it. When's the next bus?
perhaps "Ah... that was good. Now what?" is more suitable, but yours fine
Hercules: it’s so hot in this dessert! I have a good idea: I’m going to shoot the sun and it will definitely help with the heat!
"... frightening King Eurystheus so much that *he hid in a wine jar.* "
*Seems legit*
Greeks practised alcoholism for sport at that period of history, so their wine jars would be the size of our wardrobes.
@@MrSagaTeller lol I know but wanted to make a joke and I came up with this as most of the jokes are said
FarGo 123 lol
Honestly, that’s a whole mood
How could he fit in a wine jar?
Eurystes: "I'm gonna shame this broken man even more."
Hercules: "You underestimate the pain I felt when I killed my own family."
3:35 - Why did the broom guys reactions make me laugh so hard... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Bro i wish this was a real arcade game called Hercules : THE 12 LABORS
Same, hope they make this a game
Ima start working on it ASAP
@@_fedmar_ seriously? that would be tight
@@Magiklor it will be super easy, barely an inconvenience
I had this as a video game concept for a while now called 12 labors where the gameplay is like Castlevania and ghost and goblins and the main way to enter a stage is by looking at a statute of a labor like the nemean lion down in eurithyus's dungeon, while the hub world is eurithyus's castle, and you would sometimes fight a mini boss before the real boss like in the hydra stage were you fight the crab first before the hydra, and the final boss would be hera as she teleports you to Olympus ( other game ideas I had are called sinner's quest and burger man )
For the record, Hercules is the Roman name. Heracles is the Greek name.
i wanted to comment that too but looked for someone who had already said it. :)
Thank you! It's so annoying because disney did it too
EXACTLY.
I know it was very annoying
@@queefburglar6995 worse is that he uses pegasus.
Me: you can’t solve everything with brute force
Hercules: **shoots the sun because it was too hot**
Me: I digress
AMAZING job creating a story in 8-bit style. Love it!!!
Are you kidding me? This is next level awesome. Well done! 👍👍
300th like
Ik
yes you are correct
nice pun
Tosh T *the princess in another castle*
Hades is so damn chill, I love him. "Yeah, you can take Spot for walkies, but be nice to him!!"
so i see you do osp xD
I still cant get over how a badass name like Cerberus is translated to spot ....
"Yeah, sure whatever, just roll a rock for all of eternity."
@@doriangrayapologist wasn't it Zeus' idea?
o-o yes
5:16 Helios was a Titan.
Titan is just a title given to some gods. Helios is a god.
This was EXCEPTIONALLY presented. It makes me, and my son, want to watch many more! Time to search for more of these =)
Mythology + 8 bit animation + Ted ed = Perfect combination
perfection
Yes @@justinrill2483, perfection
Perfection
@@JavierEscuella1911 perfection
Perfection
Hercules: "i kill my family, my redemption is to serve the gods"
Kratos: "I kill my family, my redemption is to kill the gods"
Kratos story is based off of Hercules’
@@jordanschruder2260 yeah...agree
wich, by the way, is his family too (he's part god)
Kratos served the Gods for 10 years. One of his services was to save Olympus from Persephone. Not to mention, he was tasked to kill Ares.
@@thareqprimaharianto8725 well...at least after 10 years he started his rebel, never to late to start something 😏
7:30 Poor Atlas
I personally feel like he suffers most of all in all of Greek mythology. Because before the 1000 year war between the Titans and gods. There were four titans that held up the universe. And now they have reduced that to just Atlas.
@@legoprince64even his daughter, Calypso, was punished solely due to being his daughter and not for any crime she herself committed
@@e12bl13nop, that is a invention of Percy Jackson. She was not punished in greek mythology, she just lived in the island.
@@sonofcronos7831 oh. I’m sorry.
This is honestly one of the best videos I ever seen. I'm happy that this content is free for me, available in my country and that I have the economic conditions to pay for internet to see this masterpiece. Thank you.
Hercules/Heracles: *Shot the sun of annoyance*
Helios: *Understandable, here is my chariot have a nice day*
Hahaha
🤣🤣🤣
*Modern problems require modern solutions*
@@jyotisrivastava1122 ancient*
@@proloycodes Ancient problems require ancient solutions
3:59
that dancing animation tho 😂😂
He's groovin'
He got an autoclicker with that bow tho
4:12 again
“Shaky shaky bird bitches”
Lmao
I used to read greek myth stories all the time and this one was one of my favorites
The animation for this looks AMAZING.
Disney: Hera is Hercules’s mother.
Everyone: The whole hatred was there cause she WASNT his mother
Disney: Hera is hercULES’S MOTHER.
Also Disney: Hades is sadistic freak.
@@smokeybrown8752 Hades is like, the most chillest god there is.
He's the oldest brother, which has him as the responsible one.
its said that the youngest is the spoiled one.
*cough* Zeus *cough*
@@jmie7686 plus hades was like the only god who didn't cheat on his wife unlike **cough coughh** zeus **cough cough**
It’s probably related to the fact that Walt Disney had mother issues...
it's Disney taking dark myths and making kid friendly, were you expecting David Lynch?
Deadly birds: *exist*
Heracles: chacha real smooth *shakes maracas*
LNDKNSD
also hercules a second later: "MACHINE GUN!"
Hercules: MUDA! MUDA! MUDA! MUDA! MUDA! MUDA! MUDA! MUDA! MUDA! MUDA! MUDA! MUDA!
Amazing presentation. Please do more like this.
This is a master piece. The art, the animation, the script, the voice. I declare that this vid has earned its place in the divine pantheon
"It's SO HOT"
"Hold on bro, lemme just shoot the sun"
ah thats better
Apollo: "Did you shoot that arrow into the sun, bro?"
renox blackthorne /Helios
"I got it bro"
"Thanks bro"
Sun: what the heck bro
"Sorry bro you're just super hot
Sun: sorry bro
Tiny3000 I am watch your EP1 and one year later, no more.
My favorite part is how it isnt clickbait
😴🤑🎃
thats ted ed
Lol i mean same
please make another story in this style because it is AMAZING
LOVE IT! Love that you used 8-bit graphics! It’s great :)
The actual way Hercules defeated Cerberus was because he was good with doggies and had bought dog treats
that was psyche
ya that was Psyche who did it but I'm not sure about Hercules or Heracles.
Cannot like this comment
I got this reference . Percy Jackson and the Greek heroes 😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Graphics: 12 / 10
Music: 7 / 10
Will play again.
I mean Hercules did do 12 out of the 10 impossible tasks so the graphics should be 12/10
Cosmos Code
You have a point
The music, animation and storytelling tremendous work! Thank you!!
I had no idea how much I wanted a retelling of Hercules‘ tasks in this particular style, but my heart and mind both tell me, TED-Ed has satisifed them on both fronts. :)
Excellent work!
it pains me to see people mistaking Heracles for Hercules. Hercules is the ROMAN name of Heracles. The Greek name is Heracles
@@paradise89 You are, of course, entirely correct. It was merely the force of habit, forgive me.
@@lutterbrot5839 I’m sorry if i made it sound rude. Its not like you’re not the only one. I see hundreds of comments saying Hercules instead of Heracles. Even this video’s title is etymologically inaccurate.
@@paradise89 Oh no, please, you did nothing wrong. I am in fact glad you corrected me, helps me keep the distinction in mind more. =)
5:33 the tenth task is finished
Me see’s two more minutes: something’s wrong I feel it
I mean the title did say twelve tasks not ten.
That. Was Epic.
I love this new style
Litterally
Brilliant 😃 I this 8-bit rendition, thanks for sharing it with us all 🙏🏽
The is one of the most fun TedEd videos I have ever seen! I really enjoyed it and learned a lot. Well done TedEd Team!
Half the time people were like “wow he’s good” and helped him
The only ones who didn’t were monsters,which don’t really count as people.
Aàà
i like that. good intentions and a never give up attitude will attract good will into your life. which in turn betters the world and everyone in it
I WANT THIS AS A VIDEO GAME
FANMAKERS MAKE THIS PLEASE
Me Too
Same
Rise of the Argonauts
Already started, xD, this'll probably take a while...
Grid the xenomorph I’ll try make this
this is so beautiful ❤ the creators are amazing
Every time I hear that theme song I get filled with the feeling of being enlightened because a wise man once said
"A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger that oneself" - Joseph Campbell
And these animators give us stories of old and mathematical equation that made humanity get to the moon. Thank you TED - ED
The beginning of this story is so ironic when you realize Hera is the Goddess of Family.
She is actually goddesses of "perfect" family if u ask me. She throwed hepastus all the way down....how could she
More like the Ancient Greek's perception of what a good family is.
It was not uncommon for deformed or weak babies to be abandoned after all. Why do you think all the changeling stories and "abandoned in the wilderness" tales come from?
Hera sort of took over from Hestia, the goddess of the hearth, family, and domesticity. She was the eldest sister of Zeus, an awesome god who was kind to everyone (so even Hades would listen to her) but became obscure when she gave up her seat to Dionysus to keep them from fighting again, according to rumour.
Hestia is probs best girl that noone knows about.
@Mullerornis yes, that's why I said "became" obscure (because she stopped appearing in myths), and "according to rumour".
Hestia is bestia.
Hercules: yes I can tame Cerberus with my bare hands.
> Hercules proceeds to hug the Cerberus.
> Cerberus looks annoyed
Cerberus thinks to himself "Okay I guess"
Hercules has tamed wild Cerberus.
I heard you're more likely to tame Cerberus if you mash A while he struggles.
Undertale is actually a re-imagining of greek myth, kek.
Imagine how big is Hercules's hand that he could grab Cerberus
omg undertale
ugh i just love your videos so much tysm for making all these videos and putting so much effort in them:)
Great animation!
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Appreciate the story telling.
5:08 if its getting to hot just shoot the sun great logic👍👍👍
its called greek mythology m8
Jay_toons anything is possible in Greek mythology
AceCombat mh... I guess your right
Why not right?
It was worth a shot
4:11 Hercules dancing is my new favourite thing
Sus
Hello proseffor mcgonagall
I lost it at that part
b-but he's ur half brother goddess Minerva/Athena
Absolutely fantastic way to make this a fun way to learn.
I really loved the Shovel Knight-like presentation of this video. I always found Greek mythology fascinating
Dude, I would actually play this game.
Jman Awesome the Way it started, I really thought it was bout to tell Kratos' story from god of war
Same, tbh
Dang I got 140 likes for this??
It's not 8-Bit, but check out Apotheon. Great game set in the Greek myth in the style of Ancient Greek pottery
JM's Reef yes!
This should be a real game. Such lovely animations.
@@litetaker I think he meant like a pixelated platformer.
It's not 8-Bit, but check out Apotheon. Great game set in Greek myth in the style of Ancient Greek pottery
I love how the story turns out . Thanks to everyone whom work in this beautiful piece of work
8-bit Masterpiece. Thanks
"A giant with three heads, and three bodies."
That just sounds like three giants.
If you look closely you can see that their shoulders are connected together.
Conjoined, back to back to back
It is like a Dugtrio
That's what I was thinking too
Geryon actually had six legs in the video
Love how Cerberus just gave up and carried him back
The look on his face said it all though.
bruh if anyone holds you in the neck, I bet you would submit too 🤣🤣
@jose more like "let's just get this over with" 😂😂
I'll love that part too!
One of the very best presentations.
2022 and i still rewatch this because of the animation ❤
This is some breathtaking animation!
The moment in the stables was excellent - the water flooding in was super great.
Just imagine if this was a game... I'll play it for hours.
Boss fights, quests, puzzles that aren't puzzles but just- Pulling up something impossible you wouldn't have tought of and... Actual mithology lore
Yes sir play the game more than my brother plays Skyrim
12 year speed run!
I’m a non-gamer but I totally agree
maybe i'll do it myself.
The Scenery in this video is so amazing it made me way more interested in greek myth
I don't usually say this, but absolutely amazing animation!!! Great job!
Damn this animation is on point
Mr. Hercules? I don't feel so good...
5:30
Stop that fern meme
Knew someone would say it
Randumation not an adventure time meme, it’s an avengers infinity war meme. +1 for Adventure time tho. I can definitely see the resemblance between the two scenes
Dang u beat me to it
This has to be the best video I've seen on this channel. Laughed at how they animated the stable cleaning
this video still haunts me to this day our class had questions and we had to answer them all we watched this video about like 40 times
7:05 would be a cool desktop wallpaper
7:30 is better
@@jackcataldo1639 that a** though
*Me at 9:00am* “ugh I’m sooo tired”
*also me at 9:00pm* 4:11
BRO I'M DYING
Bruh
@@bait5257 I commented this when i was 12, please pretend you never saw it and we good :)
@@mushroomfae8044 you are still 14 then
@@mushroomfae8044you’re now 16
Beautifully animated. ❤️
I love the style of this
This is how history has too be taught!!!I love this freaking channel!!!!!!
This isnt really history... Its a made up fairy tale
@@jsav7920 But history should be taught this way.
J Sav
There likely was a Hercules at one point in the distant past but his deeds and strength became exaggerated over time to form the myth we know today.
Every single labor was fake fairytale creatures
There was likely NOT a hercules it's part of mythology
"They call me Hercules, I'm the king of the Rumba beat when I play the maracas the go Chick-chicky boom Chick-chicky boom."
Nice reference, my friend. 🤣
I got the reference! Very nice.
lol
Incredible work, as usual
Isn’t his name actually heracles, named after Hera, so she may like him more
No. Hera was his wet nurse and lost one of her boobs
you're right though, heracles is the greek version, hercules is the roman version. it gets confusing because "hercules" is used even when talking about greek myths
i love these vids keep up the hard work
Imagine if they made a game about this
So I could kill my family too
Memes are cool, but can we appreciate the artwork a bit more? That is one of the most impressive original 8-bit art I've seen!
this may just be my favorite style yet.
I love how all the people in the end credits are gods lmao
*heracles:* _kills diomedes by feeding him to his horses_
*hammurabi:* well played.
It's like I'm watching a backstory of a game 😂
I LOVE THIS CHANNEL SO MUCH