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their first month at betterhelp. com death battle that's dot betterhelp. com slash death battle [Music] hercules the god of strength sun wukong the monkey king myth has many heroes but few overcome their past to become legendary and maybe inspire some comics and animate a boot he's where's nam boomstick and it's our job to analyze their weapons armor and skills to find out who would win a death battle he's the man the myth the legend he's hercules stories of hercules exist in many iterations but we'll examine the earliest known accounts the legend of heracles no disney zero to hero just the classic greek myth and like most ancient greek stories it began with zeus being a total creep the god of thunder did his thing with a princess by disguising himself as her husband oh what the hell man and thus a demigod was born who was named alcaos but hera was pretty pissed zeus had cheated on her yet again so alchaos's human parents renamed him in her honor yep heracles means glory to hero too bad she had already made up her mind though and that kid was gonna pay the child would need some way to survive hera's wrath so the goddess of heroes carried out a plan that was frankly insane athena tricked hera into nursing the baby heracles and her milk gave him supernatural strength unbound even beyond many of the gods themselves so strong that he hurt her and caused her to spray milk all over the place like a boob sprinkler which in turn created the galaxy yep that's why we call it the milky way oh god i'm never eating one of those candy bars again with his god-like power heracles became a fierce warrior trained by the finest instructors in all of greece unfortunately he wasn't without problems while he was a natural at boxing wrestling fencing and so much more he struggled in the arts he even had a fit and accidentally killed his music teacher little did heracles know this was a sign of the tragedy to come many years later as his name began to be synonymous with the term hero he murdered his wife princess megara and their sons yeah hera had magically driven him into a kill frenzy rage but that didn't excuse it for herc his guilt was there desperate to atone he sought guidance from the oracle of delphi and learned his path to redemption he would submit himself to king eurystheus and perform for him 10 gruelling labors the guy was a d-bag but herc did what he had to and through his struggles built a killer arsenal for his first labor he was tasked with slaying a lion whose hide could not be pierced by any blaze so herc just beat the lion to death with his bare hands and took the belt as armor for himself he defeated a flock of metal man-eating birds with cortalis so loud no living thing could bear the noise he battled a multi-headed hydra cauterizing its necks after each decapitation so the heads would not grow back a lot of sliced off heads meant a lot of blood spilled and hydra blood is extra poisonous even gods fear it so herc dipped his arrows in the stuff for later use like when he used them to take out centaurs titans and even the sun as sort of the details of the smith differ but in some versions heracles was so fed up with the desert heat he fired an arrow at the sun the physical embodiment of the god helios i guess that's one way to cool off take that global warming to reach the sun his arrow would have to fly 90 times faster than light the maximum draw weight of a typical recurve bow is about 40 pounds shooting an arrow 300 feet per second shooting one faster than light would require strength incomprehensible to mortals such as us anyway hurt completed his labors but the king was a sore loser and asked two of them for cheating cause hurt was a lot more clever than he expected heracles received two more tasks one of which required he retrieved the golden apples of hesperides which ironically originally belonged to hera as part of his plan heracles would temporarily take on the role of the titan atlas as bearer of the heavens that sounds exhausting more than you think dummy while modern art often portrays atlas carrying a globe the greeks perceived his burden as a celestial sphere this would mean heracles supported the weight of not just the earth but the whole universe like i'm holding up this entire show the common view of the time was that the universe was endless even chaos the primordial origin of everything was boundless meaning heracles held up the weight of conceptual infinity luckily herx got one hell of a drive to persevere and to make amends like when he met king and meet us he got to party it up and was too drunk to realize the king was in a really bad state cause his wife had just died reminds me of someone can't imagine who well herc felt bad so he decided to make it up to his bro by literally beating up the god of death until he returned admits his wife and that's true best friend material whiz heracles frequently surprised others with his wit particularly with finding solutions hidden in plain sight for example when he wrestled antaeus a giant who was invincible so long as his feet were on the ground heracles simply picked him up and strangled him in the air even giants and the god of death couldn't end his story instead he was tricked into putting on a shirt covered in that hydra blood and it totally screwed him up what a bs way to go yet also a testament to how a contest of power could not defeat him racked with unbearable pain and burning at a pyre heracles called to the deities who had watched his story unfold and so as his mortal form returned to ash heracles ascended to mount olympus where he was welcomed as the god of strength even hera lightened up his life may have been one of strife and struggle but on that day all the world was left in awe of the legend of heracles there once was a mighty monkey warrior born of a mystic stone from the energy of the sun and moon upon birth he graciously bowed to the cardinal directions and shot lasers from his eyes strap in folks this one's a doozy this monkey soon befriended a band of other primates and rather narcissistically named himself their handsome monkey king but after a few centuries of monkeying about he got a taste of the dreaded midlife crisis you see the monkey king was fierce and brave yet he feared death so he ventured to new lands in search of immortality turns out he'd find a lot of it training under the taoist master pouty he earned his first method of immortality and a new name he would be the monkey awakened to the void spoken as sun khan he also learned a bunch of magic he can ride clouds make thousands of clones heal from fatal wounds like decapitation and transform into basically anything a bird some vapor a pitchfork even an incredible fighting temple with his famous cloud somersault he could traverse the world at incredibly high speed at first a single somersault could carry him 108 000 lee lee being a traditional chinese unit equal to about 500 meters making one somersault move 54 000 kilometers per second fast enough to circle the entire earth in one leap and he'd only get faster from there monkey would do whatever it took to prove he was the best of the best when fighting the mighty deity prince nocha his foe transformed into a more powerful visage with three heads and six arms but son was like hey i can do that too and then did just that son wukong eventually returned to his simeon subjects and with his newfound power amassed a veritable army however he felt no weapon in their arsenal suited him so he barged into the dragon king's palace and demanded he hand over a weapon worthy of a king who could match the power of heaven yeah sun was pretty full of himself but he wound up taking a pillar originally designed to measure the depths of the ocean what seemed like a worthless rod to the dragon king was actually the perfect weapon for wukong weighing nearly eight tons the rui jingu bang can change size at his whim it can shrink to the size of a needle or grow long enough to pierce the heavens the same heavens that got pretty mad with sun after he crossed his name out of the ledger of death making himself double immortal wait how does that work and even more mad when he demanded to be formally acknowledged as the great sage equal to heaven okay we've got a headstrong goofball who quickly masters new powers and wants a fancy title this is just shown in anime now the monkey king may have lashed out but it was because when he requested a place in heaven a place he truly believed he deserved the jade emperor's court reduced him to a stable boy beneath all his antics what son wanted most was to prove himself even with all the shenanigans the jade emperor remained cautious and willing to placate wukong by making him the watchdog of the garden of immortal peaches he totally ate that didn't he whis oh yeah wukong got hammered ate most of the peaches ran around the jade palace in a fit and found five gourds of immortality pills which he promptly swallowed all of them okay so that makes how many layers of immortality now i'd say a few hundred thousand if you count each individual peach and pill when he sobered up he knew he was in serious trouble so naturally he prepared for war wow that escalated quickly what are they gonna do kill him so the monkey king proved too strong for heaven he battled all their best fighters and even matched erlong's shin blow for blowing an epic battle of transformations he's that guy with the third eye and heaven's greatest holy warrior yet no matter erlong's form wukong always had a counter until laozi threw in a convenient plot mcguffin that captured the monkey but even with wukong in chains heaven had a problem he just wouldn't die lightning fire even loudzy's de-immortalizing furnace just made the monkey stronger now wukong is not invincible he has been hurt by the scorpion demons poison which could even harm the buddha and awaken divine being liberated from the cycle of life and death entirely now tell me how painful is that pain is all in the mind and i am absent of mind oh god oh no i was strong it's bad it's really really really bad oh god but even after all that sun had one more challenger to contend with the buddha himself buddha approached wukong with a contest leap out of his hand and he could have the jade emperor's throne for himself having no impulse control the monkey agreed and in an instant somersaulted to the very edge of heaven but he had already lost because buddha achieved nirvana he transcended the world literally holding all of existence so even at the edge of the universe wukong technically never left his hand for his rebellion sun was put in time out sealed under a mountain for 500 years but even son wukong would find a chance at redemption in his case he was tasked with escorting and protecting a monk tan seong zhong or tripitaka on a journey to the west with additional companions pigsy and sandy the trip was a tough one and monkey abandoned it more than once but through it all he always returned to shine as the group's powerhouse saving tripitaka's life many many times seriously this guy could not stay out of trouble it's like whiz at a blind date m wukong has cracked apart mountains slayed hundreds of monsters and survived the yellow wind demon storm that could destroy the universe as in heaven earth the 18 layers of hell and more that's cool and always but let's answer the real question can he beat goku um maybe during his journey wukong performed possibly his most legendary feat holding up mount sumeru which in traditional mahayana buddhism is a mountain supporting the infinite cosmic sky and sun just hauled it around on one shoulder just one because on his other shoulder was a whole other mountain after 14 years of travel the journey was complete and wukong had finally accomplished a truly great deed for this he was given his long-awaited place among the heavens as the victorious fighting buddha now that's got to be an anime after so 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com death battle that's babble. com death battle for up to 60 off your subscription babble language for life [Music] all right the combatants are set and we've run the data through all possibilities it's time for a dead battle our tale begins atop a great mountain where the mighty heracles sought a gift from the gods oh there huh i'm in need of that apple relinquish it sorry i'm supposed to find my master some vegetarian food you'll find it elsewhere but heracles was not so easily fooled the monkey king's strike rang true but he'd not so easily overwhelm the god of strength [Music] i am heracles [Music] agony agony [Music] the monkey king fell into a strange forest in awe at such a wondrous fight but should he mistake his fear he might lose his head i haven't had such fun since i fought all of heaven change behold me the immortal monkey king [Music] multiple heads of course [Music] [Music] you've had your fun beast but i've had enough in heavens above the gods witnessed their earth-bound selves and so joined in that the god of strength mustered the hearts of olympus while the great sage harnessed power equal to heaven thus [Music] the monkey king emerged victorious wow would you look at that i struck him so hard he was reduced to nothingness with a formidable foe slain stricken against the mountain's breast so ends our great tale of east and west [Music] k. o talk about a herculean matchup heracles was among the greatest heroes in myth but the great sage equal to heaven held many more advantages you'd think sun might not measure up to the god of strength you know strength but he totally could remember he carried sumaru on his back the mountain holding up the infinite celestial sky like how heracles held up the infinite celestial sphere as befitting heroes of myth they were on par in that they were both incomprehensibly strong however wukong's healing abilities meant he could bounce back from heracles deadliest blows whereas heracles did not have a similar option but heracles did have one way of putting the monkey king down his arrows dipped in hydra poison the hydra poison threatened even the gods of olympus similar to the scorpion sting whether or not it would be fatal is questionable but it could have incapacitated wukong similar to how it affected heracles himself but that is one very specific win condition and we're looking at this with every possible option in mind with his variety of clones transformations and numerous other spells wukong's arsenal was far more versatile like there was nothing stopping him from making thousands of clones of himself and just sitting back while they beat up herc for him unsport's been like sure in character absolutely even then those arrows would have to actually strike wukong which would be extremely difficult yes in some depictions heracles could potentially shoot the sun of helios his arrows flying 90 times the speed of light however in his contest with the buddha wukong leap to the edge of the universe in a single second to do so he had to be moving over 1.
