Hercules and Samson share many similarities. They were both born out of ordinary circumstances. Samson was born to a barren woman who was visited by an angel. And Throughout their lives, both Hercules and Samson overcame many obstacles with their great strength. Hercules and Samson's first marriages both failed because of others interfering with their marriages and they were both seriously hurt from these experiences. Then later on in life Hercules and Samson were both faced with death because of a woman. In the end Hercules and Samson both chose death over life. Samson used the last of his strength to bring the Philistine’s temple down to rumble. Hercules could no longer endure the pain of the poison, so he chose he chose to be burned alive instead of suffering with the pain