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David Michael Bautista Jr. (born January 18, 1969) is an American actor and retired professional wrestler. Regarded as one of his generation's most prolific professional wrestlers, he rose to fame for his multiple stints in WWE between 2002 and 2019. Bautista began his wrestling career in 1999 and signed with WWE (then WWF) in 2000. From 2002 to 2010, he gained fame under the ring name Batista, initially as a member of Evolution. He would go on to win the WWE Championship twice, the World Heavyweight Championship four times (with his first reign remaining the longest in history at 282 days), the World Tag Team Championship three times (twice with Ric Flair and once with John Cena), and the WWE Tag Team Championship once (with Rey Mysterio). He also won the 2005 and 2014 Royal Rumble matches and subsequently headlined WrestleMania 21 and WrestleMania XXX, with the former being one of the top five highest-grossing PPV events in wrestling history. Having largely stepped back from professional wrestling in 2020, he retired after WrestleMania 35 in 2019. As an actor, Bautista is known for portraying Drax in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (2014–2023) and Rabban in Dune (2021) and its 2024 sequel. Bautista has additionally starred in Spectre (2015), Blade Runner 2049 (2017), Final Score, Master Z: Ip Man Legacy (both 2018), Army of the Dead (2021), Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022), Knock at the Cabin, and Parachute (both 2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article Dave Bautista, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Episode 10: The Cattle Heracles was tasked with retrieving the Cattle of Geryon, a three-headed, three-bodied giant. Heracles braved the blazing heat of the Libyan desert to find Geryon wearing three helmets, holding three shields and three spears. Heracles could not possibly defeat the giant in close combat so he instead took a ranged approach. With a single shot, Heracles pierced a venomous arrow through all three of Geryon's heads. As the giant fell to his death, Heracles threw the giant's cow over his shoulders and began to trudge through the desert once more. Heracles, enraged at the heat of the sun, shot an arrow at it. He awakened the god, Apollo, impressed by his bravery. Apollo not only offered Heracles his chariot to ride across the desert but he also offered advice. Apollo told Heracles of Orpheus, a hero who nearly rescued his wife from the Underworld. Apollo told Heracles that the greatest way to kill a god is not to take their life them, it is to take their power. Nothing makes a God feel weaker than when you prove them powerless over you.
