The central character in a peplum movie is usually a muscular hero like Hercules or Samson.

Captain Whammo/Zammo: This muscular, long blond-haired hero was usually dispatched to fight villains of a more military nature.

In this scene, a stiff muscular hero has a large, heavy club raised in his right hand and he advances towards his objective.

Still, few tenors today carry off more sonorously and convincingly the part of the muscular hero who saves Memphis from its Ethiopian enemies.

Hercules: The muscular hero who wields a wooden club which he can hurl at enemies and is extraordinarily strong.

Posters of muscular sword-and-sorcery heroes wielding enormous broadswords hung on the walls.

The story is a swords and sorcery fantasy, with the muscular hero attempting to rescue his 'maiden love'.

By that season, however, his health had declined to such an extent that he no longer resembled the muscular, long-limbed hero of the prior decade.

And usually incompetent to do anything more than get into "trouble" and then look ever so beautiful for their handsome and muscular sword-swinging hero.

The novel features a muscular hero known on earth as Esau Cairn.