Hercules Key

Hercules Key
Key information
First appearance	Locke & Key: Keys to the Kingdom #3 The Premiere
Use	Increases a key user's physical strength and endurance
Door	Hercules Necklace Hercules Belt
Creator	Hans Riffel
Current owner	Tyler Locke Bode Locke (Netflix Adaptation)
Previous owner	Hans Riffel Lucas Caravaggio Rendell Locke Bode Locke Scot Kavanaugh

The Hercules Key is one of the Keys created by Hans Riffel.

History

In 1988, Lucas Caravaggio used the key in the play of 'The Tempest'. In that same year, Rendell donned the key to rescue his friends from Dodge's clutches.

Bode finds the Hercules, Angel, and Harlequin Keys

Bode Locke later found the Hercules Key, along with the Angel Key and the Harlequin Key, hidden in a hollow book titled "Keys to the Kingdom". The key was first seen used by Bode in February, fighting for the Chain Key. It was later used by Tyler Locke the same month in an ice hockey game.

After getting possessed by a demon, Scot Kavanaugh used the key inside the caves. After the Alpha Key was used to free Scot of the demon, the Hercules Key kept him alive after the demon within him turned into Whispering Iron. Only after it was deactivated, was when Scot died.

After Dodge was defeated, Tyler carried the key on a keychain with most of the other reacquired keys.

Netflix Adaptation

The Hercules Key appears in the series' second season. Instead of a necklace, the key fits into a belt. Bode discovers the key somewhere in Keyhouse, and uses it in an attempt to move a parlor couch, unsuccessfully, through a door. Later, he uses the key again to move the same couch and breaks the doorframe in his frustration.

Tyler later trades the Anywhere Key to Bode for the Hercules Key. While retrieving the Memory Key, Tyler uses the Hercules Key to lift a metal bench and the concrete slab that its set into. With one punch, he breaks into the slab and recovers the Memory Key before setting the bench back down again.

After realizing that Gabe is actually Dodge, Tyler is wearing the Hercules Key when Gabe shows up at Keyhouse, something that Gabe notices.

During the attempt to defeat Gabe by dragging him into the Wellhouse, Kinsey uses the Hercules Key to try to restrain him. However, the demon's strength matches that of the Hercules Key and Gabe is ultimately able to overpower her.

Kinsey later wears the Hercules Key to school in case of an attack by Gabe and tests that the Savinis aren't demons by having them each take it from her. While fighting the possessed Javi, Kinsey is overpowered after a number of other demons join the fight.

When Josh is trapped in a cave in, Bode uses the Hercules Key to free him.

Scot Cavendish uses it against Dodge's demon minions in the final battle with her. At one point, Scot restrains the possessed Daniel Mutuku so that Tyler can kill him with the Alpha Key.

Months later, Kinsey uses the Hercules Key in the battle against Frederick Gideon, Samuel Coffey and James Bolton. Although Kinsey is defeated, she is saved by Dodge with the Angel Key.

After Gideon's death, the Lockes toss all of the key into his portal to close it.

Uses

The Hercules Key fits into the wearer of the Hercules Necklace. True to its name, the key makes the wearer three times as strong as they are usually.

In the Netflix series, the Key goes into a belt with the symbol of a lion on the buckle.

Guide to the Known Keys entry

(Translated from German)

"Half of the 8th army and a seemingly endless bunch of SS-Men were waiting there for me! I hurled Eric against the wall and heard his ribs break, as if someone had jumped on a bundle of twigs. I have to admit it sounded like music to my ears! With the other hand I hit the soldiers and they flew through the air like matchsticks. The Hercules-Key released all the power in me that I had not possessed as a goddamn cripple. But the Sturmbannführer knew how to wear me down/ finish me off!"

Info

• 4 Appearances by Hercules Key.
• 8 Images featuring Hercules Key.