Briareos Hecatonchires
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Briareos is a character from Masamune Shirow's Appleseed manga and its adaptations in anime. He is one of the two protagonists of the series, along with his point man, Deunan Knute. Briareos and Knute
Briareos carrying Deunan Knute on the poster for the 2004 Appleseed film
Hecatoncheires
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In Greek mythology, the Hecatoncheires, also called Hundred-Handers or Centimanes, were three monstrous giants, of enormous size and strength, each with fifty heads and one hundred arms. They were ind
Briareos Hecatonchires
…moving to Olympus with Deunan, they have joined the ESWAT unit (Extra Special Weapons And Tactics). He is named after Briareus the Vigorous, one of the Hecatonchires (hundred-armed giants) of Greek mythology. In the Japanese media, he is voiced by Yoshisada Sakaguchi in the Appleseed OVA, Jūrōta Kosugi in the Appleseed…
Briareus, summoned to Olympus by Thetis to quell a revolt against Zeus by Poseidon, Athena and Hera. Etching by Tommaso Piroli (1795) after a drawing of John Flaxman.