He looks like a barbarian from what Rome called barbarians. Indeed, they called ANYONE who wasn't a Roman, barbarian. This is the best picture I've seen of Hercules! Roman Legionares wore bear & Lion skins.
This post to me just sounds like a lot of brrbrr ... ... Get it? The Main reason why barbarians were called that was because of forreigners simply speaking a different language and natives not understanding those ... However With time it became more a negative sinonym with brute or roughian