I'm surprised hiruzen fans haven't come yet lol. And imo I think the first homage did he solo made the village from the ground up albeit with madara's help, he was revered as the god of shinobi, he was the strongest at the time and could solo any ninja in his time, he was able to take on kyruubi+madara in his prime and still came home in time for support, he made tobirama his slave when they were Edo talking to sasuke hashi was all like "lower your finger" and tobi bowed down to solo king hashi cause tobi didn't want to get hashi's wood that madara loves so much, hashirama overall had the most swag he was the progenitor of swag hashirama was basically like "why show everyone I have swag I have nothing to prove I'm swag incarnate one look and instant swagify"