The hero, who is himself, is represented as a pilgrim in the storied lands of the East, a sort of Faustus type, who, to quote from Professor Book again, `` even in the pleasure gardens of Sardanapalus can not cease from his painful search after the meaning of life.

This scene is a `` white ballet '' in which a lovelorn hero searches for his departed love's spirit among twenty-eight extraordinarily beautiful `` shadows '' who can all dance like nothing human -- which, of course, is altogether fitting.

I figure if I can get any kind of publicity campaign going, I'll land him on TV -- you know, one of those favorite horses for some Western hero.

Fay disappears, and hiding from the police, admits that she hopes for one miracle-for a hero who can come and deliver the town from the madness (“ There Won't Be Trumpets ”).

The debate might be framed starkly as follows: on the one hand, we can hypothesise a poem put together from various tales concerning the hero ( the Grendel episode, the Grendel's mother story, and the firedrake narrative ).

* stock devices ( a comedy ends with a marriage, but a cowboy film can end with the hero riding off into the sunset )

Each Element also has a specialty for which a character can get a 1-point bonus ; e. g., a 5-Air hero with an Air specialty of " Writing " could write as though their Air score were 6.

Each hero can have one 0-point Power for free ; additional Powers that would otherwise cost 0 points instead cost 1.

In plotlines mirroring the negative reaction of non-commercial artists to the commercialization of the art form by companies like IBM ( and, later, Sony itself ) the Rakugaki Ōkoku series ( 2003 – 2005 ) for Sony's PlayStation 2 revolves around an anonymous hero and his magically imbued-with-life graffiti creations as they struggle against an evil king who only allows art to be produced which can benefit him.

Other games which feature graffiti include Bomb the World ( 2004 ), an online graffiti simulation created by graffiti artist Klark Kent where users can virtually paint trains at 20 locations worldwide, and Super Mario Sunshine ( 2002 ), in which the hero, Mario must clean the city of graffiti left by the villain, Bowser Jr. in a plotline which evokes the successes of the Anti-Graffiti Task Force of New York's Mayor Rudolph Giuliani ( a manifestation of " broken window theory ") or those of the " Graffiti Blasters " of Chicago's Mayor Richard M. Daley.

In Fáfnismál, the hero Sigurd stands before the mortally wounded body of the dragon Fáfnir, and states that Fáfnir lies in pieces, where " Hel can take " him.

Either way, Coster is somewhat of a Haarlem local " hero ", and apart from a statue on the Grote Markt his name can be found in many places in the city.

The tradition of Moses as a lawgiver and culture hero of the Israelites can be traced to 8th or 7th century BCE in the Kingdom of Judah.

As in the past, the appeal lies in the vitality of the character, a hero who can go into a brawl and come out with his hair combed and who, faced with death, lights a cigarette and taunts his enemy with the signature phrase " As the actress said to the bishop ...."

But our thoughts can contain only one idea at a time, so if the plot is " hero runs after murderer " and our reflection is " he was foolish to trust the villain ", our thought is something like " hero foolish trust run after murderer villain ".

The importance of the maintenance of this memory can be seen in that it came to be associated with the legendary British hero Arthur, although the date of its inundation is actually c. 2500 BC.

In addition to these, Shakespeare also wrote a number of plays about English history, such as Richard II, which can be considered a tragedy, as the hero of the play exhibits many of Aristotle's definitions of what is required to obtain " tragic " status.

Thus, since the hero Trophonius ( from Lebadea in Boeotia ) is called Zeus Trophonius, this can be represented in English ( as it would be in Latin ) as Jupiter Trophonius.

Folklorists have attempted to determine the origin by internal evidence, which can not always be clear ; Joseph Jacobs, comparing the Scottish tale The Ridere of Riddles with the version collected by the Brothers Grimm, The Riddle, noted that in The Ridere of Riddles one hero ends up polygamously married, which might point to an ancient custom, but in The Riddle, the simpler riddle might argue greater antiquity.

His name can be seen as an homage both to Rand's hero and to Robert Heinlein's character Mike in the novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, a self-aware computer network that engineers a revolution in a lunar penal colony using the alias Adam Selene.

When the disguised Odysseus returns, she announces in her long interview with the disguised hero that whoever can string Odysseus's rigid bow and shoot an arrow through twelve axe shafts may have her hand.

In the selection of hero cards in the Chinese card game San Guo Sha ( 三国杀 ), there is also a Sun Quan hero that players can select at the beginning of the game.

The hero / detective of these novels is typically a traditional judge or similar official based on historical personages such as Judge Bao ( Bao Qingtian ) or Judge Dee ( Di Renjie ).

In modern movies, the hero is often simply an ordinary person in extraordinary circumstances, who, despite the odds being stacked against him or her, typically prevails in the end.

Often a hero in these situations has a foil, the villain, typically a charismatic evildoer who represents, leads, or himself embodies the struggle the hero is up against.

Spalatro has a typically Gothic Italian setting, featuring a bandit as hero, à la Ann Radcliffe ( whose 1797 novel The Italian includes a repentant minor villain of the same name ).

In A Pistol for Ringo a traditional sheriff commissions a money-oriented hero – played by Giuliano Gemma with more pleasing manners than the Eastwood character but just as devious and deadly – to ( typically ) infiltrate a gang of Mexican bandits whose leader is played by ( typically ) Fernando Sancho.

Among the more commercially successful films with a hero dedicated to vengeance – For a Few Dollars More, Once Upon a Time in the West, Today We Kill … Tomorrow We Die !, A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die, Death Rides a Horse, Viva Django, The Devil's Backbone, Hate for Hate, Greatest Robbery in the West – he typically has to cooperate with people with other motivations.

Heathcliff is typically considered a Byronic hero, but critics have found his character, with a capacity for self-invention, to be profoundly difficult to assess.

Natives from the Southeastern United States typically saw a rabbit trickster / culture hero, and Pacific Northwest native stories often feature a raven in this role: in some stories, Raven steals fire from his uncle Beaver and eventually gives it to humans.

The hero, typically Bugs Bunny, tries to play the melody line of the song, but always misses the rigged note ( C above middle C ).

In literature, the objects of quests require great exertion on the part of the hero, and the overcoming of many obstacles, typically including much travel.

The hero is typically torn between compassion for the oppressed and his sense of duty to the gang.

His style can at times seem similar to Hergé's early ligne claire style ( clear line ), paired with meticulous research and typically featuring an asexual hero ( Adèle Blanc-Sec can be quite a misandrist at times ), but Tardi's work also satirises the concept of the flawless hero by using a series of inept, naive or anti-heroic main characters.

It is usually based around having the same character traits, for example a hero ( always the fearless one ), heroine ( the love of the hero, usually the one that the hero saves ), villain ( usually likes the heroine too ) and villain's sidekick ( typically gets in the way of or annoys the villain ).

A tragedy typically ended with the death or destruction of a fictional or historical hero, whereas a comedy focused on the lives of middle to lower class characters and ended with their success.

The presence of the hero is unsuspected, until some herdsman wanders into the cave, typically looking for a lost animal, and sees the hero.

Their conversation typically involves the hero asking, " Do the eagles ( or ravens ) still circle the mountaintop?

The hero of these novels is typically a traditional judge or similar official based on historical personages such as Judge Bao ( Bao Qingtian ) or Judge Dee ( Di Renjie ).

The Byronic hero typically exhibits several of the following traits:

The hero generally participates in a cyclical journey or quest, faces adversaries that try to defeat him in his journey and returns home significantly transformed by his journey.

In the contest of wills between Hera and Zeus over whose candidate would be hero, fated to defeat the remaining creatures representing an old order and bring about the reign of the Twelve Olympians, Eurystheus was Hera's candidate and Heracles — though his name implies that at one archaic stage of myth-making he had carried " Hera's fame " — was the candidate of Zeus.

The Vichy Regime – led by Philippe Pétain, the aging war hero of the First World War – was originally intended to be a temporary, care-taker regime, to supervise French administration before the soon-expected defeat of Britain.

Pegasus allows the hero to ride him to defeat a monster, the Chimera, before realizing many other exploits.

In many cases the hero is in part responsible for the appearance of these supervillains ( the Scorpion was created as the perfect enemy to defeat Spider-Man ; and characters in Batman's comics often accuse him of creating the villains he fights ).

* Die-Hard scenario-Which the story takes place in limited location ; a single building, plane, or vessel-which is seized or under threat by enemy agents, but are opposed by a single hero who fights an extended battle within the location using stealth and cunning to attempt to defeat them.

Having survived the fall, the hero then saves a mysterious young woman ( named Fuji in the original Japanese version ) from monsters, and attempts to find the magical objects needed to defeat the evil massing against the Mana Tree, the world's source of Mana.

The best-known hero myth is about the defeat of a bird demon and of the deities of disease and death by the Hero Twins, Hunahpu and Xbalanque.

The book 2 Maccabees ( which in the Catholic tradition is a deuterocanonical book of the Bible ) focuses on the Jews ' revolt against the Seleucid king Antiochus IV Epiphanes and concludes with the defeat of his general, Nicanor, in 161 BCE by Judas Maccabeus, the hero of the work.

Heracles, the greatest hero of the dawning Classical Olympian world of deities and men, had to defeat the river god to win her as his bride.

The role of Xibalba and the Xibalbans after their great defeat at the hands of the hero twins is unclear, although it seems to have continued its existence as a dark place of the underworld long after.

He was a hero in France due to his recent defeat of LaMotta — the French hated LaMotta for defeating Marcel Cerdan in 1949 and taking his championship belt ( Cerdan died in a plane crash en route to a rematch with LaMotta ).

In his native land, Schmeling was regarded as a hero and promoted by the Nazi propaganda machine as a perfect example of German supremacy over the rest of the world by virtue of his stunning defeat of the current champion, Louis.

In the end Law narrowly lost, with 5, 114 votes to Kemp's 5, 559, but the election turned him into a " genuine hero ", and he later said that the defeat did " more for him in the party than a hundred victories ".

One type of such tale features a defeated villain who insists on marrying the hero's mother and makes her help him trick the hero and so defeat him.

In the epic poem Beowulf, Hrothgar is mentioned as the builder of the great hall Heorot, and ruler of Denmark when the Geatish hero Beowulf arrives to defeat the monster Grendel.

2 Maccabees is a deuterocanonical book of the Bible which focuses on the Jews ' revolt against Antiochus IV Epiphanes and concludes with the defeat of the Syrian general Nicanor in 161 BC by Judas Maccabeus, the hero of the work.

The British press, however, portrayed Jameson as a hero in the middle of the disaster, and the actual defeat as a British victory.

Upon disembarking in New York City, he was greeted as a hero, but he alienated public opinion when he blamed his defeat on the U. S. Navy.

Despite his subsequent betrayal, defeat, torture, and execution ( torn by his extremities into four pieces ), Túpac Katari is remembered as a hero by modern indigenous movements in Bolivia, who call themselves Katarismo.

This sword was a gift to the Hylians from the tiny Picori and was used long ago by a legendary hero to defeat the forces of darkness and seal them away in the Bound Chest.

In a myth of several northeastern Native American tribes, Gluskap, the creator god and cultural hero, has to defeat Malsum, his evil twin, who was the ruler of the demons.

On a side note, it was a matter of contention with Chris when he first started using the dial that while Vicki changed into useful heroes with applicable powers, Chris's powers tended to be obscure and not particularly useful to defeat his opponent, such as when he changed into a super hero that could duplicate things and he outright began complaining about his useless ability.