Atë, Greek for ' ruin, folly, delusion ', is the action performed by the hero, usually because of his / her hubris, or great pride, that leads to his / her death or downfall.

With that knowledge comes power and confidence ; the hero often begins as a childlike figure, but matures rapidly, experiencing a huge gain in fighting / problem-solving abilities along the way.

Often the villain will try to convince the hero either a ) the villain is not in fact evil like the hero thinks he is, b ) the hero is actually the evil / immoral one, c ) the mentor character has been using the hero's special qualities for his own ends and does not really care about him / her.

Lug or Lugh / luɣ /; modern Irish: Lú / lu :/) is an Irish deity represented in mythological texts as a hero and High King of the distant past.

He is also a character in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1 and was the hero of James Hill's UK TV movie Owain, Prince of Wales, broadcast in 1983 in the early days of Channel 4 / S4C.

Each game drew its inspiration from a different culture and mythology ( in order, Germanic / fairy tale ; Middle Eastern / Arabian Nights ; Egyptian / African ; Slavic folklore / Eastern European folklore ; and finally Greco-Mediterranean ) with the hero facing increasingly powerful opponents with help from characters who become increasingly familiar from game to game.

In non-singing roles you find Ringo Starr as a villain in Blindman and French rock ' n ' roll veteran Johnny Hallyday as the gunfighter / avenger hero in Sergio Corbucci's The Specialist.

Confusingly, 617 Patroclus was named before the Greece / Troy rule was devised, and a Greek name thus appears in the Trojan node ; the Greek node also has one " misplaced " asteroid, 624 Hektor, named after a Trojan hero.

His hero invents paratime travel and becomes effectively the ruler of earth by giving everyone their own alternate-earth wilderness worlds as vacation retreats / suburbs without neighbors.

At the end of 1910 / early 1911 he was also a dog salesman ( a profession he was to attribute to his hero Švejk and from which some of the improbable anecdotes told by Švejk are drawn ).

Retrieved at < http :// blog. boxun. com / hero / zhangll / 9_1. shtml > on June 9, 2011. pp. 3, 5 </ ref > In 1973 and 1974, Jiang directed the " Criticize Lin, Criticize Confucius " campaign against premier Zhou because Zhou was viewed as one of the Jiang's primary political opponents.

A Mycenaean Greek reference found on a Linear B clay tablet at Pylos to a deity or semi-deity called TI-RI-SE-RO-E, Trisheros ( the " thrice or triple hero ") could be connected to the later epithet " thrice wise " " Trismegistos ", applied to Hermes / Thoth.

Driven from the marketplace by the course of history, our hero disguises himself as a private detective.

Linked to Holmes even in death, Moriarty represents the alter-ego of the great detective, the image of what our hero might have become were he not a public servant.

so during the period approximately from 1941 to 1946, Patchen often used private detective stories as a myth reference, and the `` private eye '' as a myth hero.

The private detective ( at least in the minds of listeners and readers all over the country ) is an individual hero fighting injustice.

In The Memoirs Of A Shy Pornographer ( 1945 ) Patchen exploited this national sentiment by making his hero, Albert Budd, a private detective.

In addition to his experiments in reading poetry to jazz, Patchen is beginning to use the figure of the modern jazz musician as a myth hero in the same way he used the figure of the private detective a decade ago.

In Philip Kerr's mystery novel, " If the Dead Rise Not " ( Penguin, 2009 ), set in 1934 early Nazi Germany, the hard-bitten detective hero, Bernhard Gunther falls in love with an American Jewish writer, Noreen Charalambides, ( who has an alcoholic but loving husband, Nick ).

Jean-Luc Picard experiences an upgraded holodeck in " The Big Goodbye ", in which he portrays the detective Dixon Hill, a boyhood hero of the captain's.

* Robert B Parker seems to have named his detective hero " Spenser " after an English poet as a deliberate tribute to Marlowe.

In 1930 he published his first book The Seeds of Murder which introduced Captain Hugh North, a detective in Army Intelligence and the hero in a long series of " intrigue " novels.

M. Poirot, the hero of The Mysterious Affair at Stiles and other brilliant pieces of detective deduction, comes out of his temporary retirement like a giant refreshed, to undertake the investigation of a peculiarly brutal and mysterious murder.

In Malet's case, Tardi adapted his detective hero Nestor Burma into a series of critically acclaimed graphic novels, though he also wrote and drew original stories of his own.

The Earthman Elijah Baley ( the detective hero of the previous Robot books ), has died nearly two centuries earlier.

In Chapter 7 the hero, a private detective called Slim Callaghan, goes for a ride out on Pevensey Bay with the alluring murder suspect, Corinne Alardyse.

Erast Petrovich Fandorin () is a fictional 19th-century Russian detective and the hero of a series of Russian historical detective novels by Boris Akunin.

The novels ' hero is a detective named Gordianus the Finder, active during the time of Sulla, Cicero, Julius Caesar, and Cleopatra.

Given the outlandish idea that a blind man could be a detective, in the introduction to the second Carrados book The Eyes of Max Carrados Bramah compared his hero ’ s achievements to those of real life blind people such as Nicholas Saunderson, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, Blind Jack of Knaresborough the road builder, John Fielding the Bow Street Magistrate of whom it was said he could identify 3, 000 thieves by their voices, and Helen Keller.

Many of his novels involve the detective hero Kogoro Akechi, who in later books was the leader of a group of boy detectives known as the.

The detective hero Kogorō Akechi, who had first appeared in the story " Case of the Murder on D-Slope " became a regular feature in his stories, a number of which pitted him against a dastardly criminal known as the, who had an incredible ability to disguise himself and move throughout society.

Along with a police detective, Yamashita ( Bunta Sugawara ), he is able to overcome the hijacker and is publicly hailed as a hero.

In Sherlock Holmes ( 2009 ) and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows ( 2011 ), the cerebral detective ( played by Robert Downey, Jr .) is transformed into an athletic ( and romantic ) action hero in a steampunk fantasy version of Victorian England.

He also appeared as George Romack on the 1961 NBC western detective series Whispering Smith, with World War II hero Audie Murphy in the leading role.

Also, the film departs from traditional Holmes canon in portraying the detective as light-haired instead of the traditional black-haired, and as a somewhat flirtatious Holmes at that ( Doyle's hero never let women see any signs of interest ).

He is most effective in the ordinary business of the House, and in the legislative accomplishments of this session, he easily rose to great occasion -- even at the height of unpleasantness and exciting legislative struggle -- and as the Nation witnessed these contests, he rose, even as admitted by those who differed with him, to the proportions of a hero and a noble partisan.

Of these Lyce also appears in a fragment preserved in the Latin Anthology where she is said to have killed the hero Clonus of Moesia, son of Doryclus, with her javelin.

There are some that are called " hero stories "; these are stories of people who lived at one time, and who were immortalized by these stories of them.

In these poems Bragi could be either a god or a dead hero in Valhalla.

It was paintings like these, depicting the great strength of patriotic sacrifice, that made David a popular hero of the revolution.

Coined in English 1387, the word hero comes from the Greek " ἥρως " ( heroes ), " hero, warrior ", literally " protector " or " defender " the postulated original forms of these words being *, hērwōs, and *, Hērwā, respectively.

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.

One of these poems mentions Gilgamesh ’ s journey to meet the flood hero, as well as a short version of the flood story.

While these groups elevated Antonescu to the status of hero, his involvement in the Holocaust was officially reasserted and condemned following the 2003 Wiesel Commission report.

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.

The hero who speaks these words in Dryden's play is a Spanish Muslim, who, at the end of the play, in keeping with the requirements of a heroic drama, is revealed to have been, unbeknownst to himself, the son of a Christian prince ( since heroic plays by definition had noble and exemplary protagonists ).

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 ).

While in many cases a story is cut off with the hero in danger of losing his life or another kind of deep trouble, in some parts of the full text Scheherazade stops her narration in the middle of an exposition of abstract philosophical principles or complex points of Islamic philosophy, and in one case during a detailed description of human anatomy according to Galen — and in all these cases turns out to be justified in her belief that the king's curiosity about the sequel would buy her another day of life.

Mao and many members of the Chinese Communist Party were opposed to these changes, believing that it would have negative repercussions for the worldwide Marxist movement, among whom Stalin was still viewed as a hero.

Epic hero Väinämöinen sets out to learn these spells from him, but Vipunen is buried underground, and when Väinämöinen digs him out, he is accidentally swallowed by Vipunen.

Shakespeare also borrowed heavily from a speech by Medea in Ovid's Metamorphoses in writing Prospero's renunciative speech ; nevertheless, the combination of these elements in the character of Prospero created a new interpretation of the sage magician as that of a carefully plotting hero, quite distinct from the wizard-as-advisor archetype of Merlin or Gandalf.

" By Sophie Wenzel Ellis in Astounding Stories of Super Science, February 1930 it was referred to as ; " Yet, for all his experience with hero worshippers to put an adamantine crust on his sensibilities, he grew warm-eared under the gaze of these two strangers "

When these became unworkable, a new Constitution was written in 1789, and it became the basis for the United States federal government, with war hero George Washington as the country's first president.

In both of these games, he is called upon to act as the hero because Mario, the usual hero within the franchise, is in need of rescue.

From these rulers is descended Ruggiero II, father of the hero Ruggiero, legendary founder of the house of Este.