In the season ten finale of the series he fully adopts the Superman identity, when he takes action to save Earth from Darkseid, who was drawn to Earth by Clark's actions and sought to take the hero as a host.

Corum Jhaelen Irsei (" the Prince in the Scarlet Robe ") is the name of a fictional fantasy hero in a series of two trilogies written by author Michael Moorcock.

In going beyond mere storytelling to exploring the individualism of his characters, Cervantes helped move beyond the narrow literary conventions of the chivalric romance literature that he spoofed, which consists of straightforward retelling of a series of acts that redound to the knightly virtues of the hero.

The Reverend Doctor Christopher Syn is the smuggler hero of a series of novels by Russell Thorndike.

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.

In recent years the portrayal of Arthur as a real hero of the 5th century has also made its way into film versions of the Arthurian legend, most notably the TV series Arthur of the Britons

In 1912 Edgar Rice Burroughs published A Princess of Mars, the first of his three-decade-long series of Barsoom novels, situated on Mars and featuring John Carter as the hero.

The game is also seen as having been key to expanding the Mario series into non-platforming games, where the main goal in platform games is when the hero has to rescue the damsel in distress ; this diversity has led to it become the best-selling game franchise of all time.

The series distinguished itself by featuring a role-playing element, with the caption on many of the covers claiming each title was an adventure " in which YOU are the hero!

In June 1970, The XYY Man was published — the first of seven Kenneth Royce spy novels whose fictional tall, intelligent, nonviolent XYY hero was a reformed expert cat burglar recruited by British intelligence for dangerous assignments — and later adapted into a thirteen-episode British summer television series broadcast in 1976 and 1977.

* The Beiderbecke Trilogy, a three-part 1980s British ( Yorkshire Television ) television series ( The Beiderbecke Affair, The Beiderbecke Tapes and The Beiderbecke Connection ) with a jazz soundtrack in the Beiderbecke stye performed by Frank Ricotti and cornetist Kenny Baker, as the hero is a Beiderbecke fan.

Bruce Willis played a Western-inspired hero in the popular Die Hard series of action films.

His initial pseudonym was " Valerian ", probably in reference to the hero in French science fiction comic series Valérian and Laureline.

After the classic Hercules ( 1958 ) became a blockbuster sensation in the film industry, a 1959 Steve Reeves film Terrore dei Barbari ( Terror of the Barbarians ) was retitled Goliath and the Barbarians in the United States, ( after Joseph E. Levine claimed the sole right to the name of Hercules ); the film was so successful at the box office, it inspired Italian filmmakers to do a series of four more films featuring a beefcake hero named Goliath, although the films were not really related to each other.

This makes the plot seem more realistic than earlier super robot animated series where the hero and cast usually act in the same predictable manner, with little connection between the episodes.

In the television series Tiny Toon Adventures, Daffy is a teacher at Acme Looniversity, where he is the hero and mentor of student Plucky Duck.

Scripts were also written for a proposed television series involving both Tom Swift Jr. and his father, the hero of the original book series.

* Alexander Blacke, the hero of the 1986 television series Blacke's Magic, played by Hal Linden.

The Red Sea Sharks is the nineteenth of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums written and illustrated by Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero.

For the first time, Asimov chronicles the fictional life of Hari Seldon, the man who invented psychohistory and the intellectual hero of the series.

Under the pseudonym Grendel Briarton ( an anagram of Reginald Bretnor ), he published a series of over eighty science-fiction themed shaggy-dog vignettes featuring the time-traveling hero Ferdinand Feghoot.

Progressing up a level increases the heroes attributes and also allows the hero to gain new spell options ( bringing role-playing video game elements to the series ).

Ray Ferraro emerged as a playoff hero, scoring a pair of overtime winners in the first round series against the Capitals.

Examples of this include the 1960 Danger Man episode " View from the Villa " starring Patrick McGoohan, the 1976 four-episode Doctor Who story entitled " The Masque of Mandragora " set in Renaissance Italy, and an episode of Citizen Smith in which the eponymous hero visits Rimini.

Albert Camus, the French absurdist, wrote an essay entitled The Myth of Sisyphus in which he elevates Sisyphus to the status of absurd hero.

Between 1973 and 1975 a French-German Co-Production company produced a 39-episode adventure series entitled " Graf Luckner " for the German ARD television network, featuring Luckner as the hero.

In July 2010, Urban was cast as law-enforcing comic book hero Judge Dredd for the upcoming film entitled Dredd 3D.

He became a popular folk hero in both written poems and stories as well as the hero of a series of theatrical plays by actor Danforth Marble entitled Sam Patch the Yankee Jumper, followed by Sam Patch at Home, a London Tour of Sam Patch in France, and Sam Patch the Jumper ( 1844 ).

In 1794 Karamzin abandoned his literary journal and published a miscellany in two volumes entitled Aglaia, in which appeared, among other stories, The Island of Bornholm and Ilya Muromets, the latter a story based on the adventures of the well-known hero of many a Russian legend.

* In a season 15 episode of The Simpsons entitled Simple Simpson, Homer becomes a pie throwing super hero and leaves the following note after pieing Comic Book Guy:

He wrote two early plays, an autobiographical piece entitled 910 Eden Street, and one about his hero, Beethoven.

This made Mrs. Peabody a hero to the civil rights movement, and brought the efforts in St. Augustine — the nation's oldest city — to national and international attention. The story of her arrest is told in many books including one by her arrest companions, Hester Campbell, entitled Four for Freedom.

Salomon Kleiner, an engineer from the Mainz elector ’ s court, produced a ten-part publication between 1731 and 1740 containing a total of ninety plates, entitled Wunder würdiges Kriegs-und Siegs-Lager deß Unvergleichlichen Heldens Unserer Zeiten Eugenii Francisci Hertzogen zu Savoyen und Piemont (" Wondrous war and victory encampment of the supreme hero of our age Eugene Francis Duke of Savoy and Piedmont "), which documented in precise detail the state of the Belvedere complex.

Commando Cody was the hero in a 12-episode science-fiction serial made in 1952 by Republic Pictures entitled Radar Men from the Moon, which was followed up 1953 with the 12 episode Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe.

Chandrasekharan later started his own permanent stage called Prathibha Opera House and produced another opera entitled ' Bhishmar ' on the Mahabharata hero which was an artistic success, but financially a flop, which forced him to withdraw from the scene partly.

A 2005 Time magazine article entitled " The 25 Most Influential Evangelicals " called Barton " a major voice in the debate over church-state separation " who, despite the fact that " many historians dismiss his thinking ... a hero to millions — including some powerful politicians.

With the advent of television, war hero and presidential candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower, created forty twenty-second television spot commercials entitled, “ Eisenhower Answers America ” where he answered questions from “ ordinary ” citizens in an attempt to appear accessible to “ the common man .” These questions were filmed in one day using visitors to Radio City Music Hall, who were filmed gazing up at Eisenhower as he answered questions about the Korean War, government corruption, and the state of the economy.

The phrase first appeared in British fiction in The Adventures of Philip by William Thackeray, whose eponymous hero contributed weekly to a fashionable New York journal entitled “ The Gazette of the Upper Ten Thousand ”.

A revised version of the opera, entitled Guglielmo Wellingrode ( with the hero a German minister of state ), was presented in 1851, without either Verdi or his librettist Piave being responsible for it.

Making Sid Vicious a hero, Jim Morrison-it's garbage to me.

Time Magazine identified Dr. Shiva as an environmental “ hero ” in 2003, and Asia Week has called her one of the five most powerful communicators of Asia.

He has appeared on numerous keyboard magazines covers across the world, including the November 2011 issue of Keyboard Magazine, which declared Sherinian a " Keyboard hero for a new generation ".

* Air Force Magazine article-Colin Kelly: He was a hero in legend and in fact (( Dead link

Through the late 1970s and the 1980s Frey was a prolific creator of gay erotic art including a series of a Tom of Finland-style bad-boy hero named " Rogue " for Him Magazine, and has produced, edited and illustrated several issues of Man-to-Man Magazine.