The film stars of the time that starred in these films, playing both heroes and villains alike include Greer Garson, Cary Grant, James Cagney, Raymond Massey, Basil Rathbone, Walter Slezak, Dana Andrews, Don Ameche, Richard Loo, Humphrey Bogart, Paul Henreid, Richard Conte, Anthony Quinn and the most popular film star of the era, John Wayne.

Aside from the obvious influence on artists that Taylor has worked with over the years, numerous notable people have named Taylor and DA as musical heroes over the years including artists like U2, The Ocean Blue, Randy Stonehill, The 77s, Phil Keaggy, Steve Taylor, Jimmy Abegg, Phil Madeira, Crystal Lewis, This Train, Carolyn Arends ( Arends actually used to perform DA songs in one of her early bands ), Ventriloquist Terry Fator, Brian Healy, The Throes, The Choir, Mortal, Larry Norman, Animator and Musician Doug TenNapel, Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, Isaac Air Freight, Deliverance, Starflyer59, Jonathan Coulton ,< ref >

After noting that, unlike Lee, his fellow Virginian, Thomas stood by the Union, Sherman wrote: Sherman concluded that Grant and Thomas were " heroes " deserving " monuments like those of Nelson and Wellington in London, well worthy to stand side by side with the one which now graces our city of ' George Washington.

When Grant Morrison revived the JLA comic book in 1997, he expanded the roster to include over a dozen heroes.

Here he robs a Las Vegas casino where some DC heroes and others are attending a boxing match between Cassius Clay and Ted " Wildcat " Grant.

Both heroes were from London, and had exaggerated British accents ; Magneto Man's accent was virtually identical to that of actor Cary Grant.

The character remained in limbo for a number of years until Grant Morrison used The Steel Claws superhero incarnation ( as well as a number of British heroes from the 1960s ) in his Zenith strip in 2000AD.

At one point in his ongoing series it is implied that he potentially possesses all of the powers of the heroes whose DNA he shares.

He was likened to former Elland Road heroes Alan Smith and David Batty, with whom he shares tenacity and " Leeds blood " in his veins.

In present day, the American Crusader gathers DNA from Golden Age heroes in order to create a new generation of heroes.

In present day, the American Crusader gathers DNA from Golden Age heroes in order to create a new generation of heroes.

But we must never forget, most of the appropriate heroes and their legends were created overnight, to answer immediate needs, almost always with conscious aims and ends.

The English heroes were Peel, with 27 wickets in the series at an average of 26. 70, and Tom Richardson, with 32 at 26. 53.

While down there, along with the dead, he is shown the place where the wrongly convicted reside, the fields of sorrow where those who committed suicide and now regret it reside, including Aeneas ' former lover, the warriors and shades, Tartarus ( where the titans and powerful non-mortal enemies of the Olympians reside ) where he can hear the groans of the imprisoned, the palace of Pluto, and the fields of Elysium where the descendants of the divine and bravest heroes reside.

Later, when Achilles dies, killed by Paris ( with help from Apollo ), Ajax and Odysseus are the heroes who fight against the Trojans to get the body and bury it next to his friend, Patroclus.

The Aeginetans at first contented themselves with sending the images of the Aeacidae, the tutelary heroes of their island.

The celebration of deeds of ancient Danish and Swedish heroes, the poem beginning with a tribute to the royal line of Danish kings, but written in the dominant literary dialect of Anglo-Saxon England, for a number of scholars points to the 11th century reign of Canute, the Danish king whose empire included all of these areas, and whose primary place of residence was in England, as the most likely time of the poem's creation, the poem being written as a celebration of the king's heroic royal ancestors, perhaps intended as a form of artistic flattery by one of his English courtiers.

As his ship was readied for battle, Nelson held a final dinner with Vanguard < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s officers, announcing as he rose: " Before this time tomorrow I shall have gained a peerage or Westminster Abbey ," in reference to the rewards of victory or the traditional burial place of British military heroes.

Plutarch mentions that the Athenians saw the phantom of King Theseus, the mythical hero of Athens, leading the army in full battle gear in the charge against the Persians, and indeed he was depicted in the mural of the Stoa Poikile fighting for the Athenians, along with the twelve Olympian gods and other heroes.

According to Mircea Eliade, one pervasive mythical theme associates heroes with the slaying of dragons, a theme which Eliade traces back to " the very ancient cosmogonico-heroic myth " of a battle between a divine hero and a dragon.

In terms of values, Leeming contrasts " the myth of Jesus " with the myths of other " Christian heroes such as St. George, Roland, el Cid, and even King Arthur "; the latter hero myths, Leeming argues, reflect the survival of pre-Christian heroic values —" values of military dominance and cultural differentiation and hegemony "— more than the values expressed in the Christ story. Pomors often depicted Sirin s on the illustrations in the Book of Genesis as birds sitting in paradise trees.

Archer, like Hammett's fictional heroes, was a camera eye, with hardly any known past.

Euripides is identified with theatrical innovations that have profoundly influenced drama down to modern times, especially in the representation of traditional, mythical heroes as ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances.

The official setting for Everway revolves around heroes with the power of " spherewalking ," traveling between worlds called " spheres.

Appeared in the 1848, Anne Brontë's novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is framed as a retrospective letter from one of the main heroes to his friend and brother-in-law with the diary of the eponymous tenant inside it.

An important, and possibly influential, cinematic antecedent to classic noir was 1930s French poetic realism, with its romantic, fatalistic attitude and celebration of doomed heroes.

However, feminists have also created science fiction that directly engages with feminism beyond the creation of female action heroes.

Eventually, the trio of heroes manage to escape their situation with the Seatopians and reunite to devise a plan to send Jet Jaguar to get Godzilla's help using Jet Jaguar's secondary control system.

* Author: The GM plans out ( in the loosest sense ) the plot of the story of which the Player Characters will become heroes ( or villains, or rich, or whatever ); creating ( or adapting, or just choosing ) the setting, populating that region with villains and other NPCs, and assigning them any necessary backgrounds, motivations, plans and resources.

God graced me with being able, through such a singular sign, to reveal to my Lord my devotion and the desire I have that his glorious name live as equal among the stars, and since it is up to me, the first discoverer, to name these new planets, I wish, in imitation of the great sages who placed the most excellent heroes of that age among the stars, to inscribe these with the name of the Most Serene Grand Duke.

Some work with the deities, other heroes and heroines fight against them.

Texts such as Lebor Gabála Érenn and Cath Maige Tuireadh present them as kings and heroes of the distant past, complete with death-tales.

Like the Ulster Cycle, the Fenian Cycle is concerned with the deeds of Irish heroes.

In this latter Lewis was sometimes featured with Superman, Batman, and various other DC heroes and villains.

To understand American politics is, simply, to know people, to know the relative weight of names -- who are heroes, who are straw men, who controls, who does not.

Some heroes of Greek legend are allowed to visit the underworld.

A central ritual of Ásatrú is the sumbel, a drinking-ritual in which a drinking horn full of mead or ale is passed around and a series of toasts are made, usually to gods, ancestors, and / or heroes of the religion.

Helena Blavatsky wrote in The Secret Doctrine ( 1888 ) that the Atlanteans were cultural heroes ( contrary to Plato, who describes them mainly as a military threat ) and are the fourth " Root Race ", succeeded by the " Aryan race ".

In series 2 of Robotech, The Robotech Masters the heroes of the story are part of the Armies of the Southern Cross.

Leeming regards resurrection as a common part of the heroic monomyth, in which the heroes are resurrected, often as sources of " material or spiritual food for their people "; in this connection, Leeming notes that Christians regard Jesus as the " bread of life ".

Less politically, most faiths have any number of people that are believed to have been touched by divine forces: saints, prophets, heroes, oracles, martyrs, and enlightened beings, among others.

Many epic heroes are recurring characters in the legends of their native culture.

On the surface, an inventor named Goro Ibuki, his nephew Rokuro and their friend Hiroshi Jinkawa are off on an outing near a lake when Seatopia makes itself known to the Earth by drying up the lake the trio was relaxing nearby and using it as a base of operation ( unknown to our heroes.

As Sarris explains to Jason, Mathesar is incredibly naïve to the truth, as are the others of his crew ; however, he remains loyal to Nesmith and the other actors and sees them as heroes.

Other such pieces of quasi-evidence are names of Trojan heroes in Linear B tablets.

There is no strong antipathy of race or religion ; the war turns on no political events ; the capture of Troy lies outside the range of the Iliad ; and even the protagonists are not comparable to the chief national heroes of Greece.

The prophets, patriarchs, and heroes of the Jewish scripture are also known in Christianity, which uses the Jewish text as the basis for its understanding of historic Judeo-Christian figures such as Abraham, Elijah, and Moses.

His heroes are desperately trying to find sense in world around them, sometimes, as in Cylinder van Troffa, they are outsiders from a different time or place, trying to adapt to a new environment.

Lebanon gained independence in 1943, and established a unique political system, known as confessionalism, a power-sharing mechanism based on religious communities – Bechara El Khoury who became independent Lebanon's first President and Riad El-Solh, who became Lebanon's first prime minister, are considered the founders of the modern Republic of Lebanon and are national heroes for having led the country's independence.

O ' Curry's excerpt ends here, but the subsequent verse runs " The three full-fledged heroes are called Sél, Donait and Domhnán.

Both authors are staunch conservatives: on his website, Groseclose cites Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, Jack Kemp, Bob Dole, Chris Christie, Newt Gingrich, Phil Gramm, Dick Armey, and Dick Cheney as his political heroes, and states that he usually sides with conservatives on controversial issues.

The main characters in myths are usually gods, supernatural heroes and humans.

The Marvel of this reality publishes comics that adapt the actual adventures of the superheroes ( except for details not known to the public, like their secret identities ); many of these are licensed with the permission of the heroes themselves, who customarily donate their share of profits to charity.

Marvel's major heroes are those created between 1961 and 1963, during Marvel's " Silver Age ": Spider-Man, Iron Man, Doctor Strange, Daredevil, Thor, the Hulk, Ant-Man and the Wasp, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, and S. H. I. E. L. D .’ s director, Nick Fury.

Nanook, his wife, Nyla, and their baby, Cunayou, are introduced as fearless heroes who endure rigors " no other race " could survive.