The later usage was in part attributed to the choices of gold, silver and bronze to represent the first three Ages of Man in Greek mythology: the Golden Age, when men lived among the gods ; the Silver age, where youth lasted a hundred years ; and the Bronze Age, the era of heroes, and was first adopted at the 1904 Summer Olympics.

Devotees of Orpheus and Musaeus were probably responsible for precedence being given to their two cult heroes and maybe the Homeridae were responsible in later antiquity for promoting Homer at Hesiod's expense.

He had not simply rewritten his Aids to Scouting, but left out the military aspects and transferred the techniques ( mainly survival ) to non-military heroes: backwoodsmen, explorers ( and later on, sailors and airmen ).

*" What if ... starring Secret Wars: 25 years later " the children of heroes are teleported back to earth where sometime in the last 25 years, a variation of " Days of future's past " is shown when the group is attacked by Sentinels

According to Michael Jeck's DVD commentary, Seven Samurai was among the first films to use the now-common plot element of the recruiting and gathering of heroes into a team to accomplish a specific goal, a device used in later films such as The Guns of Navarone, Ocean's Eleven, The Dirty Dozen, and the western remake The Magnificent Seven.

Water Margin is often seen as the first full-length wuxia novel: the portrayal of the 108 heroes, and their code of honour and willingness to become outlaws rather than serve a corrupt government, played an influential role in the development of jianghu culture in later centuries.

Melling portrays Ní Mháille in her novel The Summer King ( part two of the Chronicles of Faerie ) as a ghost who haunts Achill Island, and later as her live self when heroes Laurel and Ian go back in time to win her as an ally.

Spiegel also regards Kamboja / Kambujiya ( Cambyses ) and Kuru / Kyros ( Cyrus ) as the names of two pre-historic / legendary heroes of the Indo-Iranians ( i. e. prior to their split into Indo-Aryans and Iranians ) which were later revived naturally in the royal family of the Achaemenes and further opines that the myths about Cyrus were largely due to the confusion between the historical and the legendary heroes of the prehistoric period

It was released on single and became a top 10-hit early 2000 ( disappointed by the failure of their own subsequent material, frontman Anonymous Mis would later slag off his heroes ' comeback ).

Other giants, perhaps descended from earlier Germanic mythology, feature as frequent opponents of Dietrich von Bern in medieval German tales-in later portrayals Dietrich himself and his fellow heroes also became giants.

Some years later, biographies of heroes of resistance, such as Fridtjof Sælen's Shetlands-Larsen, about Leif Andreas Larsen, and David Armin Howarth's Ni liv.

Guido suggests that if a " few dominating leaders arrived as heroes only a few centuries before Phoenician trading posts were established, several features of Sardinian prehistory might be explained as innovations introduced by them: oriental types of armour, and fighting perpetuated in the bronze representation of warriors several centuries later ; the arrival of the Cypriot copper ingots of the Serra Ilixi type ; the sudden advance in and inventiveness of design of the Sardinian nuraghes themselves at about the turn of the first Millennium ; the introduction of certain religious practices such as the worship of water in sacred wells-if this fact was not introduced by the Phoenician settlers ".

Her mythological birthplace was the Sparta of the Age of Heroes, which features prominently in the canon of Greek myth: in later ancient Greek memory, the Mycenaean Bronze Age became the age of the Greek heroes.

Certainly, Sir Garnet Wolseley, taking over as Commander-in-Chief from Lord Chelmsford later that year, was unimpressed with the awards made to the defenders of Rorke ’ s Drift, saying " it is monstrous making heroes of those who shut up in buildings at Rorke ’ s Drift, could not bolt, and fought like rats for their lives which they could not otherwise save ".

Whether the Etruscans shared the Ixion figure with Hellenes from early times or whether Ixion figured among those Greek myths that were adapted at later dates to fit the Etruscan world-view, the figure on the mirror-back is shown as winged, a characteristic shared with Etruscan daimones and Underworld figures rather than human heroes.

Years later, it was revealed that — while the heroes and villains fought on Battleworld — the Thing's girlfriend, Alicia Masters, was replaced by Lyja, a Skrull spy.

Beckley would later be seen in the Land of the Dead with his father, Comet Man, and would help the heroes to convince the dead that they were deceased.

It is often argued that Emilia Marty, like the other female heroes in Janáček's later operas, stands for one of the aspects of Kamila Stösslová, the woman with whom he was in love for the last decade of his life.

" Baffin had long been one of Ross's heroes, and later he would write of the satisfaction he derived of proving wrong those who, for so long, had doubted Baffin's accomplishment.

In August of that same year, Wright told Rotten Tomatoes that " there's not going to be a third season, it would be silly now " but that they could " do something that sort of like catches our heroes ten years later.

Although Roland considers himself and the scouts to be best friends and heroes ( calling their group the " Three Musketeers "), the scouts are uncomfortable around him and later reveal that Roland is slowing them down as much as Billy, and abandon them both.

However, they were pardoned later, under popular pressure, while the Greek judges, who resisted the Bavarian pressure and refused to sign the death penalties ( like Anastasios Polyzoidis and Georgios Tertsetis ), were saluted as heroes.

It consists of a prophecy uttered by Cassandra and relates the later fortunes of Troy and of the Greek and Trojan heroes.

These include an ancient dragon who falls in love with a tyrannosaurus, a futuristic warrior robot left behind by aliens because it is malfunctioning and has now taken up pottery, a lost crusader who now works in a gas station located somewhere on the timeless road, occasionally asking his customers about the " current " status of the Holy Land, an ancient Sumerian who buries artifacts later to be found by himself as archaeologist, along with the brief appearances of pulp heroes such as Doc Savage and John Sunlight as well as real historical figures, including Jack the Ripper, Marquis de Sade and an angry Adolf Hitler ( who is furiously searching for the place " where he won ").

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.

The unseen battle ends with the heroes lamenting the Beetle's escape, which devolves into another argument between Iceman and Firestar ( apparently, their powers counteracting each other's contributed to their failure ).

The Baron ( who again appears elderly after being " expelled from a state of bliss ", in his words ) struggles with the conflicting goals of heroism and a peaceful death, before deciding to escape by blowing " a modicum of snuff " out into the sea creature's cavernous interior, which causes the sea creature to " sneeze " the heroes out through its whale-like blowhole.

The people of Bugarup are enthusiastic for Rincewind, since they regard sheep thieves as folk heroes and encourage him to escape, while not actually allowing him to.

Together they escape and return to America, where they are proclaimed heroes ( after Zelig, using his ability to imitate one more time, mimics Fletcher's piloting skills and flies back home across the Atlantic upside down ).

In a last effort, Humbaba tries to escape but is decapitated by Enkidu, or in some versions by both heroes together ; his head is put in a leather sack, which is brought to Enlil, the god who set Huwawa as the forest ’ s guardian.

Our two heroes must escape from the base's self-destruction and stop Shocker from arming their latest weapon.

For instance, one Legion of Super-Heroes story by Jim Shooter had a team of Legionnaires put into a variety of deathtraps and the villains wanted the heroes to successfully escape.

The heroes entering the Temple seek to find a way to save the world from a demon struggling to escape captivity, and an evil demigod working to gain control over the demon.

* December 10 – After a courageous attack against Japanese ships off the Philippines, U. S. Army Air Force Captain Colin Kelly, a B-17C Flying Fortress pilot, becomes one of the earliest American heroes of World War II when he stays at the controls of his stricken bomber long enough for his crew to escape and is killed when his plane explodes.

Jason then briefly asserts himself, allowing the heroes to escape.

* " Design a spy trap " competition ( AP41 ): Another popular competition, readers were asked to design a trap of the kind used by evil geniuses on heroes such as James Bond, with the important addition that, as in James Bond films, the hero had to have an unlikely or ingenious way to escape.

The heroes escape via the spy car's flight ability whilst Yosemite Sam crashes into his own casino.

Marvin the Martian and a group of famous aliens ( including two Daleks and Ro-Man from Robot Monster ) attack, but the heroes escape.

Digger manages to escape and join in the mass battle against the heroes where he is brought back to life, in full health, and in much better shape then he was at the time of his death.

The beta team decides to wait for a better time to escape, as they reason that more heroes may be on the way to help the raft.

Having defeated her in combat, the heroes then have to prevent Deathbird from destroying the ship to ensure that they cannot escape ( finding and, if the player opts for such, freeing the imprisoned Lilandra in the process ).

At the end of John Grisham's best selling novel The Pelican Brief the heroes escape to St. John: specifically, a small cottage in Maho Bay, along the North Shore of St. John.

However, a select few heroes manage to escape the control of the Ultra-Humanite: Jakeem Thunder, Captain Marvel, Hourman ( Rick Tyler ), the third Crimson Avenger, Power Girl, Sand, and the second Icicle.

From here the Australians showed just how dangerous thir back division could be and scored two further tries to escape an embarrassing defeat and send off their legendary heroes with a victory.

Following Cortex's defeat, the Time-Twisting Machine implodes on itself, the heroes manage to escape from the calamity whereas Cortex and Tropy are transformed into infants and along with Uka Uka are left to remain in a prison of time.

Karagoz and Hadzivat were unable to escape their fate but the citizens of Bursa were overcome by grief at the loss of the two heroes.

Slaves escape to rule, the once rebellious fight rebellion, a god falls to the mortal realm and heroes are made on a Chain of Dogs.

Assisted by the Creeper, they manage to escape and form a group of heroes dubbed Shadow Fighters.