heroes

They're heroes for braving the dangerous roads every day and saving the planet from more choking carbon emissions.

If you like reading stories with carefully designed worlds, hyper-analytic heroes, and clever puzzles, that's fine.

We always joked about how they behaved like movie action heroes, always ready to use force.

People want to make a dent on the universe, to be 'remembered as heroes' etc.

Many of them have had to overcome even greater adversity or tragedy than the heroes.

And the side effect of meeting your heroes is that they appear to be just as human and fallible as yourself!

Basically every community has their heroes, people that from the outside look like cult leaders but from the inside look like wise sages.

And in particular, this needs to be true of both the villains and the heroes, or you would indeed end up with something boring.

Another interesting manga which has no actual heroes is Death Note.

She manages to build tension and leave the reader longing for more without resorting to cheap puzzles or turning the heroes into masters of manipulation.

None of the main heroes or main villains hold the IdiotBall.

> We always joked about how [American MPs] behaved like movie action heroes, always ready to use force.

Heroes (in the classical sense of the term) are very different from "heroes" as we understand it.

Men cannot have body issues resulting from over-exaggerated muscle-bound heroes in cartoons and movies (He-Man and the like) because they represent a "male power fantasy".

Sounds like he has been got at by some new "friends" - of course the oldest stories (The Illiad The Odyssey Gigamesh) feature super heroes.

Choosing to make the main characters unusually rational is no worse a sin than making them the "prophesied heroes of destiny," or any of the other special abilities usually given to protagonists.

I asked my wife (who is Japanese) for a suggestion and she mentioned Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu (Legend of the Galactic Heroes).