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The Rain City Superhero Movement, a former group of real life super heroes in Seattle. The group includes Buster Doe, No Name, Troop, Penelope, and Phoenix Jones. [97] [98] Real-life superheroes Captain Prospect, Justice, and Sparks [99] are members of the Capital City Super Squad in Washington D.C. [100] [clarification needed]
A culture hero is a mythological hero specific to some group (cultural, ethnic, religious, etc.) who changes the world through invention or discovery.A typical culture hero might be credited as the discoverer of fire, or agriculture, songs, tradition, law or religion, and is usually the most important legendary figure of a people, sometimes as the founder of its ruling dynasty.
This is a list of folk heroes, a type of hero – real, fictional or mythological – with their name, personality and deeds embedded in the popular consciousness of a people, mentioned frequently in folk songs, folk tales and other folklore; and with modern trope status in literature, art and films.
Marking the first real-life hero on the list, Ness was immortalized in Brian De Palma's acclaimed 1987 movie, "The Untouchables." ... Ladd turns a classic Western character trope into a timeless ...
Jack Mary Ann - A folk hero from the Wrexham area of north Wales whose fictionalised exploits continue to circulate in local folklore. Jacob - Biblical Patriarch and the ancestor of the Israelites. John the Conqueror - Character who appears in many stories from the African American tradition. He is a slave that is so much smarter than any slave ...
Real-life superhero Superbarrio Gómez. A real-life superhero (RLSH) [1] is a person who dresses up in a superhero costume or mask in order to perform community service such as neighborhood watch, or in some cases vigilantism. [2] [3] [4] Early examples of this type of behavior are reported from the 1990s.
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes & Villains is a list of the one hundred greatest screen characters (fifty each in the hero and villain categories) as chosen by the American Film Institute in June 2003. It is part of the AFI 100 Years... series. The list was first presented in a CBS special hosted by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Darkly Dreaming Dexter (2004), Dearly Devoted Dexter (2005), and Dexter in the Dark (2007) by Jeff Lindsay, with adapted TV series Dexter (2006), all about fictional character Dexter Morgan who by day is a blood splatter expert for the Miami-Dade Police Department and by night hunts down and kills those who he feels "deserve to die"