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The Statesman is a super hero who patrols the streets of Birmingham wearing a mask, [38] Union Jack shirt and dark trousers. Reports of his effectiveness [clarification needed] are mixed. [39] In August 2011, the BBC reported on Shadow (whose real name is Ken Andre) who patrols [clarification needed] in Yeovil. [40]
An everyman is described with the intent that most audience members can readily identify with him. Although the everyman may face the same difficulties that a hero might, archetypal heroes react rapidly and vigorously by manifest action, whereas an everyman typically avoids engagement or reacts ambivalently, until the situation, growing dire, demands effective reaction to avert disaster.
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.
The sort of relatably flawed everyday hero who might have been played by Mel Gibson or Bruce Willis back in the ’80s, Ethan Kopek always wanted to be a cop. Instead, he’s working airport ...
Platon’s new book, The Defenders: Heroes of the Fight for Global Human Rights, is a visual commemoration of powerful figures around the world. The book, weighing in at nearly 9.5 pounds and 560 ...
Wesley Autrey (born February 6, 1956), dubbed by the media as the Subway Samaritan, Subway Superman, Hero of Harlem, and Subway Hero, is a New York City construction worker and Navy veteran. In 2007, he achieved international recognition when he saved Cameron Hollopeter, a film student who suffered a seizure and fell onto the tracks, from being ...
She is a pillar of our Abilene community, and certainly embodies what it means to be an Everyday Hero. This article originally appeared on Abilene Reporter-News: Abilene's Everyday Hero: ...
Hero (masculine) and heroine (feminine) refer to people or characters that, in the face of danger and adversity or from a position of weakness, ...