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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.
t. e. 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.
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.
Along with filming a documentary and giving interviews to news media, they patrolled New York City. [88] 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. [89][90]
Sepha Khun Chang Khun Phaen, a Thai epic about the adventures of Khun Phaen, a Siamese folk hero. Klei khan Y Dam San, an epic of Rade people in Central Highlands (Tây Nguyên), Vietnam. Đẻ đất đẻ nước, an epic of Mường people in Northern Vietnam. Hikayat Hang Tuah, a Malaccan, and Malay epic. Bidasari, a Malay epic.
Khun Chang Khun Phaen, a Thai poem. Klei Khan Y Dam San, a Vietnamese poem. Koti and Chennayya and Epic of Siri, Tulu poems. Kutune Shirka, sacred yukar epic of the Ainu people of which several translations exist. Lay of Mouse-fate (Musurdvitha), a fantasy epic inspired by animal fable and Arthurian legend.
In modern literature the hero is more and more a problematic concept. In 1848, for example, William Makepeace Thackeray gave Vanity Fair the subtitle, A Novel without a Hero, and imagined a world in which no sympathetic character was to be found. [32] Vanity Fair is a satirical representation of the absence of truly moral heroes in the modern ...
A folk hero or national hero is 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.