Types of Heroes

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ok, hari ni kite off topik sekejap. kita akan bercerita tentang jenis-jenis hero yg ade kat dalam movie + anime.

Willing, active, gung-ho heroes:

• committed to the adventure
• without doubts
• always bravely going ahead
• self-motivated

Unwilling heroes:

• full of doubts
• hesitant
• passive
• needing to be motivated or pushed into the adventure by an outside force
• usually change at some point and become committed to the adventure

Anti-heroes:

• specialised kind of hero
• may be outlaws or villains from the point of view of society
• audience is in sympathy with them
• they may win in the end over society’s corruption
• rebels

Tragic heroes:

• flawed heroes
• never overcome their inner demons
• brought down and destroyed by inner demons
• may be charming
• their flaw wins in the end

Group-oriented heroes:

• are a part of society at the beginning
• journey takes them to unknown land far from home
• separate from group – have lone adventure in the wilderness away from the group which they eventually rejoin

Catalyst heroes:

• central figures who act heroically
• don’t change much themselves
• main function is to bring about change in others

Loner heroes:

• story begins with hero apart from society
• natural habitat is the wilderness
• natural state is solitude
• journey is one of re-entry into the group, an adventure within the group, then a return to isolation