Fiction

Fiction generally involves a hero, a main character having adventures.

In adventure fiction

In adventure fiction, the heroes are inevitably larger than life, as they exist in their own world, the one we have created with the help of the factical life of the world as the world is, as Simmel stated.

a delightful mix of laughter and romance -- a newly revised classic from #1 New York Times bestseller Janet Evanovich, author of Metro Girl, The Grand Finale, and the sensational Stephanie Plum novels

Hero at Large is a delightful mix of laughter and romance -- a newly revised classic from #1 New York Times bestseller Janet Evanovich, author of Metro Girl, The Grand Finale, and the sensational Stephanie Plum novels.

plot-driven fiction

hero is plot-driven fiction and is meant to race along.

Traditional sf

Traditional sf is hero fiction on a huge scale, but a huge scale is only when a huge scale poses as a fiction of ideas that a huge scale becomes completely pernicious.

an award-winning science-fiction series about ordinary people who discover they have extraordinary abilities

Created by Tim Kring to emulate the storytelling style of American comic books, 'Heroes' is an award-winning science-fiction series about ordinary people who discover they have extraordinary abilities.

pulp fiction

It was pulp fiction at its finest, full of time travel and paradox and post apoclolyptic worlds, where the hero gets the girl, the cat, wealth, fame and revenge.

A literary epic and epic movies both

A literary epic and epic movies both have heros usuallly.

a 1980 action movie with a runtime of 1 hour and 38 minutes

Hero at Large is a 1980 action movie with a runtime of 1 hour and 38 minutes.

a 1980 comedy film starring John Ritter and Anne Archer

Hero at Large is a 1980 comedy film starring John Ritter and Anne Archer.

both children’s and young adult’s literature

The hero story has dominated both children’s and young adult’s literature, passing traditional values to a new generation.

movies

The hero’s journey has been part of mythology, fairy tales, epic poems, plays, legends, even to our modern day equivalent of novels and movies.