A hero is some guy who risks his life to fight (successfully) to preserve his society from some grave threat. That society then remembers him, because he sustained its existence. If the hero is unsuccessful he is a loser, and not worth remembrance--or his society was destroyed, and its cultural memory with it. Sadness!
Heros tend to be nationalistic icons. And the fixtures of epic poetry.
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