The large characters, heroes and villains alike, do set the scales on which we balance progress.
Heroes and villains make sense of these general rumblings, casting them in roles we feel comfortable with.
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Much will depend on the the league's ability to create compelling heroes and villains out of PBA stars--much like wrestling.
The TV viewer who enjoys CBS procedurals because they tell him how to feel about the prescribed heroes and villains.
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Instead of heroes and villains, it shows vividly the confusion of battle and the tragedy of ordinary people trapped by events.
But we must remember that even in our favorite comics and movies, both the heroes and villains held many of these special powers.
For example, Aqua Attack is an installation involving costume-clad heroes and villains hurling soaked stuffed animals at each other in a war of good and evil.
To stand out, war films in America must provide heroes and villains, battle and glory, and a clear message about war or peace, one way or the other.
The Cognac organisers, undeterred by the fact that whisky rather than cognac is the usual tipple of screen heroes and villains, invented the world's first thriller film festival to market the drink and the town that shares its name.
It had drama and pathos, casts of characters, villains and heroes.
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The city's descent into chaos appears to have no heroes, only villains and victims.
One point that seems constantly up for grabs: the number of individuals, both heroes (Supergirl) and villains (General Zod) and even animals (Krypto the Superdog) who actually survived the destruction of Krypton.
You can read my overlong review from last year, but the short version is that it refused to acknowledge the horror of its premise (impoverished children being abducted by the government and being forced to kill each other for the entertainment of the proverbial 1%) and instead fashioned an artificial morality with swoon-worthy heroes and hiss-able villains in order to create a crowd-pleasing franchise-starter.
That gives us compassion to see the downtrodden become heroes and big and powerful be villains.
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There must be villains and heroes, gods and devils, an epic story unfolding where we can play an epic part.
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The masses get the popular version, complete with villains and heroes.
Everything about the book, its references, its subject matter, its cast of characters, its heroes, its villains, and even its bit players, feels tired, worn out, and past its prime.
You could ask this of any year, any century: Which has the greater impact, good or evil, the heroes or the villains, Roosevelt and Churchill or Hitler and Stalin?
It was hard to see how the commission could produce anything other than the victors' version, one which distilled a complicated struggle into a simplified story of white villains and black heroes.
The heroes are Anglo-Saxons, the villains and goofy characters have Middle Eastern and Caribbean accents and mannerisms (though Jar Jar Binks is an insult to intelligent life everywhere).
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The picture exists as a thoughtful commentary on our need for outsize heroes to cheer and larger-than-life villains to boo, even as the real picture is often more complicated.
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In this case, most of the characters are ants a curious choice, since they all tend to look roughly the same, and it takes a while to sort out the heroes from the villains.
We think Hollywood and Madison Avenues will be the heroes of this story, not its villains.
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And while much has been made of political and economic villains in 1998, let us not forget the heroes as well.
In a pastiche of Delacroix, the card featured the minister's various villains, notably Napoleon for the imperial madness that helped spawn conflict with Germany, and his heroes, notably Clemenceau and de Gaulle for resisting Germany in the first and second world wars.
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