When ordinary heroes like Milkman, Janitor and Firewoman step in to save the day, Timmy learns that it's not what you wear but who you are that really matters.

These elegant and wise stories pay tribute to ordinary urban heroes - people who have lived long enough to know that when misfortune shows up, there's no need to make a fuss.

Usually, tough, resourceful, but essentially ordinary heroes are pitted against villains determined to destroy them, their country, or the stability of the free world.

And like all of the best stories, it had at its center an ordinary, everyday hero who simply didn't know how he'd ever become one.

Onstage at the Beacon Theater on Friday night, Dave Pirner of Soul Asylum didn't look like an ordinary hero.

The wartime experiences and subsequent careers of celebrity politicians and journalists are amply recounted, but it is the ordinary American heroes that linger in the memory.

Dixon is a classic Ealing 'ordinary' hero, but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of Tom Riley (Bogarde).

According to Dave Grohl, the song is dedicated to ordinary, everyday heroes, as he himself never had musical or sports heroes growing up as a child.

The very fact that he had no rabble or troop of hirelings about him would alone distinguish him from ordinary heroes.

Tim Burton has never gone for ordinary heroes.