Christopher Marlowe has also been advanced; the strong emotions of the characters and the lack of a strongly marked virtuous hero are certainly in line with Marlowe's practice.

Nevertheless, Aeneas struggles between doing what he wants as a man, and doing what he must as a virtuous hero.

Hardornen farmers; the rest were young hotheads playing at being virtuous heroes.

They're fascistic power fantasies with impossibly virtuous male heroes, pure black villains deserving extermination, end-to-end violence, women completely written out, etc.

The focus of the films also moved from the conventional masculine, handsome, virtuous and invincible hero to secondary characters.

Their traditions tell of an evil past from which they were saved by the simple and virtuous heroes of the past generations.

Gere is a virtuous hero throughout, so much so that at the film's end, the authorities blithely grant him his freedom.

The rebels are turning my whole world upside down, rewriting history to make themselves out to be virtuous heroes, while they loot the Empire to fund their political fantasies.

Then came Bickley with the air of the virtuous hero of a romance walking a pirate's plank, and also sat down.

He gave them sentimental love scenes, a horrifying glimpse of the criminal underworld, a virtuous hero in Oliver, and nasty villains in Bill Sikes and Fagin.