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I see, you are interpreting "hero" to mean, roughly, "a good guy." When I read "hero" in the context of literature, I assume the author is using it as a synonym for protagonist. In any case, I still think it is not a subjective term because one can refer to secondary sources who define them for us.
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Hmm. I don't think POV is the issue here, as it seems to be fairly clear in fiction where a character is being presented as a hero. The issue for me is that it's a fairly random list of people from wide areas of fiction. It seems to fall foul of "Knowledge (XXG) is not an indiscriminate collection of
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broad list that lack sources. "Heroes" is subjective. At least the anti-heroes list is carefully cited, unlike this list. A big problem with this one is that it's too broad, covering so many kinds of heroes from so many different media that the list becomes useless. It will also be painfully
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this is too broad a list. A list of super-heroes might work. A list of fantasy heroes, maybe. Peasant heroes? I could get behind that. World-saving heroes? Maybe. Destined Heroes? Again, possible. Heroes in Greek
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