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An alphabetical listing of heroes by type.
G[]
- Game Changer: A hero who is notably darker and more ruthless than most other heroes in the story.
- Genderless: A hero who has no known gender.
- Genies: Heroes who are mystical beings who grant wishes.
- Genius: A hero who possesses an incredibly high intelligence and does a good job of utilizing their gifts for righteousness rather than using it for wickedness.
- Gentle Giants: A hero who is of giant stature, but a kind and friendly individual.
- Gladiators: Heroes who are Roman gladiators or fight in this manner.
- Global Protection: Heroes who protect their home planet or other planets.
- Golems: Heroes who are large, possessed objects that usually act as a guardian or enforcer.
- Good Vs. Good: A hero who fights another hero.
- Guardians: Heroes whose duty or job it is to protect something in particulars.
H[]
- Harbingers: Heroes that serve as messengers or heralds, either for a greater hero or for a force of nature.
- Harmonizers: Heroes who bring peace, order and stability within their world.
- Healers: A hero who has the power to heal.
- Heroes by Proxy: Heroes who have no desire to be heroes but were forced into it by circumstance or a story's unique angle.
- Heroes from the Past: Heroes who have performed heroic deeds and/or saved the world in the past (decades or centuries ago), but who were incarcerated, forgotten, locked away, exiled, killed, or died.
- Hegemony: A hero who seek to take over or rule his respective world but continue to do heroic deeds.
- Heretics: A hero who oppose a major religion, deity, or a cult is questionable or extremely harmful to the people at stake.
- Homage: Heroes who pay respect to another fictional or real-life figure and are taken seriously.
- Honest: Heroes who are obligated to tell the truth.
- Honorable: Heroes who is categorized by their strong sense of honor and fair play.
- Hope Bringers: A type of hero who brings hope to the world and its inhabitants in its darkest hour. They also represent being the determinator in many fictional stories as heroes who will bring hope to the world and not look into the despair of their current dilemma.
- Humanoid: A hero who resembles a human but is not at least completely human.
- Hybrids: A hero who is the combination of more than one thing.
- Hypnotists: A Hero who hypnotizes or brainwashes others.
I[]
- Immortals: A hero who can or will live forever.
- Incompetent: A hero who is not very good at being a hero.
- Inconclusive: A hero whose fate is largely unknown because the author has stopped writing stories or the TV show, movie, or video game has been canceled.
- In Love: A hero who is in love with another one.
- Insecure: A hero who lacks self-esteem or confidence and have a bad habit of saying things about themselves that they don't actually believe. Usually, all these characters need are a friend or loved one.
- Inventors: A hero with a skill with technology, who has a career inventing things.
Gallery[]
Accelerator (A Certain Magical Index) is a best example of a Game Changer. In his case, the stories centered around him carry lots of blood curdling, unwholesome cynicism and brutality which the yarns centered around Touma lack.
SCP-999 is a Genderless being.
The Genie (Disney's Aladdin) is a classic example of a Genie.
Jimmy Neutron is a Genius.
Maximus Decimus Meridius is a Gladiator.
Tohru (Jackie Chan Adventures) is a Gentle Giant.
Milla Maxwell is a source of Global Protection.
Te Fiti is a Golem heroine.
Miles Morales and Miguel O'Hara are an excellent example of Good Vs. Good.
Link (The Legend of Zelda) is a good example of a Guardian.
Tikal the Echidna is a Harbringer.
Overwatch are the team of Harmonizers.
Akisame Kōetsuji is a perfect example of a Healer.
Dru Gru is a typical Hero by Proxy. In his case, he helped his brother Gru defeat Balthazar Bratt, but he actually still likes being a villain.
All Might is a Hero from the Past.
Scar (Fullmetal Alchemist) is a Heretic.
Barbie is a Homage.
Goku (Dragon Ball) is an excellent example of an Honorable hero.
Kenshiro is an iconic example of a Hope Bringer.
Spawn is a Humanoid.
Nowa is a Hybrid.
George Beard and Harold Hutchins are Hypnotists.
Captain Jack Harkness is an Immortal hero.
SpongeBob SquarePants is an Incompetent hero.
Umi Matsuzaki and Shun Kazama are heroes who are In Love with each other.
Yuno Gasai is an Insecure heroine.
Sento Kiryu is a good example of an Inventor.