In their own extensive analysis of what makes a hero, psychologists Zeno Franco and Philip Zimbardo suggest that people who don't succumb to the bystander effect are sometimes people who generally don't adhere to social norms and conventions.
In a chaotic final couple of laps, Heidfeld jumped from eighth to third place on the track with what he called a "hero or zero decision" to come in for wet-weather tyres with two laps to go.
Wendy Wrightson described him as "a good man who lost his life far too soon, but lost it a hero doing what he did best".
But what is turning him into a conservative hero is his determination to make his campaign a national, not just a Californian, one.
The opening words from Cyrus to his new empire are very much what would have been expected of a conquering hero.
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Laura Clancy, chief of staff at charter-school nonprofit Achievement First, has seen her share of business refugees looking for what they think will be a soft landing or a hero's welcome doing philanthropic work.
He will be in position to be a hero, but you have to remember what he did at the company during his prior seven years there: he created the problem in the first place.
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What else would explain why McDonald's has turned to a military hero to help it navigate the messy trenches of the burger wars?
And contrary to what Mr. MacAskill may have imagined, those who gave Megrahi a hero's welcome saw only weakness in the minister's decision.
For better and worse, this flawed but touching hero is a man of action, revealing himself through what he does rather what he says.
Captain Tony Stone (Woody Harrelson), an Army lifer with a shaved head and a jaw like a stone jetty, and Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery (Ben Foster), a coiled, secretive Iraqi war hero, work together at what is surely the worst job in the armed forces: telling parents and spouses that a loved one has been killed in Iraq.
What we see from these examples of contemporary Chinese heroes is a new kind of Chinese hero-worship in the context of regional and international competition.
As the society collapses, though the hero, V, aims for anarchism, what he gets is anomie - a society of "take what you want" in which rioters and hedonists take power as centralised power collapses.
In contrast to the present hero, a scalawag bent on improving himself, Garland's heroine wants what everyone wants to be loved, to feel safe, to find her heart's desire.
This is what the public and the news media lamenting the fall of the brilliant hero undone by a tawdry affair have failed to see.
Hero was founded by him and his three brothers as a trader of bicycle parts in what is now Pakistan.
What they have in common is a North East footballer, turned agent, who in their eyes went from hero to zero.
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