Is the term ‘hero’ cliched ?
What is the journey of a hero ? Are they extraordinary people doing different things or are they ordinary people doing the same work daily? In my view, they could be anyone of us. Most of the comic and hero based movies are very predictable. The main characters are just regular people who had a group of people who were a little less capable than them and they, together fought one single villain and the main character turned into a hero. Is this what heroism is all about ? I don’t think so. The hero journey cycle is a theory that, to me, cannot be implemented in our regular life. To begin with, most heroes in this real world are people who faced massive hardships and overcame those difficulties to succeed in their field. They did definitely had a call to action and they most certainly faced failures in their road to success. But all those are the qualities that made them heroes. Name any person who is successful or famous. They all have one thing in common, they were very ordinary people who dared to dream.
Every ordinary man is a hero. Cliched heroes are good but they cannot be role models in real life. Life is way more difficult than having a bat mobile and expensive gadgets (like iron man) and saving cities from alien invasions. True heroes are the ones who do not stick to any such stereotypical theories like “the hero’s journey.” They are the ones who don’t wish to fit into any mould and are their own self irrespective of how people categorise them.
