Tragic Hero - Examples

Examples

  • Orestes in Aeschylus' Oresteia (458 BC).
  • Creon in Sophocles' Antigone (c. 442 BC).
  • Medea in Euripides' Medea (431 BC).
  • Oedipus in Sophocles' Oedipus the King (429 BC).
  • Brutus in William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (1599).
  • Hamlet in Shakespeare's Hamlet (1601).
  • Lear in Shakespeare's King Lear (c. 1603-1606).
  • Macbeth in Shakespeare's Macbeth (c. 1603-1607).
  • Othello in Shakespeare's Othello (1604).
  • Judas Iscariot in Jesus Christ Superstar (1970)
  • Thorin Oakenshield in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit (1937).
  • Batman/Bruce Wayne from the DC Universe (1939).
  • Horatio Nelson in Alexander Korda's That Hamilton Woman (1941).
  • Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman (1949).
  • John Proctor in Arthur Miller's The Crucible (1953).
  • Eddie Carbone in Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge (1955).
  • Sir Thomas More in Robert Bolt's A Man For All Seasons (1954).
  • Boromir and Denethor in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (1956).
  • Yuri Zhivago and Pavel Antipov in Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago (1957).
  • Spider-Man/Peter Parker from the Marvel Universe (1962).
  • Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader in George Lucas' Star Wars (1977-2005).
  • Guts from Berserk (1990)
  • Eric Draven in The Crow (1994))
  • William Wallace in Mel Gibson's Braveheart (1995).
  • X-23/Laura Kinney from the Marvel Universe (2003)
  • Kratos from the God of War series (2005).
  • Tadamichi Kuribayashi and Takeichi Nishi in Clint Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima (2006).
  • Turin Turambar in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Children of Hurin (2007).
  • Walt Kowalski in Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino (2008).
  • Harvey Dent in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight (2008).
  • Sigurd in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún (2009).
  • Sayaka Miki in Gen Urobuchi's Puella Magi Madoka Magica (2011).
  • Enrique Gorostieta Velarde and José Sánchez del Río in Dean Wright's For Greater Glory (2012).
  • Big Boss from Metal Gear Solid.
  • Maximus in Ridley Scott's Gladiator (2000 film)
  • Light Yagami in Death Note, in an almost to-the-letter modern-day recreation of the classic Greek Tragic Hero.
  • John Mitchell in BBC's Being Human (2009-2011).
  • Mordin Solus in the Mass Effect series.

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