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Heroic Bastard

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Heroic Bastard	comment	While the badass hero or the Anti-Hero may get called a bastard, it's not usually meant literally. This trope is for the heroic protagonist for whom "bastard" is just a factual description, not a comment on their personality. They could easily be very pleasant and well-mannered, but their parents never married. For a long time in fiction, a child born out of wedlock was often expected to have a treacherous or villainous nature due solely to the fact of his illegitimate birth, which of course is how the term "bastard" came to mean someone who was...well, a bastard. In modern times, however, with the rise of more liberal and humane attitudes — as well as the rapid increase in unwed motherhood as a societal phenomenon — it has become less acceptable to assume that a person will have a tendency toward evil behavior just because Dad never gave Mom a ring or because Mom or Dad had the kid when one of the two already gave a ring to another person. Back in the day, this could be a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy. Since a child born out of wedlock would be the target of all kinds of discrimination and would not be allowed to participate in some central parts of society (like church services), they often had to become ruthless, cunning rogues just to have a chance of surviving. Especially since the fathers didn't have to care for them (and often wouldn't) and the mothers may have used the kid to let out their frustration about "those goddamn men". Fatherless children have a documented tendency to violence, suicide, lack of self-control, and poverty — so, statistically speaking, there's something to the stereotype, though how much of this is due to the social stigma is left as an exercise to the reader. But most bastards manage to rise above these expectations. In fact, modern authors have found that making their hero a bastard can have some valuable dramatic benefits. Perhaps the parents never married because one of them vanished mysteriously; this can lead to a juicy revelation later in the story when it is discovered that Mom or Dad is someone very important to the plot. If the writer is feeling generous, the vanished parent could be a local power figure or at least wealthy. If not, the vanished parent could end up being someone the hero has to fight. At a minimum, being born a bastard and getting socially snubbed for it can give your character a reason to feel mistreated yet prove his heroic character by rising above it and saving the world anyway. Interestingly, if we look back far enough, we find that most of the greatest heroes of ancient Greek myth were born out of wedlock, making this Older Than Feudalism. However, this generally only applied if the hero's parents didn't marry because one of them was a god — most often baby-daddy Zeus, who had serious fidelity issues with his goddess wife and was forever running around impregnating mortal women with heroes. It should be also be noted that in ancient Greece, "heroic" did not necessarily mean nice, so many Greek heroes were bastards who were also bastards. If a heroic character is a Child by Rape or a Son of a Whore, he usually fits this trope as well. In some cases, it may be secondary to the other one. If the hero is a bastard both literally and metaphorically, he's an Anti-Hero or Sociopathic Hero. And while the heroic bastard may be magnificent, he is not automatically a Magnificent Bastard. For the villainous version, see Bastard Bastard. There are several Real Life examples, especially in the Middle Ages, as being illegitimate offspring and excluded from inheritance, "heroism" (sometimes by the aforementioned Ancient Greek definition of it) was sometimes the only way to eke out a decent life. The most notable examples are: William the Conqueror (previously known as "William the Bastard", King of England), Bertrand du Guesclin (Constable of France) and the half-siblings John of Austria (military commander who won Battle of Lepanto for the Christendom) and Margaret of Parma (Governor of the Netherlands, plus Duchess of Parma and Piacenza and mother to Alexander Farnese). Since this is a very controversial topic, no further Real Life examples, please. It is sufficient to say they do exist.
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Heroic Bastard / int_10175749	comment	Aquaman (2018): Orn at several points calls Arthur a bastard (he is the hero, and was born due to his mother Atlanna's relationship with Thomas-she'd already married King Orvax).
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Heroic Bastard / int_12300cc3	comment	Watchmen: Laurie Juspeczyk (Silk Spectre II), who realizes late in the book that she was the result of a consensual affair with the Comedian, who had previously tried to rape her mother. It's rather obviously implicit that Rorschach's parents were unmarried, too. (And even if he's not a hero, he's a brave, very well-meaning main character, so... close enough.)
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Heroic Bastard / int_12557dc4	comment	Code Geass: Paladins of Voltron: Kallen the illegitimate daughter of a noble and one of the Paladins of Voltron, in addition to being a member of the Black Knights.
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Heroic Bastard / int_13c54381	comment	Tybalt from Romeo Ã— Juliet. His mom was a Capulet lady who fell victim to Death by Childbirth and his dad is the Montague leader and the Big Bad. This is one of the reasons why he fights the Montagues.
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Heroic Bastard / int_14b1f802	comment	Huntress -the Helena Bertinelli version- is actually the daughter of Santo Cassamento, not Franco Bertinelli; she's also something of a bastard in the more colloquial sense, sometimes of the magnificent variety, as when she manipulates her uncle into murdering her biological father while setting him up to take the fall for this and tricks the Question into helping her. And all under the noses of Batman, Robin, Nightwing, and Oracle.
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Heroic Bastard / int_14d745cf	comment	Rachel Chu in Crazy Rich Asians was raised by her single mother, Kerry, until it's revealed that she is born out of wedlock. Kerry fled from China to escape from her abusive husband's family with the help of her neighbor, Kao Wei, whom she had an affair with making him Rachel's biological father. In the sequel, China Rich Girlfriend, Kao Wei is now Bao Gaoliang, a Chinese politician and a billionaire who owns a pharmaceutical company. Eventually, Rachel and Gaoliang meet and accept each other though Gaoliang's wife is not thrilled that her husband has a secret child which is quite scandalous, and attempts to prevent her from meeting her husband's family out of fear that she might claim her inheritance. Rachel is not interested in the inheritance since she lives a content and simple life as a Chinese-American immigrant and wants to meet her half-siblings.
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Heroic Bastard / int_15e7f29f	comment	Even Marvel Comics 2 has a few. Wolverine's son, Sabreclaw, was a double bastard before his Heel-Face Turn. His mother's still unknown. And then there's Darkdevil, son of Spider-Clone Ben Reilly and his imprisoned girlfriend.
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Heroic Bastard / int_15f82a09	comment	The title character of Nikolai Dante is the illegitimate son of Dmitri Romanov.
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Heroic Bastard / int_1641fd92	comment	Sola vi Ryuvia of Sunrider was the product of an affair between a Ryuvian prince and a humble peasant girl. When the Holy Ryuvian Emperor and his eldest son were assassinated and a civil war broke out over the succession, Sola was pressed into service as the Sharr of Ryuviaâ€”a warrior princess expected to fight and die in the Empire's defenseâ€”because her father's legitimate daughter refused to risk her own life. Though she knew she was just a pawn in her father's struggle for the throne, Sola enjoyed being the Sharr because protecting others and receiving their gratitude made her the happiest sheâ€™d ever been.
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Heroic Bastard / int_170a0c26	comment	One of the love interests in Shall We Date?: Ninja Shadow is the illegitimate son of a rich man and his mistress. It's Yuzuki Hirano, the local Princely Young Man; his He-Man Woman Hater tendencies come from his resentment at his prostitute mother for leaving him. For worse, while his father and half-brothers love him deeply, Yuzuki is loathed by the rest of the Hirano clan and the rich people of Nagasaki for his "filthy" origins.
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Heroic Bastard / int_1835ca75	comment	Cursed (2020): Nimue actually was conceived as a result of her parents' extramarital relationship. She's also a noble (if flawed) young woman who's The Chosen One and the protagonist.
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Heroic Bastard / int_187d570a	comment	Devil May Cry 4 has Nero. It's hinted that he's the Son of a Whore, but his father is canonically known. It's Vergil.
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Heroic Bastard / int_18bcfe7f	comment	In Endo and Kobayashi Live! The Latest on Tsundere Villainess Lieselotte, Fiene is the illegitimate daughter of both the Marschner and Riefenstahl houses via her mother Elizabeth Marschner and August Riefenstahl. This makes her Lieselotte's cousin and, once everyone involved conspires to do away with the 'illegitimate' partnote Elizabeth and August were officially betrothed, but Elizabeth's parents eventually issued a Parental Marriage Veto due to August practically dying—but they decided to consummate their relationship nonetheless. So what they need is a forged marriage certificate, and no more., the strongest claimant to the Riefenstahl title.
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Heroic Bastard / int_19ac2fb6	comment	Lou!: The titular character never met her father, who left his girlfriend soon after finding out she's pregnant.
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Heroic Bastard / int_19ed47db	comment	Vic Sage makes the assumption that he is a bastard since he was raised in an orphanage, but he never learned his actual parentage so it was never confirmed. He has made peace with this fact and does not let it wear him down.
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Heroic Bastard / int_1a12bbee	comment	The Mighty Thor himself is one. Asgard's greatest hero, and also the product of Odin's union with Gaea, as part of Odin's rather circuitous plan to beat Ragnarok. He was raised believing he was legitimate, though.
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Heroic Bastard / int_1aacbbc9	comment	Dragon Age: One of the important reveals of Dragon Age: Origins is that King Cailan had an illegitimate half-brother, namely Alistair, one of the few unambiguously heroic characters in the game. Leliana was also born out of wedlock, something that apparently made life very difficult for her mother in Orlais. While Leliana did lead the very morally ambiguous life of a spy for many years of her life, she has completely reformed by the time the player reaches her. Not only one of the more heroic characters but also one of the only idealists. Mage NPC Feynriel from Dragon Age II, provided you help him realize his potential.
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Heroic Bastard / int_1af5d573	comment	In Contact, Ellie, the protagonist, finds out in the very last chapter that her deceased father, whom she idolized, is not her father. Her (not actually "step-") stepfather, who she despises, is.. This subplot is completely absent from The Movie.
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Heroic Bastard / int_1b5e4003	comment	Dear Old Dad has this apply to the majority of the Phantom Thieves, with only Ren/Joker, Morgana, and Ryuji/Skull not being this. Ryuji, however, happens to share the same father with said other members: Big Bad Masayoshi Shido. As pretty much all of their conceptions were not.....ideal, to say the least, they all despise Shido more than canon.
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Heroic Bastard / int_1be9854a	comment	Rio from Sound of the Sky. After years of neglect, save for her older half-sister, her family finally acknowledges she's around when they need a royal princess to marry for a peace treaty. She's not exactly willing, but she does it anyway because that's what her sister would have done.
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Heroic Bastard / int_1c4cf7dc	comment	Pearl Prynne, the illegitimate child of Hester Prynne, from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a slightly revised version of the "illegitimacy means evil child" notion. Because the entire book is about the rebounding effects of denying and admitting sin, Pearl is seen as a living embodiment of the scarlet letter A worn on Hester's chest. Pearl is irreverent, impish, and obsessed with the scarlet letter, and a source of much anguish to her mother, until her father admits to being Hester's lover and fellow-sinner. After this, Pearl's character changes completely — one might say she becomes a "normal" little girl.
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Heroic Bastard / int_1d1c7e55	comment	I Am Mordred: Mordred, who's born due to an extramarital tryst between Arthur and Morgause, was a very good person to start with in spite of the prophecy about him that he'll kill his father. He tries everything possible to stop it from coming true.
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Heroic Bastard / int_1e703d1f	comment	Rory Gilmore of Gilmore Girls was born the child of two unwed sixteen-year-olds. Double subverted when it turns out that her father Christopher, pressured by his parents, asked Lorelai to marry him to avoid a scandal, but Lorelai refused.
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Heroic Bastard / int_1e8f2466	comment	In Count Cain, Cain himself learns that he is one fairly early in the series, though he was raised as though he were not and he manages to keep it mostly under wraps. His father's wife was sworn to secrecy about where he came from, and his real mother was his father's elder sister Augusta. In fact, he has two equally illegitimate half-siblings, all related via their father: Mad Doctor Jizabel Disraeli, who is more of a Bastard Bastard, and young Meriweather Duke; the latter of whom he officially adopts into the family. Even though it turns out she's not actually related to them. And then he had an additional half-sibling/cousin from his real mother's arranged marriage.
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Heroic Bastard / int_207208a9	comment	Magneto's daughter Lorna/Polaris appears to have been born out of wedlock. Though the exact details are confusing, to say the least.
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Heroic Bastard / int_217efef6	comment	As in mythology Hercules is the result of Zeus' extramarital affair with a mortal woman.
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Heroic Bastard / int_21edf764	comment	While it's only ever hinted at in the first game, Dishonored 2 does away with pretenses and confirms that Emily is the daughter of the Empress Jessamine Kaldwin, and her bodyguard Corvo Attano. Curiously enough, this never seemed to be an obstacle or even an issue regarding Emily's ascension to the throne, a point which is lampshaded by Jessamine's jilted half-sister Delilah Copperspoon. This only applies, of course, on a low chaos run - otherwise, Emily ends up having far in common with her aunt than her mother.
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Heroic Bastard / int_22147342	comment	Thea Queen from Arrow is the secret love child between her mother Moira Queen and Malcolm Merlyn, Team Arrow's greatest enemy. However, she's also the show's version of Green Arrow's sidekick Speedy.
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Heroic Bastard / int_2268de37	comment	Grimm: Captain Renard has some rather unheroic ways of doing basically good things, but otherwise qualifies for this trope, being the product of an extramarital affair by his father. In contrast to the standard examples of this trope, he was initially treated rather well by his family since being a Royal trumped his out-of-wedlock status. Then the family found out that his mother was secretly a Hexenbiest and they had to flee for their lives.
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Heroic Bastard / int_22fdf736	comment	Reign gives us Sebastian "Bash" de Poitiers, son of King Henry II of France and his mistress Diane. Bash never wanted the throne and knew he wouldn't get it, as his legitimate half-brother Francis was the Dauphin. While there is a Story Arc about Henry trying to legitimize Bash by annulling his marriage to Catherine and marrying Diane, things eventually go back to normal. Bash spends much of his time between the court and the common people, giving him a unique perspective on France. He's generally a good person, even though he does have a ruthless streak, such as when he executes a serial killer after promising to let him live (to be fair, the guy did just kill his girlfriend).
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Heroic Bastard / int_2372359	comment	The Belgariad: Mandorallen is insulted as "the bastard of Vo Mandor"... due to "some temporary irregularity about my birth which still raises questions about my legitimacy." Since he is a fearsome fighter, however, the only people who mention this are relatives (local traditions disapprove of shedding the blood of kinsfolk), idiots, and people a safe distance away. In the sequel, king Urgit of Cthol Murgos is revealed to be one, as Silk's late father found the Murgo nobility's custom of sequestering their women nothing but an inviting challenge. The result is actually a benefit to Urgit (and by extension, his kingdom) as he's spared from the hereditary insanity plaguing the royal bloodline (as well as giving him enough cunning to win the deadly succession war). It also saves him from Mallorean Emperor Zakath having him horribly killed as part of his (Zakath's) methodical revenge extermination of the Urga bloodline. After some king-coaching from Garion, Urgit goes on to be a fairly decent king.
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Heroic Bastard / int_23b4119a	comment	Dragon Sanctuary has Nima Neigentall, who is the bastard daughter of the elven King Neyano and an unnamed human baroness from Caara. Though she's shamed for this parentage, she's very kind and friendly and quickly bonds with protagonist Dean over how their mixed heritage causes them problems.
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Heroic Bastard / int_25f6f1a0	comment	Umineko: When They Cry: Battler was born out of wedlock from the affair between Rudolf and Kyrie, but does not know this thanks to the fact that his father pulled a baby switch after his legal wife Asumu miscarried, and swapped the baby with his mistress'. However, his parents did get married, just several years later. He still doesn't know Kyrie is his biological mother and neither does she until Rudolf admits having switched the babies in EP8. Lion Ushiromiya is really a Child by Rape who resulted from Kinzo forcing himself onto his illegitimate daughter Beatrice Ushiromiya under the delusion that she was a reincarnation of her mother Beatrice Castiglioni. In almost every world, Lion is thrown off a cliff by Natsuhi and grows up to become Sayo Yasuda, the instigator of the Rokkenjima Massacre, but in the only world where Krauss and Natsuhi adopt and raise Lion as their own child, Lion grows up into a virtuous and upright individual.
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Heroic Bastard / int_261c8d3f	comment	In The Simpsons, Bart finds out that Homer has a brother (voiced by Danny DeVito) who was born out of wedlock from Grandpa's tryst with a prostitute, and says, "So any idea where this bastard lives?" Marge realizes that because it is literally true, they can't punish Bart for his use of this profanity. Homer, understandably, is still annoyed by it, however. (And when Homer sees Herb's house, he says "Holy cow, the bastard's rich!" Homer's brother Herb even asks him if all of their kids were born in wedlock. Homer notes that Bart was a close call.
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Heroic Bastard / int_2a8943c0	comment	ZoÃ© Lee from Miraculous Ladybug is Audrey Bourgeois' illegitimate daughter from a previous relationship, and a kind-hearted, heroic person who ends up wielding the Bee Miraculous, becoming the superhero Vesperia. Her (legitimate) half-sister ChloÃ© behaves far worse than she does.
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Heroic Bastard / int_2b2195d5	comment	Jack Jackson/Fitzjack, of Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth, being the bastard of a hanged traveling musician. He turns out fine and even builds one of England's first Gothic Cathedrals, among other things.
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Heroic Bastard / int_2ba48a26	comment	Castle's title character Rick Castle never knew who his father was because his mother never knew either—he was the product of a One-Night-Stand Pregnancy. He turns out in a season five two-parter to be a CIA black ops guy who never made contact to keep Castle's family safe, though he did once pull strings for his son when Castle wanted to get one of the Derrick Storm novels Backed by the Pentagon.
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Heroic Bastard / int_2bb4ae0f	comment	Heroes: Claire Bennett knew she was adopted, but it was only after she found out the man who raised her was working for a Pseudo-Government Conspiracy did she learn that she was the youthful indiscretion of a certain up and coming New York politician.
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Heroic Bastard / int_2c75a184	comment	Flip Flappers: The protagonist Cocona is the daughter of a head scientist's son, Salt and the test subject, Mimi. Due to their circumstances, they were never married, and Salt was unaware of Mimi's pregnancy until after Cocona was born.
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Heroic Bastard / int_2e833eb	comment	Fallout: Equestria: Littlepip never knew who her father was, mainly because her mother was too drunk to remember who impregnated her.
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Heroic Bastard / int_2f8201f1	comment	In Toradora!, Ryuuji Takasu is the illegitimate son of a bar hostess and a Yakuza. Despite inheriting some intimidating looks from his father, he's a genuine Nice Guy who takes cleaning very seriously.
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Heroic Bastard / int_2ffcbd43	comment	Fire Emblem has a few examples as well: Princess Guinevere in Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade, the illegitimate daughter of King Desmond and his mistress, turns out to be more heroic than her legitimate half-brother, King Zephiel. Ashnard's illegitimate son Soren in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn may not be particularly heroic, but his loyalty to Ike and his brilliant tactics make him crucial to the Big Bad Ashnard's defeat. And in the sequel, Radiant Dawn, Soren is also among the people that defeats Greater-Scope Villain Ashera, and prevents the destruction of all life at her hands. Azelle in Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War, son of the former Duke of Velthomer and his wife Cigyun's favorite lady-in-waiting/maid... or, at least, he assists Sigurd in what seem to be heroics before everything goes to hell and they all die anyway. Sigurd's wife Deirdre was the illegitimate daughter of said Duke of Velthomer's runaway wife and the Prince of Grannvale. Her mom fell victim to Death by Childbirth and her dad never knew about her before being messily murdered (unless it's the Oosawa manga, in which he was planning to personally search for his heir. The game itself implies it was her grandfather who did so). The sort-of sequel to Genealogy, Fire Emblem: Thracia 776, reveals that Azelle's older brother Arvis also had his own Heroic Bastard, Saias, with his close aide the Black Magician Girl named Aida, whom you meet in the first part of Genealogy. Even moreso, out of Arvis's three children, Saias, who aids protagonist Leif in his goal of killing and overthrowing Travant, king of Thracia, is the one who inherited his dad's major Fala blood. And additionally, the Jerk with a Heart of Gold Fergus who joins Leif's army as well, is the bastard son of Beowulf, a character from Genealogy, and a noblewoman from Conote. There's a subversion with Lissa in Fire Emblem: Awakening. She's definitely on the heroes' side, and she feared that she was illegitimate for a long time due to lacking the brand of the Exalt that her older siblings, Chrom and Emmeryn, have. She's proven to be legitimate by her son Owain having the mark, though. In Fire Emblem Fates, three of the four Nohrian siblings are this. With the exception of Xander, the other 3 siblings (Camilla, Leo, and Elise) were the illegitimate children of Garon as a result of his many sexual affairs with his many mistresses. On the third path of the game, Revelation, all of the Nohrian siblings assist in bringing down Greater-Scope Villain Anankos, and stopping conflict between Hoshido and Nohr for good. While it's not really touched on, it's quite safe to assume that the main character (son/daughter of Queen Mikoto and the Good Side of the aforementioned Anankos) fits in as well.
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Heroic Bastard / int_30876163	comment	Blue Exorcist has the Okumura brothers Rin and Yukio as well as their friend Izumo Kamiki. Despite being born out of wedlock, all three are very much heroic. This slowly shatters on Yukio's end.
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Heroic Bastard / int_30ad4e9	comment	The title character of Candide is one of the nicest guys in the story. He also happens to be illegitimate (his mother refused to marry his father because "he could produce no more than seventy-one quarterings in his arms"). Despite how little legitimacy matters to the events of the book, Cunegonde's brother refuses to allow her to marry so far below her. He never lets up on this tiring belief, even after Candide bought him out of slavery.
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Heroic Bastard / int_30d05f40	comment	Mariam from A Thousand Splendid Suns is a tragic example, since she had the bad luck to be one in a society that considers this utterly scandalous.
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Heroic Bastard / int_313bbd31	comment	Both Cat and Bones from the Night Huntress series. Cat is the product of rape, and she and her mother are both shunned by their small town for her out-of-wedlock birth. Bones is both a bastard and the Son of a Whore. They team up to kill evil vampires and rescue the human victims.
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Heroic Bastard / int_31d55232	comment	In The Vikings, Eric (Tony Curtis) is the illegitimate son of the Norseman Ragnar and the Northumbrian Queen Enid via rape, and he's the cloest thing the film has to a heroic figure.
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Heroic Bastard / int_32c541e6	comment	Fullmetal Alchemist: Edward and Alphonse Elric have their mother's surname because she never officially married their father, Van Hohenheim, despite living with him for years and sharing a house with him. Hohenheim's failure to make an "honest woman" out of Trisha Elric is in the manga and the second anime because he's a living, immortal Philosopher's stone, and probably doesn't actually exist in any official records, and he was trying to keep his sons from being associated with him to keep them away from Father, who would want to use them in his plot. Similarly, in the first anime version Hohenheim is a near-immortal Body Surfer with a jealous and centuries-old ex-lover/ex-wife looking for him, who probably wouldn't have the best intentions in mind for his new family. His latest body may or may not have had its own name and proper records, but Van Hohenheim for whatever reason didn't want to use them if it did, likely to not take any kinds of risks. (And considering that Dante later wanted Ed to be her "consort" once her plan to hijack Rose's body was complete, with or without his consent, he had quite the point.)
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Heroic Bastard / int_33acebd8	comment	Guilty Gear has Sin Kiske, though he's only a bastard by technicality. His parents consider themselves to be a married couple for all intents and purposes, but his mother's lack of legal identity as a Gear meant that they could never legally tie the knot.
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Heroic Bastard / int_33c012a0	comment	Crown of Stars: Alain is (supposedly) the son of a servant and an unknown father. This is a major plot point in the series - until he stops caring about it. Liath is the daughter of a priest and a fire elemental. Sanglant is the bastard son of the current king and an elven woman.
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Heroic Bastard / int_349a63d5	comment	Time Stop Hero: It is briefly mentioned that Prince Will Belltree was born illegitimate, but he is a heroic knight and very friendly.
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Heroic Bastard / int_3575f9a	comment	Aeneas in The Aeneid. He's the illegitimate son of the goddess Aphrodite/Venus and the mortal Anchises. For that matter, any child of a god(dess) and a mortal, except for Achilles. His immortal mother actually married his mortal father, and then left him after Achilles was born.
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Heroic Bastard / int_35c619e2	comment	Connor Hawke, son of Oliver Queen, the Green Arrow. Oliver also has several other illegitimate children, including Robert, the boy Shado has with him after raping him. Cissie King-Jones (Arrowette) is heavily implied to also be one.
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Heroic Bastard / int_37a71462	comment	Les MisÃ©rables: Cosette, who is born to Fantine and FÃ©lix TholomyÃ¨s, her lover. She's also one of the most heroic characters to be found in the novel.
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Heroic Bastard / int_39bd4a10	comment	Rose Wilson, the illegitimate daughter of Deathstroke. She is the result of an affair Slade had with her mother, Sweet Lily. While she had her villainous moments and could be very anti-heroic, Rose wants to do good and not follow her father's path.
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Heroic Bastard / int_3ccd4125	comment	The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You: While it's not mentioned outside of Hahari's introduction, Hakari's parents never married. Justified since A) they were only thirteen at the time (the Japanese marriageable age is 18 for men and 16 for women), and B) Hakari's father was dying of a terminal illness, so getting pregnant out of wedlock was the only way Hahari could have a child with him.
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Heroic Bastard / int_3e8c09b9	comment	Attack on Titan has several of these, each played for a different flavor. Historia Reiss is the daughter of a nobleman and his mistress, raised by her grandparents and having little contact with either parent. After being discarded by her father, she takes up the identity of Krista Lenz and joins the military. Her heritage ends up being significant, since her family are the true royal family and all her legitimate siblings are dead. She eventually helps bring down her father's corrupt government, and is crowned Queen of the Walls. Levi is the Son of a Whore that decided to keep him and grew up in abject poverty. Though extremely rough around the edges, he becomes famous as "Humanity's strongest" soldier. Deconstructed in the case of Reiner Braun. His heritage fueled his insecurities and he became convinced by his overbearing mother that becoming a "hero" would allow them to reunite with his father. This desperation to have a "real family" and prove himself to the world makes him easy to manipulate, leaving him traumatized when the Heel Realization hits.
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Heroic Bastard / int_3f58fe30	comment	Tom, illegitimate son of Wildcat of the Justice Society of America.
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Heroic Bastard / int_4100139d	comment	Honoka's Bizarre Adventure: Hanayo Koizumi and Kotori Minami of Âµ's are both Nice Girls Stand Users born out of wedlock. Hanayo was born from a Teen Pregnancy by her parents, while Kotori was the result of a single night of passion between her parents.
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Heroic Bastard / int_41b0198a	comment	The Dresden Files: Thomas Raith is a Child by Rape and a man who tries to rise above the fact that he's essentially an incubus by controlling his need to feed on others' lust. He was fathered by Lord Raith on the witch Margaret LeFay, whom he had mentally enslaved. LeFay later escaped and married Malcolm Dresden, Harry's father.
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Heroic Bastard / int_431f7ab9	comment	The Kingkiller Chronicle: Technically, the protagonist Kvothe actually is a bastard; his parents were never formally married, though they lived as a couple.
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Heroic Bastard / int_43f52aa9	comment	Martin Septim in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Not only he is the bastard son of the Emperor and the real hero of the story, he was a bastard on purpose.
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Heroic Bastard / int_4407fa9a	comment	Prince Amiti of Ayuthay in Golden Sun: Dark Dawn was raised believing his late mother was a powerful Mercury Adept who restored the lost Magitek beneath the palace and conceived him by a miracle. Once the player characters show up, the truth comes out — Amiti's mother, a non-Adept, conceived him the natural way, with a foreign Adept who had started the machine and whose face no one else saw. It's implied the lie was to protect the royal family's reputation, but Amiti is still upset that he was the last to know. It's rather unsubtly indicated that Amiti's father is Alex.
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Heroic Bastard / int_4522fd1	comment	Whateley Universe: Carmilla (Sara Waite), one of the students at Whateley Academy, is the child of a powerful lust demon (Gothmog, a child of Shub-Niggurath) and a human woman (actually, a Deep One pre-transformation). You'll never guess, but it was a one-night stand. Of a sort. Despite this background, and having to suck the life out of things in order to live, she's one of the good guys. Bishop Arturo Mucro Cursor, aka that guy that nailed Jesus to the Cross. It's even on his business card. On the other hand, Jobe Wilkins frequently finds herself in the position of pointing out that her parents are, in fact. married. She even carries a copy of their marriage certificate around as proof. However, given how Royally Screwed Up the Wilkins' family is, even Jobe agrees that it's an understandable mistake.
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Heroic Bastard / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: King Verence, although he's not really the hero as much as a secondary protagonist. Verence becomes king after his half-brother TomJon, the child of the last ruler, decides to be an actor. He was made king thanks to the fact that Verence and TomJon have a strong resemblance to each other and the previous king had a habit of exercising his droit du seigneur. Granny Weatherwax decided this was close enough and made him king. Subverted however in the previous king's wife had a thing for the previous court jester, Verence's father. Terry Pratchett seems quite fond of enthroning bastards. Aside from Verence's case, Pyramids ends with Teppic's half-sister Ptraci on the throne of Djelibeybi, and Witches Abroad's Ella, eventual ruler of Genua, is the illegitimate daughter of Baron Saturday and Mrs. Gogol. Princess Keli's late father (from Mort) was known as "King Olerve the Bastard" — even on his hourglass! — and he doesn't seem nasty enough to merit such a title unless he, too, was illegitimate.
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Heroic Bastard / int_46a4b34d	comment	David Eddings' The Elenium and The Tamuli series: Stragen, a thief, is the bastard son of a noble. He is initially a bit sensitive about it but gets over it. He then uses it to insult a vast number of obstinate Styrics. Talen is illegitimate but formally acknowledged by Kurik.
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Heroic Bastard / int_489a333	comment	The protagonist of Akatsuki no Aria, Aria Kanbara, is the illegitimate daughter of a very rich tycoon and an ex-geisha. Her father supports the two economically but can only visit them once a month, and when he actually presents Aria as his child in the Japanese society of The Roaring '20s, there's quite the scandal. It's subverted later, when few after her mother's tragic death in the Great Kanto Earthquake, Aria learns that the man she's known as her dad is not her father — but she's still an Heroic Bastard since her actual dad is a foreigner man who left Japan before she was born. She then goes to Europe to both make it as an opera singer and to find clues about his identity.
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Heroic Bastard / int_49a88442	comment	Lord Haurchefant Greystone of Final Fantasy XIV, complete with the Game of Thrones-style bastard surname. Though he grew up ostracized and hated by his stepmother and half-brothers for being the bastard son of a noble house, he still becomes a respected and patriotic knight of Ishgard. There's also the Reasonable Authority Figure Aymeric who is revealed late in the Heavensward story to be the bastard son of Archbishop Thordan VII and Hilda, leader of the lower-class La RÃ©sistance, who's a Half-Human Hybrid born between a nobleman Elezen and a servant Hyuran woman.
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Heroic Bastard / int_4a8d8bf0	comment	In The Arrangement, Link is the king's son outside of marriage. The king won't claim him as legit, but Zelda still knows about Link. Link has the Triforce of Courage, though he's friends with his expected enemy Ganondorf.
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Heroic Bastard / int_4dfeb58c	comment	The Elminster Series: Farl, Elminster's fellow thief and friend in the first book, was born to the evil mage Hawklyn by a lady of the court. He's a good, loyal person (stealing mostly from the rich and driven into this by poverty). Elminister's daughter Narnra Shalace (born to one of his lovers), though a thief, is otherwise a nice young woman who's heroic. It also applies to his other children who she later meets.
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Heroic Bastard / int_4e7cac32	comment	In Supergirl (2015), Lena Luthor eventually finds out that she's a product of Lionel Luthor's infidelity, although that fact was hidden from everyone after her mother died and Lionel forced his wife Lillian to adopt Lena. Lena knew she was adopted, but not that Lionel was her biological father as well as her adoptive one. Lena does her best to distance herself from her family, especially her jailed brother Lex, by rebranding the company to L-Corp and working to better the world for everyone, human and alien alike.
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Heroic Bastard / int_4fc1c922	comment	Elphaba in Wicked, thanks to her mother's indiscretion with the Wizard. Possibly yet another reason why her father doesn't like her—he's probably sure she isn't his.
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Heroic Bastard / int_5084d29e	comment	All three of Captain Marvel's children: Genis and Phyla (by Elysius) and Teddy (by Anelle).
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Heroic Bastard / int_51f5fe4b	comment	Vampire Academy: Rose. The illegitimate daughter of Janine Hathaway and Ibrahim "Abe" Mazur. Her parents never married, making her an actual bastard. She is genuinely heroic. Dimitri is the illegitimate son of Olena Belikova and a royal Moroi (who is later revealed to be Rand Ivashkov, Adrian's uncle). His parents never married, making him a technical bastard. He is genuinely heroic.
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Heroic Bastard / int_57737035	comment	The Masks We Wear: Rachel Grayson is the illegitimate daughter of John Grayson and Samantha Vanaver. She supports her half-brother Robin and the Teen Titans, despite her parents being supervillains, but since John Grayson has taken the villain identity of Slade, she is more heroic than either of her parents.
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Heroic Bastard / int_58c15fb0	comment	Hurog: In Dragon Bones there is no shortage of bastards. Ward, the protagonist, is a legitimate child, but Oreg, his inherited slave (Ward can't free him, A Wizard Did It) and later sidekick is a bastard of one of Ward's long-dead ancestors. (At one point Ward introduces him as "cousin", in the correct assumption that everyone will assume he's one of the many bastards Ward's father fathered.) There's also Stala, Ward's half-aunt. She's a bastard from his mother's side of the family. The king has a bastard half-brother, who is much more heroic than he.
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Heroic Bastard / int_59215318	comment	Reiji Kido from Persona is this, contrasting with his legitimate half-brother Takahisa Kandori, the Big Bad of the game.
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Heroic Bastard / int_5921531c	comment	Two of the party members in Persona 5 are this, which the player learn later in the game: Futaba Sakura, the eventual Mission Control, and Goro Akechi, a detective who initially pursues the protagonist before joining the party. Their situations Foil one another greatly, however: Futaba's mother got pregnant virtually on a whim but took it upon herself to raise her, and she had loved her until her untimely death - Futaba's profound social anxiety, as it turns out, is the result of a power-hungry congressman falsifying her mother's testament. Goro, on the other hand, is the result of an affair between the aforementioned congressman and a mistress; said mistress was kicked to the curb when she got pregnant, and she would eventually commit suicide out of shame for conceiving Goro. Sadly, while Futaba would eventually be Happily Adopted by a family friend (the protagonist's guardian, Soujiro Sakura), Goro spent years being abused by the system, eventually molding him into a jaded, vain, deeply wounded Bastard Bastard.
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Heroic Bastard / int_5b344855	comment	Wolverine himself is the product of his mother's adultery with the family groundskeeper.
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Heroic Bastard / int_5e91c7f	comment	Jake Muller is the illegitimate son of Resident Evil series Big Bad Albert Wesker, and while he's an abrasive, initially financially-motivated Anti-Hero, he's a shining paragon compared to dear old dad.
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Heroic Bastard / int_5f786455	comment	Tales of an Ancient Empire: Tanis, Aedan, Malia, and Rajan are all the result of their father's many trysts. They're also the heroes of the film. Alana also seems to count, as Rajan doesn't mention that she's married.
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Heroic Bastard / int_5fad5a74	comment	Raven is the daughter of the archdemon Trigon and a human woman. Exactly how willing Arella was during Raven's conception has gone back and forth, with some accounts state that Trigon seduced Arella before revealing his demonic nature, and others stating that he raped her, but the two definitely weren't married.
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Heroic Bastard / int_611b218d	comment	Kind, no-nonsense nurse Phyllis Crane is one in Call the Midwife. It first comes up when she's counseling a young man who's worried about his child being a "you know what."
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Heroic Bastard / int_62570927	comment	Marvel Universe also has a few: All three of Captain Marvel's children: Genis and Phyla (by Elysius) and Teddy (by Anelle). Magneto's daughter Lorna/Polaris appears to have been born out of wedlock. Though the exact details are confusing, to say the least. Even Marvel Comics 2 has a few. Wolverine's son, Sabreclaw, was a double bastard before his Heel-Face Turn. His mother's still unknown. And then there's Darkdevil, son of Spider-Clone Ben Reilly and his imprisoned girlfriend. Wolverine himself is the product of his mother's adultery with the family groundskeeper. The Mighty Thor himself is one. Asgard's greatest hero, and also the product of Odin's union with Gaea, as part of Odin's rather circuitous plan to beat Ragnarok. He was raised believing he was legitimate, though.
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Heroic Bastard / int_625e571	comment	Bobby Goren of Law & Order: Criminal Intent is the Child by Rape of a serial killer, although his mother was never sure if her husband or he was Bobby's father. Fortunately, he was raised by her and only recently found out.
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Heroic Bastard / int_625f8f3	comment	The Heroic Legend of Arslan: Prince Arslan was roundly denounced by his detractors as not being of royal blood, which turns out to be true in the novels and the manga, as Queen Tahmine confessed that he was the son of one of their royal cavalry and a serving girl, but quickly proves to his devoted companions and several nobles that he is charismatic, kind, and intelligent enough to make a great ruler regardless. His knack for attracting high-class and devoted followers definitely doesn't hurt either.
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Heroic Bastard / int_629cd094	comment	One of the important reveals of Dragon Age: Origins is that King Cailan had an illegitimate half-brother, namely Alistair, one of the few unambiguously heroic characters in the game.
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Heroic Bastard / int_62ceda02	comment	Sonichu: "Heroic" may a bit of a stretch, but Sandy Rosechu was hatched and rapidly aged in issue #10 with no mention of her parents Wild and Simonla ever marrying.
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Heroic Bastard / int_630755ab	comment	Codex Alera: Max, while not the main character, is the bastard son of High Lord Antillus. This nets him both incredible power and a Wicked Stepmother who's been trying to get rid of him for years. While the hero, Tavi, technically isn't a bastard, for the first three and a half books he thought he was and might as well have been, and he was plenty heroic in that time. His father was a soldier, and while it was technically illegal for legionaires to be married, it wasn't uncommon for them to do so in secret, or at least discreetly enough that nobody would bring it up. Since everyone who knew about it other than Isana and Araris was killed right along with Septimus at First Calderon, the fact that the Princeps was married for 10 months managed to go unnoticed by the rest of the world.
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Heroic Bastard / int_6401889e	comment	The Terror: James Fitzjames admits toward the end of his life that despite having passed himself off for years as an Officer and a Gentleman, he was the product of the union between an English Impoverished Patrician and an exiled Portuguese noblewoman, given away to be raised by the Englishman's friends. Despite this romantic, fairly exotic backstory, he's ashamed enough of it to have fought his whole life struggling to be dashing and brave enough that nobody would question his origins.
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Heroic Bastard / int_640d9be1	comment	Princess Guinevere in Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade, the illegitimate daughter of King Desmond and his mistress, turns out to be more heroic than her legitimate half-brother, King Zephiel.
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Heroic Bastard / int_6457caa7	comment	The World of Ice & Fire writes of Benedict Rivers, a bastard of Feuding Families Blackwood and Bracken. He is despised for his parentage, however, he's such a great warrior that he is able to become the first man to unite the Riverlands, and takes the name Justman, creating a Royal House that rules the Riverlands for almost three centuries.
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Heroic Bastard / int_64f87bf3	comment	Jiaan in the Farsala Trilogy is the bastard child of a Farsalan war leader and later takes his place, though with no one's consent.
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Heroic Bastard / int_665f48ad	comment	Mythica: Dagen, though a bit of a knave at first as he's a thief and lech, turns out to be quite heroic, while born to a sex slave. It's possible Marek is too, as her father remains unknown.
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Heroic Bastard / int_6749d524	comment	In Ever After Leonardo da Vinci is said to be the greatest painter in the world and he says of himself:
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Heroic Bastard / int_67ce5a04	comment	In Fire Emblem Fates, three of the four Nohrian siblings are this. With the exception of Xander, the other 3 siblings (Camilla, Leo, and Elise) were the illegitimate children of Garon as a result of his many sexual affairs with his many mistresses. On the third path of the game, Revelation, all of the Nohrian siblings assist in bringing down Greater-Scope Villain Anankos, and stopping conflict between Hoshido and Nohr for good. While it's not really touched on, it's quite safe to assume that the main character (son/daughter of Queen Mikoto and the Good Side of the aforementioned Anankos) fits in as well.
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Heroic Bastard / int_696b75c2	comment	In the world of A Brother's Price, anyone coming from a family that could not buy and protect a husband is fathered by a "crib captive". Records are kept of when such a liaison produces a child - a birth certificate includes maternal ancestry and may have notes such as "Great-grandchild of Kei Whistler and Order of the Sword crib captive Gerard, #458". The current generation of Whistlers had married parents and grandparents, but it's well established that those grandmothers whose children ended up so respectable were roguish.
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Heroic Bastard / int_6a64d75f	comment	Oscar from Sister Claire is strongly implied to be the child of a prostitute, and though her biological mother is dead she was raised by "Maman" who runs a brothel that shelters the city's downtrodden. What's more, her father is the King of Thronum Mare.
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Heroic Bastard / int_6ab7b40b	comment	Zigzagged with Reina, Heihachi Mishima's illegitimate daughter, who assists Jin's crusade to defeat Kazuya in 8. However, it is later revealed that she secretly wants to awaken her own Devil Gene, something she succeeds by the end.
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Heroic Bastard / int_6c2d5381	comment	Glen Schreiber of Bokura no Kiseki. He's the illegitimate son of a powerful nobleman and his commoner mistress.
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Heroic Bastard / int_6c39a620	comment	Ascendance of a Bookworm: It's perfectly normal for noblemen to have mistresses and those relationships produce children. Myne's Stern Teacher mentor in the temple, High Priest Ferdinand, entered the temple in the first place because his father died and he was (unwarrantedly) seen as a threat to his true-born half-brother by the latter's mother.
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Heroic Bastard / int_6c5a9849	comment	In Shadow of the Conqueror, Daylen poses as this: the bastard son of Dayless the Conqueror, trying to do good and get out from under his father's shadow. He later finds out that many of his children are this trope for real, some even becoming Archknights.
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Heroic Bastard / int_6dab1b2f	comment	Dynamo5: Dynamo 5 is a group of five young people who learn that the superhero Captain Dynamo is their father. Three of them: Scrap (Bridget Flynn), Slingshot (Olivia "Livvie" Lewis), and Scatterbrain (Gage Reinhart), are unknowingly born out of wedlock and raised by stepfathers who do not know they are not their biological children because Captain Dynamo used his shapeshifting power to impersonate them in order to sleep with their wives. The fourth one is Visionary (Hector Chang). His mother was unknowingly impregnated by Captain Dynamo, who slept with and abandoned his mother, not knowing he fathered a child. The fifth one is Myriad (Spencer Bridges). His mother is an alien woman that Captain Dynamo had met in outer space after coming to the aid of her malfunctioning starship. When the mother gives him the child because she can't raise him herself, he leaves the infant at a F.L.A.G. research facility, where the child grows up without parents and escapes. Despite their flaws and mistakes as superheroes, they show themselves to be good young people who want to protect Tower City.
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Heroic Bastard / int_6f1bcb62	comment	Ashnard's illegitimate son Soren in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn may not be particularly heroic, but his loyalty to Ike and his brilliant tactics make him crucial to the Big Bad Ashnard's defeat. And in the sequel, Radiant Dawn, Soren is also among the people that defeats Greater-Scope Villain Ashera, and prevents the destruction of all life at her hands.
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Heroic Bastard / int_6f6c1eb7	comment	Touma H. Norstein of Digimon Data Squad. It's never stated outright because this is a kid's show, but the implication is that he's the son of an Austrian aristocrat and a Japanese exchange student who never married. He's a nice guy if a little cold at first, but he suffered due to his illegitimacy, as his grandmother told him to his face (right after his mother died!) that he was a member of the great Norstein family, yet he wasn't.
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Heroic Bastard / int_6f734712	comment	Smallville: While "heroic" isn't exactly the best description of her before her Heelâ€“Face Turn, our Tess Mercer can be seen as this in stark contrast with her Earth-2 version who, actually raised by Lionel, is a whiny, issue-ridden Bastard Bastard.
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Heroic Bastard / int_7041cf12	comment	Kaguya-sama: Love Is War has Kaguya Shinomiya, who is easily the nicest and most well-adjusted member of their family (though that is admittedly not a very high bar). It's later revealed she's the illegitimate daughter of a conglomerate CEO and a prostitute.
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Heroic Bastard / int_705a60cf	comment	Dark Schneider, the eponymous Bastard!! (1988). Pretty late in the series it is revealed by the Elves that he never had a proper father. Just to clear up facts, he is a (almost) complete asshat, so the title was fitting way before that reveal.
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Heroic Bastard / int_708ae58b	comment	Abel Rewanz from Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures was the product of a very long-term Bed Trick (twenty-five years), and one very bad day finding out about it. He's a snarky Jerk with a Heart of Gold and one of Dan's True Companions.
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Heroic Bastard / int_7244e221	comment	The Red Knight from The Traitor Son Cycle is a bastard child of the King of Alba and his sister, by the way of rape. While he has a lot of issues that stem from this (the least of which is refusing to go by his given name), he's nothing if not heroic.
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Heroic Bastard / int_755b343f	comment	Supplemental Halo material reveals that Lieutenant Commander Miranda Keyes is the product of an affair between the then Lieutenant Jacob Keyes and Dr. Catherine Halsey.
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Heroic Bastard / int_764768c	comment	The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky: The Hedonist Oliver is the spoiled son of a wealthy Erebonian Empire noble's mistress. Said noble being The Emperor himself. Kevin Graham was born of a single mother who was visited occasionally by his wealthy father, with the two being a Secret Other Family. After Kevin's father abandoned them, his mother eventually tried to strangle Kevin to death in a murder suicide before he slipped away, only to come back and find her corpse. After being taken into an orphanage by Rias and Rufina, he eventually joined them in the Gralsritter before the story begins.
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Heroic Bastard / int_76b8bb13	comment	Legends of Panthera provides us with Caterina, Jinx, Nix, Doe, and Fay are all born outside of mating. All of them are heroic.
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Heroic Bastard / int_77b80c32	comment	Sunshine Cleaning: Oscar is Rose's child with Mac, while the latter is married to someone else. At one point he asks Norah what a bastard is, having been called this by a classmate. She reassures him it's nothing which he should feel ashamed about. Oscar's a bit mischievous, but still a good kid.
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Heroic Bastard / int_7832b74c	comment	Steven Universe: The eponymous All-Loving Hero's parents lived together up to his mother's Death by Childbirth, but weren't actually married. Given that Rose was a millennia-old alien, she may not have known what marriage was and how it worked, and she and Greg probably would have had trouble legalizing it anyway. Sour Cream is the son of Former Teen Rebel Vidalia and Greg's manipulative manager Marty, with whom she had a brief summer fling that resulted in his birth. He's an extremely caring and mellow young man who's nothing like his Jerkass of a biological father.
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Heroic Bastard / int_786a1389	comment	The Devil Judge: Yo-han is an illegitimate child, though it's downplayed since he's more of an Anti-Hero.
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Heroic Bastard / int_79ab0b3c	comment	Tortall Universe: Daine in The Immortals series is illegitimate, hence her patronymic matronymic is "Sarrasri" from her mother. Turns out that her father is really Weiryn, a minor god of the hunt, though she doesn't find this out until the last book.
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Heroic Bastard / int_79d9b538	comment	The Palaververse: Princess Celestia herself, having been born as the result of an extramarital relationship between a pegasus noble and an earth pony farmer mare. Luna, technically Celestiaâ€™s half-sister, was born later after said pegasus noble returned home and married.
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Heroic Bastard / int_7ae676ad	comment	Tzigone, one of the central protagonists of Counselors and Kings is the bastard daughter of the renegade wizardess Keturah and King Zalathorm of Halruaa. She's very determined to keep this from coming out, however, since Halruaa's laws regarding marriage and procreation are draconian and a wizard's bastard is executed out of hand if both parents can't be named. In the end, Zalathorm acknowledges Tzigone as his daughter and marries Keturah, giving Tzigone a proper family for the first time in her life- and also making her Princess of Halruaa, much to her consternation.
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Heroic Bastard / int_7f8a38b6	comment	Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Heero Yuy. The leads we have say that his parents, Odin Lowe and Aoi Clark, never married, that his mother raised him for a while with the help of the guy she did marry, and that after his mother and her hubby's deaths, his real father took him back in and trained him as a Hitman with a Heart. All the Gundam pilots with the definite exception of Quatre and maybe Trowa ( leaning towards no, if his and Catherine's parents were actually married) may be this, as most of them are orphans without birth names and their parentage isn't really explored.
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Heroic Bastard / int_80136a93	comment	Vigil (BBC): Well-meaning anti-nuclear protestor Jade is the illegitimate daughter of a politician.
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Heroic Bastard / int_824c607d	comment	The titular Wolf Children, Ame and Yuki were born from an unmarried human woman and a wolfman. Despite this, theyâ€™re genuinely friendly.
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Heroic Bastard / int_82913305	comment	Chlorophylle: In the one-shot "Embrouilles Ã Coquefredouille", King Mithron XIII has one illegitimate daughter who is real nice and good-natured. When the King secretly ask his aide to find the mother, he reported finding several more illegitimate daughters.
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Heroic Bastard / int_8392b940	comment	This might be the case with the Porcelain Doctor in Dead West. We don't know for sure. This is definitely the case with Cherryworth, the Queen's Hound; he is the bastard of the duke of Kensington, and one of the most trusted operatives of the Queen.
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Heroic Bastard / int_83bf844d	comment	Lanen in Tales of Kolmar finds out early that the man her mother married before running away wasn't her father after all. Her initial reaction is relief since it explains the rather cool relationship that had existed between them, and largely it doesn't seem to matter, but in a low moment later she does bring up her bastard heritage.
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Heroic Bastard / int_86814e56	comment	Terra in Final Fantasy VI. Spoilers: Even if Maduin and Madonna actually got married (which is never mentioned) Terra was definitely born first. Also, given the taboo with humans being in the Esper world in the first place, it's further unlikely that any Esper would be willing to marry an Esper to a human.
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Heroic Bastard / int_86c3beca	comment	Gilgamesh Wulfenbach from Girl Genius, while canonically not a bastard (though his father Klaus complains "I haven't seen my wife in years") was raised as if he was, hidden among his father's students-cum-hostages with no knowledge of his true parentage. His mother's identity has yet to be revealed, though hints throughout the comic imply that she might be the queen of a Hidden Kingdom.
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Heroic Bastard / int_8947e94e	comment	Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, set in the same universe as The Camp Half-Blood Series, has heroes of this nature as well, but with Norse Gods. In fact, due to the widespread nature of this trope, the only heroes in the universe that aren't this trope are the main protagonists of The Kane Chronicles, and a few non-demigod main characters like Rachael and Hearthstone (of course having married parents doesn't mean the latter two had happier home lives, and the Kane Chronicles protagonists had parent absences due to death and legal custody fights).
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Heroic Bastard / int_8954ed21	comment	George from Paradise Kiss. His mother Yukino is a former model who got knocked up by an extremely wealthy man and quit her career to have him. This results in heavy resentment from her towards him, and strong and complicated love/hate feelings from him towards her, also affecting his relationship with Yukari.
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Heroic Bastard / int_89d334a7	comment	From Infinite Stratos, we have Charlotte Dunois. She is the illegitimate daughter of the owner of France's leading IS manufacturer.
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Heroic Bastard / int_8a244f4	comment	The Saintess and the Villainess: Although she was the villainess of the "original novel," Corvina is one of the main viewpoint characters of the story, and is slowly becoming more heroic thanks to Anne's influence.
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Heroic Bastard / int_8ac4e993	comment	Gundam: Artesia som Deikun, aka Sayla Mass from the original Mobile Suit Gundam, was revealed to be this in Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin, since her mother Astraia and father Zeon never actually married, due to Zeon already having a wife and Astraia being The Mistress. This is contrasted with her brother Casval aka Char Aznable who instead went the Bastard Bastard path despite having the same background. Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Heero Yuy. The leads we have say that his parents, Odin Lowe and Aoi Clark, never married, that his mother raised him for a while with the help of the guy she did marry, and that after his mother and her hubby's deaths, his real father took him back in and trained him as a Hitman with a Heart. All the Gundam pilots with the definite exception of Quatre and maybe Trowa ( leaning towards no, if his and Catherine's parents were actually married) may be this, as most of them are orphans without birth names and their parentage isn't really explored. Banagher Links from Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn, confirmed when one member of the Vist Family distinctly refers to him as the illegitimate son of Cardeas Vist.
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Heroic Bastard / int_8ae1d11d	comment	Creed: Adonis is the illegitimate son of Apollo Creed, born shortly after the latter was killed by Ivan Drago in Rocky IV, and was later adopted by Apollo's widow Mary Anne, who is kind enough to treat him as her own son and later on Rocky takes him under his wing as a champion boxer.
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Heroic Bastard / int_8c5f856b	comment	In a DVD extra to accompany the series, Hal, in Being Human tells Leo that he was raised in a brothel by six prostitutes, but that he never knew which of them was his mother. Ironically, he's often called Lord Hal by the other vampires, because he's one of the 'old ones'.
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Heroic Bastard / int_8d817ccb	comment	Locke, Aaron, and Walt from Lost, all of whom have been said to be special and important, were all born out of wedlock. Further, all were given up (or scheduled to be given up) for adoption.
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Heroic Bastard / int_8dc76226	comment	Star Driver: Takuto Tsunashi. He was the product of an affair between his mother, Sora and Tokio Tsunashi, AKA Reiji Miyabi, AKA Head, AKA the Big Bad of the whole series. Also, though an antagonist, Simone/Pamela and her sister are the illegitimate daughters of Mr. Watanabe and his mistress from before he married Kanako.
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Heroic Bastard / int_8ee238c9	comment	Persona: Reiji Kido from Persona is this, contrasting with his legitimate half-brother Takahisa Kandori, the Big Bad of the game. Two of the party members in Persona 5 are this, which the player learn later in the game: Futaba Sakura, the eventual Mission Control, and Goro Akechi, a detective who initially pursues the protagonist before joining the party. Their situations Foil one another greatly, however: Futaba's mother got pregnant virtually on a whim but took it upon herself to raise her, and she had loved her until her untimely death - Futaba's profound social anxiety, as it turns out, is the result of a power-hungry congressman falsifying her mother's testament. Goro, on the other hand, is the result of an affair between the aforementioned congressman and a mistress; said mistress was kicked to the curb when she got pregnant, and she would eventually commit suicide out of shame for conceiving Goro. Sadly, while Futaba would eventually be Happily Adopted by a family friend (the protagonist's guardian, Soujiro Sakura), Goro spent years being abused by the system, eventually molding him into a jaded, vain, deeply wounded Bastard Bastard.
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Heroic Bastard / int_8fb0f266	comment	Game of Thrones (Telltale): It turns out in episode 6, that Lord Forrester had two secret children who he employed as protectors of the North Grove. However, they save Garred Tuttle's life and form a heroic army with him to save their biological father's house.
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Heroic Bastard / int_90670dc7	comment	Alan Campbell's Deepgate Codex books have Carnival, born from the rape of her mortal mother by Ulcis. (God Is Evil much?) From Bad to Worse from there.
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Heroic Bastard / int_907b45dd	comment	Dylan Masset from Bates Motel may be morally ambiguous, but he's also the rational Token Good Teammate in the Bates family. It was revealed that he is the illegitimate Child by Rape between Norma Bates and her brother Caleb.
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Heroic Bastard / int_915885e3	comment	Alec, the hero of The Bride of Adarshan, is an illegitimate prince. It causes him problems, as his step-mother (that is, the king's legitimate wife) hates his guts and fears that he'll usurp her son, and despite him being there to be the Spare to the Throne, his suitability is called into question due to him not being a 'true' member of the royal family. Alec, for his part, is incredibly devoted to his half-brother and can't even fathom betraying him.
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Heroic Bastard / int_91ecd9c8	comment	The Bridge (MLP): Godzilla Junior is technically one. He was hatched from an abandoned egg and raised by first the human Azusa Gojo and then the kaiju Godzilla Senior, and he grew up to be a great hero. Moonbeam Glimmer specifically brings up the fact his parents were not married and mocks him for being a bastard. Godzilla Junior's brother Xenilla is also technically one. He is a clone spawned when some of Mothra Lea's mother's magic mixed with Godzilla Senior's blood. He's inherited traits from both of them. While Xenilla seemed to be a villain at first, it's revealed he's been Good All Along. Flash Sentry's ancestor Ardent Sentry was born from a one-night stand Commander Hurricane had with a barmaid named Speedy Service. Hurricane did not know he had a daughter, and Ardent did not tell him until after she had distinguished herself as a member of the Royal Guard so that she could prove she was a great warrior through merit instead of nepotism.
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Heroic Bastard / int_9472b00d	comment	Banagher Links from Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn, confirmed when one member of the Vist Family distinctly refers to him as the illegitimate son of Cardeas Vist.
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Heroic Bastard / int_951c41c1	comment	The sort-of sequel to Genealogy, Fire Emblem: Thracia 776, reveals that Azelle's older brother Arvis also had his own Heroic Bastard, Saias, with his close aide the Black Magician Girl named Aida, whom you meet in the first part of Genealogy. Even moreso, out of Arvis's three children, Saias, who aids protagonist Leif in his goal of killing and overthrowing Travant, king of Thracia, is the one who inherited his dad's major Fala blood. And additionally, the Jerk with a Heart of Gold Fergus who joins Leif's army as well, is the bastard son of Beowulf, a character from Genealogy, and a noblewoman from Conote.
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Heroic Bastard / int_95a764b9	comment	Timespinner protagonist, Lunais, was conceived when her mother had a short-term romance with a Lachiemi soldier. Said soldier is later revealed to have been the heir to Lachiem's throne, and as the Emperor he becomes an Archnemesis Dad after his attack on Lunais's clan (and the resulting death of her mother) sends Lunais on a quest for revenge.
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Heroic Bastard / int_9688ee61	comment	In Ouran High School Host Club, Tamaki Suoh was born from the affair between a French girl and a Japanese student.
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Heroic Bastard / int_96b18c7d	comment	Apropos in the Sir Apropos of Nothing series was the son of a prostitute who was gang-raped by a bunch of knights and the King's jester.
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Heroic Bastard / int_9831d4e4	comment	Bell Woodrow, the protagonist of Pondovadia, reveals that she's the mayor's illegitimate daughter.
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Heroic Bastard / int_990ba067	comment	In Tales of Wedding Rings, Prince Marse is the son of the Emperor and a mistress, and the only reason he has his title is because the Emperor decided to give it to him.
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Heroic Bastard / int_9ab32c13	comment	In Pony POV Series, Fluttercruel is the daughter of Fluttershy and Discord...but Fluttershy doesn't even have the friendship her canon self does with Discord and in fact, Fluttercruel is a Child By Mind Rape after Discord's forced brainwashing of Fluttershy accidentally created her. Fluttercruel is still a hero, though a bit harsher than the average Equestrian. Note, this only applies to her prime, as her Dark World self is evil due to being raised by Discord.
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Heroic Bastard / int_9bc018f7	comment	Heero Yuy. The leads we have say that his parents, Odin Lowe and Aoi Clark, never married, that his mother raised him for a while with the help of the guy she did marry, and that after his mother and her hubby's deaths, his real father took him back in and trained him as a Hitman with a Heart.
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Heroic Bastard / int_9c4fd740	comment	Fena: Pirate Princess has the titutlar character, Fena Houtman, who's eventually revealed to be the illegitimate daughter of the king of England, rather than the daughter of Franz Houtman as she had thought.
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Heroic Bastard / int_9c8118d0	comment	Lloyd Williams, in Follett's The Century Trilogy. He is the bastard son of Earl Fitzherbert, known as "Fitz", and his housekeeper (who in short order becomes his former housekeeper) Ethel Williams (who raises Lloyd). In the second book of the trilogy, "Winter of the World", he becomes a tireless crusader against fascism, fighting first the British Union of Fascists in the East End of London, then going to Spain to fight in the Civil War, and finally fighting Nazi Germany in World War II.
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Heroic Bastard / int_9ce851a3	comment	The term "hero" is debatable, but Francis Wilkerson from Malcolm in the Middle was born during the wedding ceremony between Hal and Lois.
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Heroic Bastard / int_9d47a2a2	comment	George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire has bastard children of all sorts with a wide variety of temperaments. The most notable and heroic is Jon Snow, the bastard son of Lord Eddard Stark, and is one of the characters in this series' world most befitting a classic hero — also described as a "classic hero" by the author, George R. R. Martin. While Jon is raised by his father alongside his trueborn siblings as part of the family in his father's home castle, loves and is loved by his father and siblings, Jon still feels like somewhat of an outsider in his own family. He chooses to join the Night's Watch to earn his own honour. It is possible that his half-brother, Robb, with whom he was very close, officially legitimized Jon as a Stark in his will and named Jon as heir, as he talked to his mother of doing, but Jon does not know this yet. It is a popular fandom theory that Jon is not Eddard's biological son, but his nephew, as Jon may be the son of Eddard's sister Lyanna Stark and Prince Rhaegar Targaryen, both deceased. Eddard passed Jon off as his own bastard child to keep him safe from the then-reigning dynasty - a wise move, given what happened to Rhaegar's other children. King Robert Baratheon's bastard children come across as quite heroic if sharing the Baratheon stubbornness. Gendry is quite decent and selfless, joining the Brotherhood without Banners as he likes their ideals. Gendry becomes a Knight Templar Big Brother toward some of the children orphaned in the war. Ser Rolland Storm, the Bastard of Nightsong, is a relatively minor character but comes across as quite decent. When King Stannis Baratheon is losing the war and surrounded by various scheming and ambitious nobles, he mentions Rolland is one of the few good men left to him. Rolland helps Davos Seaworth send Edric to safety and is left by Stannis to hold Dragonstone when he sails to the Wall, refusing to surrender even to vastly superior odds. The World of Ice & Fire writes of Benedict Rivers, a bastard of Feuding Families Blackwood and Bracken. He is despised for his parentage, however, he's such a great warrior that he is able to become the first man to unite the Riverlands, and takes the name Justman, creating a Royal House that rules the Riverlands for almost three centuries. The bastards Addam of Hull and Alyn, apparently bastards of the deceased Laenor Velaryon (or, more likely, Laenor's father Lord Corlys Velaryon, who didn't want his wife to be offended), who are legitimized at the request of their "grandfather", becoming heirs to Driftmark. Despite Rhaenyra taking the actions of two other dragonseed, the Two Betrayers, as proof bastards are treacherous, forcing Addam to flee, Addam heroically gathers an army to fight Rhaenyra's enemies, dying in the process. His brother succeeds Corlys as Lord of Driftmark and becomes known as Oakenfist for his naval victories. Played with on Brynden Rivers aka "Bloodraven", one of Aegon IV's "The Unworthy" many bastards. He assists his legitimate brother Daeron II against their half-brothers (Daemon Blackfyre and Aegor Rivers "Bittersteel") but seems to have resorted to rather extreme methods against these relatives, making him quite an Anti-Hero (By the time of the Dunk and Egg stories, he has what amounts to a medieval kingdom-wide Secret Police force, it doesn't help that he isn't helping the west of Westeros which is being raided by Dagon Greyjoy). However, his methods may have been necessary, considering the very real threat the Blackfyres posed. Eventually, Brynden's extreme actions, murdering one of Daemon's sons despite an offer of safe conduct, forced Daeron's grandson Aegon V to send him into exile. Currently it's unclear whether Bloodraven is working with the Others or against them. In Tales of Dunk and Egg, Egg Prince Aegon, while talking about the Blackfyres and Bloodraven, claims bastards are treacherous by nature. Dunk (Ser Duncan the Tall) points out that he is probably a bastard, as he doesn't know who his parents are. Dunk is one of the few figures in the series who lives up to the Knight In Shining Armour ideal. Ser Glendon "Flowers" (who insists he is Glendon Ball) plays with this. He claims to be the son of Quentyn Ball "Fireball" (considering his mother was a camp follower who slept with a lot of men around that time this is dubious) and at first comes across as a jerk to Dunk for his support of the Blackfyres. However, he turns out to be a very good jouster and closer to the knightly ideal than many of the knights at a Tourney, who were being bribed to lose to Daemon II Blackfyre. One of the first Kingsguard was Ser Addison Hill "the Bastard of Cornfield", who eventually rose to become Lord Commander.
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Heroic Bastard / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece has Portgas D. Ace. It's justified in that Ace's father was the Pirate King Gold Roger, so any woman he was romantically associated would've been most likely killed. It also helped in hiding Ace's heritage as Ace took the surname of his dead mother, Portgas D. Rouge, to honor his debt to her for bringing him into the world safely at the cost of her own life.
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Heroic Bastard / int_9e82c3cb	comment	Wesley in Wanted is known to have been a bastard. In the comic book, he's a Sociopathic Bastard, whilst in the film, he runs the gamut from Poor Bastard to Anti-Hero Bastard to Magnificent Bastard.
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Heroic Bastard / int_a0112f3d	comment	Tekken: Jin Kazama, who is the son of an affair Kazuya Mishima had with Jun Kazama. His heroism, however, turned to villainy as of Tekken 6... Jin's Faceâ€“Heel Turn is later revealed to be part of a desperate gambit to erase himself and the Devil Gene from the world. Which would probably qualify him as a Tragic Heroic Bastard. Jin's half-uncle Lars Alexandersson is another one, being the illegitimate son of Heihachi Mishima. He rebels against Jin's tyrannical rule over the world in 6, though upon learning the true reason why he did so, the two become allies. Zigzagged with Reina, Heihachi Mishima's illegitimate daughter, who assists Jin's crusade to defeat Kazuya in 8. However, it is later revealed that she secretly wants to awaken her own Devil Gene, something she succeeds by the end.
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Heroic Bastard / int_a03824e8	comment	The DCU: is crawling (so to speak) with them: Connor Hawke, son of Oliver Queen, the Green Arrow. Oliver also has several other illegitimate children, including Robert, the boy Shado has with him after raping him. Cissie King-Jones (Arrowette) is heavily implied to also be one. Damian Wayne, son of Bruce Wayne and Talia al Ghul, wasn't born to a legally recognized marriage, despite what his grandfather Ra's al Ghul and Talia claim, because his father was unconscious during the wedding ceremony and, depending on the continuity, possibly drugged during the consummation. Rose Wilson, the illegitimate daughter of Deathstroke. She is the result of an affair Slade had with her mother, Sweet Lily. While she had her villainous moments and could be very anti-heroic, Rose wants to do good and not follow her father's path. Raven is the daughter of the archdemon Trigon and a human woman. Exactly how willing Arella was during Raven's conception has gone back and forth, with some accounts state that Trigon seduced Arella before revealing his demonic nature, and others stating that he raped her, but the two definitely weren't married. The backstory of on-and-off hero Catwoman aka Selina Kyle is prone to inconsistencies, but some incarnations are the illegitimate daughter of Carmine Falcone, patriarch of Gotham's most notorious crime family. Damage is originally thought to be a bastard, but it's later revealed that his true parents, the original Atom and his wife Mary, were married. Tom, illegitimate son of Wildcat of the Justice Society of America. Huntress -the Helena Bertinelli version- is actually the daughter of Santo Cassamento, not Franco Bertinelli; she's also something of a bastard in the more colloquial sense, sometimes of the magnificent variety, as when she manipulates her uncle into murdering her biological father while setting him up to take the fall for this and tricks the Question into helping her. And all under the noses of Batman, Robin, Nightwing, and Oracle. Vic Sage makes the assumption that he is a bastard since he was raised in an orphanage, but he never learned his actual parentage so it was never confirmed. He has made peace with this fact and does not let it wear him down. Cassie Sandsmark aka Wonder Girl, who's the illegitimate daughter of Zeus or, in the New 52, Zeus's demigod son Lennox. Wonder Woman becomes this in Post-Flashpoint continuity, as the secret lovechild of Hippolyta and Zeus. Batgirl Cassandra Cain's parents were not only never married, but the only reason they were together at all was also to conceive her. After all, Lady Shiva isn't exactly one for romance. As in mythology Hercules is the result of Zeus' extramarital affair with a mortal woman.
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Heroic Bastard / int_a083742f	comment	Though the jury is still out, Junuka of Far to the North looks like he might be one. He's much more skilled and professional than the brutish slavers he works with and sprouts a Luminescent Blush when Kelu grabs him to point out how he's almost as tall as she is.
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Heroic Bastard / int_a0ce3e2b	comment	One of the protagonists of ...Virgin Love was the son of his father's mistress, and was never officially recognized as his son. His dad stayed completely out of his and his mother's life until he hit university age, when he sent him to school and put him on the fast-track in his company.
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Heroic Bastard / int_a0ff9e30	comment	Terry Pratchett seems quite fond of enthroning bastards. Aside from Verence's case, Pyramids ends with Teppic's half-sister Ptraci on the throne of Djelibeybi, and Witches Abroad's Ella, eventual ruler of Genua, is the illegitimate daughter of Baron Saturday and Mrs. Gogol. Princess Keli's late father (from Mort) was known as "King Olerve the Bastard" — even on his hourglass! — and he doesn't seem nasty enough to merit such a title unless he, too, was illegitimate.
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Heroic Bastard / int_a33d74a4	comment	Like the Sword of Truth books, in Legend of the Seeker series, Richard finds out that he was adopted. However, the series changes who his real father is (Panis Rahl instead of his son Darken Rahl) and the means of conception (Bed Trick instead of a forcible rape). In fact, it was actually a Xanatos Gambit by Panis Rahl to merge two powerful magical bloodlines (Rahl and Zorander) and sire an heir to fight Darken Rahl.
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Heroic Bastard / int_a3496fb1	comment	Yakuza: Like a Dragon has Ichiban Kasuga, whose mother was a soapland employee who likely got pregnant on the job before disappearing shortly following his birth. The staff of the soapland took him in and raised him to adolescence until the passing of his loving foster father — whose surname he took for himself — drove him to delinquency. After being brought into the Arakawa yakuza family, he would eventually grow into a Friendly Neighborhood Gangster, whose experience being born and raised by the dregs of society gave him sympathy towards Kamurocho's working-class folk. This goes double for the fact that his patriarch, Masumi Arakawa, is his biological father, who conceived him out of wedlock. Kasuga would not know this until after Arakawa's death, however.
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Heroic Bastard / int_a3748187	comment	Giorno Giovanna, hero of the fifth part (Golden Wind), is one of Dio Brando's sons. It's unlikely that Dio married any of the women he had kids with. One of his allies, Trish Una, is also an example as the daughter of Diavolo and his girlfriend, which puts her at a lot of risk since Diavolo wants to kill anyone who has seen his face, Trish included.
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Heroic Bastard / int_a5549ed0	comment	Jephthah in the Biblical Book of Judges was the son of Gilead and a prostitute and was exiled by his half-brothers for being a bastard. Later in life, they have to beg him to lead them to victory over the Ammonites; some would say he's the other kind of bastard due to the very... confusing situation with his daughter, which is still a HUGE subject of contention among scholars.
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Heroic Bastard / int_a5745acc	comment	A Brief History of Equestria has Lady Cripps the Pink of the Hyracotherium Republic. The result of an affair her mother had with a Unicorn noble (who then left her), Cripps grew up hating the Kingdom of Unicorns as a whole. Because of this, she enlisted in the Hyracotherium military, eventually becoming a national hero when she led her forces to victory in the Lake Trot Crisis.
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Heroic Bastard / int_a68c19b8	comment	Azelle in Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War, son of the former Duke of Velthomer and his wife Cigyun's favorite lady-in-waiting/maid... or, at least, he assists Sigurd in what seem to be heroics before everything goes to hell and they all die anyway.
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Heroic Bastard / int_a71dc960	comment	Birds of Prey (2002): Helena never knew who her father is until her mother's death. In turn, he never knew about her before her mother had died. They were never married. Helena became a superheroine after this.
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Heroic Bastard / int_a81325d3	comment	Final Fantasy: Ramza Beoulve, the main character of Final Fantasy Tactics, is heavily implied to be this. Although it only comes up in passing in the game, one imagines it was more of an issue when he was living among nobles, before everyone got caught up in the Lion War. Ironically one of the only unequivocally good characters in the game. For further irony, both his older (presumably legitimate) brothers are bastards in the more contemporary sense of the word. For instance, Dycedarg murdered their father, and is host to one of the demons intent on bringing about The End Of Ivalice As We Know It. Zalbag is much more sympathetic, even noble, but he was still the one giving the order for Algus/Argath to shoot Delita's sister Teta in order to take out Golagros/Gragoroth. The game implies that he may be, like Algus/Argath, a classist, and was willing to sacrifice Teta because she was a "mere" commoner, and insults Ramza for having his mother's "commoner blood". His bastardy is more or less confirmed in the instruction manual for War of the Lions, where he is referred to as the issue of his father's paramour, which is just a fancy and archaic way of saying the result of an adulterous affair. Terra in Final Fantasy VI. Spoilers: Even if Maduin and Madonna actually got married (which is never mentioned) Terra was definitely born first. Also, given the taboo with humans being in the Esper world in the first place, it's further unlikely that any Esper would be willing to marry an Esper to a human. Lord Haurchefant Greystone of Final Fantasy XIV, complete with the Game of Thrones-style bastard surname. Though he grew up ostracized and hated by his stepmother and half-brothers for being the bastard son of a noble house, he still becomes a respected and patriotic knight of Ishgard. There's also the Reasonable Authority Figure Aymeric who is revealed late in the Heavensward story to be the bastard son of Archbishop Thordan VII and Hilda, leader of the lower-class La RÃ©sistance, who's a Half-Human Hybrid born between a nobleman Elezen and a servant Hyuran woman.
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Heroic Bastard / int_a8269bb	comment	King Friedrich from What About Witch Queen? is said by Word of God to be the effect of his mother's affair with another man. He honestly tries to be a good king despite his shortcomings, and, next to Ferdinand, he's probably the most likable of Hans' brothers.
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Heroic Bastard / int_aa1d4fb4	comment	Thomas from Suikoden III is one of the nicest characters in the game and also is a bastard.
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Heroic Bastard / int_aa74bf0e	comment	Discussed in Neogicia. The female protagonist Saly develops unusual powers after her Bio-Augmentation into a neomancer and Emperor Keynn Lucans sponsors her into a prestigious neomancer school. Keynn's involvement is kept as discrete as possible, but a teacher that does not like Saly very much eventually mentions Keynn keeping an eye on her out loud in a crowded classroom. Thanks to Keynn notoriously not having a family and privately being in no hurry to start one thanks to being in a quasi Immortal Procreation Clause situation (he's physically in his mid-thirties at ten centuries old), rumors of Saly being either his bastard daughter or pregnant with his illegitimate child quickly emerge.
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Heroic Bastard / int_abe97ad3	comment	General and I: Chu Bei Jie is one of the protagonists and the illegitimate son of the former king.
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Heroic Bastard / int_abf4c9b3	comment	Ayane of Dead or Alive is the product of Kasumi's mother being raped.
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Heroic Bastard / int_ac978b2	comment	Besma bint Abdul in Caliphate is the daughter of a rich merchant and his concubine, and she is probably the kindest, decent, most generous character in the book. Unlike many examples of this trope, she was raised by her father and is considered his favorite child unlike Besma's half-brother Fundail, who is actually legitimate and a real little monster.
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Heroic Bastard / int_af76696e	comment	The Bastard of Kosigan, bastard son of a precursor and Count Borogar of Kosigan. Though he might be a Villainous Bastard if you play him the other way. And given the number of women he can end up taking advantage of, he may be leaving a few behind.
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Heroic Bastard / int_b0028436	comment	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Josuke Higashikata, hero of the fourth part (Diamond is Unbreakable) is the illegitimate son of the now-elderly hero of Part 2 Joseph Joestar, from an affair he had with a Japanese woman named Tomoko Higashikata. This is even more awkward because, at age 17, Josuke is younger than his own nephew and hero of the third part, Jotaro Kujo. Giorno Giovanna, hero of the fifth part (Golden Wind), is one of Dio Brando's sons. It's unlikely that Dio married any of the women he had kids with. One of his allies, Trish Una, is also an example as the daughter of Diavolo and his girlfriend, which puts her at a lot of risk since Diavolo wants to kill anyone who has seen his face, Trish included.
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Heroic Bastard / int_b055e1b5	comment	In Eye Of The Fox, Kira is a rather blatant example as while the methods of his conception are still unknown to the reader, his parents were obviously never together in a word, and he just barely stops short of being a Bastard Bastard.
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Heroic Bastard / int_b0af5a0e	comment	Nikolai from The Grisha Trilogy and The Nikolai Duology is officially the son of the king and queen of Ravka. However, it is widely rumored that he is actually illegitimate since the queen wasn't very faithful to her husband. The fact that, unlike his brother, Nikolai doesn't look anything like the king certainly doesn't help either. His mother eventually tells him that he was indeed born from an affair she had with Magnus Opjer. However, that doesn't stop Nikolai from becoming king after the abdication of 'his father', since his enemies cannot prove it.
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Heroic Bastard / int_b1058237	comment	Emily Roland from Temeraire is and it's more common than not for women in the Air Corp to have children out of wedlock. The point that keeps coming up in the story is that no, she's not Laurence's bastardnote her mom did not meet Laurence or talk him into bed until Emily was ten or so.
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Heroic Bastard / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: Jon Snow, one of the heroic protagonists in this series. Tyrion lampshades this trope in regards to him in The Night's Watch: It turns out that Jon Snow is a subversion. He's not a bastard son, but the legitimate child of Lyanna Stark and Rhaegar Targaryen, thus having a claim to both the North and the South. Gendry is a more common example, growing up as "low as you can get" in the grimy underbelly of King's Landing with no idea of who his father was until Melisandre tells him (although other characters figure out he's actually the King's bastard son). He manages to come out as one of the unambiguously heroic characters - a Bully Hunter who dislikes people who pick on those weaker than themselves and later tries to join the Brotherhood Without Banners who defend the small folk. Ironically although he and Jon don't meet until Season 7, an early sign of both their heroism was their affection for Arya Stark (Jon's favorite sibling and later Gendry's best friend) who clearly seems to have an affinity for the heroic bastard type.
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Heroic Bastard / int_b50aa03f	comment	In The Reynard Cycle, Reynard is a Heroic Bastard who is also a heroic bastard, as well as a Magnificent Bastard.
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Heroic Bastard / int_b7f918cc	comment	Candyâ™¡Candy gives us Terry Grandchester, the love child of a British duke and an American actress. Apparently, his father left his mother because he felt he needed to start behaving "properly" but still acknowledged and supported Terry, sending him to St. Paul's College.
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Heroic Bastard / int_b80e5912	comment	My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!: Catarina's adopted brother Keith was the son of a minor noble related to the Claes family and a common prostitute. His birth father's family greatly scorned him, especially when it turned out he had magic that he couldn't control very well. While he could have grown up into a shameless playboy to cope with loneliness, Catarina made sure to make friends with him when they were little and he ends up growing into a very calm, responsible, and elegant young man worthy of his position as the heir of the Claes duchy. And since he was adopted to become the new Claes heir, his bastardy is largely irrelevant. Note that in the original timeline, one of the reasons he was so lonely was because Catarina's mother thought he was her husband's bastard, and treated him horribly. In the new timeline, she ends up confronting her husband about it almost immediately, discovers the truth, and has a good long talk about their relationship. She and Keith have an extremely loving mother-and-adoptive-son relationship after that, and the Claes family grows up happily, giving Keith a stable home after spending his formative years in an abusive household. Catarina's personal maid Anne Shelley was born from the short-lived relationship between a baron and one of his servants. While she may not be a member of Catarina's harem, she cares for her mistress deeply and would do anything for her. Once the dark mage has been expelled from his body that led him to do questionable things such as framing Catarina for being a bully and kidnapping Maria, Raphael Walt (the real identity of Sirius Dieke) is clearly this. He was born to Marquis Dieke and his mother, but unlike Keith and Anne, his mother loved him unconditionally. His motivation for his Revenge stemmed at the fact that Marchioness Dieke murdered his mother and used him to resurrect her sickly son Sirius, but he knows enough that revenge wasn't even worth it, and just wants to continue honoring his mother's wish to live well. And although he isn't to be fully blamed by the things that he made back at school, he still turned himself to the authorities due to guilt, but not after he will get justice from his mother's death by telling them about his mother's killer and her shady experiments related to dark magic.
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Heroic Bastard / int_b8e9c6dc	comment	In Suffragette the protagonist Maud admits to never having known her father. Since her boss, for whom her mother also worked, is a serial rapist, it is likely she is a Child by Rape.
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Heroic Bastard / int_b9809b83	comment	Kingdom of Heaven: Balian, in contrast with the real man being somewhat less heroic, plus legitimate and a nobleman.
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Heroic Bastard / int_ba07853c	comment	Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker: Kazuhira/McDonnel Benedict Miller, one of the main protagonists, was heavily implied to have been conceived due to his mom having to work as a prostitute in post-war Japan to survive. Meryl Silverburgh, as she was conceived from an affair between her mother and her uncle Roy Campbell.
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Heroic Bastard / int_ba084d45	comment	Alexander Hamilton of Hamilton is repeatedly described as "a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a Scotsman." It is remarked upon that, despite this, he becomes "a hero and a scholar". This is true of the real-life founding-father as well; Alexander's mother Rachel Lavien was unable to get a divorce from her first husband, so her second marriage, to James Hamilton could never be legitimized. James eventually left the family when Alexander was 10 years old.
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Heroic Bastard / int_ba56500d	comment	In Timeless, Lucy finds out that she's a product of an extramarital affair of her mother and a married man. Throughout the show, Lucy shows herself to be a brave woman, who tries to fight Flynn and Rittenhouse. It gets worse when she finds out that her father is a high-ranking member of Rittenhouse and worse still, when it's revealed that her mother is Rittenhouse as well. In fact, it's implied that her birth was planned by Rittenhouse, making her "royalty" of sorts.
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Heroic Bastard / int_bad0166a	comment	Eirik from Dead In Vinland is the son of the deceased former jarl of his hometown and a kitchen thrall whom the jarl later freed. It's the whole reason for his predicament in the first place; when the jarl died, his heir attempted to have Eirik and his whole family murdered to avoid potential rival claims to his title.
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Heroic Bastard / int_bb1b8e8c	comment	Foul-mouthed and snarky though they may be, half-elven twins Vax'ildan and Vex'ahlia from Critical Role definitely fit the bill, having been born from an encounter between a human peasant and an elven noble. And while sometimes brutal (and definitely greedy, in the case of Vex'ahlia), they are genuinely good people who will go out of their way to protect their friends and help others in need.
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Heroic Bastard / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: In Dan Abnett's Gaunt's Ghosts novel Ghostmaker, Dorden had, as a new-fledged doctor, saved a woman in labor and her baby. This is revealed by Corbec, who was the baby; being illegitimate, his mother did not have the same name, which is why he hadn't realized. In Sandy Mitchell's Dark Heresy novel Scourge the Heretic, Drake is the (presumably illegitimate) son of a man of high standing and a chambermaid. Though somewhat bitter about his inability to advance on his stratified world, he copes by joining the Imperial Guard to escape, and when he is recruited to help an Inquisitor, his uncertain status may be reflected in his ability to handle shifting social situations: intimidating a man of the very highest birth by treating him with no deference, and drawing information from servants by pleasantries.
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Heroic Bastard / int_bde7ee4b	comment	Eden, by Obsessmuch: Hermione has made it a vow to not let the son Lucius fathered with her prior to his death to be anything like his father, which also meant never telling him his father's true identity. He honestly thinks he's the son of Ron Weasley despite the lack of resemblance, partially because he doesn't want to believe the truth. As a result, Lucius' second son grows up to not have the bigotry or elitism that the Malfoy bloodline is known for.
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Heroic Bastard / int_c1cb1895	comment	In Peace Forged in Fire Morgan t'Thavrau mentions that her mother never told her who her father was, although given that Iliana t'Thavrau was an admin aide at the Romulan Imperial Senate, "I suspect she was sparing a deihu's* "senator", literally "elder" mnhei'sahe* the Romulan concept of honor." (The Romulans as written by Diane Duane hold saving and maintaining face as an important cultural aspect.) It's confirmed later, in "Heis'he Ri'nanovai", that her father was Merken tr'Vreenak, who was married at the time she was conceived.
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Heroic Bastard / int_c1e17180	comment	Implied with Emilia in Blaze Union; even though Gulcasa was raised by his abusive father—the parent they share—he never even knew that Emilia existed until she found him.
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Heroic Bastard / int_c4771251	comment	Vin, heroine of Mistborn: The Original Trilogy is the illegitimate daughter of a prostitute and a priest of the Corrupt Church The High Priest, in fact, as it turns out- which, since aforementioned church teaches that a member of the nobility having a child with a commoner is a sin and such children should be killed, is noted as being a rather ironic breach of duty. It also turns out that this is why the Steel Inquisitor that's been hunting Vin throughout her life is after her- if he can catch her alive and prove she's her father's daughter, the Inquisitor can have grounds to have her father killed and take over his position.
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Heroic Bastard / int_c4f05ee4	comment	Axis in Sara Douglass' The Wayfarer Redemption is of illegitimate birth, and is reminded of this fact constantly, particularly in the first book.
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Heroic Bastard / int_c6630cc1	comment	Carnival Row: Philo is the love child of a Faerie and a human, but also one of the series' heroes.
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Heroic Bastard / int_c738fe9d	comment	Katrina of Ma Fille was born via a One-Night-Stand Pregnancy, and is a strong-willed, justice-minded young lady.
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Heroic Bastard / int_c73cdac2	comment	Jackie Estacado in The Darkness is the son of the most notorious hitman in New York and a random street whore.
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Heroic Bastard / int_c79063a2	comment	Dear Brother: Rei Asaka aka Hana no Saint Juste is the daughter of the Ichinomiya leader and one of the maids. The reason why she doesn't live with the Ichinomiyas is that her half-sister Fukiko — horrified after finding out that her father had a mistress and an illegitimate daughter — refused to openly see Rei, an illegitimate child, as her sibling. To make matters worse, it happened right after Rei's mother killed herself. In the anime, Rei was going to be adopted properly into the family and Fukiko was fine with it; the reason she wasn't is that she and Fukiko made a Suicide Pact but Fukiko chickened out in the middle of it, so it appeared Rei had tried to kill herself out of the pressures of joining the family and so the adoption was cancelled. It's later revealed Fukiko herself is an illegitimate daughter; she and Rei are actually twins but their father adopted her at birth and passed her off as Mrs. Ichinomiya's child. Fukiko actually knew this as Mrs. Ichinomiya told her on her deathbed and Rei knew this as well, as Ms. Asaka had revealed it to Rei before committing suicide, asking Rei to protect her twin; this is why Fukiko was so against Rei moving in in the manga, as it made her self-conscious.
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Heroic Bastard / int_c9b98f4e	comment	Empath: The Luckiest Smurf: Brainy, who is Empath's half-brother. Empath's mother had him after she left Papa Smurf following Empath's "death". Brainy's actual father also wore glasses, but he never married his mother. Brainy simply assumed that he was Papa Smurf's only biological son until around Empath's 150th birthday when it was revealed that Empath, not Brainy, was Papa Smurf's only biological son. In "The Prisoner Of Stone", Chlorhydris' daughter Priscilla turns out to be one, as she was fathered by the evil witch's true love Manfred the Magnificent sometime before the wedding, but unfortunately he was turned to stone by Drusilla before the two could even marry. (Priscilla doesn't appear in that story, but rather is referenced from the cartoon show episode "The Tear Of A Smurf".)
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Heroic Bastard / int_cac1f314	comment	ALF was a weird inversion. He was not born out of wedlock, but on Melmak, they seem to regard this as the same as Earthlings regard those who are. He nearly crosses a Despair Event Horizon once he discovers it.
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Heroic Bastard / int_cac1f772	comment	Catherine Willows from CSI was established early on to have been raised by a single mother. She eventually finds out her father was Sam Braun (who was present in her life, just not formally as a father).
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Heroic Bastard / int_cb7392b7	comment	A Court of Thorns and Roses: Lucien is secretly the son of Helion, High Lord of the Day Court, although he believes he is the son of Beron, High Lord of the Autumn Court.
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Heroic Bastard / int_cf840e53	comment	In Tales of Dunk and Egg, Egg Prince Aegon, while talking about the Blackfyres and Bloodraven, claims bastards are treacherous by nature. Dunk (Ser Duncan the Tall) points out that he is probably a bastard, as he doesn't know who his parents are. Dunk is one of the few figures in the series who lives up to the Knight In Shining Armour ideal.
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Heroic Bastard / int_d120122a	comment	In Kamen Rider Kiva, It's the titular rider whose the bastard child, although it's inverted, as his father was an all-around nice guy, while his mother fell in love with him more than her actual spouse.
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Heroic Bastard / int_d1710608	comment	The titular hero in Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe series is the son of a prostitute and an unknown man. Ironically, "bastard" is one of his favorite insults to rile up many an opponent to their deaths.
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Heroic Bastard / int_d3b17858	comment	Ramza Beoulve, the main character of Final Fantasy Tactics, is heavily implied to be this. Although it only comes up in passing in the game, one imagines it was more of an issue when he was living among nobles, before everyone got caught up in the Lion War. Ironically one of the only unequivocally good characters in the game. For further irony, both his older (presumably legitimate) brothers are bastards in the more contemporary sense of the word. For instance, Dycedarg murdered their father, and is host to one of the demons intent on bringing about The End Of Ivalice As We Know It. Zalbag is much more sympathetic, even noble, but he was still the one giving the order for Algus/Argath to shoot Delita's sister Teta in order to take out Golagros/Gragoroth. The game implies that he may be, like Algus/Argath, a classist, and was willing to sacrifice Teta because she was a "mere" commoner, and insults Ramza for having his mother's "commoner blood". His bastardy is more or less confirmed in the instruction manual for War of the Lions, where he is referred to as the issue of his father's paramour, which is just a fancy and archaic way of saying the result of an adulterous affair.
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Heroic Bastard / int_d4c4f175	comment	Henkyou no Roukishi Bard Loen: Prince Windellan is the bastard son of the king, but he is a war hero favored by the public and the nobility due to his strength and deeds, which eventually make him take over the throne. The primary reason he was chosen is for him inheriting the whirlpool fingerprints, despite having a commoner mother.
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Heroic Bastard / int_d81d22b5	comment	Kenta Usui, the male protagonist from Karin. His parents were high school students when he was born. Notably, they were planning on getting married after the mother got pregnant at 16 years old, but a Parental Marriage Veto kept them apart (and by the time they were able to get back together, they had both moved on with their lives).
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Heroic Bastard / int_da861da1	comment	Subverted in Veronica Mars, when the eponymous heroine looks to be then is revealed not to be the bastard daughter of Jake Kane.
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Heroic Bastard / int_db30cf92	comment	Warrior Cats has so many of these that they're in every series. Examples include: Mistyfoot and Stonefur, who are half Thunderclan half Riverclan, with their mother faked as a Riverclan queen. Lionblaze, Jayfeather, and Hollyleaf also count, with them also being half-clan, and their mother a medicine cat. They believe that another relation of theirs is their mother, and the truth does not come out until much later.
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Heroic Bastard / int_db418e95	comment	Batgirl Cassandra Cain's parents were not only never married, but the only reason they were together at all was also to conceive her. After all, Lady Shiva isn't exactly one for romance.
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Heroic Bastard / int_dbbf2001	comment	The titular prince of Prince Roger, Ramius Sergei Alexander Chiang MacClintock, after he took multiple levels of badass. He also develops into the other type of bastard, the literal meaning already applicable since the Empress had never married his father:
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Heroic Bastard / int_dc217e32	comment	In PokÃ©mon Reset Bloodlines, it's all but stated that Ash was born out of wedlock, which is confirmed in a later sidestory. And the story strongly implies that he's just one of many, perhaps in the hundreds, who share the same father and same status as Heroic Bastards, along with a few Bastard Bastards and others who are in-between. Ash, for his part, rarely has any issue with this, except when details about his father come up that paint him as a horrible human being in a way that paints his conception in an uneasy light.
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Heroic Bastard / int_dc54ae35	comment	Namah from Dreamkeepers is the result of a secret affair that her father had. He locked her away and shunned her growing up to cover it up, but instead of becoming bitter, she grew into one of the most heroic characters in the comic.
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Heroic Bastard / int_dcf7d02e	comment	Two of these show up in Private Actress: Shiho Kobayakawa, the main character, is the secret child of Japan's Number 1 actress Sayuri Nakagawa, and her existence has been hidden from the public so Sayuri's career won't be ruined. Even more so, Shiho's biological father is another famous actor, Masakazu Ogata, known as a huge Casanova and completely Locked Out of the Loop in regards to Shiho's existence until almost the end of the series. Understandably, while she loves her busy but kind mother and doesn't hate her biological father, Shiho has quite the issues regarding her origins and her own identity. Shiho befriends a fellow aspirant actress at some point, and she fits in too. Mariko Soriarno is a beautiful half-Japanese, half-Filipina girl whose father is a high-ranked Japanese CO. He sends Mariko and her mother money regularly but doesn't answer to Mariko's calls and letters, so she comes to Tokyo not just to fill her dream to be an actress, but to try reaching for him personally. When a jealous rival attacks her right before the audition she wants to attend, Shiho fills in and relays Mariko's message to her father, and he drops his cold facade to stand by his daughter's side.
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Heroic Bastard / int_dd4d627f	comment	Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna ~ The Golden Country: Addam's status as a bastard son of the king is fairly well-known throughout Torna. In spite of this he is beloved by the general populace, many openly supporting the idea of him becoming king despite being only 4th in line to the throne, and the king treats him the same as his legitimate children, although his existence apparently drove a wedge between the king and his wife. Malos clocks him as this due to his eyes: the vast majority of Tornans have blue eyes but Addam has golden eyes. Implied to be the case with Lora. No mention of her father is ever given and her mother seemed to do live-in work. Like Addam, she lacks the typical Tornan blue eyes. Additionally, Gort, one of the few characters privy to her backstory, calls her a bastard in a tone and context that makes it seem like more than a generic insult.
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Heroic Bastard / int_dd611548	comment	Where Hands Touch: Leyna, who's a good person at heart (even if she advocates Nazism for some time) was born out of wedlock and is called "bastard" as an insult at several points (mixed race Germans like her were all disparaged as "Rhineland bastards").
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Heroic Bastard / int_dfbd92c3	comment	Seraph from Like Father, Like Daughter was born when Star vs. the Forces of Evil characters Marco Diaz and Hekapoo slept together at the tail end of his scissors trial while he was thirty. She is every bit as brave and heroic as both of her parents and has the power and skill to back it up. Not bad for someone who is technically only a month old.
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Heroic Bastard / int_e144ba19	comment	Mage NPC Feynriel from Dragon Age II, provided you help him realize his potential.
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Heroic Bastard / int_e199d649	comment	The main character of Inheritance Cycle, Eragon, is one, the son of Selena and Brom. One could argue that this applies to all Elves, as they don't marry. However, as a result, they don't even really have the concept of "legitimacy" and view it as a pretty silly human notion. Eragon angsts a bit over this after he first hears it, but he's told that his parents considered themselves married, assuaging this a bit.
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Heroic Bastard / int_e29ca73e	comment	The titular character of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street is, in his words, a "bastard on the wrong side" of Japan's largest samurai clan, although his modernist outlook is much more of a social impediment than his parentage.
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Heroic Bastard / int_e2b86487	comment	The Riftwar Cycle has a couple: Martin Longbow is a bastard child of Duke Borric of Crydee and a serving girl. This poses a problem after his father, on his deathbed, legitimizes him as his son. Since he's the oldest of Borric's children, this puts him first in line for the throne of the kingdom itself. Thankfully for the kingdom, he surrenders his claim to that throne in favor of his younger half-brother Liam and ends up as the next Duke of Crydee. Eric von Darkmoor is the bastard (although his mother tried to claim that he was legitimate and that his father's relatives annulled the marriage in order to get the Baron-to-be to marry another noble for an alliance) son of the Baron von Darkmoor. He is a much better person than the eldest legitimate child of his father.
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Heroic Bastard / int_e5007200	comment	Inspired by the story-book protagonist that he was named after, Gideon in The Dark Lady (who was born before his parents married) has a dream of becoming a hero, becoming especially protective of his little sister Rose.
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Heroic Bastard / int_e89f120b	comment	Artesia som Deikun, aka Sayla Mass from the original Mobile Suit Gundam, was revealed to be this in Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin, since her mother Astraia and father Zeon never actually married, due to Zeon already having a wife and Astraia being The Mistress. This is contrasted with her brother Casval aka Char Aznable who instead went the Bastard Bastard path despite having the same background.
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Heroic Bastard / int_eb0c9938	comment	Josuke Higashikata, hero of the fourth part (Diamond is Unbreakable) is the illegitimate son of the now-elderly hero of Part 2 Joseph Joestar, from an affair he had with a Japanese woman named Tomoko Higashikata. This is even more awkward because, at age 17, Josuke is younger than his own nephew and hero of the third part, Jotaro Kujo.
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Heroic Bastard / int_eb3f769d	comment	Aubrey-Maturin: Stephen Maturin of O'Brian's Master and Commander fame was the son of an Irish officer and a Spanish woman. At several points throughout the series, Maturin empathizes with other (literal) bastards, including Aubrey's illegitimate biracial son Sam.
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Heroic Bastard / int_ec28245c	comment	Future Trunks from Dragon Ball Z. He states clearly to Goku upon their first meeting that Bulma and Vegeta never got married because the former did not want to. Main-timeline Trunks was as well, though his parents do eventually marry.
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Heroic Bastard / int_ecf67680	comment	Andre-Louis in Scaramouche was born from an affair. This gives him an interesting place in society (that society being France on the eve of the Revolution), with one foot in the world of his noble foster father and one foot in the common world of his presumed mother. It also allows for a dramatic revelation about his real parentage at the climax.
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Heroic Bastard / int_ed0165b2	comment	While not generally considered very heroic, at least at first, Pierre Bezukhov is one of the primary protagonists of War and Peace making him a hero in the literary sense, and he is the illegitimate son of Count Kirill Bezukhov, so he's a bastard in the technical sense. In terms of personality, however, he is typically good-natured.
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Heroic Bastard / int_ef06b063	comment	A Crown of Stars: Members of the secondary branches of the Avaloni Royal Family are known as Bastard Princes and Princesses. All of them are perfectly heroic and love to go about helping the helpless and punishing the wicked. In the Avalon Empire being a royal bastard is, in fact, an honor because it means that you have at the very least a smidgen of divine blood.
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Heroic Bastard / int_efccb9da	comment	Voltron: Legendary Defender: Keith was presumably one of these, considering that his parents were a human guy and an alien without Undead Tax Exemption. It's made clear that Krolia wanted to spend her life on Earth with Keith's father, but they still had no way of getting married.
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Heroic Bastard / int_f186f924	comment	Horizon Zero Dawn: Played with; due to the matriarchal nature of the Nora tribe, it is Aloy's lack of a mother that shames her. Her father is also unknown, but no one, including Aloy, ever expresses any interest in that. Near the end of the game Lansra, the most hostile of the High Matriarchs, claims that her father is the Metal Devil, but this gets brushed aside without anyone bothering to comment on it. As she is actually a clone of Elisabet Sobeck created by the Artificial Intelligence GAIA, she has no father but two mothers (genetically, her father would be Elisabet's father, who is never mentioned and died a thousand years ago).
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Heroic Bastard / int_f1b13839	comment	All of the Demigods (also known as half-bloods) from Rick Riordan's The Camp Half-Blood Series books, since the Greco-Roman gods have not changed their habits from ancient times and leave plenty of illegitimate children around. The titular character of the first series, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, is the son of Poseidon and a mortal woman named Sally Jackson.
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Heroic Bastard / int_f1ee340e	comment	Orkneyinga Saga: Einar, later to become Jarl of Orkney, is the son of Jarl Rognvald of MÃ¸re with a slave-born woman. Though Rognvald does not deny Einar, he makes clear that he does not care for him and considers him an unworthy offspring on account of his mother's low status. Nevertheless, Einar frees Orkney from the Vikings that have occupied it, proves to be a capable ruler, and when Rognvald is treacherously killed, ironically Einar is the son who avenges him.
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Heroic Bastard / int_f2041376	comment	Charmed: After oldest sister Prue is Killed Off for Real, it was revealed that the trio's mother Patty's previously established affair with her Whitelighter had resulted in Heroic Bastard youngest daughter and secret fourth Charmed One, Paige.
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Heroic Bastard / int_f349915b	comment	Dragonlance: Tanis Half-Elven, the leader of a band of heroes in the novels, is the product of a Human warrior raping his Elven mother. Steel Brightblade, the product of a one-night stand between Sturm Brightblade and Kitiara Uth Matar, may have been a servant of an evil deity, but he did help save the world on one occasion.
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Heroic Bastard / int_f36a5de7	comment	Hideki "Hashizo" Kato from Aishite Night. His mother was The Mistress of a married man. When they died in an accident, Mr. Kato's eldest son Go took Hashizo in despite his mother Yoko's objections.
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Heroic Bastard / int_f3e1f424	comment	The title character of Merlin. Ironically, he might not have been been a bastard at all had it not been for Uther's interference, and his father is unaware he exists until the Series 2 finale. All the better to contrast with Morgana, who is a Bastard Bastard, and Mordred, who isn't one at all in this version.
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Heroic Bastard / int_f4fde9a5	comment	My Two Dads: Nicole Bradford is one, having been conceived while her mother was dating the titular dads. Nicole prefers not to know which one is her real father.
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Heroic Bastard / int_f5b58f88	comment	The backstory of on-and-off hero Catwoman aka Selina Kyle is prone to inconsistencies, but some incarnations are the illegitimate daughter of Carmine Falcone, patriarch of Gotham's most notorious crime family.
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Heroic Bastard / int_f5c28dbb	comment	Alex Mackay in 1632 is the illegitimate son of a Scots nobleman. As he is out of the succession, he takes up arms as a mercenary in the Thirty Years' War. Since he's serving Gustavus Adolphus, one of the few "good" monarchs of that time period, and is visibly disgusted at atrocities committed by German soldiers, he's probably Heroic even before the arrival of Grantville.
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Heroic Bastard / int_f634206e	comment	While Ratatouille itself never uses the word (it is a kid's movie, after all), it's fairly obvious that Linguini was born out of wedlock and his father didn't know he existed.
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Heroic Bastard / int_f8956ef3	comment	Half of the main heroic quartet in YuYu Hakusho qualify as this. Yusuke's mother Atsuko was 14 when she had him and his father was a no-show until near the end of the series. But in the manga his father is shown to come and go because the parents know they can't get along and create a worse environment when they start fighting, though he offers child support and is still in love with Yusuke's mother. Hiei is by no means heroic during his first appearance in the series, but he slips into this category once Spirit World places him under probation and you find out his backstory.
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Heroic Bastard / int_f8dec398	comment	Cesare - Il Creatore che ha distrutto takes Cesare Borgia, the Magnificent Bastard of history and shows him not as a Villain Protagonist, but as a hero in his own right. Most of his and his family's Historical Villain Upgrade comes from the fact that he and his siblings were the illegitimate children of a pope (the first to recognize them so openly, though not 50 years later Paul III went even further with his), and that they were foreign. Other than that, they were no different from anyone else in Italian Renaissance politics.
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Heroic Bastard / int_f97683ef	comment	Hollow Knight: Hornet turns out to be this. A while ago, the Pale King made a deal with Herrah the Beast: If he agreed to let her bear his child, she would become a Dreamer and help seal away the Radiance. The White Lady, who was the Pale King's wife, holds no ill will towards Hornet for this and admits she feels some affection towards her.
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Heroic Bastard / int_fa85cc4f	comment	OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes: It's all but stated the title character was born out of wedlock. Flashbacks to shortly before he was born show his mother Carol romantically involved with her teammate Laserblast, who is eventually confirmed to be K.O.'s father; Laserblast disappeared before he and Carol could have possibly married.
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Heroic Bastard / int_fb3cb2a	comment	In Ravenmark: Scourge Of Estellion, the entire Council of Shadows is made up of these, originally known as House Cordance, although that name has been lost to time. All members of the Council, also known as Crowseers, are bastard offspring of the royal House Corvius, charged from a very young age to be the eyes and ears (and, sometimes, knives) of The Emperor and protect their legitimate relations from threats to the Empire. The Crowseers are the only ones in the Empire who are allowed to use Blood Magic. Livia Cassianus is a prime example of a Heroic Bastard. During the campaign, she finds out that the late Emperor Sergius Corvius, her grandfather, has secretly planned for Livia to succeed him over his legitimate children. Yet she still fights on the front lines like any regular Earthbound (common soldier). Then again, the Empire was founded on the principles of meritocracy, where even the lowliest commoner has a right to earn Ravenhood (temporary two-generation nobility) after a lengthy service in the Imperial Mark or an even lengthier service as an administrator. Unfortunately, the events of the campaign serve as her Start of Darkness. By Ravenmark Mercenaries, she has become the dreaded Scarlet Empress known for her brutal suppression of any foe, eroding the very foundation of the Empire.
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Heroic Bastard / int_fede3f2f	comment	Hare in HarÃ©+Guu. The reason he and his mother Weda live in the forest is that Weda was disowned by her father for her unwed teen pregnancy and fled to the forest.
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Heroic Bastard / int_ff7ea3a6	comment	Being Able to Edit Skills in Another World, I Gained OP Waifus: Kathrus, one of Nagi's fellow party members, was the result of a fling between her mother and King Nadla. Despite her mother's delusion, Nadla had no interest in her other than sex, certainly not enough to marry her.
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Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Myself ; Yourself / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Chronicles Of Albion (Blog) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Dark Knights of Steel (Comic Book) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
52 (Comic Book) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Huntress (Comic Book) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
I Am Batman (Comic Book) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
I Am Not Starfire (Comic Book) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Lou! (Comic Book) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Star-Lord (Comic Book) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Eagles of Rome (Comic Book) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Question (Comic Book) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Valhalla (Comic Book) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Wildcat (Comic Book) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Raven / Comicbook	seeAlso	Heroic Bastard
A Brief History of Equestria / Fan Fic	seeAlso	Heroic Bastard
MinesOfDragonMountain	seeAlso	Heroic Bastard
Persona EG (Fanfic) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Silver Blood / Fan Fic / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Swinging Pendulum / Fan Fic / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Fifth Act / Fan Fic / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Palaververse / Fan Fic / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Perilous Romance Of Swans / Fan Fic / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Zero Requiem / Fan Fic / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
A Dovahkiin Spreads His Wings (Fanfic) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
A Growing Fire In My Heart (Fanfic) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Babylon (Beautiful Fiction) (Fanfic) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Belladonna Lilies (Fanfic) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Break This Heavy Chain (Fanfic) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Children of Solomon (Fanfic) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Code Geass Megiddo (Fanfic) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Counting Sheep (Fanfic) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
D.J.I.N.N.: Way to Home (Fanfic) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Dawn Comes on the Sunset Sea (Fanfic) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Dominion (Aurelia le) (Fanfic) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Dragon Age: The Crown Of Thorns / Fan Fic	seeAlso	Heroic Bastard
Fates Collide (Fanfic) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Fluttershy Is Free (Fanfic) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Forum of Thrones (Fanfic) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Honoka's Bizarre Adventure (Fanfic) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Imperator (Fanfic) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
In The Brilliant Light Of Day (Fanfic) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Kissed by a Rose (Fanfic) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Ma Fille (Fanfic) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
My Deepest, Darkest Secret (Fanfic) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Ned Stark Lives (Fanfic) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Nymeria's War (Fanfic) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Only the Results (Fanfic) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Orange Rose Gathering (Fanfic) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Peace Forged in Fire (Fanfic) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Percy Jackson And The Horror Within (Fanfic) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Queen In The North (Fanfic) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Real Folk Blues: A Peni Parker – Spider-Man Noir Story (Fanfic) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Red Robb and the Burning of the Riverlands (Fanfic) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Shattering Lies (Fanfic) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Son Of Airachnid (Fanfic) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Son of the Seven Kingdoms (Fanfic) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Ash Connection (Fanfic) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Body Reflects the Heart, the Shadow Reflects the Soul (Fanfic) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Many Quirks of Phantom Thievery (Fanfic) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Royal Eminence (Fanfic) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
To Love the Moon (Fanfic) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Angel Heart (1987) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Aquaman (2018) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Belle (2013) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Creed / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Creed (2015) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Defendor / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
8 Women / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Elf / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Hong Kil Dong / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Hot Tub Time Machine / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Kingdom of Heaven / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Lawrence of Arabia / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Princess of Thieves / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Sailor of the King / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Canary Season / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Prisoner of Zenda / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Vikings / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Tom Jones / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Within Our Gates / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Fire Emblem (Franchise) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Hohenzollern Empire (Lets Play) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Esu / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Gosick / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
S (2005) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
A Brother's Price / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
A Lily Blooms in Another World / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
A Thousand Splendid Suns / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
A Void	seeAlso	Heroic Bastard
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Archmaester Gyldayn's Histories / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Ave Xia Rem Y / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Beka Cooper / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Between Two Fires / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Black Jewels / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Bleak House / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Blood Books / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Book of Judges / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Contact / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Dangerous Fugitives / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Darkover / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Deepgate Codex / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Doctor Player / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Dortmunder / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Dragonlance / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Fire & Blood / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Gaunt's Ghosts / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Gleams of Aeterna / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Gosick / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Graceling / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Graceling Realm / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Hurog / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
I Became The Wife Of The Male Lead / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Incarnations of Immortality / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Infinite Stratos / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Inheritance Cycle / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
It's Time To Change The Genre / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Knight's & Magic / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Kushiel's Legacy / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Last Herald-Mage Trilogy / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Legends of Panthera / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Les Colombes du Roi-Soleil / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Mass / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Mistress of the Art of Death / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Night Huntress / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Old Kingdom / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Oliver Twist / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
On the Edge of Eureka / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Orkneyinga Saga / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
ParentalAbandonment	seeAlso	Heroic Bastard
Pedro Páramo / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Percy Jackson and the Olympians / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Prince Roger / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Reflections of Eterna / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
S (2005) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Savvy / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Scaramouche / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Schooled in Magic / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Sekhmet / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Shadow of the Conqueror / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Sigma Force / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Silverwing / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Songs and Swords / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Stardust / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Summers at Castle Auburn / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Sword at Sunset / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Sword of Truth / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Tales of Dunk and Egg / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Temeraire / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Bearkeepers Daughter / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Bone Palace / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Bride of Adarshan / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Bridgerton Series / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Century Trilogy / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Chronicles of King Rolen's Kin / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Conquerors Saga / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Dolphin Ring / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Drowned Cities / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Elenium / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Fallen Moon / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Grail Quest / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Grisha Trilogy / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Hate U Give / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Heroic Legend of Arslan / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The House of the Spirits / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Iliad / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Immortals / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Iron King / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Lords of Satyr / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Nikolai Duology / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Otherworld / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Prism Pentad / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Prisoner of Zenda / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Queen's Thief / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Reincarnation of the Strongest Exorcist in Another World / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Reynard Cycle / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Riftwar Cycle / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Road To Avalon / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Saintess and the Villainess / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Saxon Stories / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Scholomance / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Serpent & Dove Trilogy / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Shadow of the Wind / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Shamer Chronicles / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Thirteenth Tale / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Traitor Son Cycle / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Viking / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Villainess Flips the Script! / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Villainess Reverses The Hourglass / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Villainess Turns The Hourglass / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Warlord Chronicles / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Tribe of One / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Vampire Academy / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Villager A Wants to Save the Villainess No Matter What! / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
War and Peace / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Who Fears Death / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Young Royals / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
ElfenHigh	seeAlso	Heroic Bastard
InsanityAddict	seeAlso	Heroic Bastard
PedroParamo	seeAlso	Heroic Bastard
SmokeAndShadows	seeAlso	Heroic Bastard
TheBlueMax	seeAlso	Heroic Bastard
TheDearHunter	seeAlso	Heroic Bastard
TheStarOfTheGuardians	seeAlso	Heroic Bastard
TheWarlordChronicles	seeAlso	Heroic Bastard
TwelveHouses	seeAlso	Heroic Bastard
You ALL Share My Story / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Ai Shite Night (Manga) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Baby and Me (Manga) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Bokura no Kiseki (Manga) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Candyâ™¡Candy (Manga) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Cesare - Il Creatore che ha distrutto (Manga) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Dawn of the Arcana (Manga) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Freezing (Manga) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Hanasakeru Seishounen (Manga) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Henkyou no Roukishi Bard Loen (Manga) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War (Manga) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Kizuna (Manga) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Otome Youkai Zakuro (Manga) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Private Actress (Manga) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Spirit Circle (Manga) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Legend of Zelda (Manga) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Time Stop Brave (Manga) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Time Stop Hero (Manga) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
...Virgin Love (Manga) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Once and Future Nerd (Podcast) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
A Dragon of the North (Roleplay) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Communication (Roleplay) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Imperial Saga (Roleplay) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Gamer's Alliance (Roleplay) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Birds of Prey (2002) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Brass / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Cadfael / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Corazon Salvaje / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Da Vinci's Demons / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Dans Une Galaxie PrÃ¨s De Chez Vous / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Green Wing / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Hatfields & McCoys / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Kambal, Karibal / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Marco Polo / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Merlin (1998) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Mysteriet pÃ¥ Greveholm / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Passions / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Reign / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Big Valley / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Game (2006) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Terror / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Vigil (BBC) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Ironclaw (Tabletop Game) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
La Fille du Régiment (Theatre) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Saint Joan (Theatre) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Wicked (Theatre) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Bloodright: The Blood Royal (Video Game) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Crusader Kings (Video Game) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Crusader Kings II: Game of Thrones Mod (Video Game) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Dead or Alive (Video Game) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Dungeon Siege (Video Game) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Final Fantasy Tactics (Video Game) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Fire Emblem: Thracia 776 (Video Game) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Full Throttle (Video Game) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Glory By Example (Video Game) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Godherja: The Dying World (Video Game) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Video Game) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Lands of Lore (Video Game) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Love & War (Video Game) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Ravenmark (Video Game) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
SaGa Frontier 2 (Video Game) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Sdorica (Video Game) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Suikoden III (Video Game) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Tactics Ogre (Video Game) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Video Game) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Timespinner (Video Game) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Tradewinds (Video Game) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Tribes: Vengeance (Video Game) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Valkyria Chronicles 4 (Video Game) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus? (Video Game) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Heirs And Graces (Visual Novel) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Kira-Kira (Visual Novel) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Rose in the Embers (Visual Novel) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Royale Harem (Visual Novel) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
School Days (Visual Novel) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Shiny Days (Visual Novel) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Hollow Earth (Web Animation) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
My Story Animated (Web Animation) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
An Ordeal In Osondu (Web Video) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Backstroke of the West (Web Video) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Two Saiyans Play (Web Video) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Weird school rules in Hong Kong (Web Video) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
A Path to Greater Good (Webcomic) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Dragon Sanctuary (Webcomic) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Frozen AU: Copper (Webcomic) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Junior Gala (Webcomic) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Prequel (Webcomic) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Rebirth (Webcomic) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Scandinavia and the World (Webcomic) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Shinka The Last Eevee (Webcomic) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Arrangement (Webcomic) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
American Pop / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Batman: The Long Halloween / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Justice League: Throne of Atlantis / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Ratatouille / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Stevie Richards (Wrestling) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Devil Hunter Yohko / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Summer Wars / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
A Crown of Stars (Fanfic) / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Morgaine Cycle / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
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