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The exploits of mighty-thewed, sword-wielding heroes and their thiefly, wizardly and/or priestly companions, as they spend their days smiting evil, fighting monsters, recovering treasures and quaffing ale. One of the three typical settings for fantasy literature. High Fantasy usually focuses on the epic struggle between absolute good and absolute evil, and the characters are thrust in the midst. Low Fantasy portrays the struggle of characters to achieve their own personal goals, ranging from questionable to decidedly unsavory. Heroic Fantasy sits somewhere in between. It tends to be distinguishable from High Fantasy by its scale—the problems are generally those of the heroes, not the world. Kingdoms and societies are portrayed mainly to the extent the heroes have an impact on them. On the other hand, it's distinct from Low Fantasy as well in that the heroes are actually heroic and their goals are morally sound or, at the very least, not overtly objectionable. An Anti-Hero in this setting is more likely to be a Lovable Rogue, Classical Antihero or a Knight in Sour Armour than a Well-Intentioned Extremist. The setting differs as well: it is neither fragile and in need of saving, nor a Crapsack World with wickedness Inherent in the System — rather, it's an ambiguous place, characterized more than anything by being an Adventure-Friendly World, with much untamed wilderness to travel through, quests to undertake and dungeons to delve. Therefore, the heroes are very likely to encounter magic and fantastic elements, assuming they aren't prevalent in the setting to begin with. The first story of this type is often considered to be Lord Dunsany's "The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth" from 1908, but it is 1929's "The Shadow Kingdom" by Robert E. Howard that is responsible for kick-starting the genre proper. Howard himself would later go on to codify the genre with his Conan the Barbarian tales. Heavily influenced by The Hero's Journey, Arthurian Legend, the Conan the Barbarian stories and movies, the game Dungeons & Dragons, and Classical Mythology. Sometimes set in a world that looks an awful lot like medieval Europe, although it can range all the way back to a "forgotten prehistory" such as in Conan the Barbarian, or be set in the more concrete history of our world, such as the "classical antiquity" period (ancient Greece, Rome, etc.) or even earlier (ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, etc.) as found in Xena: Warrior Princess which merrily mixes the settings up. Stories set in the ancient past are sometimes called "Sword and Sandal" and can overlap with Historical Fantasy. May involve Mythopoeia, the further in the past it goes. Sometimes it can be found in the future, often in After the End setting; sometimes it comes close to Planetary Romance. Also often features Medieval Stasis. Often lumped together with Sword and Sorcery, a genre coined by Fritz Leiber. Unkind souls have described Heroic Fantasy as nothing but an upmarket term for Sword & Sorcery, though Leiber deliberately created it to set his stories and similar works by other writers apart from the general field of Heroic Fantasy. The main difference between them is that Sword and Sorcery stories tend to be much darker and grittier in terms of tone, content and characterization, while keeping similar story structures, plotlines and tropes as Heroic Fantasy works. Good live-action film and television heroic fantasies can be counted on the fingers of one hand (generally starting with the Conan the Barbarian movie). Dying is easy. Fantasy is hard! On the other hand, roughly half of all RPGs ever written fall under this genre, if not more. See also Two-Fisted Tales, Pulp Magazine. Contrast Sword and Sandal. For heroic and epic fantasy applied to non-Medieval European Fantasy settings, see Wuxia (fantasy of Chinese cultural origin), as well as Dungeonpunk (which is what happens when you take the general attitude of heroic fantasy and remove the Medieval Stasis in favor of Magitek). Nor to be confused with Demythification, which is Mythology reimagined as Historical Fiction. Perhaps you would be interested in writing one yourself? |
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Genshin Impact is set in a Standard Japanese Fantasy Setting called Teyvat, where gods and various inhumans walk among men, and the elements are controlled by seven of those gods, each the lords of their own nation. Despite this sheer scope, the plot largely revolves around an extradimensional individual known as the Traveler trying to find their lost sibling whom they were separated from when venturing into Teyvat, so while the scale of fantastical elements are undoubtedly high, the stakes are far more personal and often lensed through the viewpoint of the main character. | |
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Mercedes Lackey's Heralds of Valdemar series has quite a few stories in this tone. The most notable is the Vows and Honor series, about a swordswoman/sorceress mercenary pair who travel the world looking for work and battling evil, almost always because it pays or because a magic sword is compelling them to rescue women. In her Oathblood introduction, Lackey specifically noted that she made the Vows and Honor stories to play with the tropes of heroic fantasy: the leads are both women, one of them is celibate. Oathbreakers winds up with more High Fantasy leanings than the rest of the trilogy, as it's more explicitly supernatural, good and evil are more clearly delineated, Kethry gets a major power upgrade, and they bring down an evil king so they can set up a better one. | |
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Dragon Age. While the first game has a "unite the people to fight an army of evil" main plot, the side plots that make up the biggest chunk of the game follow the genre pretty straight. The second game focuses completely on a single protagonist rising in power within the hierarchy of one city, with the main factions being Templar (sword) and Mage (spell). The third one, however, is more of a conventional High Fantasy. | |
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Fantasy Quest. | |
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Frieren: Beyond Journey's End plays in a time after the heroes defeated the Demon King. The world is largely at peace and the protagonist's journey is a journey to learn more about herself and rectify past regrets and mistakes. | |
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Monster Hunter is mostly this as well. The levels of mysticism are very slight (down to the special mode of the Longsword in Monster Hunter 3 (Tri) and onward), but everything else is totally straight: minimal overarching plot, for the most part it's just a world where people make a living slaying or capturing giant monsters for the chance at building more weaponry with which to slay or capture tougher giant monsters. | |
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The Barbarian and the Sorceress by Patrick Thornton. | |
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Lynn Flewelling's Nightrunner series. | |
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Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire is a parody of the genre. | |
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Wizards of the Demon Sword. | |
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Hillbilly is a Fantasy Americana spin on this, with a basis in Appalachian folklore instead of medieval or Classical myths. There's also the in-universe legend of the Iron Child, who resembles a Kid Hero version of Conan. | |
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The Dark Sun setting specifically aims to emulate old pulp stories and is heavily influenced by John Carter of Mars, Clark Ashton Smith's Zothique stories, and Conan the Barbarian. | |
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Guardians of the Flame: In the series, some gamers playing what is basically Dungeons & Dragons are transported into a fantasy world, and become their characters. At first it focuses simply on them trying to survive and return home. In later books they get drawn into a crusade to abolish slavery, then form one state/take over a couple others, but it still focuses on the deeds and struggles of the heroes. | |
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Red Sonja. | |
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The "Barbarian" table of Balls of Steel. | |
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Rat Queens mixes the genre with Feminist Fantasy. | |
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Fullmetal Alchemist started as this, though it quickly veered into High Fantasy territory. The 2003 anime version, on the other hand, stuck with Heroic Fantasy. | |
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The Witcher (2019): At least in the first season. It has an epic fantasy setting but the plotlines are more self-contained with smaller-scale conflicts. Geralt travels around slaying monsters (supernatural or human); he gets paid for it (and has nothing much else to do) but he's a good person who often gets personally invested. Yennefer is a rogue sorceress whose main loyalty is to herself, although she has bouts of heroism and eventually comes around to helping the other mages fight an evil empire. Ciri is the one whose story most fits the High Fantasy mould: a princess with rare magic powers on the run from the evil empire that has taken over her country, seeking the person who can protect and train her; that said, for the most part she's just trying to survive and doesn't meet up with Geralt until the final minutes of Season 1. | |
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Shrek and its original sequel might have been written as self-conscious affectionate parodies of "fairy tale movies", but both movies use and celebrate heroic fantasy tropes so wholeheartedly that they both feel more like straight "fairy tale movies"/heroic fantasy with lots of humour and character development. While the protagonists are fundamentally good people with a clear moral high ground over the villains, the plots tend to focus on smaller, more personal conflicts. The first movie revolves around Shrek trying to rescue a princess purely to get the fairy tale refugees off his land, only to fall in love with said princess and have to overcome his insecurities before she marries the evil Lord Farquaad. Shrek 2 revolves around Shrek struggling to impress his in-laws and save his marriage while the evil Fairy Godmother tries to force Princess Fiona into being with Prince Charming; although things would probably be bad for Far Far Away if the Fairy Godmother took complete control of the kingdom, the film emphasizes the threat to Shrek and Fiona's relationship. |
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The Shadowleague trilogy. | |
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Senyuu.. A series with heroes, demons, swords and magic. Actually, more like a parody, but despite loads of gags and jokes remains heroic. | |
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Dragon Ball early on in the series, before its Genre Shift to high-powered Space Opera. | |
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Conquest mix this with Dark Fantasy and Horror. | |
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Champions of Far'aus. | |
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Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon is either a Darker and Edgier or Deconstructed Trope version (or possibly Distaff Counterpart) of the Arthurian Legend. | |
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Legend of Lemnear | |
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ElvenQuest is a parody. | |
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Swan's Braid & Other Tales of Terizan: The adventures of Terizan, a lesbian thief in the city of Oreen. An Anti-Hero, Terizan's good at heart and prevents greater harm in spite of her profession. All the problems she faces affect Oreen (or her) alone, with the action never moving beyond the city. | |
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Patrick Rothfuss's The Kingkiller Chronicle (although the protagonist is leaning toward Anti-Hero territory and may get worse in the upcoming book 3). | |
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Third Time Lucky: And Other Stories of the Most Powerful Wizard in the World: The adventures of Magdelene, the most powerful wizard in the world, who'd much prefer to live a hedonistic life by the sea. When called upon though, she can easily deliver heroics, easily defeating bad guys with her unparalleled magic. | |
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Many of the older Discworld novels were comedic deconstructions/parodies of this genre, as are a few of the more recent ones. A very loose rule of thumb for the Discworld books: If the main character is Rincewind or Susan, it's probably going to be heroic or high fantasy; if it's Vimesy, the Watch, Moist, or Death, you are probably looking at low fantasy, the elderly barbarians are usually heroic fantasy, and if it's the witches then it's probably either going to be low or heroic fantasy. Pratchett seems to have started out creating straight parodies of heroic and high fantasy, and then gotten bored halfway through and slowly began integrating and exploring low fantasy settings more and more. Fans are divided as to whether the earlier (and punchier) heroic fantasy parodies are better or worse than the later (and more thoughtful and elaborate/longer) low-fantasy-with-an-emphasis-on-social-themes-and-character-based-comedies. Back in the day, there were a number of less popular and deservedly-forgotten fantasy/comedy novels attempting to capitalise on the popularity of Discworld, which were almost always set in heroic or high fantasy universes. They tended to very bleak, because they had the same and sometimes an even more exaggerated casual approach to violence that you'd see in the earlier Discworld novels, but not the goofy and likeable supporting cast of recurring characters which stopped Discworld from ever becoming particularly dark. |
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The Tower of Druaga, based off of the video game of the same name. | |
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Ronnie James Dio is the one who truly brought this to prominence, as Dio was a massive fantasy nerd and part of bands whose whole shtick revolved around muscular barbarians slaying dragons. Aside from his work with Sabbath, this was most evident with his band Elf and his later solo work. See ''Holy Diver''. | |
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Fire and Ice (1983): The primary magic-users of the tale, Nekron and Juliana, are the villains who are using their powers to Take Over the World. However, the plot is mostly focused upon how this affects Firekeep and the surrounding areas, so the conflict is limited to only to a small section of the world and a few individuals. A big chunk of the movie is also dedicated to the kidnapping and attempted rescue of Princess Teegra; the protagonists only set out to directly take down Nekron's forces in the climax. Two of the main heroes, Larn and Darkwolf, are pretty unambiguously the good guys, and they save the day through force of arms (although it's hinted Darkwolf may have preternatural abilities of some kind that enhance his combat skills, he's not shooting fireballs at people). | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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The Thrilling Sword - from Taiwan. | |
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Xena: Warrior Princess. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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Claymore: The titular Claymores are warrior women who hunt monsters called Yoma, but are shunned by humans for being part-yoma themselves. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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Quite averted in With Strings Attached, which is partially set on a continent that was once a place of Heroic Fantasy. However, by the time the four find themselves there, the skahs warriors have long since wiped out any threats, and are going crazy with boredom because they have nothing to do and refuse to become civilians. A major goal of some of the secondary characters is finding a way to restock the continent with monsters, since the gods refuse to do it. Played much more straight on Jim Hunter's world, but that's because it was built by a gamer. |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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Kull the Conqueror. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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Moribito by Nahoko Uehashi. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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Charles R. Saunders's Imaro. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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Deeper Up the Tower: Ultimately, a subversion of heroic fantasy. | |
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Exalted is what you get when you combine this with the tropes of wuxia, ancient myth, and a dash of shonen anime style to taste. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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Black Clover. The setting we're introduced to is relatively peaceful, thanks to the Wizard King, and everyone in the series has a degree of magical abilities, and our hero's primary goal is to become the next Wizard King, so it qualifies as such. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
| Heroic Fantasy / int_60513527 | comment |
Evon. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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Codex Alera (quasi-Ancient Rome + Elemental Powers). | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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Slayers | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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Gleahan and the Knaves of Industry: The movie contains no legitimate fantasy elements, but it hits all the beats of a Heroic Fantasy story. Gleahan definitely thinks he's in one of these, though. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons. Though the game system is flexible enough that the enterprising DM can apply it to almost any fantasy subgenre, as printed it tends toward Heroic Fantasy. The stakes of the adventure can be as high as the Dungeonmaster wants, but the game is built in such a way that the focus is always on a small group of heroic player characters, as opposed to the actions of entire armies or nations. During 2nd Edition, the "heroic" aspect was an Enforced Trope: Due to concerns about the then-recent Satanic Panic, editorial policy was to ensure that all official modules were about heroes doing good in the world, and support for evil or even anti-heroic PCs was dropped as much as possible (for example, the assassin class was taken out). The Dark Sun setting specifically aims to emulate old pulp stories and is heavily influenced by John Carter of Mars, Clark Ashton Smith's Zothique stories, and Conan the Barbarian. |
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The Black Company | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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Lucifer Ring have the player assuming a warrior in a Medieval-fantasy world fighting various forces of chaos, including dragons and demons, to prevent an Evil Sorceror from awakening a powerful demon. | |
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Cerebus the Aardvark started as a Parody of these before becoming a full-on Mind Screw. | |
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Legends of Panthera is set in the semi-medievial world of Panthera and follows the adventures of a group of champions who battle against gods. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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Tamora Pierce's Tortall Universe. While the fate of the kingdom of Tortall is on the line in the Song of the Lioness and the Immortals quartets, the focus throughout remains on the coming-of-age of Pierce's heroines. Later books have lower stakes, but all have a good down-to-earth feel, and fairly nuanced morality. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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Sweet & Bitter Magic: Two teenage girls, a witch and source (a person who can fuel magic) go on a quest to stop the dark magic ravaging their land, in hopes of saving one's father. At the same time, they begin falling in love while one seeks her redemption for past misdeeds with the other's aid. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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Mighty Magiswords. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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The Sword and the Sorcerer. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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The Echo Chronicles, One plane consists of this kind of world, connected to another which is Urban Fantasy. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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Mouse Guard: Heroic fantasy with mice soldiers. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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Tales of Alethrion The series is set in a magical and weird world where people travel and discover for the sake of it, where strange monsters are fought by heroes for glory and where high-tech cities coincide with tribal hovels. Though later shorts expanded on the setting, it can't be said to have been made more solid for it - if anything, it's just been expanded with more characters and more places for them to travel to. Only a single story has been about saving the world, and it that case, it was still more concerned with the relation between the evil creature and Alethrion himself who accidentally created it from his own rampant greed. |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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Alison Croggon's Books of Pellinor. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger with dinosaurs and a Super Sentai twist. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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A New Hope is essentially this, only set in a Science Fiction setting, rather than Fantasy. There's an evil empire led by a Sorcerous Overlord clad in all black, a young farmboy who studies the ways of magic/the Force under a wise old master from a now extinct order of wizards, and there's even an emphasis on swordfighting. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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GARO | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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Roar (pre-Arthurian British Isles). | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps, for which The Epic of Gilgamesh may or may not have been an inspiration. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
| Heroic Fantasy / int_90eb5a2 | comment |
The Reconstruction (Deconstruction, ironically). | |
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1.0 | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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The first movie revolves around Shrek trying to rescue a princess purely to get the fairy tale refugees off his land, only to fall in love with said princess and have to overcome his insecurities before she marries the evil Lord Farquaad. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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Shrek 2 revolves around Shrek struggling to impress his in-laws and save his marriage while the evil Fairy Godmother tries to force Princess Fiona into being with Prince Charming; although things would probably be bad for Far Far Away if the Fairy Godmother took complete control of the kingdom, the film emphasizes the threat to Shrek and Fiona's relationship. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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Barbarian: The Ultimate Warrior. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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The Kingdom's Disdain Series by Paul! Lang. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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Army of Darkness, an Affectionate Parody of the genre. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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The Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks. | |
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1.0 | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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The Elder Scrolls is one of the most prominent video game examples in modern media, at least from the perspective of each individual game. Taking a broader look at the series in its entirety (as well as digging deep into the rich backstory), and its High Fantasy elements come into greater focus. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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One Piece | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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D. E. Wyatt's No Good Deed... has many elements of this. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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In ye olde dnd game, you play a warrior, wizard, or priest charged with rescuing a precious orb from the clutches of an evil dragon who is defended by a horde of demons, ghosts, and other vile monsters. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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Skies of Arcadia is a Reconstruction of this setting, with Schizo Tech and Ocean Punk thrown in for flavour. Much of the world is equivalent to the real world 15th/16th Century, but there's also fantastical creatures, adventurers and explorers, myths, and widespread use of magic and magical weaponry. Not to mention the Sky Pirates, of course. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
| Heroic Fantasy / int_a8150af4 | comment |
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power evidently aims at bringing the same kind of epicness to the small screen that Lord of the Rings did as theatrical films (without connection to it), with the struggle between heroic people of Middle-earth and the evil orcish forces of Sauron. | |
| Heroic Fantasy / int_a8150af4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
| Heroic Fantasy / int_a877956 | comment |
The Witcher: A lone monster hunter hunting a sorcerer who stole the alchemical secrets from the witchers. | |
| Heroic Fantasy / int_a877956 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Heroic Fantasy / int_a877956 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
| Heroic Fantasy / int_a9517b88 | comment |
God of War plays it pretty straight, though starting with the second game the scope of the events becomes considerably bigger, as it grows into a full blown war among the gods. | |
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1.0 | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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The Reluctant King by L. Sprague de Camp. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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The Malazan Book of the Fallen, especially during Karsa Orlong's storylines. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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Queen's Blade. The heroines rarely have magic on their side while the villains do and often the only way to win a fight is through sword battles. While there is a grand plot involving the fate of the land, the heroines are largely unaware of it and just want to fulfill their personal desires. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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Crimson Spell combines Heroic Fantasy with the Yaoi Genre. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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The Exile's Violin: A hero armed with mystical weapons that fights a power mad Evil Sorcerer doesn't sound like the kind of thing that would happen in a Steampunk detective story but it happens and checks off the other markers such as personal trouble and grey morality. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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Rune Soldier Louie is a comedic Heroic Fantasy spin-off of the high fantasy Record of Lodoss War. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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Thundarr the Barbarian. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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The Princess Bride is an affectionate and very gentle parody of this genre. The novel it was based on was darker and more of a deconstruction. The heroes' goals are taken just (or almost) as seriously as they would be in a straight heroic fantasy. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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Talion: Revenant: The book's genre. It centers around Nolan's quest to stop a bandit leader, and later protect a king. | |
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Prince of Persia. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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The Chronicles of Aeres deliberately aims to invoke this feeling, admittedly with some of the "Good versus Evil" elements of High Fantasy. Aeres is a world of Wilderkind, Draconic Humanoids and Standard Fantasy Races who stand united after the recent collapse of three terrible foes — the magic-hating pro-human Imperium, the orc & goblin hordes of Olohgim the Witch Lord, and the draconvir armies of the Vulgraks who served the Dragon of Darkness — and must now try to piece civilization back together from the ruins. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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HeroQuest is MB Games' adaptation of Warhammer in the style of an oldschool Dungeon Crawler. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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The Snow-Walker trilogy by Catherine Fisher. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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Karl Edward Wagner's Kane Series. | |
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The Barbarians | |
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Warhammer generally occupies this league of the fantasy landscape, though it is diverse enough to encompass both High Fantasy (the wars of Aenarion against the Daemons, the Great War Against Chaos) and Low Fantasy (the traditional WFRP millieu, involving cultists and ne'er-do-wells stabbing each other in the dark alleys of Altdorf) as well. Being a wargame, the "heroes" in Warhammer tend to be great military commanders and the conflicts wide-ranging wars, rather than bands of adventurers and their skirmishes, though there are plenty of the latter at work also (Gotrek and Felix, pretty much everyone from the Warhammer Quest spin-off). | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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Red Sonja is a spinoff from the Conan comic, with an Action Girl protagonist in a Chainmail Bikini. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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Delicious in Dungeon, which is the story of a group of heroes Dungeon Crawling to save the lead's lost little sister. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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Robin of Sherwood what with its use of archetypes and mysticism. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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MeatShield. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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The Adventures of Sinbad | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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Hunter × Hunter | |
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A Court of Thorns and Roses: The first book mostly falls into this category, although for the remainder of the series it shifts into High Fantasy. Feyre is a Pragmatic Hero whose main goal is initially to protect her family and survive, including trying to find a way out of a magically-binding contract with a faerie lord who tricked her in the hopes she could break a curse that has befallen his court. After she falls in love with him she goes to save him from an evil faerie queen, whom she learns is a threat to the whole world. Feyre is also a Badass Normal who mostly relies on her wits and hunting skills to overcome obstacles; in the second book she gains powers. | |
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Black Sabbath stands as the modern musical Ur-Example for this in their early batch of songs such as ''The Wizard''. They weren't alone, considering Led Zeppelin and Jethro Tull were greatly inspired by Tolkien. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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C.L. Moore's Jirel of Joiry, the first major female character in Heroic Fantasy. Her husband Henry Kuttner was no slouch in the genre, with works like Elak of Atlantis, Valley of Flame and The Dark World.. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis was an attempt to make the titular character's comic this genre. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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The Lineage of Tellus starts off as this before the problems shift from the heroes to the world, wherein it becomes High Fantasy. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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Fairy Tail focuses on the eponymous guild of wizard adventurers and the various quests they undertake for fun and profit. As the stakes get higher, however, it graduates into High Fantasy around the point the long-thought-dead Black Wizard Zeref and the Black Dragon of the Apocalypse Acnologia start entering the plot. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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The Fable series. | |
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1.0 | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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Michael Moorcock's The Elric Saga (another Deconstruction). | |
| Heroic Fantasy / int_d709b969 | featureApplicability |
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| Heroic Fantasy / int_d709b969 | featureConfidence |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. | |
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1.0 | |
| Heroic Fantasy / int_d8cdd857 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Heroic Fantasy / int_d8cdd857 | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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Bikini Warriors: Which involves a group of heroines with typical fantasy roles, and go on an epic quest together, while clad in bikinis. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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Clash of the Titans. | |
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1.0 | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
| Heroic Fantasy / int_dd936f4a | comment |
The Beastmaster (only the movie, not the Science Fiction books it was based on.) | |
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1.0 | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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Highlander. | |
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1.0 | |
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| Heroic Fantasy / int_e1f5ce65 | type |
Heroic Fantasy | |
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Our Little Adventure, if you only factor in Julie and her gang's adventures. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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The Dragon Quest series, taking inspiration from earlier CRPG titles like Wizardry and developed a distinctive Western Fantasy-inspired world through the lens of famed Japanese media creators. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
| Heroic Fantasy / int_e2f9b5f8 | comment |
Conan the Barbarian, a comic book adaptation of one of the foundational examples of the genre. Red Sonja is a spinoff from the Conan comic, with an Action Girl protagonist in a Chainmail Bikini. |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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Goblin Slayer slowly becomes this trope: despite its R-Rated Opening, the titular character refuses to "play by the rules" and slowly becomes a more typical fantasy hero (even when that's not what he's pursuing), thanks to the aid of True Companions who are slowly helping him regain his humanity. While the setting does establish adventuring as a Grimdark, dirty affair - a medieval fantasy world that has its share of horrors - there also exists friendship, honor, hope and love; all the more reason that these ideals are certainly worth fighting for. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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Doraemon: Nobita's Three Visionary Swordsmen sees Nobita and friends being reborn as their Alternate Self in a medieval kingdom, Yumemiru, and fighting hordes and hordes of chaotic monsters reminiscent of the works of J.R.R> Tolkien and Robert E. Howard. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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The Bahzell series by David Weber. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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Sword Art Online: Though the narrative is driven by technology and is set in Next Sunday A.D., at its heart Sword Art Online is still fundamentally a fantasy of heroic warriors (and later, wizards) crusading across mythical lands, fighting for justice, honor and making the world a better place with swords and spells in their hands, courage and love in their hearts. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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The Troy Saga by David Gemmell being one that overlaps with Historical Fantasy | |
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Heroic Fantasy / int_f329e814 | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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Merlin. | |
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1.0 | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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Octopath Traveler initially seems a Low Fantasy tale, since while magic and monsters both exist in the game's world, they have little bearing on the story. Moreover, each character's specific quest tends to be very personal (e.g., revenge or solving the mystery behind a missing object) rather than epic in scale. At the end of the game, though, it takes a sharp turn towards Heroic Fantasy upon revealing that much of the game's events were masterminded in part by an evil cultist attempting to bring about the resurrection of the Dark God Galdera, and the final battle of the game takes place in a portal to the netherworld while the party do battle with the Dark God himself. | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. | |
| Heroic Fantasy / int_f93f2d2a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Heroic Fantasy / int_f93f2d2a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
| Heroic Fantasy / int_fca0567c | comment |
Conan the Barbarian (1982) and Conan the Destroyer | |
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Heroic Fantasy / int_fca0567c | |
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Heroic Fantasy | |
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Interestingly, The Hobbit is generally closer to heroic fantasy than the high fantasy associated with Tolkien. While the party's journey to reclaim Erebor had significance to the Dwarves as a people, and their mission to get rid of Smaug is significant to Dale as a town, the basic focus is on the Dwarves and Bilbo and their fun adventure. Nothing that happens seems to be of world-historical importance except, at most, as a squabble over some treasure. (The Lord of the Rings shows in retrospect that the journey was more important than it seemed, but even Tolkien didn't know that when he wrote it). | |
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As does On Mighty Thews, which even comes with a list of substitutions to make things more pulpy. | |
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Norman Spinrad's The Iron Dream (a Deconstruction geared towards showing just how screwy the genre's politics can get). | |
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