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The Real Heroes

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The Real Heroes	comment	In many works of fiction, heroes do good deeds on a level that would be difficult, if not impossible, for anyone in the real world to emulate. They stop wars, dismantle criminal syndicates, Save the World so often it becomes part of their regular schedule, and never shy away from performing a Heroic Sacrifice (sometimes even giving their lives for the greater good several times). Yet if the heroes run into a firefighter, volunteer worker, or soldier (if they're on the idealistic side of the spectrum), the heroes will often make a comment along the lines of, "You guys are the real heroes." They may have Real Life Superpowers to back themselves up, but it's not guaranteed. The idea of such a scene is usually to pay tribute to real life heroes, who may not have their own TV shows or look like supermodels, but still give of themselves to save other people's lives. This is a noble motive on the writer's part, but it can create some problems if the story's Fourth Wall is firmly in place. The characters don't know they're fictional, after all; from their perspective, Superman tossing a nuclear bomb into outer space is no less real than a firefighter saving someone from a burning building. This can make the audience wonder why the story's hero considers him/herself a lesser hero than some guy who's never even saved the world once. If the main character is a superhero, writers justify this by pointing out that rushing into danger takes a lot more courage if you're not Nigh-Invulnerable or rich enough to create high-tech gadgets. On the other hand, there's nothing that suggests that the various heroes have to be at odds with one another. Cops who handle Mooks, firefighters who fight blazes after a big showdown, and emergency workers who take care of wounded Innocent Bystanders can free up the superhero to deal with the Big Bad who's causing all the problems to begin with. Likewise, these same emergency workers might appreciate the help of the superheroes—being a firefighter is dangerous at the best of times, but having to dodge the attacks of a flame-spitting Pyromaniac while trying to fight the fires he started risks becoming a suicide mission unless someone can deal with him. The basic point is to pay reverence to the mundane heroes who risk their lives to save others in our world. Sub-Trope of A True Hero. Compare The Paragon (who even wants to invoke this among others). Contrast Never Be a Hero. This trope often overlap Unlikely Hero, since some of the most heroic deeds or actions are done by the most ordinary people. Very often a trait of a Humble Hero. May also go along with I'm Not a Hero, I'm...
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The Real Heroes / int_12300cc3	comment	Played with in Watchmen as the police and normal citizens eventually grow to resent the costumed vigilantes who take the hero-ing business into their own hands. This fake PSA advertising the movie mentions "real American heroes" who "don't need to wear masks", and at one point a group of rioters is seen with a sign reading "Police, not masked freaks". (The film version changes this to "Badges Not Masks".) You can kind of see where they're coming from. The one hero who quit the business before the civilians came to resent the superheroes, Ozymandias, retains a lot of public respect after his retirement in his public identity as Adrian Veidt, to the point of even being able to sell action figures in his own image. Interestingly, the original Nite Owl was a cop, moonlighting as a costumed vigilante in his spare time.
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The Real Heroes / int_13b6da8c	comment	Near the end of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, Captain Hammer sings a song with this message. Unfortunately, his massive ego prevents him from going too far with this, repeatedly pointing out just how much cooler a hero he is:
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The Real Heroes / int_15870207	comment	El ChapulÃn Colorado: In "Don ChapulÃn de La Mancha" (an Affectionate Parody of Don Quixote), El ChapulÃn encounters an old man that, seemingly crazed, thinks he's El ChapulÃn Colorado. However, he knows he's only pretending, as he believes El ChapulÃn has done far more important things to society than he ever did as a health inspector. El ChapulÃn talks him out of it by saying that any job well done (say, by not taking bribes) is much more important than anything he could ever do. The titular character himself is inspired by this trope. His creator (and actor), Chespirito, stated in an interview that a true hero would be much more like El ChapulÃn Colorado (a cowardly, stupid, weak man that nevertheless tried to help people) than the likes of Superman and Batman, who he regards as fearless individuals that simply save people because of their superior abilities.
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The Real Heroes / int_1bdeba5a	comment	In the X-Men graphic novel God Loves, Man Kills it's a cop who takes down Reverend William Stryker. Cops had been at the rally for a while, complaining that they had to protect a racist's free speech but still doing their jobs. But the moment Stryker aimed a gun at Kitty Pryde one of them shot him, because you just don't kill an unarmed little girl on their watch.
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The Real Heroes / int_261c8d3f	comment	In the episode of The Simpsons where Milhouse is chosen to play the Kid Sidekick in the new Radioactive Man film, Milhouse invokes this trope after being sick of shooting the picture and running away. Bart, however, responds that they are all losers since the real-world issues haven't been solved, and if you want real results (i.e bad guys being conclusively stopped) you have to watch the Van Dammes and the Stallones.
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The Real Heroes / int_2bbcacd9	comment	The Looney Tunes short "Super Rabbit" has Bugs Bunny receive a supply of Supercarrots that turn him into the titular Super-Rabbit. At the end of the cartoon, he loses his carrots to the bad guy and his horse after he unwittingly dropped the case and carrots midflight (and running out of power), at which point he says, "Hmm, this looks like a job for a real superhero!" He then runs into a phone booth and emerges wearing a Marine uniform. The bad guys about to attack him immediately stop and salute, and he marches off to fight in World War II. In Real Life, the Marines were so thrilled by this, they made Bugs Bunny an honorary Marine Master Sergeant.
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The Real Heroes / int_37400b11	comment	At the end of Mystery Men, The Shoveler said this to the TV reporters interviewing him.
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The Real Heroes / int_38c87187	comment	Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: "Lex Luthor had a much easier time"...
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The Real Heroes / int_38ce5997	comment	Parodied in The Boys (2019), when the Corporate-Sponsored Superhero Homelander quotes the trope word-for-word to a group of soldiers about to raid a building. It's blatantly obvious it's just a meaningless PR-line, as Homelander takes over the operation in order to massacre all the terrorists inside himself, just to satisfy his own bloodlust. In Season 3 he has a Villainous Breakdown after being heckled and tells a crowd point-blank "You're not the real heroes. I am."
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The Real Heroes / int_3c53ffa8	comment	Rush deals with this theme in the song "Nobody's Hero."
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The Real Heroes / int_3db49365	comment	Spider-Man Trilogy: Spider-Man (2002) had the citizens of New York helping Spider-Man, by throwing trash and rocks at the Green Goblin, while they shout motivating lines such as "This is New York! You mess with one of us, you mess with all of us!".note Particularly moving for the audience, considering what happened in New York in 2001. Although it's never acknowledged, this saves not just Spider-Man, but also Mary Jane, and a group of kids. And this was long after Green Goblin warning Spider-Man that the public will eventually turn against him. An unusual variation of this happens in Spider-Man 2. Upon narrowly stopping a train from plummeting and falling off its track, Spider-Man faints and is brought into the train by the citizens he just saved. As Spidey had already taken his mask off during the preceding fight, they see that the hero who saved them, and has been saving New York all this time, is a teenager who looks just like any other. Like the above example it's unacknowledged, but it's showing that, despite Peter having super-powers, he's still a normal teenager, who has a normal teenager life. Yet, he's the person who puts his life on the line constantly, to save them, time and time again. It's a rare example of the unappreciated fact that super-heroes are still (for the most part) humans who go out their way to help the "everyday folk", being acknowledged.
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The Real Heroes / int_3defe34c	comment	This is a Discussed Trope in Hancock. Ray tells him to say "Good job" to the local policemen to improve his image. Hancock responds "If they're doing a good job, then why do I have to show up?" Ray then gives the They're-Not-Invincible line from the description. He ultimately does it, and the policeman says it right back.
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The Real Heroes / int_3e374b30	comment	The Dark Knight Rises has the entire GCPD fight off Bane's army in the climax of the movie.
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The Real Heroes / int_44127c7c	comment	Power Rangers Several episodes during the arc in the original series with the Rangers de-aged to children and unable to perform any heroic actions shows the Angel Grove Police actually managing to keep order and preventing panic during the crisis. In Zeo, Lt. Stone has a moment where he stumbles upon Goldar and Rito. Thinking an invasion was afoot, he chases them all over the park to try to arrest them. (Granted, the two were amnesic and not doing anything evil, but Stone didn't know that.)
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The Real Heroes / int_469771d2	comment	One episode of The Powerpuff Girls involves a Dirty Cop kidnapping the Girls because he thinks they outshine the actual police; the more benign cops are the ones who pull the Big Damn Heroes moment.
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The Real Heroes / int_4be3aedd	comment	Several episodes during the arc in the original series with the Rangers de-aged to children and unable to perform any heroic actions shows the Angel Grove Police actually managing to keep order and preventing panic during the crisis.
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The Real Heroes / int_4e7cac32	comment	In Supergirl (2015), several firefighters help the titular character against two of her super-villains, and several Badass Bystanders run to form a wall between them and the exhausted heroine. This becomes even more meaningful, given that shortly before, she'd gone on a Red Kryptonite-inspired rampage and lost the city's trust. Narmy? Possibly. But still, for many of the viewers, incredibly meaningful.
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The Real Heroes / int_54870df8	comment	This is pointed out in the Less Wrong article Superhero Bias. What shows you're heroic is that you're willing to put yourself in harms way even if there's relatively little at stake and you have a high chance of getting killed. This is not something that tends to happen among superheroes.
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The Real Heroes / int_5c208620	comment	Superman: The Animated Series: As Clark Kent observes at the funeral of Detective Dan Turpin, "In the end, the world didn't really need a super man. Just a brave one."
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The Real Heroes / int_5c783167	comment	In "Don ChapulÃn de La Mancha" (an Affectionate Parody of Don Quixote), El ChapulÃn encounters an old man that, seemingly crazed, thinks he's El ChapulÃn Colorado. However, he knows he's only pretending, as he believes El ChapulÃn has done far more important things to society than he ever did as a health inspector. El ChapulÃn talks him out of it by saying that any job well done (say, by not taking bribes) is much more important than anything he could ever do.
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The Real Heroes / int_5d4da196	comment	Spider-Man (2002) had the citizens of New York helping Spider-Man, by throwing trash and rocks at the Green Goblin, while they shout motivating lines such as "This is New York! You mess with one of us, you mess with all of us!".note Particularly moving for the audience, considering what happened in New York in 2001. Although it's never acknowledged, this saves not just Spider-Man, but also Mary Jane, and a group of kids. And this was long after Green Goblin warning Spider-Man that the public will eventually turn against him.
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The Real Heroes / int_5d4da197	comment	An unusual variation of this happens in Spider-Man 2. Upon narrowly stopping a train from plummeting and falling off its track, Spider-Man faints and is brought into the train by the citizens he just saved. As Spidey had already taken his mask off during the preceding fight, they see that the hero who saved them, and has been saving New York all this time, is a teenager who looks just like any other. Like the above example it's unacknowledged, but it's showing that, despite Peter having super-powers, he's still a normal teenager, who has a normal teenager life. Yet, he's the person who puts his life on the line constantly, to save them, time and time again. It's a rare example of the unappreciated fact that super-heroes are still (for the most part) humans who go out their way to help the "everyday folk", being acknowledged.
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The Real Heroes / int_62055587	comment	Taken to a logical conclusion in the Rescue Heroes cartoon based on the toyline, where the characters are a team of firefighters, police and other professions (mountain climber, construction worker, doctor) who operate like superheroes, who focus on disaster relief and rescues around the world rather than fighting crime.
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The Real Heroes / int_6a4bddd6	comment	Naturally, there's no reason that superheroes and "ordinary" heroes have to be antagonists. One issue of Iron Man has Firebrand set fire to a homeless shelter while trying to kill Iron Man and Captain America. Cap and James Rhodes (who's serving as a Costume Copycat in wearing the suit for Tony Stark) concentrate at first on protecting the inhabitants of the shelter, but once the emergency crews show up Iron Man leaves them to take care of the fire and the wounded while he keeps Firebrand from doing any more damage.
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The Real Heroes / int_6eef7601	comment	Dirty Jobs is all about this, since the whole point of the show is to show just what happens behind the scenes to keep modern society functioning as well as it does.
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The Real Heroes / int_6f734712	comment	In Smallville, at the end of the episode "Visage", Clark and his parents learn that Whitney Fordman, a US Marine and Clark's romantic rival, was killed in action (trying to save a fellow soldier, as shown in the opening). While grieving for him, Clark wonders aloud whether, if he didn't have his powers, he would have had Whitney's courage to put himself in harms way to make the world a better place.
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The Real Heroes / int_755b343f	comment	Although in most of the Halo games you play as a Spartan (a genetically enhanced power armoured soldier who is practically a superhero), most notably Master Chief, most of the battles are fought by regular humans, predominantly the UNSC Marines, Soldiers and ODSTS who were crucial to winning the war against the Covenant and the Flood despite being barely different from an infantry standpoint to modern day soldiers and having no superhuman abilities or any augmentations anywhere near the extent of the Spartans. Sometimes in Halo there are irregular combatants and even civilians who take it upon themselves to take up arms in defense of mankind, such as the Factory Workers in Halo 3, the Police Officers in Halo 3: ODST, and the Militia members in Halo: Reach, many main character heroes in Halo are regular people, such as Sgt Johnson, The Rookie and his ODST Squad, Captain Keyes, his daughter Miranda Keyes,and the UNSC's leader Lord Hood, all of whom in their own ways did extraordinary things despite being out of Master Chief's league.
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The Real Heroes / int_76db0ea5	comment	A Power Girl issue manages to squeeze it in, and it does not even seem too Anvilicious, it actually makes perfect sense given the context. Power Girl is unconscious and lying in the middle of a large blast crater, being tended to by firefighters and EMT's. When she regains consciousness while being carried off on a stretcher they put her down and work to clear away the growing crowd of onlookers taking pictures while one firefighter helps her walk away. He says that he rarely gets a chance to help somebody like her ("Like me?" "Yeah...a hero") and she replies "I can say the same thing about you."
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The Real Heroes / int_76e539c2	comment	In Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS, when Teana suffers a Heroic BSoD after realizing she'll never be an ace of the Bureau, Nanoha (herself one of the most decorated aces) gives her a pep talk that boils down to the idea that the Bureau doesn't need more aces—it needs honest, hard-working young people who get the job done—like Teana. Of course, Teana would later go on to be an Ace herself (Nanoha's point was that she could get there at a more sensible pace rather than performing life threatening Training from Hell).
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The Real Heroes / int_7a12fa31	comment	Done in an episode of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! when Mario and Luigi find a way to return to New York. Unfortunately, Bowser and the Koopas follow them, and Bowser decides to conquer Earth along with the Mushroom Kingdom. Fortunately, the NYPD is there to help Mario and Luigi fight the Koopas.
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The Real Heroes / int_7d7fbcc	comment	Daredevil invoked this trope in a confrontation with The Punisher's new female partner, giving an epic "The Reason You Suck" Speech in response to her assertion that all heroes are driven by tragedy;
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The Real Heroes / int_82439e64	comment	Inverted by Dwight Schrute on The Office (US): "No, don't call me a hero. Do you know who the real heroes are? The guys who wake up every morning and go into their normal jobs and get a distress call from the commissioner and take off their glasses and change into capes and fly around, fighting crime. Those are the real heroes."
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The Real Heroes / int_83d41855	comment	Gargoyles: Goliath's decision to have the Clan protect Manhattan is inspired by Elisa Maza and the NYPD's dedication to their job, and seeing that, no matter what their efforts, there is only so much crime they can prevent. Invoked in the episode "M.I.A.", when Goliath travels back in time to World War II Great Britain and joins a London gargoyle named Griff in assisting the RAF repel the Nazis:
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The Real Heroes / int_84377fd8	comment	GI Joe The Rise Of Cobra: During a flashback scene where Duke was proposing to Ana before deploying during the Iraq War, her brother Rex (Cobra Commander) chimes in, saying that she should say "yes" because he's "A Real American Hero". Though Duke and his friend Ripcord are experienced special forces soldiers, they are much closer to "normal" compared to the likes of Scarlet, Snake Eyes and Breaker who are gifted with unusual skills to the point of being talented enough to form a non-powered superhero team. Duke surprises everyone when he scores extremely high during his G.I. Joe selection course, even managing to take down the team's super ninja Snake Eyes during a pugil stick duel.
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The Real Heroes / int_8dbaf17	comment	Robocop implies with the cops depicted as brave working stiffs who have to manage an future urban war zone. As for the title character, Alex Murphy always regards himself as one of them and his comrades come to accept him as simply a tougher comrade who can safely take on the tough stuff and draw their fire as his fellows maneuver for position.
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The Real Heroes / int_8e82c366	comment	In an episode of The Real Ghostbusters, the team's firehouse is in danger of being repossessed; later, a freak accident transports the heroes back in time to the 60's, where due to the same accident, the city has a sudden ghost problem, and the firefighters who originally owned the building are dealing with it. The Ghostbusters aid them discreetly from the sidelines, and when they return to the present day, their troubles regarding the firehouse are over; due to what happened, those same firefighters were regarded as heroes, the firehouse regarded as a memorial site because of it.
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The Real Heroes / int_90b916ba	comment	Batman: The Animated Series: This trope is the Central Theme of the episode "Joker's Favor". The subplot mentions that Gordon doesn't think he deserves an homage, but Batman does. Batman remarks that Gordon deals with Gotham's insanity 24/7 while the Batman only works at night. Similarly, as Gordon recovers from being wounded in "I Am the Night":
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The Real Heroes / int_90c7a494	comment	After the finale of It Came from Beneath the Sea, the protagonists listen to a radio broadcast that congratulates "the unsung heroes" of the attack on San Francisco: the civilian defense volunteers, the crossing guards and the street railway employees.
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The Real Heroes / int_94c1352f	comment	The construction workers in the climax of The Amazing Spider-Man. There's even an American Flag prominently displayed during it.
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The Real Heroes / int_960062b7	comment	My Hero Academia: While the police and other mundane emergency workers are often overshadowed by pro heroes, the heroes themselves are well aware of how important they are. It's just inevitable that heroes will draw more attention since they are the only ones allowed to use their big flashy quirks in combat. Hero agencies have a good working relationship with the police (who often provide backup on supervillain raids), and All Might tells a little girl that her father is his hero because he makes the supersuit that helps All Might save lives. It should be noted that a lot of the work the pro heroes do is low-level mundane stuff like cleaning up after disasters. All Might, the world's greatest hero, first gained fame not by beating up a villain, but by rescuing hundreds of people from a collapsed building.
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The Real Heroes / int_9888e7c2	comment	Subverted in "Dan Vs. The Superhero" when Smug Super Terrifi-guy tells a group of firefighters he just helped out that they're the real heroes... except that they can't fly or stop bullets or anything cool like that.
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The Real Heroes / int_98a9de96	comment	Mostly subverted in JLA: Act of God, where every superbeing is depowered. They do pay some lip service to this trope but when Supergirl tries to continue fighting as a cop, she gets tired of doing the paperwork and decides to join some other depowered heroes to learn the Bad Ass Normal school of fighting. In this story, guys like Batman are the Real Heroes.
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The Real Heroes / int_9a29f3a4	comment	While never specifically addressed, the issue is confused in Top 10. When everyone is super, who are the real heroes?
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The Real Heroes / int_9a7088bc	comment	A downplayed example in the Star Trek fanfic Heroes; Spock admits (mentally) that Kirk is his hero even more than Surak, because Kirk's friendship and respect help him on a daily basis.
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The Real Heroes / int_9ac9d448	comment	Ultimate Spider-Man has a scene where Peter Parker and John Jonah Jameson have a talk about heroics. He claims (in a surprisingly non-brash way) that Spider-Man is just a punk in a costume while people like his son (an astronaut) are truly doing good for this world. Ironically, this is just before the Daily Bugle starts praising the Wall-Crawler.
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The Real Heroes / int_9d37e993	comment	Alluded to in Edge of Tomorrow during the pub scene, which shows a distraught Major William Cage after dying in battle and being resurrected to an earlier moment numerous times as part of a seemingly never ending time loop, sitting by himself listening to some old English men talk about their fathers and uncles who fought during the Battle of Britain and D-Day and how they believe that the British Armed Forces of that era was superior to the United Defense Force and could've easily beat the The Mimics (the invading aliens). Whilst the men were debating with the barmaid on the motivation behind the Mimics invading Earth, Cage interjects by saying that their reasons for invading make no difference and all that matters is that they're winning and that humanity is doomed. Cage then gets asked by an old man wearing a Parachute Regiment beret why he isn't on the frontline, he tells him that he's been on the battlefield more times than anybody and that he's "usually long dead by now", the Para veteran then dismisses Cage as a coward.
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The Real Heroes / int_9d9551de	comment	Toshio Wakagi from Codename: Sailor V is a police officer, and always trying to help-even going after youma. He also happens to be the Butt-Monkey as Sailor V considers police officers arrogant blowhards and goes out of her way to make them look bad by doing their job before they can (she'd do it anyway, she's just going overboard to humiliate them), resulting in him gaining a rather justified dislike for the heroine and eventually being transferred to Siberia (for obvious reasons, he was rather surprised when he found out the superintendent-general was not joking) due Sailor V solving too many of his cases. He's also implied to have a role in Sailor V finally gaining respect for (some) cops, once he's transferred back to Tokyo.
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The Real Heroes / int_a796bde8	comment	In Metal Gear Solid: When Meryl and Snake rendezvous in the rest rooms she tells Snake (regarding Foxhound which included him and her uncle) "you guys were the real heroes", because they were a special forces unit that originally didn't use gene therapy.
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The Real Heroes / int_a8729c90	comment	Parodied in an episode of The Fairly OddParents!. The first time Timmy needs a number of regular adults with jobs to help him (such as a firewoman to help him against Francis or a milkman to give him some milk when he has a mouth full of peanut butter) they're distracted by Cosmo, who is currently in cat form. Timmy wishes for a world full of superheroes partially to spite the so-called regular heroes for ignoring his plights. When Nega-Chin manipulated things to remove the superheroes and leave only supervillains, they offer to redeem themselves for their previous failings by helping to take down Nega-Chin. Sure enough, (if in the show's own wacky and playful way), each of the everyday heroes finds their own way to help Timmy thwart Nega-Chin and his cronies.
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The Real Heroes / int_a9570fac	comment	Referenced occasionally in Victoria, with protagonist John Rumford reminding us that in the end, even an Alexander or Napoleon is nothing without good soldiers to command—and it is usually the latter who end up giving their all more than the former.
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The Real Heroes / int_ac4b6a62	comment	Questionable Content: John Ellicott-Chatham who is the father of strong artificial intelligence, designer of the first permanent space habitat and one of the greatest minds in robotics and cybernetics, is a great admirer of plumbers. A lot of this stems back to the construction of said space habitat, which is at least half ducts and pipes.
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The Real Heroes / int_b0fc9724	comment	Saturday Night Live featured a real life tearjerker moment where the first episode after 9/11 had New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani introduce actual 9/11 responders to the audience in the Cold Open. Talking with Lorne Michaels, Michaels asked if they (after an event like this) can be funny. Giuliani replied "Why start now?" to a standing ovation. In a retrospect Tracy Morgan said he greeted the responders and patted one on the shoulder, seeing dust fly off; they literally came from the field.
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The Real Heroes / int_b137dae0	comment	A portion of the pre-shows to the Backdraft attraction at Universal Studios is dedicated to explaining the horrors real-life firemen have to brave in order to save lives and why they deserve our respect.
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The Real Heroes / int_b4996199	comment	A couple of Spider-Man comics published in the early 1980s took a decidedly more grim look at this trope: One issue involved police officer Joey Macone, who's known for his recklessly heroic actions on the job. The risks he takes are putting a serious strain on his marriage, and his wife is afraid he'll get himself killed. Macone helps Spider-Man defeat the Beetle, but it literally costs him an arm and a leg as the Beetle's punch breaks both of these limbs. The story ends with Macone sitting in a wheelchair and getting a medal from the police commissioner, but his wife is still extremely upset and Peter Parker gets a firsthand look at how stressful a cop's life can get. Another issue featured Spidey helping a pair of beat cops fight a gang of gun smugglers. Spider-Man saves one of the cops from being shot, but the other officer isn't so lucky and gets killed by the gun runners. Spider-Man is naturally torn up about it, and the surviving officer points out that makes six of them: Spider-Man, the surviving officer, and the dead officer's widow and three children. The wall-crawler feels lower than ever after hearing this, but the surviving officer reminds him that Spidey saved his hide. As for the officer who was killed, the cops know the risks they take when they put on the badge. Ultimate Spider-Man has a scene where Peter Parker and John Jonah Jameson have a talk about heroics. He claims (in a surprisingly non-brash way) that Spider-Man is just a punk in a costume while people like his son (an astronaut) are truly doing good for this world. Ironically, this is just before the Daily Bugle starts praising the Wall-Crawler.
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The Real Heroes / int_b76e2092	comment	On Mack & Moxy, the real heroes are presented as the real-life people and organizations which help out with the issues presented on the series, such as those who answer 911 calls or operate food banks to help hungry people.
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The Real Heroes / int_bc810180	comment	Some comics will take a slightly subtler approach by having the hero work side-by-side with the rescue worker in mutual respect for each others abilities. It doesn't grind the book to a halt so the hero can praise them, but shows that police and firefighters are courageous and risk their lives, even in the comic's universe. One such example is from 52 where Steel uses his super-strength to support a burning building about to collapse so firemen can rush in and carry out the people inside.
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The Real Heroes / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer40000: The Imperial Guard sometimes get viewed in a similar light by Space Marines. They have no power armor or bio-augmentation to aid them, yet they still hold strong against the untold horrors and abominations that threaten humanity. This was actually inverted by various editions: Ollanius Pius, patron saint of Guardsmen, was at first a single soldier who stood between the Emperor and Warmaster Horus, knowing full well that an ordinary human had no chance against a fifteen-foot-tall genetically-engineered monstrous demigod wearing armor thicker than tanks and powered by the various Chaos Gods. Then in later editions, he was Retconned as being an Astartes Terminator (himself a seven foot-tall Space Marine in inch-thick armor), then a Custodes (the God-Emperor's personal guard, who are to Space Marines what a Space Marine is to a regular human), and these days was actually one of several immortals who's been around since the dawn of humanity.
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The Real Heroes / int_be245531	comment	Gotham Central explored the implications of this trope in depth, as we see how frontline police officers deal with the costumed psychopaths that infest the city like a plague...as well as the hero who fights them.
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The Real Heroes / int_c1398918	comment	Played with in Witchblade, The Savage Dragon and Rising Stars - main characters from the first two, and one from the third have superpowers and fight crime not as superheroes, but cops.
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The Real Heroes / int_c43df4d8	comment	The Doctor in Doctor Who seems to feel this way, often commenting that Humans Are Special and that anyone can be a hero, not just people who fight aliens.
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The Real Heroes / int_c5e0b864	comment	Played with in The Non-Adventures of Wonderella: Wonderella, being a Jerkass, refuses to acknowledge The Real Heroes. After all, she has a cape.
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The Real Heroes / int_c6cb6d0d	comment	In The Magnificent Seven (1960), Bernardo is one of seven gunslingers hired by a Mexican village. The kids call him a hero but he feels the farmers are the real heroes since they work a tough, monotonous job full of responsibility that he never was brave enough to take on, despite his obvious affection for children.
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The Real Heroes / int_c811eb4	comment	This was pretty much the premise of the kids' show Higglytown Heroes. Although there were no superheroes in that show, it was all about "normal" people being heroic for different reasons.
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The Real Heroes / int_ca1f6145	comment	In The Pale King, the IRS employees are likened to policeman, firefighters, and other emergency service members in a few places. Chapter 17 is a single paragraph that explains the idea, and the IRS seal depicts the mythical hero Bellerophon slaying the Chimera.
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The Real Heroes / int_cb6abef3	comment	The Avengers took time during the climactic battle to show ordinary fire fighters helping people from destroyed buildings and tending to their wounds and the NYPD doing their best to shoot down the Chitauri with just their service pistols. Captain America also directly requests their help in protecting people in ways the Avengers just don't have the numbers to do. Once they get a demonstration (on the Chitauri) they leave the asskicking to him and help protect the civilians.
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The Real Heroes / int_cf3e7a82	comment	Fanfic "February 1, 2003" has Superman telling Wonder Woman that he can fly into space without any threat of personal harm, which is why he admires non-powered astronauts who do it regardless.
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The Real Heroes / int_d53b46c1	comment	The Other Guys The ending spells out the lesson of the movie that the real heroes are the ones who genuinely make the world a better place, instead of doing more harm than good and still getting in the paper for being big and flashy like Highsmith and Danson
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The Real Heroes / int_d56cd064	comment	In Zeo, Lt. Stone has a moment where he stumbles upon Goldar and Rito. Thinking an invasion was afoot, he chases them all over the park to try to arrest them. (Granted, the two were amnesic and not doing anything evil, but Stone didn't know that.)
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The Real Heroes / int_d7626bdd	comment	Parodied in Deadpool (2016), where the opening credits disparaging discuss ever major member of the cast and crew, except the writers (i.e. the ones effectively talking to you), who are "the real heroes here".
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The Real Heroes / int_d7e4b25b	comment	The Aesop of the first chapter of Gamma is that the muggle employees of the Earth Defense Force do just as much, if not more good for the communities they defend as the masked superheroes. Yuri breaks it to the Presidentman (a depowered superhero who enlists in EDF because he doesn't have any other special skills except saving people) by pointing out that to the nameless boy he has carried out of an alien attack, he is the hero of the day, not the superheroes who ended up defeating the aliens.
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The Real Heroes / int_d9be958a	comment	In the novelization of Superman Returns, Superman thinks to himself (page quote) as he saves a jet.
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The Real Heroes / int_daff6a21	comment	In Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds, the police are usually depicted as enemies, and a lot of them are, indeed, corrupt bullies, especially towards Satellite residents. However, Ushio's Heelâ€“Face Turn begins when he meets a child at the orphanage who worships them, as a result of them saving him from a criminal who had killed his father during a robbery.
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The Real Heroes / int_ddad77ae	comment	Astro City: Samaritan says this in "In Dreams" when receiving an award from the fire service. He really believes it, though he wishes he could skip the ceremonies and spend more time saving civilians instead. There's also a poster seen in one story of the Silver Agent next to a police officer. "Silver Agent says salute your local heroes!" The story "Since the Fire", written for one of the 9/11 benefit books, is all about this.
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The Real Heroes / int_e293455a	comment	Touched upon in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: We have Buffy, Faith, Kennedy, etc., superpowered women who kick ass. Willow's like the most powerful witch in the world. Angel and Spike, vampires. What about Xander? Or Dawn? Or Giles? Or Tara? Pretty much Badass Normal, and are credited for not only being able to survive, but thrive in such a Crapsack World... when they are not looked down on by Buffy and/or the others and their friendships get strained as a result.
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The Real Heroes / int_ef49e442	comment	In the tabletop roleplaying game Silver Age Sentinels, Officer Promitheus (super-liaison between NYPD and the local superhero team) lampshades this, pointing out that people hope a superhero will save them, but when things go wrong, they call the police.
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The Real Heroes / int_f4a1d45b	comment	In Crisis on Infinite Earths issue #4, Supergirl and Batgirl's final conversation revolves around Barbara's helplessness in the face of universal obliteration. At least her Kryptonian friend can fight thanks to her godlike powers, but what she can do? Kara reminds her nobody needs to powers to be a hero:
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The Real Heroes / int_f94e0ed1	comment	In The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak, Dingo Brad is just a regular journalist in a series where things like a strong We Help the Helpless organization and several military personnel that have access to Humongous Mechas exist. However, he's also the only reason why the terrorist group Almata gets exposed by taking a bunch of pictures of them nuking an entire village, killing himself in the process. This was enough that other organizations in the area, the main characters included, decided that Almata needed to be dealt with.
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The Real Heroes / int_fa5e90fd	comment	A City of Heroes fan story published in the monthly comic had a short tale about a hero defeating a gang of Trolls that were threatening a young couple - the hero denied that he receive any praise for what he did, as the Trolls were of no threat to him, but instead drew attention to the fact that the young man stood up to the thugs, protecting his girlfriend - even though he could have been killed with a single punch.
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The Real Heroes / int_fd933142	comment	Tomica Hero Rescue Force and its sequel, Rescue Fire, both had episodes dedicated to the team learning about/assisting Hyper Rescue, a real life rescue organization that inspired both shows. Naturally, Hyper Rescue ended up receiving a good amount of praise.
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The Real Heroes / int_fe8ef766	type	The Real Heroes
The Real Heroes / int_fe8ef766	comment	This trope was invoked in a series of variant covers for Marvel Comics from July 2011. With the theme of "I Am Captain America" (released to coincide with the release of Captain America: The First Avenger), the covers featured people of various professions(police officer, fighter fighter, judge, soldier, teacher, paralympic athlete, etc), with each illustration incorporating elements of Captain America's shield or uniform. Some of these covers can be seen here.
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The Real Heroes / int_ff0bf83f	comment	Played straight in the Justice League Unlimited episode "Patriot Act":
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Astro City (Comic Book) / int_e3f88af2	type	The Real Heroes
Avengers: The Initiative (Comic Book) / int_e3f88af2	type	The Real Heroes
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Gotham Central (Comic Book) / int_e3f88af2	type	The Real Heroes
Noble Causes (Comic Book) / int_e3f88af2	type	The Real Heroes
Power Girl (2009) (Comic Book) / int_e3f88af2	type	The Real Heroes
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Welcome to Tranquility (Comic Book) / int_e3f88af2	type	The Real Heroes
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Oni Ga Shiku Series (Fanfic) / int_e3f88af2	type	The Real Heroes
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Stupor Heroics (Fanfic) / int_e3f88af2	type	The Real Heroes
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Hancock / int_e3f88af2	type	The Real Heroes
Sully / int_e3f88af2	type	The Real Heroes
The Amazing Spider-Man / int_e3f88af2	type	The Real Heroes
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The Magnificent Seven (1960) / int_e3f88af2	type	The Real Heroes
The Other Guys / int_e3f88af2	type	The Real Heroes
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (Webcomic) / int_e3f88af2	type	The Real Heroes
Spinnerette (Webcomic) / int_e3f88af2	type	The Real Heroes
The Non-Adventures of Wonderella (Webcomic) / int_e3f88af2	type	The Real Heroes
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