unhero

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unhero

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From un- + hero.

noun unheroes

One who is not a hero; a nonhero. On one level of meaning this unhero is clearly a political statement, a protest of the military and governmental authority. But he is not that alone; he is also a statement against all masculine assertion as this has been traditionally understood. The unhero nevertheless has his unheroine mate.
A hero who does not fit the archetype of a hero; an antihero. Everyone in the story is absolutely outside time, everything in it is terribly old-fashioned and affected, the "hero" with all of his experiences is infinitely shallow, pompous, and low-standard. He is in principle an "unhero" and everything in the story is in principle deheroized.

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@misc{unhero_2026,
  title = {unhero},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/unhero},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}