Everybody knowsthe hoagy ’s journeyby gist at this point . The chosen one gets called to adventure , refuses , accepts , fit on trials , loses a mentor , faces dark , vote down malign . But sometimes the hero ’s journey take on a major roundabout way . Here are 10 hero ’s journeys go went to a dark , frightful spot .
1) Anakin Skywalker
When you make it onto the AFI ’s 100 Years … 100 Heroes and Villains list asthe third greatest scoundrel of all time , something has probably gone a petty wrong with your hero ’s journey . Anakin ’s commence off pretty promisingly — average human race , dependable , call to military action , skilful — but goes drastically downhill with the whole ferment dark side thing . He catch to return to the igniter in the very end , though , so that ’s something .
2) Katniss Everdeen
Called to adventure when her sister ’s name is chosen for the next Hunger Games , poor Katniss embarks , reluctantly , on her hero ’s journey . Now , plenteousness of Hero ’ journey are littered with the body of dead children , but The Hunger Games really have that to the next grade and make Katniss do the killing . Then , when the Capitol is vote down and thing are supposed to be reckon up , the leader who ’s supposed to be train everybody to a bright felicitous future turns out to be a Modern version of the same older bad guy . So Katniss is forced to cross the demarcation that no hero should ever cross .
3) Paul Atreides
Twenty year after the issue of Dune , Frank Herbertsaid , “ The bottom line of the Dune trilogy is : mind of heroes . Much better trust on your own judgment , and your own mistakes . ” His pointedness is amply made by Paul ’s journey , which basically maps onto Campbell ’s monomyth ( but also includes things like setting himself up as a christ and killing jillion of people . ) Indeed , Atreides may top this list in term of figure of multitude murder , and it ’s a fairly competitive chemical group .
4) The Doctor
He ’s not prophesy to become a hero , exactly , but he does follow the call to dangerous undertaking — running away from his home planet of Gallifrey in a stolen time machine and fighting evil on uncounted planets . And for most of his career , the Doctor follow some form of the submarine ’s journeying , even face his mentor gone big ( Borusa ) and rejecting his own intimate dark in a few ways . He goes on pursuit and rightfulness wrongs . Until the Time War — when he nearly commit race murder on an unimaginable ordered series ( a criminal offense he actually spends hundreds of years believing he ’s committed . )
5) Faith
As one of the Slayers , Faith is quite literally the pick out One , marked by prophecy to contend evilness . She ’s the only one with the power to stop the vampire , devil and assorted other teras from prey on the innocuous . Until she goes off the rails — and then she kills a human being , which is a Slayer no - no . Soon enough , she ’s going to operate for the malevolent Mayor of Sunnydale and helping him to become a scarey head - eating giant ophidian . afterward , Faith does find salvation , but her “ hero ’s journey ” has still move on some very foul tress by that point .
6) Harvey Dent
No matter what version of the Batman - mythos you follow , Harvey Dent always starts out as a hero . He ’s a crusading D.A. who tries to take down Gotham City ’s terrible crime families — until he gets acid thrown in his face by Boss Maroni . Then , with half his face track with mark , he becomes a monster , whose moral reach is entirely decided by a coin pass . Dent ’s journey from hero sandwich to evildoer is always tragic , but in Christopher Nolan ’s The Dark Knight he ’s coif up as much more of a straightforward Italian sandwich for the first half of the film . He ’s on the path to risky venture , righting wrongs , until he falls off the itinerary in a huge direction .
7) Starbuck
Asthis livejournal mail service excuse , Starbuck ’s story intimately adopt the hero ’s journeying for most of the newfangled Battlestar Galactica . She first refuses then follows the call to dangerous undertaking — and then she ’s given the Arrow of Apollo , which sends her on her path . A lot of the other step on the Journey are check off along Starbuck ’s route as well . And then … she evidently loses her mind and gets herself pop in a random blowup . She come back , but manifestly it ’s not really her because she eventually come across her actual torso in a raptor , and it ’s horribly burned . And an angel or something else has replaced her — and whoever it is , she ’s really into gaudy forte-piano - playing , weighed down drink , and spoiled choices .
8) Tony Stark
Iron Man does n’t really get the “ call ” to adventure as such — he ’s put in a ugly situation where he has to improvise a suit of armor to get out of a cave where he ’s been trapped by a psychotic strongman . But once he ’s have that armour , he does become a hero and go on lots of authoritative hero sandwich adventures , in which he live lots of personal growth and rig the world to right . But his path has a lot of strange twists in it , including his descent into dipsomania and self - destruction ( and we wo n’t even refer that prison term he turn out to be Kang ’s mind - creature and was supersede with his own teenage ego . ) But it ’s really around the time of Civil War that the comics version of Tony Stark goes right smart off the champion ’s track and create an evil cyborg clone of Thor , while also force a long ton of other heroes into a prison in the Negative Zone . In the motion picture , meanwhile , he ’s responsible for create Ultron among other problem .
9) Ender Wiggin
A foolproof plan for put forward a well - adjust child : take a six - class - old , subject him to super scurrilous schooling , neglect when he ’s being savagely swagger , when he kills the yobo do n’t tell him , and finally trick him into give genocide on a wandering scale . Ender ’s course may stand for to the champion ’s journeying , but it ’s a particularly sick reflexion of it .
10) John Connor
And in the end … John Connor is about as Hellenic a Campbellian hero as you could get . His nascency is absolutely prophesied , and he ’s the savior of the human backwash . He ’s prepared for years to lead the resistance against Skynet , and encounters lots of darkness and lose his mother ( his mentor ) along the way . But then , depend on which edition of the Terminator saga you go with , he goes kind of wrong . In The Sarah Connor Chronicles , Future John becomes overly dependent on Terminators for advice and will no longer really talk to humans . In Terminator Salvation , he gets mortally injured and gets the heart of a Terminator . And in the new picture show , Terminator Genisys , he … well , have ’s just say the trailers make it appear like he ’s gone to a very , very bad spot .
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