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This time, England did overcome the pressure, with Knight's luck and heroics to thank.

Hernández, 34, owes much of his fall heroics simply to the opportunity to play on the sport’s biggest stage.

Characters engaged in the show’s death games are neither entirely heroic nor villainous as they make decisions out of self-preservation that spell doom for their fellow players.

Assassinations and violent deaths, in particular, tend to be interpreted in sacred terms: The person becomes a secular martyr who made a heroic sacrifice.

With his Buzz Lightyear-like square jaw and clean cut appearance, he comes across as the archetypical heroic astronaut.