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Five heroic characters I feel sorry for
Five heroic characters I feel sorry for
Fantasy and Science Fiction are largely escapist and that means that in some way the characters are meant to represent us allowing us to imagine ourselves as great heroes who save the day and get the girl. The problem with this is that in order for any of this to work as a story there has to ...
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