The phrase "active hero" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a character or person who takes initiative and engages in heroic actions or behaviors.
Example: "In the story, the active hero confronts challenges head-on, inspiring others to join the fight for justice."
Alternatives: "proactive hero" or "engaged hero".
And this is a real part of the problem; that while we are seeing so many women as victims in our films and our dramas, we seem to be seeing fewer women as active heroes.
While there are any number of parts for women who are ready to play prostitutes and victims, there are few that are prepared to show them as active heroes.
Ingrid Herrera-Yee is donating her Jetson E-Bike to Active Heroes to help military families displaced by Hurricane Sandy.
For example, their next event is the Holiday Challenge featuring Team Santa v. Team Mrs. Claus to benefit Active Heroes, another wonderful non-profit helping our military families, veterans, and active duty with financial assistance and job placement.
Within the kind of religious apprehension that is expressed in sacred myth and ritual, however, there is a special focus on time, place (cosmos), and active agents (heroes, ancestors, divinities).
Pro-active, Cautionary Heroes are individuals who become aware of corruption, malfeasance, or injustice in corporations and institutions and they work to challenge and thereby change it for the better.
If Mr. Law's Prince seems way too active for a hero known for inaction, no one is going to argue when Ophelia calls him "the glass of fashion".
One reason for the active engagement, Mr. Hero said, is that instead of giving money away at the end of their lives, people are giving it away while still young.
The criminal, Highsmith said, was the perfect example of the modern hero, "active, free in spirit".One question that inevitably arises is how much Patricia Highsmith, a woman of the utmost public respectability, who never even diddled the taxman of a penny, lived another awful life deep in the dungeons of her mind.
Two of the greatest novels from America's next two major wars, both written by active participants, feature heroes who desert.
