Kogii represents Kogito's guilt (he was meant to accompany his father), his fear (he overheard his father's part in a plot to bomb the Imperial Palace) and his grief, both for his actual parent and the heroic ideal he represented.
If not the actual raids on these heroic waterworks, at least the 1954 Michael Andrews-directed film of the same name, starring Michael Redgrave as Barnes Wallis, inventor of the bouncing bomb - and the Wellington bomber - and Richard Todd as Squadron Leader Guy Gibson, the pugnacious 24-year-old commander of the raid; and, of course, the theme tune.
Scott Weinberg of eFilmCritic called the 1994 Fantastic Four film a "painfully silly film, one with more heroic intentions than actual assets".
That was why the Swiftboat ads were so devastating to Kerry, as they all-too-successfully offered an alternative negative narrative to the actual story of Kerry's heroic military history.
Vastly to be preferred is the fleeting dream of greatness with Antony, both of them unfettered, godlike, like Isis and Osiris, immortalized as heroic lovers even if the actual circumstances of their lives were often disappointing and even tawdry.
The ancient rabbis were dismayed by the behaviour of the Maccabees and the apparent absence of any divine input into the actual story of Hanukah (which was a heroic but purely military defeat of the Greeks who ruled Judea).
Having exhausted his heroic imagination, Walter swelled into an actual hero for the rest of the movie, and the same applies here, as he jets to Greenland and Afghanistan, leaps from helicopters, and tussles with sharks.
Game of Thrones presents a classic example of a heroic fantasy that lacks just one thing: actual heroes.
A truly heroic piece, it's fervor reminds us that real divinity exists in actual humanity.
And it does so because the park's heroic collection of eyecatchers and natural beauty put the actual, mad palace in its place.
