Looked at objectively, the hero of "Carousel" isn't very good hero material.
True, none of the young men brought to compete for Merida's hand in marriage were Disney hero material — but Merida had already made it perfectly clear that she wasn't ready for marriage to anyone.
But when you look at some of the people who have had an enduring impact on our culture today - Harvey Milk, say, or Malala Yousafzai - many of them aren't obvious hero material.
Be a Hero Material gifts are hard to argue with, but sometimes the best gift comes from the heart.
This "pre-hero" material ranges from 1933 to Action Comics #1 [the Superman debut].
It is behaviour that has built a popular hero from fairly unlikely material and has ensured that Fry's Royal Albert Hall show this month has sold out several times over.
The first 34 pages contain hero-worshipping introductory material.
Trotter, Harding, Anderton and Chase are the precocious, school-uniform-wearing, Oxbridge-material heroes at the independent "King William's School" in Birmingham.
He is artist, hero, griot, goad, gadfly, crush material.
He has sung on-stage with The Rolling Stones, recorded as-yet-unreleased material with his hero Ben E King, and on Caustic Love's "Fashion", he shares a microphone with one of 2014's most enigmatic A-listers, Janelle Monáe ("she wiped the floor with me," he says).
