A consultant who is close to the Schwarzenegger team told me that some of his people thought that once he was elected he should leave the bodybuilding and action-hero references behind him — they might seem a little tacky, now that he was governor.
His name was Olympic Hero, a reference to WWE (well, WWF at the time) wrestler Kurt Angle.
The movement adopted former Venezuelan leader Simón Bolívar as its "iconic hero" and "reference point"; Bolívar had played a key role in Latin America's successful struggle for independence from Spain in the 1820s.
A banner on a brick wall at the eastern edge of the town says "The District of Heroes," a reference to this neighborhood where many took up arms and died in the worst fighting of the year-old American military occupation.
In the Poetic Edda poem Helgakviða Hundingsbana I, the hero Sinfjötli references Sága in the name of a location found in a stanza where Sinfjötli flyts with Guðmundr.
These stories implicitly, sometimes explicitly, question the reliability and sanity of the heroine or hero, and often reference social or political issues of the day.
Another line in the song, "where Ajmal Kasab is a hero," makes a reference to the only surviving Pakistani gunman involved in the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India.
Who is the hero that's referenced there?
The object is to obtain (if possible, without their knowing it) a great deal of information about their life-styles, belief systems, value systems, media habits, opinion changes, heroes, role models, reference groups, and so forth.
