It is well known for making machinima – dramas produced, like Red vs Blue, within games – but it also does live-action like Lazer Team, an upcoming sci-fi comedy film based on four hapless heroes charged with saving the world from an alien invasion.
Enter John Spano, a hero charged with saving the organization from a possible move out of their Uniondale home.
And tonight, the superb Darren Boyd plays ex-athlete Dave Wellbeck, now an "Official 2012 Hero" charged with inspiring the nation's youth about sport.
None of this applies to what could be the most intensely embarrassing film imaginable – United Passions, a drama about the history of Fifa and those fascinating flawed heroes in charge.
Your description of Rupert Murdoch and Paul Dacre as "have-a-go heroes… charged with protecting Britain's ancient principle of freedom of speech" is laughable.
Still, they wanted to face their fans the way they did last year — conquering heroes who charged into the playoffs after winning their final home game.
The author's real aim is to exonerate his hero from the charge that heroes always face: that history would have been much the same without them.
That may be going too far for many of us, but it's much sexier than a guy on the couch asking, "So babe, what take out should we order?" Author Christa Wick has an interesting -- and pro-feminist -- interpretation of the appeal of this type of hero who takes charge: "powerful dominant heroes let me have a heroine of substance and competency that can still be bowled over by a lover".
In Andrew Miller's 2011 historical novel, Pure, set just before the French Revolution, the young hero is charged with moving hundreds of long-dead bodies out of the centre of Paris.
But looking into the eyes of Scott the waiter and George the bellman makes me very grateful that Stuart Yule and George Compas -- two solid, prepared heroes were in charge of the hotel security.
