Beneath their tights and spandex, these valiant characters are entertainment franchises managed by teams of executives for whom creativity and chance-taking are their own personal form of Kryptonite.
His favorite -- he couldn't get enough of it -- was the tale of the mythical warrior Amir Hamza, whose close encounters with demons, dragons and giants come straight from folk tradition, but whose valiant and circumspect character corresponds to a Persian ideal of the princely hero.
That's the valiant Aussie quality".
(The comic strip character Prince Valiant was of Norse blood, but he acted in a manner befitting a knight of King Arthur's court, not as a Viking raider might).
The beautiful Ubisoft title Valiant Hearts, about four characters attempting to help a German soldier, is a puzzle adventure that told human stories.
JoAnn Cunningham, as Alex's wise old muse, Hannah, makes a valiant effort to give the character some depth, but she isn't helped by the writers.
It's nice that everyone's making comics now, but it also feels like we're moving farther away from a world where people could do the things that Hal Foster could do and where people could identify with a character like Prince Valiant.
That same year, McGregor voiced two successful animated features; he played the robot Rodney Copperbottom in Robots, which also featured the voices of Halle Berry and Robin Williams, and he voiced the lead character in Gary Chapman's Valiant, alongside Jim Broadbent, John Cleese and Ricky Gervais.
Cruise turns to this devastating period and to a character who ambiguously seems valiant in his goals and means, except that he was an arch-conservative whose goals sometimes intersected with Hitler's.
What at first seems craziest about Wright's characters is often a valiant attempt to make meaning in the face of a void.
The characters, including the inevitably valiant warriors who aide Perseus during his computer-assisted adventures, are as predictable as the action scenes, which is what some companies want when they manufacture global products of this type.
