Post 9: Modern Day Epic Hero

An epic hero is defined as a character in a poem who is noble and brave and is affected by great events or admired by his achievements.

In the CrashCourse video, John Green states that tragedy is most interesting when the mostly good character makes a big mistake. This invokes compassion and more emotion from the audience. This statement made me think of the animated movie called Home.

In this movie, the alien named Oh, is a clumsy alien and most of the other aliens do not like him. However, the audience cant help but to fall in love with his cute, quirky character. But since Oh is clumsy, he makes a big mistake and ends up sending out an email to the "bad guy" telling him where him and his people are moving to. Long story short, Oh ends up fixing the situation, with the help of his human friend Tip. While fixing his mistake, he leads his new friend back to her mom and he helps save the planet Earth. Oh shows bravery when he is on is journey to fix his mistake.

The aliens who first did not like Oh and were annoyed by him, end up admiring him for his achievement and befriend him.