Heroes Act, Villains Hinder: Difference between revisions

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* Most [[Romantic Comedy|Romantic]] and Tragic Comedies are boy and girl wants each other and their jobs, jealous rivals and social statuses are keeping them apart.

* Fairy tales where the child had a goal at the beginning, such as Little Red Riding Hood, Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters, Aladdin, etc.

* The protagonist of an "escape plot" gets their own ball rolling by trying to escape their personal prison.

** ''[[Apollo 13]]'', ''[[The Perfect Storm]]'' (though you could argue the storm itself is an active villain).

* War movies and [[Video Games]] in which the heroes are on the offense. The [[Mooks]]' goal is just to wait for you to come to them, and then kill you.

* In the ''Firestar'' series, the protagonist is an industrialist who, since she was a teenage girl, has been throwing everything into a space program so that humanity can incinerate any threatening asteroids. (Or [[The Final Frontier|get out of the way.]]) Her antagonists are surprisingly sympathetic Luddites, competing business interests, and people who have a grudge against her because of all the control issues she's gotten from decades believing the fate of humanity rests on her shoulders.

* There was a [[Superman]] storyarc called ''Panic in the Sky'' which was written specifically to avert [[Villains Act, Heroes React]]. Superman and a team of heroes purposefully go after a villain instead of waiting around for the bad guy to act first.

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