Heroic Bastard: Difference between revisions

** Even [[Marvel Comics 2]] has a few. Wolverine's son, Sabreclaw, who was a [[Bastard Bastard|double bastard]] before his Heel Face Turn. His mother's still unknown. And then there's Darkdevil, {{spoiler|son of Spider-Clone Ben Reilly and his imprisoned girlfriend}}.

** [[Blade]]

* Wesley in ''[[Wanted (Comic Book)|Wanted]]'' is known to have been a bastard. In the comic book he's a Sociopathic Bastard, whilst in the film, he runs the gamut from Poor Bastard to Anti-Hero Bastard to Magnificent Bastard.

* {{spoiler|Laurie Juspeczyk (Silk Spectre II)}} from ''[[Watchmen (comics)|Watchmen]]'', who realizes late in the book that {{spoiler|she was the result of a consensual affair with the Comedian, who had previously tried to rape her mother}}.

 

== Folklore and Mythology ==

** In fact, the whole of the Heroic Age in [[Classical Mythology]] was basically about a bunch of heroes (which is a Greek word, by the way) who were mostly badass extramarital children of Olympian gods (first of all, Zeus), making them the [[Ur Example]] of Heroic Bastard (both in academic sense and often personality-wise).

* A startlingly large number of the protagonists in classic Arthurian myth are illegitimate, to wit:

* The term "hero" is debatable, but Francis Wilkerson from ''[[Malcolm in the Middle]]'' was born during the wedding ceremony between Hal and Lois.

* In a DVD extra to accompany the series, Hal, in [[Being Human (UK)]] tells Leo that he was raised in a brothel by six prostitutes, but that he never knew which of them was his mother. Ironically, he's often called Lord Hal by the other vampires, because he's one of the 'old ones'.

 

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