Flipping Heroes
If we are looking for heroes who appear innately more moral, chivalrous, and "heroic" than ourselves, what do we do when heroes appear as individuals like the new Dracula of the 2014 Dracula Untold film?
Do we accept a hero presented as evil just because the tale suggests he became that evil in order to save others and become the hero? At what point must the line be drawn between hero and villain?
Perhaps, the stepsister in Disney's Cinderella can be redeemed, but to have a seemingly irredeemable figure, such as Dracula, appear as the hero of the tale is a growing trend in media, which I cannot help but question.
After all, with the rise of apocalyptic texts, especially zombie tales like The Walking Dead, the line between good/bad and hero/villain seemed firm until Warm Bodies slipped into the mix, followed by Dracula Untold and others.