Here’s some vocabulary from my Women’s Conversation Club meeting yesterday!

We were talking about the characters in books and films.

Hero = a main male character in a story

Heroine = a main female character in a story

“Hero” and “heroine” can mean a person who does good or brave things, but it can also just mean somebody more ordinary who is just a main character in a story.

Anti-hero / anti-heroine = the main character of a story who doesn’t have the good qualities of a typical hero or heroine. E.g. Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind or Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones

Villain = the bad guy, especially in a superhero story or a film like James Bond, like Darth Vader in Star Wars, The Joker, in Batman or Blofeld in James Bond films.

Goodies and baddies = an informal way to talk about the good and bad characters in a story, especially in sci-fi, fantasy, crime stories, superhero stories and so on - anything where you have good fighting evil.

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