>>113939695>SUBVERTS EXPECTATIONSActually no, and this the problem with anybody who uses post-modernism, deconstructionism or post-irony unironically: Classical heroes had a history of Martyrdom before Christianity. Hercules didn't make it and neither did Leonidas, Hei Sei the first sovereign emperor of China and last of the demi-men has to ascend to the greater heaven to make way for the later empires of man, Anasi the spider-god is trapped between heaven and earth is a proto-god form for giving men fire ect. ect.
Then you have the fact that the tradition is taken by Christians and mixed like a punch into other cultures. Beowulf, King Arthur, Charlemagne, each see's their legend transformed by the hero not being allowed to remain post-legend. Like
>>113940004 said it didn't subvert anything, SU for all of it's supposed changes to a classical narrative is a traditional bards tale (about a galactic empire of Alien robot-gems.)
