folk hero
noun
: a person who is greatly admired by many people of a particular kind or in a particular place
He has become a folk hero in his home state because of the work he has done to help poor children.
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Online retailers have been forced to deal with Mangione-specific merchandise, too, much of it catering to those who have turned Mangione into something of a folk hero in light of their immense dissatisfaction with America’s privatized healthcare system.
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Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
Where Van Sant gets serious is in the film’s incendiary final stretch, which seems to agree with many of the characters that Kiritsis is a folk hero.
—Katie Rife, IndieWire, 2 Sep. 2025
After meeting a whistleblower (Taylour Paige) aiming to reveal the company’s poisonous shenanigans, Winston runs afoul of punk-band baddies who toss him and his radioactive mop into a toxic-waste pool, and the reluctant superdude becomes a popular folk hero standing up for the people who need him.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
This is because the main character of Ninja Scroll, Kibagami Jubei, was meant to be a reference to the Japanese folk hero Yagyu Jubei Mitsuyoshi from the 17th century.
—Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
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Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
Where Van Sant gets serious is in the film’s incendiary final stretch, which seems to agree with many of the characters that Kiritsis is a folk hero.
—Katie Rife, IndieWire, 2 Sep. 2025
After meeting a whistleblower (Taylour Paige) aiming to reveal the company’s poisonous shenanigans, Winston runs afoul of punk-band baddies who toss him and his radioactive mop into a toxic-waste pool, and the reluctant superdude becomes a popular folk hero standing up for the people who need him.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
This is because the main character of Ninja Scroll, Kibagami Jubei, was meant to be a reference to the Japanese folk hero Yagyu Jubei Mitsuyoshi from the 17th century.
—Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
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“Folk hero.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/folk%20hero. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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