good guy

noun

: a morally correct person or character : a hero

It's hard to tell the good guys from the bad guys in this movie.

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More Professional Wrestling: Triple H Claims Today's WWE is 'Bigger Than The Attitude Era' Eventually, Copeland became a singles star, operating as the perfect foil to John Cena's All-American good guy. —

Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024 The traditional British pantomime season means that for every good guy, there’s a bad Santa waiting to shake up the Christmas decorations. —

Tim Ellis, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024 Both series are modern takes on the Indy formula, with different shades of good guy adventurers searching for relics and righteously kicking bad guy ass to prevent dangerous artifacts from falling into the wrong hands. —

Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 10 Dec. 2024 But with The Order, Law seems to have found some other register and tapped into something way more interesting than the usual noble-but-flawed good guy routine. —

David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for good guy