„If he’d been a hero, he would have taken the opportunity to say, “That’s what I call sorted!” Since he wasn’t a hero, he threw up.“

— Terry Pratchett
„Take this Hercules — this hero! Hero, indeed! What was he but a large muscular creature of low intelligence and criminal tendencies!“
— Agatha Christie
„He was obviously dead. But since he was a vampire that wasn't as hopeless a thing as it might have been.“
— Patricia Briggs