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John Izod's suggestions
For male (and a few female) heroes and anti-heroes see almost every Western ever published or released on screen.
Superb examples of female heroes are found in The Silence of the Lambs, The Piano, and Morvern Callar (both book and film).
An ersatz and therefore wholly appropriate goddess for the USA in our time was created by a paranoid male character. She beams down from the screen in S1møne switching from benignity to malevolence with the whiplash energy of a true anima.
Dave, the astronaut in 2001: A Space Odyssey, expires beyond Jupiter where he reincarnates as star-child becoming a god rich in human dignity and archetypal beauty, and, best of all, wholly devoid of dogma.