The false hero is a character in fairy tales that appears near the end of a story in order to claim to be the hero or heroine. The false hero presents some claim to the position, but by testing (vetting), it is revealed that their claims are false, and that the real hero’s are true. The false hero is usually then punished, and the true hero put in their rightful place. A false protagonist is a literary technique, often used to make the plot more jarring or more memorable by fooling the audience’s preconceptions, that constructs a character who the…
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