After about fifteen minutes of heroic tales of «brilliant» business ideas failing in a wonderful fashion, I finally got to the point. (nicholasreese.com)
God is basically writing his own heroic tale where he comes in at the end and saves the day. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
In his 1949 book Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell pioneered the idea of the «monomyth» (though the term was borrowed from James Joyce), a universal pattern in heroic tales across different cultures and genres. (en.wikipedia.org)