Abstract
Abstract This chapter considers killer-heroes celebrated in every culture, who are upheld to inspire emulation by novice fighters and admiration by civilians. The most acclaimed heroes were also the best killers in classical epics from ancient Greece, Pharaonic Egypt, medieval India, Ming China, and pre-Meiji Japan. Killer-heroes populate heroic poetry, sprawling novels, and now feature films. The chapter reviews the reputation for killing prowess that serves as a feared model to be imitated by ordinary soldiers and is said to represent moral as well as physical courage and superiority. Hero stories about great killers raise morale, or the willingness to fight, in every prideful culture and each flagging nation.
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