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Heroes (2008 film)

Heroes (2008), originally titled Mera Bharat Mahaan, is a Hindi drama directed by Samir Karnik starring Salman Khan, Preity Zinta, and the Deols; two film students deliver Kargil martyrs' last letters on a road trip; it flopped at the box office.

Heroes (American TV series)

Heroes is an American superhero drama that aired on NBC from 2006 to 2010, following ordinary people who develop extraordinary powers, with a celebrated first season.

Heroes (Sabaton album)

Heroes (2014) is the seventh studio album by Swedish power metal band Sabaton, released by Nuclear Blast, produced by Peter Tägtgren, and the first with the Rörland, Englund, and van Dahl lineup, telling stories of individual World War II heroes.

Heroes (天行健_(网络剧))

Heroes (天行健), also known as Fushihui (浮世荟), is a 2024 Chinese 36-episode late-Qing legend drama starring Qin Junjie, Liu Yuning, and Huang Mengying; it reached a Douban score of 8.8.

Heroes (说英雄谁是英雄)

Heroes (说英雄谁是英雄, Say Hero Who is Hero) is a 2022 Chinese costume wuxia drama adapted from Wen Rui'an's ten-part novel series, directed by Li Muge, starring Zeng Shunxi, Yang Chaoyue, and Liu Yuning; 38 episodes on Tencent Video from May 23, 2022, reaching 1.5 billion views.

Heroes & Icons

Heroes & Icons (H&I) is Weigel Broadcasting's American digital multicast network, soft-launched September 28, 2014, airing classic action, western, crime, sci-fi, and superhero series from the 1950s to 2000s, including the nightly All Star Trek block.

Heroes Are Hard to Find

Heroes Are Hard to Find is Fleetwood Mac's ninth studio album, released September 13, 1974 on Reprise; the last with Bob Welch, first recorded in Los Angeles, peaking at No. 34 on the Billboard 200.

Héroes del Silencio

Héroes del Silencio, also known as Heroes del Silencio, is a Spanish rock band from Zaragoza formed in 1984, led by singer Enrique Bunbury until their 1996 split.

Heroes for Hire

Heroes for Hire is a Marvel Comics superhero business and team founded by Luke Cage and Iron Fist in Power Man and Iron Fist #54 (1978), later revived as team series in 1997, 2006, and 2010, distinct from the Avengers or Defenders.

Héroes Inmortales (2026)

Héroes Inmortales 2026, the 18th edition of AAA's Antonio Peña tribute show, is a WWE-partnered premium live event on October 24, 2026 at Gimnasio Olímpico Juan de la Barrera, Mexico City, headlined by El Grande Americano defending the AAA Mega Championship against Dominik Mysterio.

Héroes Inmortales XVII

Héroes Inmortales XVII (Héroes Inmortales 2025), AAA's annual Antonio Peña tribute pay-per-view, held October 25, 2025 at Gimnasio Olímpico Juan de la Barrera, Mexico City; Dominik Mysterio retained the AAA Mega Championship against Dragon Lee.

Heroes Next Door (니 옆자리 히어로)

Heroes Next Door (니 옆자리 히어로), also titled UDT: Our Neighborhood Special Forces, is a 2025 South Korean action-comedy series starring Yoon Kye-sang and Jin Sun-kyu as former special forces soldiers.

Heroes of Might and Magic

Heroes of Might and Magic (HoMM) is a turn-based fantasy strategy series spun off from the Might and Magic RPGs, created by New World Computing in 1995, owned by Ubisoft since 2003, and revived in 2026 by Olden Era and a Heroes 3 Remake.

Heroes of Might and Magic III

Heroes of Might and Magic III, subtitled The Restoration of Erathia, is a 1999 turn-based strategy game by New World Computing, published for Windows by 3DO.

Heroes of Might and Magic III: Horn of the Abyss

Horn of the Abyss (HotA) is a fan-made global expansion for Heroes of Might and Magic III adding Cove, Factory, and Bulwark towns, campaigns, spell research, and balance fixes; requires Shadow of Death or Complete, not HD Edition.

Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era

Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era, a turn-based strategy prequel by Unfrozen and Hooded Horse set on Jadame, entered Steam Early Access April 30, 2026 with six factions and sold one million copies in a month.

Heroes of Newerth

Heroes of Newerth (HoN), a 2010 DotA-based MOBA by S2 Games on the K2 engine, sold to Garena 2015, run by Frostburn Studios, shut down 2022, revived as HoN: Reborn in 2025.

Heroes of the Storm

Heroes of the Storm (HotS) is Blizzard Entertainment's free-to-play 5v5 MOBA, launched June 2, 2015, known for shared team experience, talents instead of items, and multiple battlegrounds; revived at BlizzCon 2026 with hero Xal'atath.

Heroes Reborn (1996 comic)

Heroes Reborn (ヒーローズ・リボーン) was Marvel's 1996 event outsourcing Avengers, Captain America, Fantastic Four, and Iron Man to Jim Lee's WildStorm and Rob Liefeld's Extreme Studios, rebooting all four at #1 for a 13-issue run inside Franklin Richards's pocket universe.

Heroes Reborn (miniseries)

Heroes Reborn (miniseries) is NBC's 2015 13-episode sequel to Tim Kring's Heroes, set five years later in a world hunting evos after an Odessa terrorist attack; starring Jack Coleman and Zachary Levi, canceled after one season.

Heroes Two (方世玉与洪熙官)

Heroes Two (方世玉與洪熙官, aka Kung Fu Invaders) is a 1974 Shaw Brothers martial arts film directed by Chang Cheh with Chen Kuan-tai and Fu Sheng, first of his Taiwan-made southern Shaolin cycle.

Heroes' Acre (Zimbabwe)

Heroes' Acre is a 57-acre national memorial shrine on a ridge west of Harare, built from 1981 and designed with North Korean help, where Zimbabweans designated national heroes are buried.

Herogasm

Herogasm is a six-issue 2009 Dynamite Entertainment comic miniseries, the first spin-off of Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson's The Boys, drawn by John McCrea, depicting superheroes' secret sex-and-drugs retreat, adapted as The Boys season 3 episode 6 in 2022.

Heroic couplet

A heroic couplet is a pair of rhyming lines of iambic pentameter, first used by Chaucer and dominant in eighteenth-century English poetry through Dryden and Pope.

Heroic drama

Heroic drama is a genre of English Restoration theater, popular from about 1660 to 1700, in which idealized heroes confront conflicts of love and honor in rhymed verse.

Heroic Legend of the Yang's Family (碧血青天杨家将)

碧血青天杨家将 (Heroic Legend of the Yang's Family), 1994 Hong Kong ATV 30-episode costume drama fusing Justice Bao and the Yang family generals; starring 金超群 as 包拯, sequel 碧海青天珍珠旗.

Heroides

The Heroides is a collection of twenty-one fictional verse letters by Ovid, in which mythological women such as Penelope, Dido, and Medea write to the men who wronged them.

Heroin

Heroin (diacetylmorphine, diamorphine) is a semi-synthetic opioid first synthesized in 1874 by C.R. Wright and marketed by Bayer from 1898 as a cough medicine; now a Schedule I illicit drug, roughly 2-3 times more potent than morphine.

Heroin chic

Heroin chic: 1990s fashion photography aesthetic of emaciation, pale skin, dark circles, and androgyny, tied to Kate Moss and Corinne Day, condemned by Bill Clinton in 1997, revived in the 2020s.

Heroine (2012 film)

Heroine is a 2012 Hindi-language drama film directed and co-written by Madhur Bhandarkar, starring Kareena Kapoor as a Bollywood superstar whose career and personal life unravel.