Jack is the most common name used in English language nursery rhymes and by the 18th century represented an archetypal Everyman hero, while by the end of the Middle Ages Jill or Gill had come to mean a young girl or a sweetheart.

Doyle balloons him from grit-sharp, fiery-tongued picaresque into a mythic Everyman hero.

Santo, whose real name was Adolfo Guzman Huerta, became a sort of Everyman hero who stood up for the rights of the oppressed.

The festival will revive it for the first time since 1979, with Edward Villella coming out of retirement to re-create his original role as the Everyman hero meditating upon the life cycle.

The Everyman heroes protect the crowd and Obsidian is talked out of doing anything drastic.

All these competitions mold the contestants into Everyman heroes.

Plastic Man's son is also shown in costume, and identified as Offspring, in the 2007 52 Week 35 (written by Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka and Mark Waid) when he is injured while rescuing a number of the depowered Everyman heroes.

The shock of Mel Gibson's "Passion of the Christ" was partly that Hollywood's Everyman hero - an archetype that Jewish film moguls had helped to create - suddenly seemed to be holding up a "black cross against flawless light" and making salvation a matter that excluded Jews.

Intimations of Mortality In "The Lay of the Land," Frank Bascombe, the Everyman hero of two of Richard Ford's earlier novels, is 55 and struggling with the overwhelming facts of illness, politics and family.