An admirer calls him a "true existential hero."

His protagonists are existential heroes who define themselves through action - violent action.

In many ways I'm the defender of a dying breed, the existential hero.

I wanted to place an existential hero in a city based on greed.

Mr. Romand seems to have swallowed the notion of himself as a tragic figure, a kind of existential hero.

Like an existential hero, I have been cured by the truth while they still suffer the nausea of the uninitiated.

Thus she becomes, in a sense, the precursor of today's existential hero(ine).

The show's press materials maintain that he's an existential hero along the lines of Holden Caulfield.

They are the existential heroes of the set, the leaders of the crew.

His Simon is an existential hero of surpassing glumness.