A great hero only may slay a Great One; one who by skill and courage may draw close enough to force the fatal blow.

The natives recognize Levoi as "Thunderheart", a Native American hero slain at the Wounded Knee Massacre in the past, and now reincarnated to deliver them from their current troubles.

The hero of Lewis Carroll's poem "Jabberwocky" slays the Jabberwock with a vorpal sword.

Infiltrating the Chaos Knights' stronghold, the hero slays both Gillespie and Deatharte, who had become leader of the Chaos Knights.

The role of the protagonist, "Boy," is to free the souls of the animals that the hero has slain and touch the hearts of the world's strange, warmhearted inhabitants.

One by one the hero slays the mighty demons that reside in many of Boletaria's notable locations; the Boletarian Palace, Stonefang Tunnel, Tower of Latria, Shrine of Storms and Valley of Defilement.

He says that unless the heroes slay this evil being, the scion will continue to force the Ran-Eli to destroy those working to unlock the foundations of Krynn's magic.

Maybe in romantic fantasy stories the hero could walk up to a dragon and slay it with a stab, but she did not see herself as that type of hero.

Great heroes of long ago had slain those bears in single combat, and they had been handed down in the tribe from one Goddess Woman to the next.