This was the opener for both teams, and the 24,523 fans at Rutgers Stadium fidgeted as the local heroes struggled.

In their role as adversary, the villain serves as an obstacle the hero must struggle to overcome.

Now the hero is struggling simply to do things right.

This is when the hero causes the very problem he is fighting to solve, or is just struggling to save his own miserable skin.

The hero struggled on, however.

Even as he fights his Moscow retreat, her dismal hero struggles with memory.

This novel's young hero struggles to get his homeless family out of a filthy motel.

In this commercial, the heroes went to a movie and struggled to find money for popcorn.

Here the hero does not battle monsters or rescue beautiful women, but rather struggles to retrieve a blanket he has lost.

Sensing the incestuous relationship between his father and older sister, the film's wordless, baleful young hero struggles to come to terms with this household horror.