Captor and Hero

Captor

Captor noun - A person who captures and holds people or animals.

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Hero and captor are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Hero" instead a noun "Captor".

Nearby Words: capture, captive

Hero noun - A person who is the object of extreme or uncritical devotion.

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Captor and hero are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Captor" instead a noun "Hero".

Nearby Words: heroic, heroine, heroism, heroically

fellow	fellow captor	fellow hero
female	female captor	female hero
typical	typical captor	typical hero
alien	alien captor	alien hero
Other adjectives: original, fake, true, male, new, former, different, previous.

In the end, the creatures rebel against their captor, escape, and the hero is left permanently changed by his time with them.

Source: Surprisingly Similar Stories / Uncited Entries
But, if the captor is Evil or an Anti-Hero, the more frequent Double Subversion may come into play, where the captor keeps going even though the individual doesn't know anything.

Source: Interrogated for Nothing
A deposed tyrant, he has two scenes where he tries to make his captor, Silas, as vile as he is, and another where he speaks to The Hero, David, before he is to be executed.

Source: One Scene Wonder / Live-Action TV

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