Heroic
Heroic adjective - Feeling or displaying no fear by temperament.
Idealistic and heroic are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Idealistic" instead an adjective "Heroic".
Idealistic
Idealistic adjective - Having or marked by a tendency to be guided more by ideals than by reality.
Heroic and idealistic are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Heroic" instead an adjective "Idealistic".
Both words in one sentence
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In the sequel, Salem is, from early trailers and the demo, more idealistic/heroic and Rios is just jaded and bitter, essentially trading positions.
Source: Video Game / Army of Two - Sure, the people they kill are bad guys, and trying to kill them, and they also happen to be trained soldiers, but... Rios is arguably the more heroic/idealistic one in the original.
Source: Video Game / Army of Two -
Honor Before Reason is explicitly idealistic and heroic, whereas Principles Zealot is an idealistic character, but is on the cynical side of that Sliding Scale.
Source: Principles Zealot
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