unheroes

Noun

unhero (plural unheroes)

1. One who is not a hero; a nonhero.
   • On one level of meaning this unhero is clearly a political statement, a protest of the military and governmental authority. But he is not that alone; he is also a statement against all masculine assertion as this has been traditionally understood. The unhero nevertheless has his unheroine mate.1978, Partisan Review, volume 45, page 505
2. A hero who does not fit the archetype of a hero; an antihero.
   • Everyone in the story is absolutely outside time, everything in it is terribly old-fashioned and affected, the "hero" with all of his experiences is infinitely shallow, pompous, and low-standard. He is in principle an "unhero" and everything in the story is in principle deheroized.1963, Foreign Press Digest: Soviet Union, page 44