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The Hero's Journey - Joseph Campbell

- Applies to every story

- 'following your bliss'

- Deep inner journey of transformation that hero's in every time and place share

- Separation

- Descent

- Ordeal

- Return

The Hero's journey is an inner voyage and an external adventure

THERE ARE 12 STEPS

The Ordinary World - the hero conforms to social norms and is a lesser version of themselves.
Call to adventure - destiny has summoned the hero
Refusal of the call - the hero will almost always refuse the call at the start due to fear and insecurities.
Meeting the mentor - The mentor gives the hero wisdom and guidance
Crossing the first threshold - hero goes from the ordinary world to the special world- point of no return - life will never be the same.
Tests, allies and enemies - The hero learns the rules of the special world - makes friends but also has difficult enemies.
Approach to the inner most cave - inner conflict the hero hasn't faced.
The Ordeal - deep inner crisis - form of death can be reborn/ metaphorical resurrection - high point of hero's story.
The reward - hero receives reward - love, object, wisdom etc...
The road back - marks a decisions to return to the ordinary world - dark past coming back to haunt. (KNOWN AS ACT 3) if the hero hasn't resolved conflict with the conquered villain - it will come after him with a vengeance
Resurrection - death and darkness is encountered one last time - stakes at its highest - threat is to the world not just the hero - hero uses all lessons learned and becomes a new person - EGO DEATH: triggers an enlightening experience or it could be going through the darkest depths of our psyche.
Return with Elixir - treasure or new understanding that the hero takes to the ordinary world to heal his/her wounds and to help others, if something isn't take back to the ordinary world from the ordeal the hero is doomed to keep doing the same thing until the lesson is learned - painful karmic cycle. Not a linear path.

An example of the Hero's journey:

Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 1:

Peter's mother dies and he's is taken by Yondu - leader of space pirates

-26 years later- Peter finds an Orb and tries to steal it but Ronan's cyborgs intercept him, he escapes with the orb but people are after him

Yondu releases a bounty on Peter

Peter tries to sell the Orb but Gamora (assassin) ambushes him which draws in two others who want the bounty on Peter - the four are taken to the Kyln - prison

Drax tries to kill Gamora for what her father - Thanos - has done to his family

Peter convinces him other wise and Gamora tells the group that she is going against her father and has a buyer for the Orb so it doesn't get to Thanos and Ronan.

The group work together and escape the prison

They had to Knowhere - a planet for criminals where Gamora's buyer - the collector - is. The collector opens up the Orb to find an infinity stone which has the power to destroy planets - he aggravates his assistant to she grabs onto the Orb creating an explosion.

Drax tells Ronan of their whereabouts in order to defeat him - but fails - Ronan manages to get the Orb after chasing the group out into space - Gamora is in space dying when Peter tells Yondu where they are and then sacrifices his oxygen mask to save her - Yondu comes and takes them.

Peter makes a deal with Yondu and says that the Orb can be stolen back before Ronan and/or Thanos uses it.

Ronan threatens to kill Thanos with the Orb that has been put into his jack hammer and Gamroa's sister, Nebula, sides with Ronan.

Peter teams up with the Nova Core to defeat Ronan as they plan how to take him down.

As they attack Ronans ship - The Dark Aster - but doing so Nebula gets away, as Rocket takes out Ronan by crashing a ship into the Dark Aster, the Aster falls to the city - Groot makes a tree circle in order to protect everyone.

Groot's gone and Ronan is about t use the Orb to destroy Zandar but Peter distracts him which enables Drax and Rocket to destroy Ronan's hammer. - the stone falls out and Peter catches it filling him, then Gamora, Drax and Rocket with it's power and they destroy Ronan.

They all survive, unlike the assistant.

Yondu comes and forces Peter to give up the stone and Peter gives him a case with a doll inside, not the Orb

They give the Orb to the Nova core, in return the Nova core fixes Peter's ship, wipe out their criminal records and informs Peter that he's only half human.

1. THE ORDINARY WORLD

3. MEETING THE MENTORS

6. TESTS, ALLIES AND ENEMIES

7. APPROACH TO THE INNER CAVE

8. THE ORDEAL

10. THE ROAD BACK

9. THE REWARD

12. RETURN WITH THE ELIXIR