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TO BE HERO X (2025)

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TO BE HERO X (2025)

Overview

In a world full of brilliant heroes, it’s the trust of fans that turns heroes into superheroes. If a hero loses the people’s trust, they lose their special abilities. Trust value is collected, quantified, and used to determine a hero’s ranking, displayed on their wrist. Every two years, the top heroes go to a tournament to fight, determine new trust values, and earn their rankings.


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Rating & Dimensions

Bias Rating
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Leans Progressive

Political: Strong Left
Diversity: Moderate
LGBTQ: Neutral

Viewer Rating
8.7

Overview

In a world full of brilliant heroes, it’s the trust of fans that turns heroes into superheroes. If a hero loses the people’s trust, they lose their special abilities. Trust value is collected, quantified, and used to determine a hero’s ranking, displayed on their wrist. Every two years, the top heroes go to a tournament to fight, determine new trust values, and earn their rankings.


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Where to watch

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Detailed Bias Analysis

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Leans Progressive

Primary

The film's central thesis explicitly promotes progressive ideology by focusing on feminism, social justice, and identity politics, critiquing patriarchal structures and advocating for female empowerment and inclusivity.

The movie integrates DEI themes by promoting an inclusive concept of heroism, where anyone can achieve hero status based on public trust, and by empowering underdog characters. Its narrative focuses on universal themes of community and personal transformation, rather than explicitly addressing specific U.S. DEI issues related to race, gender identity, or sexual orientation.

Secondary

TO BE HERO X features subtle, ambiguous hints of LGBTQ+ relationships and themes, including close affectionate bonds between characters and mentions of lesbian overtones. These elements are not explicitly confirmed, deeply explored, or central to the narrative, resulting in an incidental portrayal that neither strongly affirms nor denigrates queer identity.

TO BE HERO X does not feature any explicit transsexual characters or themes. While it includes ambiguous queer subtext in male-male relationships and strong female character arcs challenging gender norms, it does not extend to trans identities or communities, aligning with broader trends in Chinese animation regarding LGBTQ+ content.

The show features female characters, notably Min, who engage in combat. However, their victories against male opponents primarily rely on the use of significant superpowers, such as monster transformations or energy blasts, rather than skill, strength, or martial arts in close-quarters physical combat.

To Be Hero X is an original series without pre-existing source material or historical figures. Therefore, no characters have a prior established gender to compare against their on-screen portrayal, meaning no gender swaps occur.

The characters in "TO BE HERO X" are consistently portrayed as East Asian, aligning with their Chinese origins in the source material and setting. There is no indication of any character being depicted as a different race than originally established.


Viewer Rating Breakdown

8.7

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

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8.6
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8.8

Critic Ratings

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N/A
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