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title: "Failing to win - why we love the inept, reluctant and annoying heroes"
description: "Failing to win - why we love the inept, reluctant and annoying heroes"
date: "2026-06-08"
created: "2026-06-08"
---

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# Failing to win - why we love the inept, reluctant and annoying heroes

Talk by Maria Månson.

                        lørdag
                        19. september

                            Klokken
                            14.30 - 15.30

                        Mødesalen, Musikhuset Esbjerg, Havnegade 18

                        Esbjerg

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Maria Månson explores the inept heroes who fail to win. She visits much-loved fantasy universes and finds the annoying, the clingy, the frugal, the lazy and inept heroes and examines why we love them so much? Come and learn why failing to win may be the best strategy, both in film and in real life.

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