Combining or mixing heroic and comic elements; treating serious or grand subjects in a humorous way.
From heroic plus comic (from Latin comicus, Greek kōmikos), a blend of two adjectives creating a new term for a mixed literary mode.
Heroicomic describes works like Paradise Lost's Satan or Don Quixote—characters so earnestly heroic they become funny, which is basically the plot of every superhero comedy ever made.
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