Antagonist’s back story.
Develop Hero and his Romantic Challenge: Bob with Helen on the rooftop.
Antagonist Motivated: Bob rejects Buddy.
Going on a Journey: Bob and Helen get married; their challenges made explicit.
Foreshadow of the Journey: Bob tempts fate; “we’re superheroes, what could happen?”
Call to Adventure: all superheroes retired.
Refusal of the Call: Bob resists “retirement.”
Hero pulled into the Journey: the situation is out of Bob’s control.
First Threshold: Bob as an insurance agent.
This World is diametrically opposite to the Ordinary World Bob has just come from: Insurance office is grey and grim.
Hero and his Romantic Challenge developed: Bob and Helen’s relationship developed while she’s giving the baby a bath.
Hero’s True Nature revealed: under pressure, Bob helps the old lady.
Introduce Interdictor: we meet Bob’s boss.
Introduce Ally and Inner Challenge: we meet Dash and his desire to reach his potential but is held back.
Introduce Ally and Inner Challenge: we meet Violet and her self-conscious apprehension tangibly illustrated by her reaction to the boy.
Hero Frustrated: Bob restrained in his car; trashes the car.
Inner Cave: everyone around the dinner table; challenges and conflicts developed
Foreshadow of the Journey: Bob reads the paper; old superheroes gone missing.
Physical Separation: Lucius arrives and Bob drags him off; dead of night; haste; deception.
Reminiscing: Bob and Lucius discuss Old Times.
Foreshadow of the Journey: Mirage watches?.
Warnings against the adventure: Lucius warns Bob that they shouldn’t be playing superheroes.
Pushed into the adventure: Bob and Lucius play superheroes; save innocents from the fire.
Challenges Developed: Bob arrives home and is admonished by Helen; conflict between Hawks and Doves: Helen, Dash, Violet join in the argument?; capabilities of allies developed: we see their superpowers in action.
Interdiction: Bob’s boss warns him not to react to the mugging.
Consciously breaking the Interdiction: Bob punches his boss.
Pulled back: Bob admonished by the government boss.
Expectations: the little boy expects action.
Herald’s Call: Bob gets Mirage’s message.
Pulled Back: Helen yells “it’s time for dinner, honey.”
Yearning for the adventure: Bob in his room alone, at night
Pulled Back: Helen appreciates that Bob sticks to his frustrating job.
Enacting a Deception: Bob lies to Helen ? he’s going to a conference.
Hero consciously says “yes” to the journey: Bob phones Mirage.
Meeting an Ally / Shape Shifter: Bob meets Mirage.
Hero travels to the World of the Transformation and Trial 1: Bob travels to Syndrome’s World and the Learning Robot.
World of Trial: Polar Opposite to that from which the Hero came.
Trial 1 occurs in the “depths of the psyche:” Bob travels “down.”
Trial 1: Initially the hero is unfit and finds it difficult; Bob loses.
Trial 1: Inner Strength pulls the Hero through: Bob finally wins.
Antagonist surprised by the Hero’s overcoming of the First Trial.
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