Defintition: Gutterhero

The term "gutterhero" refers to a non-mainstream fictional character created by an independent creator. A character termed a "gutterhero" usually, but not always, will lack the common conventions of the better recognized "superhero" such as; costumes, secret identities, special powers and abilities and/or code-names. The "gutterhero" posses more in common with the old "pulp heroes" of the past than the commonly know main stream "superhero" of modern times. Stories of "gutterheroes" may be of any genre or a mixture of genres; mystery, horror, science fiction, adventure, supernatural, fantasy, crime war or even western.