was commissioned by Major General William Cubbitt for the Household Division of the British Army.

Text, portraiture and video interviews were projected onto the West Front and North elevation of the Royal Military Chapel - more commonly known as the Guards' Chapel - from 4 to 11 November 2009.

The artwork aimed to create a contemporary definition of heroism, including creative and scientific examples, and to reflect the more sexually equal and multi-cultural nature of British society in the 21st century.

Firrell intended that there should be two 'faces' of the first was Canadian actor Nathan Fillion simply because his appearance suggests the archetypal square-jawed male hero.

The artist also photographed Sigourney Weaver on the basis that her character Ellen Riply in (1979, Brandywine/20th Century Fox) was popular culture's first female action hero.

Firrell developed a prototype homepage for featuring the two actors to introduce the premise of the artwork.

Firrell included many observations of his own about the nature of heroism and its place and role in the world. is the first direct reference to the idea of justice - in the sense of fairness - in the artist's work.

The qualitative value of justice as something beautiful, or even the source of beauty itself, is something the artist will return to much later in 2023's billboard series

According to the writer and classicist Adam Nicolson, all the great heroes in Homer have wept without being thought unmanly. These portrayals of masculinity from ancient Greek literature depict men as strengthened rather than weakened by their capacity to express feeling openly and honestly.

This text, re-edited, recurs in the billboard artwork