Regarding fantasy, I admit I haven't been keeping up with the genre recently because a lot of the new stuff just isn't to my taste, but I had got the impression that a lot of the "heroes" of modern fantasy would have been the "bad guys" in the past. Basically they have no morals or principles at all. I'm thinking of all the thieves, assassins, torturers, vampires etc and I hadn't noticed them saving the common people, just doing things that benefit themselves. It's one of the reasons I have stopped writing. The sort of thing I like to write seems hopelessly dated now.