Converse of object

• conquer: He entered the town like a conquering hero, to the acclaim of the populace.

• forget: The Northern Echo has launched a campaign to remember a forgotten hero of the Second World War.

• depict: My paper explores the kind of hero depicted by Anthony Hope in The Prisoner of Zenda in relation to the young Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Adjective modifier

• super: THE ONLY super hero who uses his powers for self gratification!

• eponymous: Innocent in the House Joseph Pilgrim is the eponymous hero of Andy McSmith's fictional debut.

• tragic: Here Sassoon seems to achieve the status of a tragic hero.

• legendary: What nationality was the legendary hero William Tell, who shot an apple from his son's head?

• reluctant: The story of a reluctant hero sent on a seemingly impossible quest.

Modifies a noun

• worship: All of whom received a fair amount of hero worship throughout the festival.

Noun used with modifier

• footballing: Now, local footballing heroes like Nigel Clough and Garry Birtles have helped launch a national campaign to meet the £ 500,000 target.

• boyhood: For people of my generation he was Charlton, and he was also my boyhood hero.

• hat-trick: His first 3 balls all hit the stumps, making him surely the youngest hat-trick hero in Collegiate's history.

• cult: But somehow Richard Whiteley survived to become a cult hero.

• folk: In 1404 the legendary Welsh folk hero Owain Glyndwr convened a parliament here during his military campaign for Welsh autonomy.

Possessives

• welcome: Isle of Wight Bob Dylan walked in from the night to a hero's welcome at the music festival here.

Preposition: of

• mine: I believe he got it from Pope Leo XIII, who was always rather a hero of mine.