Mark Fischbach (Markiplier)

If you were to watch his "Draw My Life" video, you would know he's been through some hard times. He, like many people had family issues such as when he was young his parents would fight,  but he and his brother would try to distract themselves from it by playing videos games, after a while things just didn't work out and his parents got a divorce. They lost a lot of money and eventually had to sell their house. Also, since they lost a lot of money he had to go to a public school, he talked about how everything felt "foreign" to him, like he lost everything, his house, his friends, everything he once knew. Though he eventually make friends and his dad found someone who made him happy; things were looking up for them. Going towards the end of high school and almost in college his father came up to Mark and gave him a letter telling mark that he had cancer. Mark then began to contemplate what he wanted to do with the rest of his life, going from creating games to engineering to medical engineering back to games. One year later his dad died from cancer; after that, he says that he was very confused. Not wanting to do engineering anymore, but worried that it was too late to go back he didn't know what to do. He then moved back with his mom. After a while he met a girl he liked,but his mother didn't approve her so she kicked him out, he found an apartment, but then his boss fired him, along with that him and his girlfriend were having issues so they broke up. Also, around that time he got a pain in his side,which later on turned into terrible pain. He went to the doctor where he found out his Appendix was about to burst, along with having a tumor in his adrenal gland. He goes onto say " I managed to truck through it some how. Thankfully for reconciling with my mom; and my step mom was still there for me." After this, he decided to make a big change in his life. He got his grades back up in Engineering school,with the little money he had he got a camera to make sketch videos with, played games he wanted to play and make his own identity in the (YouTube) internet. Shortly after creating a Youtube account and making some videos for his fans his subscriber rate skyrocketed, getting him to where he is today. Mark then states "I was lost before; I had no purpose before.Now we are able to change the world, do good, raise money for charity, do just everything we want to do to improve the world." This shows just how much he went through and still has a positive view on the world. Still wanting to make a change.

He also recently suffered through the death of his close friend Daniel Kyre. Daniel worked in a sketch group called Cyndago. Cyndago was made up of Daniel Kyre, Ryan Magee, and a new editor, Matt Watson. Mark began working with them in the past 2-3 years. Doing videos with them and eventually moving in with them. But on September 18th, 2015. Daniel had attempted suicide. Though he survived it, Daniel suffered with severe brain injury, and his family made the decision to take him off life support. Mark who had grown close to Daniel eventually went on a Hiatus; roughly lasting two weeks. He took some time to figure things out but bounced back in a matter of weeks, going back to his goofy, bubbly personality. Cyndago had decided to stop creating videos, but they still wanted to make short sketches with Mark. So my point to say it that Mark has been through a lot of rough time, going through parental divorce to surgery, to a heart attack, and even the death of a close friend but he still got through it and is still trying his hardest to improve the world.

Though whatever happens he's always modest. Saying he is not into creating Youtube videos for fame or fortune, but because he has a fun time and enjoys what he does. He recently make a post on Tumblr talking about how he doesn't want to be seen as an idol or as above anyone. He is just a person like you or I. In this post he states "...nor do I want anything in return besides a smile and a promise to do some good in the world". also " If I didn't enjoy what I do I would quit tomorrow but every day I eagerly await planning out what crazy new thing I'm going to do next". and ending the post with "At the end of the day, I'm just a goof. A goof that likes to play games..So have some fun and don't take things so seriously. And don't forget to smile!" 

So in a way he shows all the traits of a hero, just differently than most. Doing fundraisers and charity events to help out other, along with having his intentions as a youtuber towards doing good for others as a whole. He has been through hard times, and even when it seemed like things couldn't get worse, he got back up and made  choices to improve his life. Always choosing to use that energy for the benefit of others. Yet he is modest about it, just wanting to be seen as a friend. Thus, he shows the traits of being compassionate, mentally strong, and modest.