THE HERO’S JOURNEY IN MATTHEW VAUGHN’S MOVIE KICK-ASS – OKY IRAWAN SYAHPUTRA & TEGUH KASPRABOWO – DBB V15 N1 JANUARI 2020 58 THE HERO’S JOURNEY IN MATTHEW VAUGHN’S MOVIE: KICK-ASS Oky Irawan Syahputra 1 , Teguh Kasprabowo 2 Faculty of Language and Cultural Studies, Stikubank University e-mail: syah94putra@gmail.com 1 , teguhkas@edu.unisbank.ac.id 2 ABSTRACT Kick-Ass is a superhero movie. The study aimed to find out about the main character hero’s journey patterns and the characters archetype that occurs in this movie. The data of this study is from watching and analyzed the Kick-Ass movie. This study employed Hero’s Journey from Joseph Campbell to find the patterns with the support from Christopher Vogler for the characters archetype. There are the differences between the hero’s journey Campbell and Kick-Ass movie. In this Study the researcher find 9 stages; The Call to Adventure, Supernatural Aid, The Crossing of the First Threshold, Refusal of the Call, The Meeting with the Goddess, Woman as the Temptress, The Belly of the Whale, Apotheosis and The Ultimate Boon. As for the characters archetype that appearing in this movie are; The Hero, Mentor, Ally, Threshold Guardian, Shape shifter, Trickster and Shadow. Keywords: hero, archetypes, hero’s journey, kick-ass film 1. INTRODUCTION A hero is someone who acts bravely out of concern for others even at their own personal risk. They are willing to sacrifice everything without getting a reward. This is the kind of hero that we need. To be a figure that important in this world we live in. To stand up and fights for the right things. It can be argued that the action or behavior ultimately stands as heroic or not in the absence of any social milieu (Howerth 1935; cited in Franco, Blau, & Zimbardo, 2011). A hero does not always the strongest or bravest person. Anyone can be a hero, like Civilians, Doctors, Religious figures, Teachers, etc. Heroes are often depicted in movie. In the modern era, Movie plays an important part in our lives. Today we can watch movie easily not like in the past where we have to watch just in the theater. Now we can watch movie online and on the television. There’s a lot of genre like comedy, horror, action, romance, fantasy, etc. The approach and methods for the motion picture, the script, and the structure the movie has are come to live, the way the director produces and express the meaning behind the movie to become such complex codes form magical art. Superhero movie full pack of action, an individual who poses superhuman Strength, save people from the bad guy, do the right thing in the right time, a handsome man, a beautiful woman with tragic background then come back stronger to face the adversity their