The "New" kind of Hero

During my reading of Beowulf i found the story to be bland and, well, boring. Gone was the humaness of greek stories, with heroes with complex personalities and personality defects, as well as storylines that seem more realistic(i.e Good men are antagonists or the Heroes dont live happily ever after"). Beowulf as a character is bland and except for his action is never personally described. There is no character growth at all. What i found interesting is that  Beowulf marks the starting point in which Europeon heroes became more and more Grecian. As the time went on the heroes became more and more "human" but remained perfectly moral, like King Arthur. Eventually the trend continued up until the present. Today mainstream society seeks heroes that are flawed, often tragically or that are anti heroes-the "badasses" like the action movies of the 80's in which the "hero" would fight evil, but for their own selfish purposes( the Terminator protecting John Conner because of his programming). there has also been a trend toward giving former weaklings like Peter Parker in SpiderMan and giving him superpowers. Unlike Beowulf the hero is not born a hero and is often humble, whereas beowulf is prideful and confident.