Nietzsche presented a new kind of hero for modern times, one who would prove capable of establishing

Nietzsche presented a new kind of hero for modern times, one who would prove capable of establishing a golden age of order and growth, if not within society at large, then within the ranks of higher man. The overman is proposed as the hero of a nihilistic age. Like his forerunners, he bears his own standards of morality and reason and attempts to vanquish the hitherto reigning traditions and values. Unlike his forerunners, the overman makes no claim to divine sanction for his deeds. He refuses to he armed by the gods, as was the boon claimed by the greatest heroes of the ancient poets. The overman is the hero of an atheistic and morally destitute world; he presents the paradox of the avid pursuit of greatness when no transcendental standards exist. He must embody his own justification.

Leslie Paul Thiele from Friedrich Nietzsche & the Politics of the Soul.