Chris Brady
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You're defeating your own argument. NONE of those things would occur to a normal man. They are exaggerated and extremely potent events that they overcome or succumb, due to being great heroes. You seem to think that tragedy makes something gritty...So let me see...
Philoctetes didn't get a festering wound that smelled so badly he got stranded because of it.
Menelaus didn't get his wife stolen away because a goddess decided to give her to her favorite hero.
Ajax the Great didn't suffer a bout of madness which made him kill indiscriminately. This didn't make him forfeit his honour. He wasn't driven to suicide over it.
Patrocles didn't get killed like the inexperienced youth trying to get fame...which he was... by a much more experienced warrior.
Achilles didn't get his loot confiscated by a king. Neither was his friend killed in battle, causing him to make a choice that he knew would end in his death.
Odysseus didn't lose his ships and his friends due to the revengefulness of a capricious godling. He didn't encounter monsters that nearly killed him over that.
...yeah, we can have none of this!
Sure, the Exalted don't suffer the rules for bloodloss (though tell that to Philoctetes...). But they do suffer many of the other dangers that await mortals...or they wouldn't even be relatable as protagonists.
But grit often leads to tragedy. And in those cases, it often does - see above!