Maniac Magee/YMMV

Angst? What Angst?: Maniac is quite happy, despite his parents being dead and his running away from home.
Crazy Awesome: Maniac does all kinds of cool stuff.
- His signature move, and the one that makes him an urban legend, is that he runs along one of the rails of the train tracks.
Crowning Moment of Awesome: Maniac untying a large knot, catching a mid-air baseball and a football pass...
Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: There's some moments, but the most memorable is Maniac finally finding a home and a family.
Iron Woobie: Maniac.
Memetic Badass: Maniac becomes one, in a way. The narrator certainly thinks so, and only breaks Suspension of Disbelief in an otherwise gritty tale when Maniac does something impressive. Maniac essentially defies or uncovers various urban legends that were deeply entrenched in that area's culture. In doing so, he becomes somewhat of an urban legend himself. The narrator paints him as being ambiguously superhuman, specifically saying in complete sincerity that Maniac could run across a portion of the US (twol hundred miles) in under a week. He ends up actually taking a year to do so, and no one knows why

This period is known as The Lost Year.

Nightmare Fuel: No one has come back from the Finsterwald House...
- Not to mention the state of the Mcnab house.
- Maniac finds a home with an old man, celebrates Christmas with him, and the next morning the old guy dies in his sleep.
Anti-Villain:"Mars Bar" Thompson/Snickers