Points of light - Unpopular adventurers?

[Cyronax]

This has some similarities to a gunfighter entering a western town. People know about it, and people stay out of his way until the see they can trust him.

This might have been mentioned elsewhere in the ether, but when I first heard of the Points of Light concept, I immediately thought of three things from movies and TV:

1) The old western. As mentioned by PC.

2) The Seven Samurai. To me that movie shows the power adventurers (samurai) can relative to common folk, and it shows the encroaching darkness in the form of bandits, superstition, and all of the problems of poverty.

3) Disney's Tailspin. If anyone remembers this old cartoon, it involved a bunch of seemingly independent city-state on scattered islands. They were connected by airplane pilots and pirates in airships. I always thought a campaign setting using Eberron rules with this sort of set up would be fun.

I like PoL, but I'll miss Greyhawk and gnomes.

C.I.D.