I'm going to go out on a limb and say that you want the hero of your story to do heroic things. Even if he/she is an anti-hero, you want them to save that village from burning to the ground because, hey, it's cool. Well, I hate to break it to you, but heroism must have a motivation, especially for a main/major character. Even if the character is a support character, and his reasoning is never mentioned, you must know why he is so heroic so that he can be believable... Not a 2D action hero.
Batman, for instance, has a private war against crime, because criminals killed his parents. Sam Winchester signs on to be a Hunter again because it appears that Yellow-Eyes killed his girlfriend--in the same way that he killed Sam's mom. Malcolm Reynolds signs on to save the 'Verse because, well, he just flat out hates the Alliance. Oh, and they killed a bunch of his friends. Nick Burkhardt signs on to the whole Grimm gig because his beloved aunt died of cancer and 'complications', and passed the legacy on to him. Bilbo steps out the door because he's part Took, dangit, and that's what Took's are apt to do.
See the pattern? All the good heroes have something in their past/the first few chapters of the book/movie/TV show that burns inside them... Makes them do what they do and gives them a fiery passion to do it with.
So give your hero some motivation, and see just what can happen.
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