An Anti Hero is basically a good guy who is kinda bad, or does good things for bad reasons. Deadpool’s a classic example of an Anti Hero
Saint Luigi 🙏
Isn’t this just a hero?
Malcolm Reynolds
A Firefly fan in the wild!!!
There’s dozens of us!
I feel like the overlap of Firefly fans and Lemmy is pretty gorram big.
Shiny
You’re probably right. The last time I saw Firefly get brought up, there were many comments of people just shitting on it.
Capt Tightpants
“I aim to misbehave”
Shut up baby, I know it!
Woody Harrelson’s character in Zombieland was perfect.
That’ll do pig. That’ll do.
Beatrix Kiddo “The Bride” from “Kill Bill”.
Sooo evil, but you just have to love her.
I wouldn’t say she’s an anti-hero, her soul motivation is revenge. It’s just a point of convenience that she’s also taking out bad guys.
Yes, the sinister toe wiggling
Deadpool.
Vegeta. Fun character.
Vegeta embodies the rage that all of us feel and has one of the best character arcs of all time IMO.
he had his entire life stolen from him by the monster that took him in, not out of pittance, but out of a sick sense of entertainment.
he then spent the next 20-ish years trying to become stronger to complete his desire for vengeance, and even then he wasn’t enough.
he literally had everything stolen from him. beaten from him. was mocked relentlessly because of who and what he is. they took everything but one thing. That one thing that could never be taken from him. His pride.
I learned so much about myself as a person as I watched his character develop. I keep a figure of him on my desk to remind myself of how far I have come and to protect my pride.
he is, by far, one of the most influential characters in my entire life.
Add the fact that he becomes a decent family man and you have one heck of an arc.
There’s a hilarious canon scene where Vegeta proves to be a better dad than Goku (granted that doesn’t take much)
Captain James Flint from Black Sails
Iirc, the original definition of an antihero didn’t mean a bad guy you root for. It meant a hero in the story that didnt embody the traditional heroic traits of courage, strength, faith in God, noble morality, etc. The antihero is the hero who is not really heroic - a hero who is kind of just a normal person. An example of this being Don Quixote - a man who spent his time fighting dragons and rescuing princesses only in his imagination.
These days, almost all heros outside children’s books are antiheros. Because true heros are flat and one dimensional and unrelatable and don’t contribute to an engaging plot. These days, it isn’t thrilling enough for us to hear how the knight slew the dragon. He must first overcome… I dunno, his childhood trauma or something… And then he can slay the dragon!
I just recently started Don Quixote and have only just made it into part 2, but he doesn’t really strike me as a hero. Maybe in his own head he thinks so. He’s certainly the protagonist, but from what i’ve read so far, he’s been rather antagonistic towards the people he interacts with.
Black Adam
Sam Spade, Wolverine are a couple that first come to mind; often portrayed as the cynical gunfighter private eye and war weary samurai
Everyone in the Expanse. Naomi, Drummer, Fred Johnson, Bobbie Draper, Chrisjen Avasarala, Monica… Obviously, Amos, Peaches, Miller, and even Holden.
All of them do reprehensible things. Some did them and made up for it. Some still do them to win.
After watching Andor, I guess Luthem Rael fits that title. Dude’s absolutely savage. Forced to use the tools of his enemy to fight for freedom that he’ll likely never experience. He sacrifices good people on order to protect the whole
Didn’t see him posted yet, Walter Joseph Kovacs aka Rorschach.
