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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

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Darrow from the Red Rising series. I think he fits the bill a bit, but he does flip flop between hero, anti hero, and villain, so maybe not a complete fit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 54 minutes ago

I got halfway through the second book and it just wasn't what I wanted anymore. My brother told me to keep going but it's been a while.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Leto II. Deadpool was already taken, so I went with a more controversial example.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Raistlin Majere from Dragonlance

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

This post approved by [see username].

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

No mention of The Punisher?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Peacemaker!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
>does good things for bad reasons  
>gluttony is considered by many to be bad

kirby. kirby is my favorite antihero

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

To be fair, after the swallowing he sometimes puke. It's not a total sin, but just a eating disorder.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago

I've got to go with a classic in Tony Soprano. He's a real piece of shit, and yet I can't look away.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 13 hours ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 14 hours ago

Isn’t this just a hero?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 20 hours ago

Saint Luigi 🙏

[–] [email protected] 13 points 15 hours ago

V from V For Vendetta

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Woody Harrelson's character in Zombieland was perfect.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

That'll do pig. That'll do.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Which one?

The Irredeemable Ant-Man is an interesting one - he's a low level, lazy SHIELD worker who steals an Ant-Man suit and uses it for selfish things. But you probably meant Scott Lang. I'd say Scott is more of a regular hero.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Yeah Scott Lang's not an anti Hero by any stretched imagination. I would hope he doesn't mean him.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago

yeah...Goku really is a piece of shit dad.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Beatrix Kiddo "The Bride" from "Kill Bill".

Sooo evil, but you just have to love her.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Yes, the sinister toe wiggling

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago

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.

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Captain James Flint from Black Sails

[–] [email protected] 8 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

That's not what an anti-hero is. The anti-hero is when the main character is the bad guy. Think Walter White or to a certain extent Dexter Morgan.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 18 hours ago

The term antihero gets misused a lot, but villain protagonist is absolutely not correct either. An antihero does not have to be the protagonist, and a protagonist who is a villain is still a villain, not an antihero.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Often the clumsy fool with a pure heart is the anti hero. For example Forrest Gump

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

You're half right. An anti-hero is someone doing bad things for a good reasons. While dexter only killing criminals could count, White is a different case as he is in no way making meth for a good cause.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago

That's not really the definition either

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antihero

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

Does Agent Venom count? I've only read a little about the character, but enjoyed what I saw.

In - I think - the first issue, he ends up carrying an armed grenade in his mouth for most of it; I remember there being some pretty funny quips about it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

todd the wraith, and probably magneto. deadpool not really, he doesnt really do close to bad to consider it, hes still to moral.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Somebody has not read the older comics. Movie Deadpool is pretty mild in comparison to comics.

Things he has done to Blind Al or the time he used his child as a bait and she survived only because Quicksilver saved her

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Sam Spade, Wolverine are a couple that first come to mind; often portrayed as the cynical gunfighter private eye and war weary samurai

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Gianni Schicchi (the operatic precursor to Weekend at Bernie's)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

Weekend Bernie's does not get the recognition it deserves! Such an amazing/stupid movie that I haven't seen in far too long.

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