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
Fred Flintstone Garfield
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.
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!
Didn’t see him posted yet, Walter Joseph Kovacs aka Rorschach.
Leto II. Deadpool was already taken, so I went with a more controversial example.
Isn’t this just a hero?
Saint Luigi 🙏
No mention of The Punisher?
I think he has an automatic negative connotation just because of his many cops etc idolize him, but he’s a fantastic character. In the (Uhh I think) daredevil show and comic he knocked DD out, chained him up with a revolver, and said shoot me or I will assassinate this bad guy. Like “you wanna do the ‘killing is wrong’ shtick? Welcome to my trolley problem, bitch.”
many cops etc idolize him
Which is ironic, considering what he really stands for.
Netflix’s version portrayed by Jon Bernthal is trully amazing
Shut up baby, I know it!
Raistlin Majere from Dragonlance
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Malcolm Reynolds
A Firefly fan in the wild!!!
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.
There’s dozens of us!
Capt Tightpants
V from V For Vendetta
Woyzeck. Such an obviously bad character who is weirdly relatable.
Riddick
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)
yeah…Goku really is a piece of shit dad.
