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Each of these examples has been identified by a critic as an antihero, although the classification remains fairly subjective. Some of the entries may be disputed by other sources and some may contradict all established definitions of antihero.
An antihero (sometimes spelled as anti-hero or two words anti hero) [1] or anti-heroine is a main character in a narrative (in literature, film, TV, etc.) who may lack some conventional heroic qualities and attributes, such as idealism and morality. [1]
To my mind, there are two types of anti-hero - one being the sort that are previously amoral types who throughout the course of the narrative become heroes (e.g. Snake Pliskin, 'Escape from New York')or the types who do not, and are not going to reform, e.g Hannibal Lecter. The first kind - are they really anti-heroes, or heroes by 'stealth'?
The reluctant hero is a heroic archetype typically found in fiction. The reluctant hero is typically portrayed either as an everyman forced into surreal situations which require him to rise to heroism and its acts, or as a person with special abilities who nonetheless reveals a desire to avoid using those abilities for selfless benefit.
The term anti-Western is generally used in reference to particularly gruesome and/or nihilistic examples of the genre. The spaghetti Westerns of the 1960s, not bound by the Hays Code, were strongly revisionist by presenting morally ambiguous stories featuring an anti-hero or a sympathetic villain. From 1969, revisionism has prevailed in Western ...
Prince Hal in the Henry IV plays is an anti-hero, Falstaff is an anti-hero, but Richard III is a hero because although he's a villain he's still a hero. The problem with the article is that it tries to impose its misunderstanding of the term onto traditional examples of good and evil heroes and somehow make it work.
A new exhibition at the Science Museum in the UK has made the claim that Lego is anti-LGBT because it ... an example of applying heteronormative language to topics unrelated to gender, sex, and ...
King in the mountain stories involve legendary heroes, often accompanied by armed retainers, sleeping in remote dwellings including caves on high mountaintops, remote islands, or supernatural worlds. The hero is frequently a historical figure of some military consequence in the history of the nation where the mountain is located.