What is an anti-hero?
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There are no wrong answers, only your opinions
Personally, I think an anti-hero is a bad guy that does good things. He might cheat on his wife, steal, gamble, etc, but when it "matters," he ends up on the side of what's good.
Han Solo is an example that comes to mind.
wrote last edited by [email protected]A good guy with the affectations of a bad guy.
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There are no wrong answers, only your opinions
Personally, I think an anti-hero is a bad guy that does good things. He might cheat on his wife, steal, gamble, etc, but when it "matters," he ends up on the side of what's good.
Han Solo is an example that comes to mind.
If one collides with a hero, they're both annihilated.
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There are no wrong answers, only your opinions
Personally, I think an anti-hero is a bad guy that does good things. He might cheat on his wife, steal, gamble, etc, but when it "matters," he ends up on the side of what's good.
Han Solo is an example that comes to mind.
Heros and anti-heros are united in that they genuinely want to do good. They just differ in the means (or what they'd allow to use as means) to their ends. For example, a hero will vehemently refuse to blow up a street market while an anti-hero might consider it if they deem it to be sufficiently helpful to their end.
I'd rather look at it as a sliding scale with “will never do anything bad” on one end, and “a villain who has good intentions” on the other. And even those two ends are subject to the questions “What do you mean by ‘’bad?” and “What do you mean by ‘good intentions’?” Thus, I think while heros and anti-heros across stories and genres have commonalities, one story's anti-hero might as well be a hero in another story and that the best way to judge a character being a hero or an anti-hero is in the light of the story they're in.
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There are no wrong answers, only your opinions
Personally, I think an anti-hero is a bad guy that does good things. He might cheat on his wife, steal, gamble, etc, but when it "matters," he ends up on the side of what's good.
Han Solo is an example that comes to mind.
Vegeta from DBZ after the Saiyan Saga is an Anti-hero. Fights the bad guys, but only for his own ego.
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There are no wrong answers, only your opinions
Personally, I think an anti-hero is a bad guy that does good things. He might cheat on his wife, steal, gamble, etc, but when it "matters," he ends up on the side of what's good.
Han Solo is an example that comes to mind.
Han Solo? Really? Are you 5?
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There are no wrong answers, only your opinions
Personally, I think an anti-hero is a bad guy that does good things. He might cheat on his wife, steal, gamble, etc, but when it "matters," he ends up on the side of what's good.
Han Solo is an example that comes to mind.
An anti hero is someone who's TECHNICALLY (caps because they really push the limits of that technicality) doing heroic things but does so in the most questionable heroic ways.
Deadpool: Shoots opposition in the face and several other body parts while laughing and quiping about it. Then shoots the corpse to set up a joke.
Harley Quinn: Actively chooses to let her hyenas rip you apart instead of killing you herself because you were cruel to animals so lol at your screams.
Jack (Mass Effect 2/3): Will do the most fucked up shit to your entire body, insides and outs, and then power slam you into a singularity because she got dragged into Shepard's nonsense and she just wants to go back to her fucking bed.
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Han Solo? Really? Are you 5?
Don't be a fucking jackass.
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There are no wrong answers, only your opinions
Personally, I think an anti-hero is a bad guy that does good things. He might cheat on his wife, steal, gamble, etc, but when it "matters," he ends up on the side of what's good.
Han Solo is an example that comes to mind.
Character that use bad means to achive good results.
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Don't be a fucking jackass.
Do you really think Han Solo is an antihero?
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Character that use bad means to achive good results.
Ozymandias?
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Han Solo? Really? Are you 5?
Nobody under the age of 40 cares about Han Solo, lol.
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You're right. I saw a mass murderer stopped for good.
Only to be replaced by a seemingly endless supply of another sooner or later. Shareholders will ensure that.
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Ozymandias?
Definitely an anti-hero, also Rorschach, Dr. Manhattan and The Comedian. Watchmen (and other Alan Moore works) is filled with anti-heros.
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Do you really think Han Solo is an antihero?
wrote last edited by [email protected]I would, from a specific defintion: he doesn't want to be a hero, he doesn't want to be involved, he was dragged into the shit-show of a rebellion.
He just wanted to smuggle goods, make a buck, and flirt with the ladies (have a good time).
Edit: Han is possibly more of a reluctant hero, or a mixture.
Using the literary definition, he has attributes of anti-hero.
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There is a definition of what a narrative anti hero is.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antihero
What is this ongoing trend of encouraging opinions to redefine accepted terminology and culture? Just make up your own new words instead of diluting the meaning of existing ones into slop.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Thanks for the link.
I appreciate there is a literary definition with nuance, and that literary scholars have some variety in how they define it (in other words, it's complex).
It seems like the most fundamental element is this quote from Wikipedia:
As such, the antihero focuses on their personal motives first and foremost, with everything else secondary
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There are no wrong answers, only your opinions
Personally, I think an anti-hero is a bad guy that does good things. He might cheat on his wife, steal, gamble, etc, but when it "matters," he ends up on the side of what's good.
Han Solo is an example that comes to mind.
Stone Cold Steve Austin
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I would, from a specific defintion: he doesn't want to be a hero, he doesn't want to be involved, he was dragged into the shit-show of a rebellion.
He just wanted to smuggle goods, make a buck, and flirt with the ladies (have a good time).
Edit: Han is possibly more of a reluctant hero, or a mixture.
Using the literary definition, he has attributes of anti-hero.
Boba Fett would be more ofan antihero in the original trilogy. He's pretty cool but fights on the wrong side.
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There is a definition of what a narrative anti hero is.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antihero
What is this ongoing trend of encouraging opinions to redefine accepted terminology and culture? Just make up your own new words instead of diluting the meaning of existing ones into slop.
Words change, meanings evolve, and it's fun to talk about the nuances of what is and isn't under the umbrella of a concept.
