sorry if this is regurgitated, but i really really didn’t feel like doing a search (it takes too damn long), and knowing how some people can get around here, i’m sure i’ll get yelled at for a double topic if it is… 
Anyways: Best Anti-Hero ever? Me? I’d say…
what do youse think?
Me.
Mel Gibson’s character in ‘Payback’. Maybe not the best, but one of the best in recent memory.
Probably every Harrison Ford character I can think of.
The best? IMHO, Han Solo.
Thomas Covenant. Angus Thermopyle. Gully Foyle. Don Juan. Darth Vader.
My two favorite antiheros from the movies are as follows (with quotes ala IMDB) to illustrate.
Ash, from the Evil Dead trilogy.
Clint Eastwood’s Bill Munny from Unforgiven
Little Bill Daggett: I don’t deserve this… to die like this! I was building a house!
Bill Munny: Deserve’s got nothin’ to do with it.
[aims gun]
Little Bill Daggett: I’ll see you in hell, William Munny!
Bill Munny: Yeah.
[fires]
(One of my favorite all-time movie quotes!)
Bill Munny: All right now, I’m comin’ out. Any man I see out there, I’m gonna shoot him. Any sumbitch takes a shot at me, I’m not only gonna kill him, but I’m gonna kill his wife. All his friends. Burn his damn house down.
Steve Buscemi; in nearly all of his roles.
John Torturro; ditto
*btw; I’m totally in love with them both. *
I don’t think anyone but seriousart has quite nailed the concept of anti-hero. The Bill Munny example is right on the nose.
I’d pick Phillip Marlowe as my perfect anti-hero. If you have to use movies, Bogart did him best. But Raymond Chandler’s novels are far better than even the best Bogey/Bacall movies like “The Big Sleep.”
I still have a soft spot in my heart for Spawn… for the first 18 issues, anyway. After that, he started going downhill…
However, I think Lonestar (from Spaceballs) would give Han a run for his money. Or maybe they’d sit back and drink booze… Han would teach Lonestar how to play Sabacc…
Well, im not sure I believe it, but he surely should be in the running : Holden Caulfield.
It’s John Constantine, star of the comic book Hellblazer, of course.
The Tick
SPOOOOOON
Alex in A Clockwork Orange
Excellent choice.
I dunno, I preferred Dick Powell in Farewell my Lovely.
IMDB entry here
The lone, displayed comment doesn’t rate it as very good, but look at the others for the opposing view. For my money his Marlowe is much closer to the original books than Bogey’s.
Was thinking about this on the way to work today…
George Costanza, from Seinfeld, is perhaps the greatest TV anti hero. Rarely do you find a character so despicable while at the same time so likeable.
Ditto for Holden. Also, in literature, Milkman in “Song of Solomon”. I consider him an anti-hero; am I right?
Dirty Harry
It’s either John Yossarian in Catch-22 or Ignatius Reilly in A Confederacy of Dunces.
Holden Caufield’s up there, too.
The Tick wasn’t an anti-hero, he was as pure as you can get! Actually, he was so caught up in goodnesss and justice that it overshadowed normal thought, making him a little eccentric, but by no means an anti-hero.
(I mean, c’mon, he’s 7 feet 400 pounds of mighty blue justice. (and nigh-invulnerable.))