# Favorite Anti-hero **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 10, 2004, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-anti-hero/249665 "2004-06-10T17:05:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shirt\_Ninja\_13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19b73/32.png) [@Shirt\_Ninja\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirt_Ninja_13)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-anti-hero/249665/1 "2004-06-10T17:05:22Z")
Alright, who’s you guys’ favorite anti-hero from either books, movies, webcomics, or what-have-you? I’ll start: I rather like Riddick and the Bride from the Kill Bill movies. _bamf_ ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-anti-hero/249665/2 "2004-06-10T17:25:17Z")
Flashman and Cugel ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-anti-hero/249665/3 "2004-06-10T18:04:03Z")
Montressor Dr. Zachary Smith ---
**Author:** ![Mithril](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mithril/32/3517_2.png) [@Mithril](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mithril)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-anti-hero/249665/4 "2004-06-10T18:21:43Z")
Elektra ---
**Author:** ![ElectricZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/58f4c7/32.png) [@ElectricZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElectricZ)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-anti-hero/249665/5 "2004-06-10T18:22:04Z")
S.D. Plissken from _Escape from New York._ “Call me ‘Snake.’” Max Rockatansky from _The Road Warrior._ “You wanna get out of here? You talk to me.” Niel McCauly from _Heat._ “We want to hurt no one. We’re here for the bank’s money, not your money. Your money is insured by the federal government, you’re not gonna lose a dime. Think of your families, don’t risk your life. Don’t try and be a hero.” Harry Lime from _The Third Man._ “In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed. But they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.” EZ ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-anti-hero/249665/6 "2004-06-10T18:26:17Z")
Elric ---
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[Francis Urquhart](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111960/) ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-anti-hero/249665/8 "2004-06-10T18:38:11Z")
Gollum. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-anti-hero/249665/9 "2004-06-10T18:49:32Z")
The Underground Man John Constantine Satan (_Paradise Lost_ through _I, Lucifer_ .) ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-anti-hero/249665/10 "2004-06-10T19:17:07Z")
Andrew Vachss’s Burke ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-anti-hero/249665/11 "2004-06-10T19:34:21Z")
Tyler Durden. Even though he’s imaginary. ---
**Author:** ![Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tastes_of_chocolate/32/3232_2.png) [@Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tastes_of_Chocolate)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-anti-hero/249665/12 "2004-06-10T19:37:50Z")
Glenn Close and John Malkovich in \*Dangerous Liaisons[\i]. I love hating these characters. ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-anti-hero/249665/13 "2004-06-10T19:38:44Z")
Alex DeLarge from _A Clockwork Orange_ Hannibal Lecter from _Hannibal_: Although I like the first two books a lot better, you want Lecter from _Hannibal_ to win more because the people he kills are extremely annoying. ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-anti-hero/249665/14 "2004-06-10T20:14:11Z")
Lestat The Man With No Name Deckard Captain Willard(from _Apocalypse Now_) Corporal King (from _King Rat_) ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-anti-hero/249665/15 "2004-06-10T20:26:39Z")
In case you forgot: > [@](#): > > anti-hero > > antihero n : a protagonist who lacks the characteristics that would make him a hero (or her a heroine) A villian you like doesn’t count. Gollum and Lecter are not protagonists. ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-anti-hero/249665/16 "2004-06-10T20:44:38Z")
GrimJack Porter (Mel Gibson’s character from the movie Payback) Random from Roger Zelazney’s Amber series ---
**Author:** ![Debaser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3da27b/32.png) [@Debaser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Debaser)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-anti-hero/249665/17 "2004-06-10T20:55:59Z")
Henry Hill. Wolverine. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-anti-hero/249665/18 "2004-06-10T20:57:21Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > A villian you like doesn’t count. Gollum and Lecter are not protagonists. Hey, I don’t judge. Andy Sirkin spent a year and a half in that skinsuit filming and he’s not a protagonist? The trilogy is about destroying the ring and _he’s the one that does it,_ and he’s not the protagonist? Okay, fine, then. Bilbo Baggins. ---
**Author:** ![counsel\_wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/65b543/32.png) [@counsel\_wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/counsel_wolf)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-anti-hero/249665/19 "2004-06-10T21:01:18Z")
> [@Shirt Ninja 13](#): > > Alright, who’s you guys’ favorite anti-hero from either books, movies, webcomics, or what-have-you? Marv, from Frank Miller’s **Sin City** Big slow psychopathic lummox does the right (and oh so terribly violent) thing. ---
**Author:** ![SlyFrog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@SlyFrog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlyFrog)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-anti-hero/249665/20 "2004-06-10T21:07:09Z")
Corwin of Amber. Thomas Covenant. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-anti-hero/249665.md?page=2)