# 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:** 13\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Granuaile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecccb3/32.png) [@Granuaile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Granuaile)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2004, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-anti-hero/249665/61 "2004-06-12T05:24:23Z")
Humbert Humbert - _Lolita_ ---
**Author:** ![look\_ninjas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@look\_ninjas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/look_ninjas)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2004, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-anti-hero/249665/62 "2004-06-12T13:17:38Z")
Grendel (from the book Grendel, as opposed to the Beowulf version). And I’ll second Richard III. “Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,/ Have no delight to pass away the time,/ Unless to spy my shadow in the sun,/ And descant on mine own deformity.” So cool. ---
**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 12, 2004, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-anti-hero/249665/63 "2004-06-12T15:17:00Z")
> [@Boyo Jim](#): > > John Shaft of _Shaft_ That Shaft’s a _bad_ mutha… _bamf_ ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2004, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-anti-hero/249665/64 "2004-06-13T12:59:49Z")
Hmmm…I already mentioned Satan, how 'bout God in the Bible? He’s the main character. [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679743685/104-7683403-2847130?v=glance](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679743685/104-7683403-2847130?v=glance) And even though He does some terrible things, you just gotta love Him. I mean…ya gotta :eek: ---
**Author:** ![WortMeWorry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@WortMeWorry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WortMeWorry)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2004, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-anti-hero/249665/65 "2004-06-13T23:24:31Z")
Simon Bolivar Digriz. Aiken Drum, from the piliocene saga. ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2004, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-anti-hero/249665/66 "2004-06-13T23:26:03Z")
Do you mean _James_ Bolivar DiGriz, the Stainless Steel Rat? He’s a definite good guy. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-anti-hero/249665/67 "2004-06-14T00:04:00Z")
All these anti-heroes and no one has mentioned Angel yet? He may not be a really obvious anti-hero all the time but there’s moments like in “Reprise” where He just can’t seem to care and lets the entire Special Projects division of W&H get killed by Darla and Drusilla and in the last episode, Not Fade Away: He kills Hamilton by vamping out and _drinking his blood_ and then breaking his neck. ---
**Author:** ![WortMeWorry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@WortMeWorry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WortMeWorry)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-anti-hero/249665/68 "2004-06-14T03:44:18Z")
Yes, I’m sorry I mean James Bolivar Digriz. It has been a while since I read a Good book featuring The Rat. I think any hero who would rather lie on the beach, while drinking scotch, that he bought with stolen money, falls into the anti-hero category. ---
**Author:** ![Beauty\_Personified](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@Beauty\_Personified](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beauty_Personified)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-anti-hero/249665/69 "2004-06-14T06:11:39Z")
[Hot Rod](http://www.bwtf.com/tfg1/tvshow/tftm/day3/13.jpg)/[Rodimus Prime](http://www.bwtf.com/tfg1/tvshow/tftm/day5/31.jpg) (Judd Nelson) in _[Transformers: The Movie](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092106/)_ (1986). He may not have been an anti-hero in the sense that he was a “bad-ass”, but he was definitely an anti-hero in the sense that he wasn’t much of a hero until he opened the “Deus ex [Matrix](http://www.bwtf.com/tfg1/tvshow/tftm/day5/30.jpg)” to save the day. Heck, [Wheelie](http://www.bwtf.com/tfg1/tvshow/tftm/day4/8.jpg) could have done just as well. 😃 More seriously, [Mara](http://www.darklords.net/mara-c1.jpg) [Jade](http://www.darklords.net/mara-c2.jpg) from Star Wars would be a personal favorite of mine. An anti-hero in the more literal sense of the word. Back to the Transformers universe, [Grimlock](http://vguides.topcities.com/tf/issue32.jpg) was a decent anti-hero… at times. Anyhoo… ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-anti-hero/249665/70 "2004-06-14T06:40:14Z")
> [@Big Bad Voodoo Lou](#): > > Jesse Custer (from Preacher) Jesse is a straight-up hero. _Cassidy_ is the anti-hero. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-anti-hero/249665/71 "2004-06-14T06:50:55Z")
Queen Latifah as Cleopatra Sims in _Set It Off_ – as a spree-killing lesbian is more man than most men reading this. _South Park_’s Cartman. Boba Fett. Robert DeNiro’s Travis Bickle from _Taxi_ … and as Jack Walsh in _Midnight Run._ TOSS-UP: The Weasley Twins of the Potter novels, and Professor Snape. Anthony Soprano. Leonardo DiCaprio as Frank Abagnale, Jr in _Catch Me If You Can._ Christopher Walken as Frank White in King Of New York and Jules Winnifred, wherever he’s walking the Earth these days… ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-anti-hero/249665/72 "2004-06-14T06:53:39Z")
> [@Askia](#): > > and Jules Winnifred, wherever he’s walking the Earth these days… You mean Winfield? I don’t think a guy named Winnifred could read bible verses before popping someone with a straight face 🙂 . ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-anti-hero/249665/73 "2004-06-14T15:00:51Z")
Another vote for _Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid_ and Alex from _A Clockwork Orange_. I’d also like to throw in a vote for Ash from the _Evil Dead_ trilogy: He’s kind of a coward, and in _Army of Darkness_ he’s a selfish ass whose incompetence raises an army of the dead and causes the deaths of a lot of otherwise innocent people. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-anti-hero/249665.md?page=3)