Only when he’s written badly.
(Also, I love how taking this sentence out of context completely changes who it sounds like you’re talking about.)
Heh. Good catch.
Jonah Hex
Wolverine
Deadpool
Ender Wiggins
I know a lot of people didn’t like the later seasons of Dexter, but I think Dexter Morgan deserves a mention.
And I’m not sure if Saul Goodman counts as an anti-hero, but I like Saul Goodman.
Nice one!
Holey word play, Batman.
Yeah, what about George Washington? What are you, some kind of Tory?
I see Elric and Blondie are taken, which were my first picks.
One that is probably less known to most is Hari Michaelson/Caine from the Heroes Die novel and sequels (Acts of Caine).
Since we’re looking at a wide variety of fiction and definitions, I’ll include the TVTrope defintions.
A few other options:
Guts from Berserk (manga)
Judge Dredd, 2000AD (comic)
Vlad Taltos, Jhereg and sequel novels
But if you forced me to pick my favorite at gunpoint, I’d probably go with one of the granddaddies that haven’t yet been mentioned, Conan the Cimmerian.
“Follows the law” is not a heroic prerequisite. Heroic and Lawful Good are not synonyms.
Vimes, sure - I mean, he even starts out as a Dirty Harry expy before becoming his own thing.
Moist, yeah, sure. Unless Trickster and antihero aren’t the same thing. Which IMO is the case, but I don’t feel too strongly about it.
Cohen, not so sure - do we consider his archetype, Conan, to be an antihero? I could go either way.
But … Granny is an outright hero, and I’ll die on this hill. Crotchetiness isn’t a disqualifier for heroism. She canonically never went to the bad.
This reminds me - Ciaphas Caine, from Warhammer 40K. Based off Flashman and Blackadder, and thinks himself not to be a hero at all, but to the outside observer, completely heroic (the truth being somewhere in the middle)
Another Paul Newman - I was just re-watching the Newman Western Hombre and IMHO his John Russell definitely qualifies. He does the “right” thing eventually, he acts in a heroic manner and is an anti-bigot. But except wanting to return the stolen money to the San Carlos Reservation, he tries mightily to stay detached and not stick his neck out for others. Especially when it might cause him some risk. When the house lady who has no other prospects and was running his adopted father’s boarding house at a profit for twenty years offers to make the same deal of steady income with no effort on his part, he cuts her off cool as a cucumber. He owes her nothing, she’s not mentioned in the will, so she gets nothing.
The original and best - Jack Carter.
50+ posts and no Han Solo? In the original Star Wars (or…‘Episode 4: A New Hope’ if you must 
) he was very much an anti-hero for most of the movie-- a smuggler, acting purely out of self-interest. Obi-Wan and the gang only solicited his help out of necessity, and offered to pay him for his services. He initially took off before the big Death Star battle, saying something like ‘this ain’t my fight, kid’, before having a change of heart and coming back to be Luke’s wing man, transforming from Anti-Hero to Reluctant Hero.
OK, I withdraw that one. It was shaky to begin with.
Avon, from “Blakes Seven.”
Embarrassing admission:
When I saw the reference to ‘Granny’ in this post I initially assumed Granny from The Beverly Hillbillies. I mean, she was crotchety yet heroic
When I backtracked throguh the thread and saw that silenus had used the name ‘Esmeralda Weatherwax’ I thought “wait, that’s Granny’s actual name? I thought her surname was Clampett. Was she Jed’s maternal grandma?”
I had to google ‘Esmeralda Weatherwax’ to learn she is a character in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series. I really need to read that, since references to it come up a lot on this board, and I feel culturally bereft 
No argument there. Sim Vimes, also mentioned in this thread, is also a Discworld character. (Granny Weatherwax is a (the?) main character in the “Witches” sub-series, while Sam Vimes is the main character of the “City Watch” sub-series.)
Michael Ciane was good at playing the anti-hero. Your post brought to mind his portrayal of Peachy Carnehan in The Man Who Would Be King.
And throw in Sean Connery’s Daniel Dravot in that film as well.