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Gustave Doré's depiction of Satan from John Milton's Paradise Lost.

This list is for characters in fictional works who exemplify the qualities of an antihero. Characteristics in protagonists that merit such a label can include, but are not limited to:

  • imperfections that separate them from typically "heroic" characters (selfishness, ignorance, bigotry, etc.);
  • lack of positive qualities such as "courage, physical prowess, and fortitude," and "generally feel helpless in a world over which they have no control";[1]
  • qualities normally belonging to villains (amorality, greed, violent tendencies, etc.) that may be tempered with more human, identifiable traits (confusion, self-hatred, etc.);
  • noble motives pursued by bending or breaking the law in the belief that "the ends justify the means."

Each of these examples has been identified by a critic as an antihero, although the classification is somewhat subjective. Some of the entries may be disputed by other sources and some may contradict all established definitions of antihero.

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Character Work Author First published Notes
Lázaro de Tormes [2] Lazarillo de Tormes anonymous 1554
Winston Smith[3] 1984 George Orwell 1948
Cal[4] East of Eden John Steinbeck 1952
Redmond Barry[5] The Luck of Barry Lyndon William Makepeace Thackeray 1844
Patrick Bateman[6][7] American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis 1991
Leopold Bloom[8][9] Ulysses James Joyce 1922
Pinkie Brown[10] Brighton Rock Graham Greene 1938
Holden Caulfield[11] Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger 1951
Conan [12][13] "The Phoenix on the Sword" and other short stories by Robert E. Howard Robert E. Howard 1932 The archetypal "amoral swordsman" of the Sword and Sorcery genre.
Stephen Dedalus[14] A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce 1914 First serialized in The Egoist from 1914 to 1915 and published in book form in 1916.
Arthur Dent[15][16] The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series Douglas Adams 1979 Originally a radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978, it was later adapted to other formats
Roland Deschain[17][18] The Dark Tower Stephen King 1982
Raoul Duke[19] Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson 1971
Tyler Durden and the Narrator[20][21] Fight Club Chuck Palahniuk 1996
Randall Flagg[22][23] The Stand, Eyes of the Dragon and The Dark Tower Stephen King 1978
Artemis Fowl II[24] Artemis Fowl series Eoin Colfer 2001
Gully Foyle[25] The Stars My Destination Alfred Bester 1956
Victor Frankenstein[26] Frankenstein Mary Shelley 1818
Jay Gatsby[27] The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 1925
Grendel[28] Grendel John Gardner 1971 Originally the antagonist of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf from between the 8th to the early 11th century.
Humbert Humbert[29] Lolita Vladimir Nabokov 1955
Iago[30][31][32] Othello William Shakespeare 1603
Hannibal Lecter[33][34] Hannibal Lecter series ('Red Dragon, The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, Hannibal Rising) Thomas Harris 1981
Lucifer/Satan[35][36][37] Paradise Lost John Milton 1667
Macbeth[38] Macbeth William Shakespeare
Randle McMurphy[39] One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey 1962
Philip Marlowe[40] The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely, The High Window, The Lady in the Lake, Playback, The Little Sister, and Poodle Springs Raymond Chandler 1939
Dexter Morgan[41][42][43] Darkly Dreaming Dexter, Dearly Devoted Dexter, and Dexter in the Dark Jeff Lindsay 2004 Later adapted into a TV series.
Scarlett O'Hara[44] Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1936
Parker[45][46] The Parker series Donald E. Westlake 1962
Alexander Portnoy[47] Portnoy's Complaint Philip Roth 1969
Raskolnikov[48] Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky 1866
Rincewind[49][50] Discworld novels Terry Pratchett 1983 First appeared in The Colour of Magic
Tom Ripley[51] Tom Ripley series (the "Ripliad") Patricia Highsmith 1955
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern[52] Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Tom Stoppard 1966
Becky Sharp[53] Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray 1847 First serialized in 20 parts.
Shylock[54] The Merchant of Venice William Shakespeare
Tyrone Slothrop[55] Gravity's Rainbow Thomas Pynchon 1973
Severus Snape[56] Harry Potter J. K. Rowling 1997
Sam Spade[57] The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett 1930
Steerpike[58] Gormenghast Series Mervyn Peake 1946
The "Underground Man"[59] Notes from Underground Fyodor Dostoevsky 1864
Woland[60] The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov 1966
Wei Xiaobao[61] The Deer and the Cauldron Jinyong 1969
Yossarian[55][62] Catch-22 Joseph Heller 1961
Harry Flashman[63] Flashman series George MacDonald Fraser 1969
Heathcliff[64] Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë 1847
Alex DeLarge[65][66] A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess 1962


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[edit] See also

[edit] References

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  11. ^ Guardian Unlimited, David McAllister; Will Salinger sue?, November 11, 2003.
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  133. ^ Kurosawa
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  178. ^ De guapos y Valientes
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