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*[[Lucas Jackson]] from ''[[Cool Hand Luke]] <ref>[http://www.classicfilmguide.com/index.php?s=essential&item=424</ref> |
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*The Firefly family from ''[[House of 1000 Corpses]]'' and ''[[The Devil's Rejects]]''; [[Captain Spaulding (Rob Zombie)|Captain Spaulding]], [[Otis B. Driftwood]], [[Baby (Rob Zombie)|Baby]], etc.<ref>[http://www.filmmonthly.com/Video/Articles/TheDevilsRejects/TheDevilsRejects.html The Devil's Rejects (2005)<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://ae.miami.com/entertainment/ui/miami/movie.html?id=370143&reviewId=18597 Movie: The Devil's Rejects<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> |
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Revision as of 18:26, 30 December 2008
This list is for characters in fictional works who exemplify the qualities of an anti-hero. 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 anti-hero, although the classification is somewhat subjective. Some of the entries may be disputed by other sources and some may contradict all established definitions of anti-hero.
Literature
- Alex, the narrator of Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange.[2]
- Redmond Barry from William Makepeace Thackeray's The Luck of Barry Lyndon.[3]
- Patrick Bateman from Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho.[4][5]
- Leopold Bloom from James Joyce's Ulysses.[6][7]
- Pinkie Brown from Graham Greene's Brighton Rock.[8]
- Holden Caulfield from J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye.[9]
- Conan from the stories by Robert E. Howard, the archetypal "amoral swordsman" of the Sword and Sorcery genre.[10][11]
- Stephen Dedalus from James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man [12]
- Arthur Dent from Douglas Adams' Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series.[13][14]
- Roland Deschain from Stephen King's The Dark Tower series [15][16]
- Raoul Duke from Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas [17]
- Tyler Durden and the Narrator of Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club [18] [19]
- Randall Flagg from Stephen King's The Stand, Eyes of the Dragon and The Dark Tower.[20][21]
- Artemis Fowl II from the Artemis Fowl series.[22]
- Gully Foyle from Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination [23]
- Victor Frankenstein from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein [24]
- Jay Gatsby from F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby [25]
- Gollum from J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.[26]
- Grendel from John Gardner's novel of the same name.[27]
- Hamlet from William Shakespeare's play of the same name [28]
- Humbert Humbert from Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita [29]
- Iago from William Shakespeare's Othello.[30][31][32]
- Hannibal Lecter from a series of novels by Thomas Harris [33] [34]
- Lestat de Lioncourt from Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles universe [35]
- Lucifer/Satan from John Milton's Paradise Lost [36] [37] [38]
- Macbeth from William Shakespeare's play of the same name.[39]
- Randle McMurphy from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.[40]
- Philip Marlowe from Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely, The High Window, The Lady in the Lake, Playback, The Little Sister, and Poodle Springs [41]
- Mephistopheles from Goethe's Faust and Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus.[42]
- Dexter Morgan from the novels Darkly Dreaming Dexter, Dearly Devoted Dexter, and Dexter in the Dark, later adapted into a TV series.[43][44]
- Scarlett O'Hara from Gone with the Wind [45]
- Parker from a series of novels by Donald E. Westlake [46] [47]
- Alexander Portnoy from Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint [48]
- Raskolnikov from Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment [49]
- Rincewind from Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels [50][51]
- Mark Renton from Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting [52]
- Tom Ripley from Patricia Highsmith's "Ripliad" series [53]
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern from Tom Stoppard's play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead [54]
- Becky Sharp from Vanity Fair [55]
- Shylock from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice [56]
- Tyrone Slothrop from Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow[57]
- Severus Snape from J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter [58]
- Sam Spade from Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon [59]
- Steerpike from Gormenghast Series by Mervyn Peake [60]
- "The Underground Man", narrator of Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground [61]
- Wei Xiaobao from Jinyong's The Deer and the Cauldron [62]
- Yossarian from Joseph Heller's Catch-22 [63][57]
- Harry Flashman from the Flashman series of books written by George MacDonald Fraser [64]
Film
- Danny Archer from Blood Diamond [65]
- Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver [66]
- Brodie Bruce from Mallrats [67]
- Edmond Burke from Edmond [68]
- Lester Burnham from American Beauty [69]
- Harry Callahan from the Dirty Harry series [66]
- Jack Carter from Get Carter [70]
- Chev Chelios from Crank [71]
- Chucky from the Child's Play series [72]
- Michael Corleone from The Godfather trilogy [73]
- John Creasy from Man on Fire [74]
- The Dude from The Big Lebowski [75] [76]
- Gordon Gekko from Wall Street [77]
- Dante Hicks, Randal Graves, and Jay & Silent Bob from Kevin Smith's "View Askewniverse" films [78]
- Napoleon Dynamite from the movie of the same name [79]
- Lucas Jackson from Cool Hand Luke [80]
- Scottie Ferguson from Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo[81]
- The Firefly family from House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects; Captain Spaulding, Otis B. Driftwood, Baby, etc.[82][83]
- Jigsaw from the Saw film series.[84][85][86]
- Johnny from Naked [87]
- Davy Jones from Pirates of the Caribbean [88]
- Charles Foster Kane from Citizen Kane [89]
- Beatrix Kiddo from Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill films [90]
- Freddy Krueger from A Nightmare on Elm Street.[91]
- Mickey and Mallory Knox from Natural Born Killers [92][93]
- Leatherface from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.[94][95][96][97]
- Léon from Léon or The Professional [66]
- Juno MacGuff from Juno. [98]
- "The Man with No Name," a stock character in westerns popularized by Clint Eastwood in films such as For a Few Dollars More and The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly [99] [100]
- Nick Naylor from the film Thank You for Smoking [101]
- Tony Montana from Brian De Palma's Scarface[102]
- Yuri Orlov from Lord of War[103]
- Snake Plissken from Escape from New York and Escape From L.A. [104] [66]
- Richard B. Riddick from Pitch Black and The Chronicles of Riddick [105]
- Lisa Rowe from Girl, Interrupted[106]
- Max Rockatansky from the Mad Max series [66]
- Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader from the Star Wars films [107]
- Captain Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean [108]
- Ben Wade from the 2007 version of 3:10 to Yuma [109]
- Napoleon Wilson from John Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13 [110][111][112][113]
- Dawn Weiner of Welcome to the Dollhouse [114]
- John Wydell from The Devil's Rejects [115]
- Yojimbo's nameless protagonist.[116]
Television
- Angel from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel[117]
- Kerr Avon in Blake's 7 [118]
- Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell from Prison Break.[119]
- Jack Bauer from 24 [120]
- Edmund Blackadder from BBC's Blackadder series [121]
- David Brent from The Office [122]
- Archie Bunker from All in the Family [123]
- Eric Cartman from South Park [124]
- JR Chandler from All My Children[125]
- George Costanza from Seinfeld [126]
- Larry David from Curb Your Enthusiasm [127]
- Jack Deveraux from Days of our Lives[128]
- The Doctor from Doctor Who [129]
- Eddie "Fitz" Fitzgerald from Cracker [130]
- James "Sawyer" Ford from Lost[131]
- Tommy Gavin from Rescue Me [132]
- Jack Harkness from Doctor Who and Torchwood[133]
- Gregory House from House [134]
- Alex Krycek from The X-Files [135]
- Ben Linus from Lost [136]
- Vic Mackey from The Shield [132]
- Todd Manning from One Life to Live[137]
- Ally McBeal from the eponymous series [138]
- Jimmy McNulty from The Wire [132]
- Jonathan Randall from Guiding Light [139]
- Malcolm Reynolds from Firefly and Serenity [140]
- Bender Bending Rodríguez from Futurama [141]
- Michael Scofield from Prison Break.[142]
- Michael Scott from The Office [143]
- Homer Simpson from The Simpsons [144]
- Bart Simpson from The Simpsons [145]
- Zach Slater from All My Children[125]
- Tony Soprano from The Sopranos [146][132]
- Luke Spencer from General Hospital [147]
- Samantha McCall from General Hospital[148]
- Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel [149]
- Al Swearengen from Deadwood [132]
Anime/Manga
- Guts from Berserk[150]
- Lelouch Lamperouge from "Code Geass" [151]
- Vegeta from Dragonball Z[152]
- Seto Kaiba from Yu-Gi-Oh! Cite error: A
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- Catwoman [154]
- John Constantine from Hellblazer [155]
- Jesse Custer from the Preacher series [156]
- Grendel [157]
- Spider Jerusalem from Transmetropolitan [158]
- Magneto from the X-Men series. [159]
- Marv and Dwight from Frank Miller's Sin City [160]
- Eric O'Grady [161]
- The Punisher [162]
- Rorschach from Watchmen [163]
- The Shadow [164]
- Spawn [165]
- Sub-Mariner [166]
- "V" from V for Vendetta [167]
- Venom [168]
- Wolverine[169]
Video games
- Agent 47 from the Hitman series [170]
- Altaïr from Assassin's Creed [171]
- Niko Bellic from Grand Theft Auto IV[172][173]
- Jack Carver in Far Cry and Far Cry: Instincts [174]
- Caleb from Blood and Blood II: The Chosen[175]
- Conker the Squirrel from Conker's Bad Fur Day and Conker: Live & Reloaded [176]
- Dante from the Devil May Cry series [177]
- Marcus Fenix from Gears of War [178]
- Garrett from the Thief series [179]
- Carl "CJ" Johnson from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas [180]
- Kain and Raziel from the Legacy of Kain series [181]
- Kane and Lynch from Kane & Lynch: Dead Men [182]
- Kratos from the God of War series. [183]
- Arthas Menethil from Warcraft III [184]
- Duke Nukem from the Duke Nukem series[185]
- Max Payne from Max Payne and Max Payne 2 [186]
- The Prince from Prince of Persia: Warrior Within [187][188]
- Captain Qwark from the Ratchet & Clank series [189]
- Rayne from Blood Rayne and Blood Rayne 2 [190]
- Shadow the Hedgehog from the Sonic the Hedgehog series [191]
- Solid Snake from the Metal Gear series [192]
- Officer Tanner from Driver, Driver 2 and DRIV3R [193]
- Tommy Vercetti from Grand Theft Auto: Vice City [194]
- Travis Touchdown from No More Heroes [195]
- Wario in the Wario series[196]
- Roger Wilco from the Space Quest series [197]
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- ^ Johnston, Philip. "Home front", The Daily Telegraph, August 3, 2004. Accessed October 16, 2008. "Arthur Dent, the book's anti-hero, finds that his house is to be knocked down to make way for a new road."
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