List of anti-heroes
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This is a list of anti-heroes.
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Drama
- Adam in The Shape of Things by Neil LaBute
- Archie Rice in The Entertainer by John Osborne
- Donald in The Philanthropist by Christopher Hampton
- Felix Humble in Humble Boy by Charlotte Jones
- Guy in My Night with Reg by Kevin Elyot
- Laurence in Abigail's Party by Mike Leigh
- Michael Cartts in Japes by Simon Gray
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
- Stephanie Washburn in The Eclipse by Joyce Carol Oates
- Tom and Amy Bates in Brimstone and Treacle by Dennis Potter
- Vladimir and Estragon in Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
- Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Literature
- Alan Sherwood in Altered States by Anita Brookner
- Alex DeLarge in A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
- Alexander Portnoy in Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth</p>
- The Creature in Frankenstein
- Alice (as well as some other characters) in King Solomon's Carpet by Barbara Vine
- Artemis Fowl in the Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer
- Arthur Abdel Simpson in The Light of Day (filmed as Topkapi) and Dirty Story by Eric Ambler
- Arthur Dent in The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- Asa Leventhal in The Victim by Saul Bellow
- Barnaby Gaitlin in A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler
- Billy Fisher in Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse
- Case in William Gibson's Neuromancer
- Chance in Being There by Jerzy Kosinski
- Charlie in The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
- Des Esseintes in Against the Grain by Joris-Karl Huysmans
- Don Juan in Don Juan by Lord Byron
- Dracula in Bram Stoker's Dracula
- Elric of Melniboné in stories and novels by Michael Moorcock
- Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser fictional characters created by Fritz Leiber
- Felix Nasmyth in Budding Prospects by T.C. Boyle
- Gerald Tarrant in The Coldfire Trilogy by C.S. Friedman
- Hamlet in Hamlet by William Shakespeare
- Gollum (Sméagol) in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
- Hannibal Lecter in Red Dragon, The Silence of the Lambs, and Hannibal by Thomas Harris.
- Harry Paget Flashman in the Flashman books by George MacDonald Fraser
- Heathcliff in 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bront�
- Heracles in The Twelve Labors in Greek Mythology
- Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- Jack Skellington in "The Nightmare Before Christmas" by Tim Burton
- Tom Ripley in the "Ripliad" series by Patricia Highsmith.</p>
- Humbert Humbert in Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.
- Jacopo Belbo in Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
- Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Leopold Bloom in "Ulysses (novel)" by James Joyce
- Jim Dixon in Lucky Jim, by Kingsley Amis
- Joe Christmas in Light in August, by William Faulkner
- John Wheelwright in A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
- Lestat in Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
- Long John Silver in Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Luke Wakefield in Mr Wakefield's Crusade by Bernice Rubens
- Marc Remillard in The Saga of Pliocene Exile by Julian May
- Mark Crawley (as well as some other characters) in A Vicious Circle by Amanda Craig
- Martin Brock in 12 Step Fandango by Chris Haslam
- Meursault in L'Étranger or The Stranger by Albert Camus
- Miles Derry in One of the Guys, novel by Robert Clark Young
- The narrator/Tyler Durden in Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
- Norman Bates in Psycho by Robert Bloch
- Peter Jernigan in Jernigan by David Gates
- Pinkie Brown in Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
- Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Dmitri Ravinoff or Raven in Snow Crash by Neil Stephenson
- Roland Deschain in The Dark Tower series, by Stephen King
- Samuel Vimes in Terry Pratchett's Discworld books
- Severus Snape in the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
- Smith in The Loneliness of a Long-Distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe
- Soames Forsyte in the Forsyte novels by John Galsworthy
- Steerpike in the Gormenghast novels by Mervyn Peake
- Stevens in The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Sydney Carton in A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- Thomas Covenant in The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever by Stephen R. Donaldson
- Turin Turambar in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth universe
- Underground man, unnamed narrator in Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Victor Mancini in Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
- Virgil Adams in Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington
- Yossarian (John) in Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- Cheradenine Zakalwe in Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks
Poetry
- Achilles in The Illiad by Homer
- Gerontion in Gerontion by T.S. Eliot
- Henry in The Dream Songs by John Berryman
- Warren Harding in Two Poems About President Harding by James Wright
- Satan in Paradise Lost by John Milton
- Turin Turambar in Lays of Beleriand by J.R.R. Tolkien
Film
- Napoleon Dynamite in Napoleon Dynamite
- Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars
- Ash Williams in Evil Dead, Evil Dead II and Army of Darkness
- Benjamin O'Ryan in Suspect Zero
- Captain Benjamin L. Willard in Apocalypse Now
- Chris Taylor from Platoon
- Ellie and Jimmy Hudson in Cursed
- Jango and Boba Fett in Star Wars
- The Cable Guy
- The Dude in The Big Lebowski
- Riddick in The Chronicles of Riddick and Pitch Black
- Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon
- Shirotsugh Ledatt in The Wings of Honneamise
- Tony Montana in Scarface
- The trader in Waterworld
- Wanda Gershwitz in A Fish Called Wanda
- Alfred J. Kwak
- Dr. Peyton Westlake in Darkman
- Snake Plissken in Escape From New York, Escape From L.A.
- Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver by Martin Scorsese
- Hando in Romper Stomper
- John Constantine in Constantine
- John Murdoch in Dark City
- Lester Burnham in American Beauty
- Butch Coolidge, Vincent Vega and Jules Winfield in Pulp Fiction
- Rick Blaine in Casablanca
- The Bride in Kill Bill
- Alonzo Harris in Training Day
- Max Rockatansky in Mad Max
- Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean
- Declan Joseph Mulqueen in The Jackal
- Donnie Darko in Donnie Darko
- Verbal Kint in The Usual Suspects
- Pink in the Alan Parker film Pink Floyd the Wall
- The MacManus Brothers in The Boondock Saints
- The Man With No Name in Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy
- Daffy Duck
Comic books
- Batman (DC Comics)
- Catwoman (DC Comics)
- Cerebus the Aardvark by Dave Sim (Aardvark-Vanaheim)
- Daredevil (Marvel Comics)
- Elektra (Marvel Comics)
- Lady Death (Lady Death Comics) (Chaos! Comics, Crossgen, and Avatar Press)
- Hellboy (Dark Horse)
- The Incredible Hulk (Marvel Comics)
- John Difool (The Incal)
- Johnny the Homicidal Maniac by Jhonen Vasquez (Slave Labor Graphics)
- Namor the Sub-Mariner (Marvel Comics)
- Nexus by Mike Baron and penciler Steve Rude
- The Punisher (Marvel Comics)
- Rayek in Elfquest (Warp Graphics, later DC Comics)
- Rorschach in Watchmen
- Sandman (Vertigo)
- Spawn (Image Comics)
- The Thing (Marvel Comics)
- Venom (Marvel Comics)
- Wolverine (Marvel Comics)
- John Constantine (Vertigo)
- Metabarons (Humanoids Publishing)
- Spectre (DC Comics)
- Vegeta and Piccolo from Dragon Ball Z (Bird Studio/Akira Toriyama)
- quinlan vos from dark horse comics
Comic Strips
- Black Mage - 8-bit Theatre
- Bun-Bun - Sluggy Freelance
- Calvin - Calvin and Hobbes
Television
- Al Swearengen in Deadwood
- Beavis and Butt-head
- Bernard Black in Black Books
- Edmund Blackadder in Blackadder
- Dave Lister in Red Dwarf
- Doctor Who most notably as portrayed by actors; William Hartnell, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy and Christopher Eccleston but many consider the Doctor to be an antihero in general.
- Blooregard Q. Kazoo in Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
- Eric Cartman in South Park
- Dr Eddie "Fitz" Fitzgerald in Cracker
- Flippy in Happy Tree Friends
- George Costanza and, to a lesser extent, most of the other characters on Seinfeld
- Gendo Ikari and to a different extent Shinji Ikari in Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Homer Simpson in The Simpsons
- InuYasha and to a different extent Miroku in InuYasha
- Yamato Ishida, Ken Ichijouji, Ruki Makino, Impmon, Kouji Minamoto and Kouichi Kimura in Digimon
- Kerr Avon and, to varying degrees, several of the other characters in Blakes Seven
- Malcolm Reynolds in Firefly.
- Quantum Ranger in Power Rangers Time Force.
- Peter Griffin in Family Guy
- Ren and Stimpy
- Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune in Sailor Moon, particularly Sailor Moon S.
- 'Satan' in South Park
- Timmy Turner from The Fairly OddParents.
- Saito Hajime from Rurouni Kenshin.
- Tintin and Captain Haddock from The Adventures of Tintin.
- Tony Soprano in The Sopranos
- Vegeta in Dragon Ball Z
- Vic Mackey in The Shield
- Victor Meldrew in One Foot in the Grave
- Rick Hunter in the animated show Robotech.
- Amuro Ray and to a different extent Char Aznable in the anime Mobile Suit Gundam
- Hawkeye Pierce in M*A*S*H
- Sgt Bilko in The Phil Silvers Show
- Brian Kinney in Queer As Folk
- Dr. Gregory House in House
- James Ford, better known as "Sawyer", in Lost
Computer and video games
- Mr. 47 in the Hitman series
- Anton Slavik in Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun
- Bass in the Mega Man series
- Caleb in Blood
- Carl "CJ" Johnson in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
- Claude Speed in Grand Theft Auto 2
- Garrett in the Thief series
- The unnamed player character in System Shock 2, affectionately called Goggles in some fan communities.
- The Hacker (also known as Employee 2-4601) in System Shock
- Kain in the Legacy of Kain series
- Knuckles the Echidna from Sonic the Hedgehog
- Kratos in God of War
- Max Payne and Mona Sax in the Max Payne series
- The player character in Unreal
- "The Nameless One" in Planescape:Torment
- The Prince Predator in Aliens versus Predator 2
- Solid Snake in Metal Gear Solid
- Shadow the Hedgehog in the Sonic the Hedgehog series
- Tanner in the Driver series
- Tommy Vercetti in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
- The unnamed protagonist (possibly Claude Speed) from Grand Theft Auto III
- The Marine Combat Engineer from Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil
- Iori Yagami from the King of Fighters series
- Marta Louise Velasquez, the main character of Traffic Department 2192
- Wario in the Wario series
- Zero in the Mega Man X series