antihero

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A protagonist who proceeds in an unheroic manner, such as by criminal means, via cowardly actions, or for mercenary goals
a leading character who is not, like a hero, perfect or even outstanSSding, but is rather ordinary and representative of the more or less average person Close Window
a protagonist who lacks the characteristics that would make him a hero (or her a heroine)
antiheroes a main character in a book, play, or film who is an ordinary or unpleasant person and lacks the qualities that you expect a hero to have
A protagonist who has the opposite of most of the traditional attributes of a hero He or she may be bewildered, ineffectual, deluded, or merely pathetic Often what antiheroes learn, if they learn anything at all, is that the world isolates them in an existence devoid of God and absolute values Yossarian from Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 is an example of an antihero See also character
In a literary work, a protagonist that proceeds in an unheroic manner, such as by criminal means, via cowardly actions, or for mercenary goals
{i} protagonist which does not possess the traditional characteristics of a hero
A protagonist who is a non-hero or the antithesis of a traditional hero While the traditional hero may be dashing, strong, brave, resourceful, or handsome, the antihero may be incompetent, unlucky, clumsy, dumb, or clownish
antiheroes
plural of antihero
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