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";
- 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
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Film
A
- Danny Archer from Blood Diamond
B
- Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver
- Rick Blaine from Casablanca
- Brodie Bruce from Mallrats
- Edmond Burke from Edmond
- Lester Burnham from American Beauty
C
- Harry Callahan from the Dirty Harry series
- Jack Carter from Get Carter
- Chev Chelios from Crank
- Michael Corleone from The Godfather trilogy
- John Creasy from Man on Fire
D
- The Dude from The Big Lebowski
F
- Fritz from Fritz the Cat
G
- Graverobber from Repo! The Genetic Opera
H
- Han Solo
- Dante Hicks, Randal Graves, and Jay & Silent Bob from Kevin Smith's "View Askewniverse" films
- Napoleon Dynamite from the movie of the same name
J
- Luke Jackson from Cool Hand Luke
- Scottie Ferguson from Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo
- The Firefly family from House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects ; Captain Spaulding, Otis B. Driftwood, Baby, etc.
- Davy Jones from Pirates of the Caribbean
K
- Charles Foster Kane from Citizen Kane
- Mickey and Mallory Knox from Natural Born Killers
L
- Léon from Léon or The Professional
M
- Juno MacGuff from Juno .
- "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
N
- Nick Naylor from the film Thank You for Smoking
M
- Tony Montana from Brian De Palma's Scarface
P
- Snake Plissken from Escape from New York and Escape From L.A.
R
- Richard B. Riddick from Pitch Black and The Chronicles of Riddick
- Max Rockatansky from the Mad Max series
S
- Captain Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean
W
- Ben Wade from the 2007 version of 3:10 to Yuma
- Dawn Weiner of Welcome to the Dollhouse
- John Wydell from The Devil's Rejects
Y
- Yojimbo' s nameless protagonist.
Television
A
- Angel from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel
- Kerr Avon in Blake's 7
B
- Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell from Prison Break .
- Jack Bauer from 24
- Bender from Futurama
- Edmund Blackadder from BBC's Blackadder series
- Sami Brady from Days of our Lives
- David Brent from The Office
- Archie Bunker from All in the Family
- Chuck Bass from Gossip Girl .
C
- Eric Cartman from South Park
- JR Chandler from All My Children
- George Costanza from Seinfeld
D
- Larry David from Curb Your Enthusiasm
- The Doctor from Doctor Who
- Don Draper from Mad Men
F
- Faith from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Eddie "Fitz" Fitzgerald from Cracker
- James "Sawyer" Ford from Lost
G
- Tommy Gavin from Rescue Me
H
- Jack Harkness from Doctor Who and Torchwood
- Gregory House from House
K
- Alex Krycek from The X-Files
L
- Ben Linus from Lost
M
- Vic Mackey from The Shield
- Todd Manning from One Life to Live
- Ally McBeal from the eponymous series
- Dexter Morgan from Dexter
N
- Jimmy McNulty from The Wire
P
- Jim Profit from Profit
- Nathan Petrelli from Heroes
R
- Jonathan Randall from Guiding Light
- Malcolm Reynolds from Firefly and Serenity
S
- Michael Scofield from Prison Break .
- Michael Scott from The Office
- Homer Simpson from The Simpsons
- Bart Simpson from The Simpsons
- Zach Slater from All My Children
- Tony Soprano from The Sopranos
- Luke Spencer from General Hospital
- Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel
- Sebastian Stark from Shark
- Al Swearengen from Deadwood
W
- Walter White from "Breaking Bad".
Anime/Manga
- Guts from Berserk
- Lelouch Lamperouge from Code Geass
- Vegeta from Dragon Ball Z
- Cain Hargreaves from Godchild
Comic books
- Batman
- Doga.
- Fritz the Cat
- Johnny C from Johnny the Homicidal Maniac
- Catwoman
- John Constantine from Hellblazer
- Jesse Custer from the Preacher series
- Grendel
- Spider Jerusalem from Transmetropolitan
- Magneto from the X-Men series.
- Marv and Dwight from Frank Miller's Sin City
- Eric O'Grady
- The Punisher
- Rorschach from Watchmen
- The Shadow
- Spawn
- Sub-Mariner
- "V" from V for Vendetta
- Venom
- Wolverine
- Deadpool (comics)
Video games
A
- Agent 47 from the Hitman series
- Altaïr from Assassin's Creed
- Arthas from Warcraft III
- General Alister Azimuth from Ratchet and Clank Future: A Crack In Time
C
- Caleb from Blood and Blood II: The Chosen
- Captain Qwark from the Ratchet & Clank series
- Carl "CJ" Johnson from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
- Conker the Squirrel from Conker's Bad Fur Day and Conker: Live & Reloaded
D
- Dante from the Devil May Cry series
- Duke Nukem from the Duke Nukem series
G
- Garrett from the Thief series
J
- Jack Carver in Far Cry and Far Cry: Instincts
K
- Kain and Raziel from the Legacy of Kain series
- Kane and Lynch from Kane & Lynch: Dead Men
- Kratos from the God of War series.
M
- Marcus Fenix from Gears of War
- Max Payne from Max Payne and Max Payne 2
N
- Niko Bellic from Grand Theft Auto IV
P
- The Prince from Prince of Persia: Warrior Within
R
- Rayne from Blood Rayne and Blood Rayne 2
S
- Shadow the Hedgehog from the Sonic the Hedgehog series
- Solid Snake and
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