Favorite anti-heroes

[FireAza]

Definitely Light Yagami from Death Note.

He's not just a smooth, intelligent, cunning bastard, but we can see in him the darker side of ourselves that we keep hidden. His point that when in public, people will say what they think they should say ("It's never right to kill someone!") but in the privacy of the internet, people's true nature comes out ("He should be killed for what he did!")

 

[ItouKaiji]

Definitely Light Yagami from Death Note.

He's not just a smooth, intelligent, cunning bastard, but we can see in him the darker side of ourselves that we keep hidden. His point that when in public, people will say what they think they should say ("It's never right to kill someone!") but in the privacy of the internet, people's true nature comes out ("He should be killed for what he did!")

Light is not an anti-hero, he a straight out villain. He's petty, arrogant and has a childish sense of justice. He's also a massive hypocrite that decided to become a god of "justice" to justify in his own mind the first murder he ever committed with the Death Note. He's smart, but not as smart as he thinks he is. Most of his plans are completely and utterly dependent on luck and people doing exactly what he thinks they will. So often his plans had so many variables that without a good dose of luck he would have ended up looking like a retard. Don't get me wrong, I liked Light. He made a good protagonist for an inversed detective story, but he is in no way an antihero, he's straight up evil and throughout the anime and manga he deserves to be put down like a rabid dog. Which is why

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I prefer the manga a bit to the anime because he isn't allowed any dignity when he dies.

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Now if you want an anime anti-hero there is someone very like Light that works and that Ledouche Lelouch.

Light and Lelouch both have a lot in common, but at the end of the day Light proves himself to be an arrogant and selfish child that never really had justice in mind, but only his own megalomaniac desires. Lelouch walks the same line as Light but it's his actions at the end of the series as well as his showing doubts about his actions at other times that show him to be a true anti-hero. He toes that evil line many times, but even when he steps over temporarily he always reels himself back in. Whenever Light crosses a line, he goes even further into evil just to justify his actions.

 

[FireAza]

While I agree that Light leans more towards villain, he's an anti-hero in the sense that he does things that people often wish someone would to (i.e straight up murder "bad people") and is a hero to them.

 

[Vegosiux]

I'll just go with....the bard:

He's ballsy enough to argue with the narrator, and all that.

I suppose honorable mention will go to the second Greed from Fullmetal Alchemist. He's most definitely not a villain. But still not a hero.

 

[lord canti]

Definitely Light Yagami from Death Note.

He's not just a smooth, intelligent, cunning bastard, but we can see in him the darker side of ourselves that we keep hidden. His point that when in public, people will say what they think they should say ("It's never right to kill someone!") but in the privacy of the internet, people's true nature comes out ("He should be killed for what he did!")

Maybe he started out as one but he definitely turned into a straight out villain through out the series. Hell he even contemplated killing his sister.he became a villain the second he kill the fake L for calling him out.

 

[FireAza]

That's one of my favorite things about Death Note: What was Light's tipping point where he deviated from his "noble" goal? You could say that it was when he killed the fake L, since he wasn't a criminal. But you could also argue that it was necessary if Light was to continue is goal of making the world a better place. I think it was when he killed Misora Naomi, namely the enjoyment he took in it, telling her that his father's phone was back on and if she still wanted to talk to him.

 

[keniakittykat]

Deadpool and Tank girl. I think I have a soft spot for unpredictable, violent, insane, sarcastic comic book characters. xD

 

[iwinatlife]

I'd Say Gregor Eisenhorn who is a walking case of the whole "He who fights monsters" concept. He starts as a Puritanical Hard-line Inquisitor and over the course of three books and a few hundred years becomes....Less stable and starts using some ends justify the means logic. Granted this is 40k so he pays for his actions dearly. but he seems very human and logical in his slow decent which is why I love Dan Abnett's writing

 

[Angelblaze]

What even is this thread if it does not have Alucard?


Seriously, Hellsing was good (if you weren't someone who bashed on it purely for not following the UNFINISHED manga), Hellsing Ultimate was straight up beast and Hellsing Ultimate Parody done by Takahata101 is just...



too awesome
for any words.

 

[Rooster893]

Shadow the Hedgehog. Ever since I saw/played as him as a lad in Sonic Adventure 2, I was hooked. He's still one of my favorite characters.

Evil Cole MacGrath. It feels good to play as him. He's willing to do horrible things and endanger innocents if it brings him to closer to defeating his enemies.

Scorpion. Like Evil Cole but a lot more violent. He lost his family and clan, so he has every right to be vengeful.