Who's your favorite anti-hero?
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Well, if we're counting books, Caliban Leandros from the Leandros Brothers Series.
1. Half-human. Half-monster. All attitude
2. Totally puckable
3. Would you change your anti-freeze and have an emotion already?
4. Let's focus on one life threatening disaster at a time
5. We kill. We don't clean. You have to have standards
6. The Union says thinking rolls me into overtime
7. Cal: One with the fucking universe, full of happiness and joy and all that crap
8. Niko: Buddha Loving Bad Ass
9. Goodfellow: I'm a puck. Pissing off lesser creatures is what I do
10. Sufficient unto the day is the ass-kicking therein
11. You want me to be a gigolo...to whore myself for your
convenience?...Who could say no to that?
12. One monster in Central Park should not a crapfest in your
pants make, right?
13. Team Leandros: the terror of Girl Scouts everywhere
14. In vino veritas. If you drank more, you?d know that
15. I told Caligula horses weren't the monogomous kind, but did he listen?
16.?Places to go, worlds to destroy
17. Werewolves: Once you go furry, you never have to worry
18. The Holy Trinity of Hotness
19. A maid cannot kill you with a tube sock. I can
20. Kicking supernatural ass for fun and profit
21. I shitteth you not
2. Totally puckable
3. Would you change your anti-freeze and have an emotion already?
4. Let's focus on one life threatening disaster at a time
5. We kill. We don't clean. You have to have standards
6. The Union says thinking rolls me into overtime
7. Cal: One with the fucking universe, full of happiness and joy and all that crap
8. Niko: Buddha Loving Bad Ass
9. Goodfellow: I'm a puck. Pissing off lesser creatures is what I do
10. Sufficient unto the day is the ass-kicking therein
11. You want me to be a gigolo...to whore myself for your
convenience?...Who could say no to that?
12. One monster in Central Park should not a crapfest in your
pants make, right?
13. Team Leandros: the terror of Girl Scouts everywhere
14. In vino veritas. If you drank more, you?d know that
15. I told Caligula horses weren't the monogomous kind, but did he listen?
16.?Places to go, worlds to destroy
17. Werewolves: Once you go furry, you never have to worry
18. The Holy Trinity of Hotness
19. A maid cannot kill you with a tube sock. I can
20. Kicking supernatural ass for fun and profit
21. I shitteth you not
II2 said:Spider.
Fucking.
Jersualem.
The miserable, drunken, drug addled, hate filled bastard who'll yell in your face and evacuate your bowels, but will never LIE to you.
"IM A JOURNALIST!"Other than Spider, obviously, I would have to say The Saint of Killers from Preacher Just about everyone who doesn't work for The Grail is an anti-hero in that series- and it isnt exactly clear that the Saint of Killers is an anti-hero until later on when it's confirmed that God is a dick and that the Saint of Killer's origin is probably the most badass story of revenge and hatred personified.
I almost said Jaime. I was surprised that I liked a character in the later books that I hated so much in the first one.Jamboxdotcom said:
The Hound was a tragic character. And I would hazard to guess quite the textbook bi-polar. Another strong choice.
The more I think about it the more I realize that EVERY character in A Song of Ice and Fire is either an anti-hero or an anti-villain.
hmmm.. hard one
id say deadpool but he is to much of silly and fun and not dark enogh for this category (but he is definitly my "favorate comic relief")
so id say either venom (yes hes an antie hero not a villian) or red hood
venom and red hood both belive in what they do
they belive they are right and that theyr ways are the only possibility and that what makes them great...
i think ill go with venom thou because the fact that he has those out of controll moments (where the symbiot takes full controll) and he is aware of them he knows he is using something evil (the symbiot) to do something he belives is true and heroic (and kill spidey that to...)
EDIT: corection make that ANTI VENOM like venom+ the crazy!
id say deadpool but he is to much of silly and fun and not dark enogh for this category (but he is definitly my "favorate comic relief")
so id say either venom (yes hes an antie hero not a villian) or red hood
venom and red hood both belive in what they do
they belive they are right and that theyr ways are the only possibility and that what makes them great...
i think ill go with venom thou because the fact that he has those out of controll moments (where the symbiot takes full controll) and he is aware of them he knows he is using something evil (the symbiot) to do something he belives is true and heroic (and kill spidey that to...)
EDIT: corection make that ANTI VENOM like venom+ the crazy!
I just thought I would post this since a lot of people are saying Deadpool
everytime I watch this I laugh so hard
everytime I watch this I laugh so hard
Yeah, there are very few exceptions to that. Ned and Robb are both pretty clear-cut good guys, as are Brienne, Davos, and a small handful of others. And Joffrey and Viserys are both pure villains.kloiberin_time said:
I wouldn't really think of Spider as an anti-hero. The man is ethical, moral, and devout to a righteous cause. Not only that but he is not above apologizing when he goes overboard, especially to Yelena or Channon. Here's just a few examples of his kindness:II2 said:Spider.
Fucking.
Jersualem.
The miserable, drunken, drug addled, hate filled bastard who'll yell in your face and evacuate your bowels, but will never LIE to you.
1) Adopting the two-faced half starved cat after returning to the city.
2) Saving the Transient citizens of Angels 8 from complete decimation by the riot police
3) Apologizing to Channon for being insensitive to her after her boyfriend Ziang breaks up with her.
4) Giving the revival photojournalist Mary a camera and sense of belonging in a time and age when she was considered a burden on society.
5) His genuine shock and dismay when Vita is killed, as well as his dedication to toppling "The Smiler"
Spider never really messes with anybody who doesn't deserve it and he does make the effort to learn about other cultures. He isn't necessarily the nicest of people, but I don't think a hero needs to be nice or even likable, so long as they do something above and beyond what they would be called to do, which is Spider in a nutshell.
I'm a big fan of Transmetropolitan and just about everything else I've read by Warren Ellis so I just wanted to share my thoughts on the character.
As far as my personal anti-hero... at least in recent memory has to be Jim from Yahtzee's book MogWorld. It is very rare that I see a character put in a fantasy setting that doesn't subscribe to the cliches of that setting. Not only that but his original quest to die never waivers, even when he sees the suffering that the world is under, his selfish nature continues to prevail.