plural antiheroes
: a protagonist or notable figure who is conspicuously lacking in heroic qualities
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Neither hero nor villain, Namor is an antihero in the comics as the son of a human man and a princess of Atlantis.
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Rebecca Aizin, People.com, 27 Mar. 2025
The long era of the antihero—Tony Soprano, Stringer Bell, Don Draper, Walter White, Bill Hader’s Barry—seems to have exhausted itself, at least for now.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
By the end of the episode, the audience is eager to meet the antihero, the brute, that everyone is talking about.
—Maelle Beauget-Uhl, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
Matt is built to withstand contrasting interpretations: The writer Frank Miller’s run of the Daredevil comics offered a dark and serious (and arguably definitive) interpretation of him, for instance, whereas Mark Waid’s, in the early 2010s, placed the antihero in a more lighthearted context.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 26 Mar. 2025
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Rebecca Aizin, People.com, 27 Mar. 2025
The long era of the antihero—Tony Soprano, Stringer Bell, Don Draper, Walter White, Bill Hader’s Barry—seems to have exhausted itself, at least for now.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
By the end of the episode, the audience is eager to meet the antihero, the brute, that everyone is talking about.
—Maelle Beauget-Uhl, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
Matt is built to withstand contrasting interpretations: The writer Frank Miller’s run of the Daredevil comics offered a dark and serious (and arguably definitive) interpretation of him, for instance, whereas Mark Waid’s, in the early 2010s, placed the antihero in a more lighthearted context.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 26 Mar. 2025
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“Antihero.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/antihero. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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