Classical Anti-Hero: Difference between revisions

* Tatsuhiro Satou of ''[[Welcome to The NHK]]'' is a highly unstable NEET who places all of the blame for his highly unstable life on a conspiracy organization known to him as the NHK.

* Renton Thurston in ''[[Eureka Seven]]'', who eventually graduated into a proper hero.

* Yukiteru Amano of ''[[Mirai Nikki]]'' starts out as as one.

* The protagonist of ''[[The Tatami Galaxy]]'', who is something of a Zetsubou-sensei [[Expy]], and is described in some promotional matterials as a "not-so-lovable loser".

* Usopp from ''[[One Piece]]'' is pretty much this in the beginning and mostly in the Water 7/Enies Lobby arc.

* Mr. Satan from ''[[Dragon Ball]]''

 

 

* Early [[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]], explicitly designed to be the first superhero with personal and internal conflicts besides super-villains and criminals.

* [[Dylan Dog]].

* ''[[Discworld]]'''s Rincewind as an inept wizard and [[Dirty Coward]]/[[Lovable Coward]] who is the [[Butt Monkey]] of the universe. He's noticed it himself.

* The narrator of ''Notes from the Underground'' is one of these, as is [[Franz Kafka]]'s Josef K-.

* [[John Le Carre]]'s spymaster George Smiley is like this as a contrast to [[James Bond]], living in the more cynical side of the [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]], and as opposed to Bond being stylish and a [[Chick Magnet]], Smiley dresses poorly and is a cuckold.

* Lily Bart from Edith Wharton's ''House of Mirth''. Let's see: fails at anything and everything she tries her hands at? Check. Only ever succeeds at alienating the few people who genuinely do care about her? Check. Is a whiny, insufferable [[Jerkass]] with an entitlement complex bigger than Brazil? Check. {{spoiler|Dies at the end}}? Check.

 

 

* Dave Lister, Cat and Arnold J. Rimmer from ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' start out like this, although Rimmer is both a neurotic loser and a [[Jerkass|smeghead]]. Lister once goodnaturedly described himself as a "bum", while Rimmer would call him a lazy slob. Cat was vain, self-centered to the point of callousness, and not very smart... not surprising given that his species had evolved from a single, pregnant female housecat 3 million years ago (imagine the inbreeding), and even other cats considered him a moron. All three [[Character Development|became more competent]] in the course of the series, but they never quite lost their essential quirks, their [[Big Damn Heroes|good qualities]] (such as Lister's selflessness and sense of fairness) merely became more pronounced. Or, in the case of Arnold Rimmer, who had no redeeming qualities, Rimmer had a run-in with his [[Alternate Universe]] counterpart [[The Ace|"Ace" Rimmer]].

 

 

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