Classical Anti-Hero: Difference between revisions

 

 

* 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]].

 

 

* 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]].