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Favorite Anti-Heroes:

Favorite Anti-Heroes:

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blackshirt/the saint/luther/Turkish/raffles.

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Several of Bogart's film roles would qualify as anti-heroic: "I stick my neck out for no one," but when the chips are down, he does the right thing at considerable personal risk. E.g., the Frank McCloud character in Key Largo, Harry Morgan in To Have and Have Not, and of course Rick Blaine in Casablanca.

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An unusual choice, but well-conceived. Bravo.

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@suzianne said
An unusual choice, but well-conceived. Bravo.
Yes, Dr. Frankenstein is the villain in that story, bringing a new life into the world and then abandoning it.

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There have been some excellent choices. I'm pleasantly surprised.
Honestly, I expected to be reading some mean-spirited sarcasms this morning.

One of my childhood favorites:
Kwai Chang Caine - (From 1970s TV's "Kung Fu". Played by David Carradine.)

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The basterds from Inglourious Basterds.

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@js357 said
I suppose Voltaire’s Candide is a legitimate candidate. Here is a sample concerning how Candide steps up to the role of hero: “There was never anything so gallant, so spruce, so brilliant, and so well disposed as the two armies. Trumpets, fifes, hautboys, drums, and cannon made music such as Hell itself had never heard. The cannons first of all laid flat about six thousand men ...[text shortened]... dide, who trembled like a philosopher, hid himself as well as he could during this heroic butchery.”
What I heard...

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Did you mean Billy Mumy?

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I think James Bond is a good example - he follows his mission, he has a job to do and 'you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs'. He may be too emotional at times but that makes him human and lovable.

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The man with no name? Was that the same character in High Plains Drifter who raped a woman in a barn?

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@drewnogal said
The man with no name? Was that the same character in High Plains Drifter who raped a woman in a barn?
I believe "the man with no name" is an informal moniker attached to Clint's characters in Sergio Leone's unofficial, "spaghetti western trilogy" of films of the 1960s:

- A Fistful of Dollars
- For a Few Dollars More
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

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Not my idea of an anti-hero.
Surely he displays most of the usual heroic qualities?
Bravery, duty, selflessness, guile, strength, intelligence .. and British!

A disregard for the rules sure ... but then we probably
end up defining all heroes as anti-heroes. In fact what
hero is not an anti-hero?