There are no wrong answers, only your opinions 🙂

Personally, I think an anti-hero is a bad guy that does good things. He might cheat on his wife, steal, gamble, etc, but when it “matters,” he ends up on the side of what’s good.

Han Solo is an example that comes to mind.

  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    Thanks for the link.

    I appreciate there is a literary definition with nuance, and that literary scholars have some variety in how they define it (in other words, it’s complex).

    It seems like the most fundamental element is this quote from Wikipedia:

    As such, the antihero focuses on their personal motives first and foremost, with everything else secondary