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What is an antihero?

What is an antihero? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (literature, role-playing games) A protagonist who proceeds in an unheroic manner, such as by criminal means, via cowardly actions, or for mercenary goals.
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The frowsty bedroom in which our antihero wakes up to the same sounds and sights each morning is in the midst of a perky town.
The tragic hero thus disappeared to make way for the fictional hero-and the antihero.
But such is the Australian love of the underdog, not to mention a good yarn, that tales of this antihero live on and have been embellished by the years.
She has written a number of tales-both subversive and philosophical-with her own city as the backdrop and herself as the antihero.
Everyone has a theory on how Mad Men will end, and one of the most popular is that our suave, slick antihero will die.
In addition to having to escape from prison, antihero Riddick should also start to attack the ship Dark Athena.

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