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.

  • whaleross@lemmy.world
    372·
    22 hours ago

    There is a definition of what a narrative anti hero is.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antihero

    What is this ongoing trend of encouraging opinions to redefine accepted terminology and culture? Just make up your own new words instead of diluting the meaning of existing ones into slop.

    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      2·
      19 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