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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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He is delightful as the no-good antihero of this obscure made-for-TV movie.
He plays scorned lover Jed with an untempered delicacy and spidery creepiness, while the antihero is the epitome of controlled frustration.
I first saw the new antihero last year on a waitperson's chest, but I didn't know her name then.
Mr. Duchovny plays the antihero as a depressed, self-loathing misogynist, not a pleasure-loving rake.
She has written a number of tales-both subversive and philosophical-with her own city as the backdrop and herself as the antihero.
Olivier's Richard is the charismatic antihero who, confiding directly in you as the viewer, makes you complicit in his plots and crimes.

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