![]() ![]() Disney Anti Hero: This is what the term often means in common speech - a character who contrasts with a squeaky clean Knight in Shining Armor-perhaps a Knight in Sour Armor.In an idealistic story, they are all but guaranteed to find true heroism by the end - in a more cynical setting, it's less likely. Whether or not that happens heavily depends on the story's placement in the Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. The classical anti-hero's story tends to be about overcoming his own weaknesses and conquering the enemy. The classical anti-hero inverts this by being: plagued with self-doubt, mediocre (or worse) in combat, frightened/cowardly and/or not particularly bright. In classical and earlier mythology, the hero tended to be a dashing, confident, stoic, intelligent, highly capable fighter and commander with few, if any, flaws. Classical Anti-Hero: For much of history, the term anti-hero referred to a character type that contrasts the badass, bitter, misanthropic, violent qualities of the modern day antihero.The morality of the scale, starting from the Disney Anti-Hero, goes from unambiguously good to evil, but the specific morality of any particular character is usually an issue of diverse opinion. Compare with the Sliding Scale of Anti-Villains. See the Sliding Scale of Antagonist Vileness for characters that would be the Anti-Hero, but they play the antagonist in the work. Cynicism lends itself well to a sliding scale of antiheroes, although the original definition exists somewhat outside of it.Ĭharacter Development may cause an anti-hero to shift up or down this scale. Ranking them along the Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Although an " Anti-Hero" once referred to one specific kind of character archetype, over time the term has evolved to cover several, many very different but all having one key aspect in common: serving as contrast to traditional hero types such as the Knight in Shining Armor, The Ace, and the Ideal Hero. ![]()
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