#4537870 - 09/21/20 08:07 AM
Re: The most compelling anti-heroes?
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I would choose Deadpool for this one I think. With The Punisher added for good measure.
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#4537879 - 09/21/20 10:59 AM
Re: The most compelling anti-heroes?
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Got to have 'Oddball' (Kelly's Heroes) in this list!
One could add Air Marshall Dowding as portrayed in the film 'Battle of Britain' : "You do appreciate, Dowding, that Churchill will have to see this? DOWDING: That’s why I wrote it."
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#4537917 - 09/21/20 04:14 PM
Re: The most compelling anti-heroes?
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#4537925 - 09/21/20 04:53 PM
Re: The most compelling anti-heroes?
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Clint Eastwood? James Bond? FYI, Clint Eastwood is a real person.
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#4537927 - 09/21/20 05:30 PM
Re: The most compelling anti-heroes?
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A real person cant be anti-hero? The OP specified "charecters" not real people.
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#4537946 - 09/21/20 09:48 PM
Re: The most compelling anti-heroes?
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The Man With No Name, particularly in "A Fistful of Dollars" and somewhat in "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" (possibly what NoFlyBoy was referring to). I'd add Deadpool and Mel Gibson's characters in "Payback" and "The Gringo".
But in my opinion a willingness to adopt the tactics of your enemy when more conventional justice fails or is unavailable...which is the case in several of the examples put forth...isn't exactly "moral ambiguity". It's just "Two can play that game", or "I'm your huckleberry". Which reminds me:
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#4537994 - 09/22/20 11:45 AM
Re: The most compelling anti-heroes?
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Rorschach from Watchmen is a good one
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#4538004 - 09/22/20 01:11 PM
Re: The most compelling anti-heroes?
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I don't think John McClane was an anti-hero NFB,he was very much the hero.
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#4538005 - 09/22/20 01:13 PM
Re: The most compelling anti-heroes?
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I don't think John McClane was an anti-hero NFB,he was very much the hero. Correct. He was essentially the Luke Skywalker hero archetype with the one exception that he wasn't afraid to curse.
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#4538007 - 09/22/20 01:26 PM
Re: The most compelling anti-heroes?
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NFB has trouble coloring within the lines.
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