antihero

Bardem’s villain is built more like an aughts-edition antihero.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026

Rice’s readers might not have been quite so queasy about this; her antihero has a way of making many horrors palatable.

From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026

But Potter, who struggled with unchecked mental illness, depicted himself as an antihero outsider with a spiritual connection to the ravens of Yosemite, and could also be juvenile, selfish and oblivious.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026

Composer Bernard Herrmann’s score, his last, is alternately mellow and roiling, befitting its placid but simmering antihero.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

Anthony Geary, who played the charming antihero Luke Spencer on ABC’s “General Hospital,” will make his last appearance on the soap opera on Monday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025

We are introduced to mortgage-backed securities and to the people who dreamt them up and abused them, antiheroes of the 2007-09 debt debacle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Now private-equity executives fill the roles of villains or antiheroes in shows like Billions and Succession, the latter providing this bit: “You know how, like, everyone hates you?”

From Barron's ● Dec. 5, 2025

The original NWO, which consisted of “Hollywood” Hulk Hogan, Kevin Nash and Scott Hall, were so bad they became antiheroes and immensely popular.

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2025

In place of demigods and antiheroes, women were his preferred orbit.

From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2023

“You know how they talk about antiheroes, the people who are the bad guys but they really aren’t? That’s my dad.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2023