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antihero

[an-tee-heer-oh, an-tahy-] / ˈæn tiˌhɪər oʊ, ˈæn taɪ- /


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

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026

Wolverine’s clash with Magneto, the perennial antihero, left him severely injured, physically and mentally.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 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

The book is powered, however, by its vividly drawn antihero.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 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

He was to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe, reportedly as Sentry, one of the most powerful antiheroes in all of Marvel, in “Thunderbolts,” but backed out — by email.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2024

They were the protagonists; they were among the first antiheroes in crime fiction.

From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2024


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