List of fictional antiheroes

This list is for characters in literature, film, television, comic books and video games who exemplify the archetype of the antihero. Qualities in main characters that merit such a label include:

• Imperfections that separate them from typically "heroic" characters (selfishness, ignorance, bigotry, etc.)
• Eventual redemption through love, friendship, duty, etc.
• Qualities normally belonging to villains (amorality, greed, violent tendencies, etc) that are tempered with more human, identifiable traits (confusion, self-hatred, etc.)

Film

• "The Man With No Name," a stock character in westerns popularized by Clint Eastwood in films such as For A Few Dollars More and The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
• Harry Callahan from the Dirty Harry series [1]
• Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver [2]
• D-Fens, the protagonist of Falling Down [3]
• Dante Hicks, Randal Graves, and Jay & Silent Bob from Kevin Smith's "View Askewniverse" films [4]
• Léon from Léon or The Professional [5]
• Mad Max from the Mad Max series [6]
• Han Solo from the Star Wars films
• Anakin Skywalker from the Star Wars films

Television

• Al Bundy from Married...with Children
• Homer Simpson from The Simpsons
• Bart Simpson from The Simpsons
• Archie Bunker from All in the Family
• Mike Logan from Law & Order

Literature

• Pinkie Brown from Graham Greene's Brighton Rock [7]
• Patrick Bateman from Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho [8]
• Conan from the stories by Robert E. Howard
• Alex DeLarge from Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange [9]
• Frankenstein's monster from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
• Hamlet from William Shakespeare's play of the same name
• Alexander Portnoy from Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint
• Georges Querelle from Jean Genet's Querelle
• Raskolnikov from Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment [10]
• Tom Ripley from Patricia Highsmith's "Ripliad" series [11]
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern from Tom Stoppard's play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead [12]
• "The Underground Man", narrator of Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground [13]
• Yossarian from Joseph Heller's Catch-22 [14]
• macbeth

Comic books

• Batman [15]
• Johnny the Homicidal Maniac
• The Punisher [16]
• Foolkiller
• Spider Jerusalem from Transmetropolitan
• Wolverine [17]
• Venom [18]

Video games

• Raziel from the Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver series.
• Kain from the Blood Omen and Legacy of Kain series. [19]
• Viewtiful Joe
• Dante of the Devil May Cry series. [20]