The antihero drama makes those regrets visceral, then forces the antihero to confront them in thrilling fashion.
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The best antihero stories aren't just vicarious thrill rides, where the antihero does all of the things we wish we could.
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" Antihero is probably a tie between Veda, Mildred's scheming daughter in James M. Cain's "Mildred Pierce," and Harriet, the outrageous antihero (or hero?) of Iris Owens's "After Claude.
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He can be an antihero, which is even more interesting.
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The best antihero drama is a morality play in reverse.
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"I can't take it out," Zahedi says, hero and antihero.
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Do you consider Ingrid an antihero or a true protagonist?
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At the end of "The Sympathizer," the antihero is tortured.
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He portrayed comic book antihero, John Constantine, in "Constantine" (2005).
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Although she is physically flawless, she is nonetheless an antihero.
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At Showtime, it was a new twist on the antihero.
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Sidney is a dashing antihero and Arthur a reserved hypochondriac.
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But I don't want to reclaim Jenna as a feminist antihero.
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So when we recuperate this orange menace, it's as an antihero.
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But Richie Finestra hasn't yet emerged as a fleshed-out antihero.
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Madoff's title character is a slithering villain, not a sympathetic antihero.
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Cornelius Suttree in Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece "Suttree" is my favorite antihero.
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And like a classic antihero, Rebecca kept gesturing toward reforming herself.
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It also pushes Murphy closer to antihero status than ever before.
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Al Capone wasn't always a mythic antihero of American gangland folklore.
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It was an ensemble drama in the age of the antihero.
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The antihero of this picture, by strange coincidence, is called Eastman.
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Trump remains the quintessential antihero, as he was during the campaign.
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She's more of an antihero whose endgame is anything but clear.
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Over time, antihero culture spread from premium cable to the mainstream.
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And the movie shows us that she's more antihero than villain.
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Jericho is not a flawed protagonist, or even a grim antihero.
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Technically, Forrest Tucker is more of an antihero than anything else.
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But Sipowicz is an important step in TV's embrace of the antihero.
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Aline Brosh McKenna I guess we do see her as an antihero.
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Bernthal said the show delves into the complexities of the deadly antihero.
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The Sopranos' biggest TV innovation was bringing the antihero front and center.
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But like any good antihero, the country-style rib has hidden virtues.
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Captain Yossarian, a cynical, young bombardier, has no problem being an antihero.
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The show that Gypsy reminded me of in that moment wasn't The Sopranos or Mad Men or any of the antihero shows that clearly inspired it, or even a lower-tier but still good antihero show like Damages.
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Broadly speaking, BoJack Horseman was an antihero series, albeit a satirical and silly one that both paid homage to the tropes of other antihero shows (like The Sopranos or Mad Men) while also taking the piss out of them.
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This means the antihero stuff isn't as interesting as it thinks it is.
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Seeing Robertson portrayed as the antihero, he claimed, soured his affection for her.
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It has always been considered more violent, more masculine — the sporting world's antihero.
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It's a tie between Gatsby and Dr. Zhivago, for both hero and antihero.
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That's definitely something we aspire to — that kind of antihero, but for women.
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So from the ashes our antihero emerges, reborn, but...wait for it...ugly.
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The half-skull symbol of the Marvel vigilante antihero Punisher was everywhere, too.
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Stories about men seen through eyes other than those of a tormented antihero.
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He's the anti-antihero, and in theory that's a refreshing change of pace.
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This is existential freedom, and this is where the female antihero comes in.
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"Oh, she has got some antihero stuff, which is fun," Walley-Beckett said.
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But a nice Payton, no longer strictly the antihero, may well prove insufferable.
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Ryan Reynolds reprises his role as a sardonic antihero in this Marvel sequel.
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Did I plan to create a hero out of Voronenkov or an antihero?
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Americans' love for the TV antihero shows that even terrorists can win our hearts.
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Fierce-looking and disturbed, Munroe's helpless, mythicized "evil black man" becomes the paradoxical antihero.
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Most recently, I watched "The Assassin" — moody, gorgeous, the violence spectral, the antihero female.
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Along with Bateman, they comprise a Mount Rushmore lineup of the higher antihero naughtiness.
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Hence the contemporary appeal of the antihero, and the disappearance of the traditional hero.
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Is "Billy Budd" the ultimate modern gay antihero who almost didn't speak his name?
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In other words, Deadpool was an antihero with superpowers (healing, reflexes, agility, et al.).
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He has made foul-mouthed, bullying Michael Cohen, Trump's "fixer," emerge as an antihero.
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We've been living in the age of the television antihero for a while now.
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"Cheney can get stuff done," he said, unapologetic in his disdain for his antihero.
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When Crazy Ex-Girlfriend premiered in 2015, it looked to all the world like an antihero show — albeit an antihero show about a woman, rather than a man, and one with a peppy candy-colored shell over top of its bleak, nihilistic heart.
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This is a common thing for an antihero drama to try for a few episodes.
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Todd: Yeah, this series has always been great at making Elizabeth a deeply complicated antihero.
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We watch Breaking Bad to sympathize with an antihero and test our own moral compasses.
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"Suicide Squad" is based on a group of antihero super villains created by DC Comics.
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Although Joel is technically the hero of this story, it's Nadia who is the antihero.
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Wu says the role allows him to play someone he's never been before: the antihero.
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You are who you think I am...People are always saying, 'Annalise is an antihero.
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Dr. Melfi, TV's biggest antihero blustering against the woman who had gotten inside his head.
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He definitely isn't TV's new antihero — but he hasn't yet proved himself a hero, either.
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Defying its title, this frigid satire concerns an unprepossessing antihero with no control at all.
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If antihero is more your style, try bringing this ruby red Deadpool costume to life.
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" Rasmussen readily calls himself an "antihero" who will do anything to "get the job done.
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She's supposed to be the show's hero, yet she's given the qualities of an antihero.
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Did you think there were any cultural risks involved in having a black female antihero?
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In this way, like its antihero David, it's a victim of its own safe distance.
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Mitsuki had long believed her mother to be the egotistic antihero of her own melodrama.
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BoJack, a troubled but lovable antihero, will suffer the consequences of his many questionable actions.
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I have nothing against a good antihero, but I didn't even enjoy hating this guy.
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Many years ago, while on assignment for CNN in Brazil, I met one such antihero.
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My American literature professor thought Stanley Kowalski in "A Streetcar Named Desire" was an antihero.
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Lorelai is a flawed antihero from a time before flawed antiheroes on TV were cool.
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I think a lot of antihero shows forget that or are not interested in that.
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That's why the best antihero dramas play out as tales of moral instruction, but in reverse.
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This is not to suggest that none of the new antihero have anything interesting to say.
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He delivers possibly the best grizzly antihero performance among all of Marvel's Netflix series to date.
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Antihero: Saul Bellow's feckless nudnik Herzog, with his lofty erudite arguments and his grinding personal grievances.
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That show's writers couldn't redirect viewers' loyalties from their antihero, Walter White, to his wife, Skyler.
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Stendhal's "The Red and the Black's" Julien Sorel is a hero, an antihero and a villain.
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Suicide Squad, Warner Bros.' clunker of an antihero superhero film, is not a very good movie.
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It's a kind of antihero slash protagonist thing that I think women really need right now.
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Who is your favorite fictional hero or heroine and who is your favorite villain or antihero?
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Insider asked stylists, designers, and other fashion experts for their thoughts on superhero and antihero suits.
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On the one hand, musicals are a pleasure and an escape, an antidote to the antihero.
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The antihero of "American Psycho," opening April 20 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater, is, well, a maniac.
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Part of the problem is the term "antihero" is overused by viewers and critics of prestige television.
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And the upcoming fall TV season is positively lousy with bad antihero shows — both dramas and comedies.
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The film follows this accidental antihero as he grows into his role as a criminal cult leader.
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"It's a conflict for every white man" — and crucial to an understanding of the existential antihero Zama.
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DC greenlit a new animated series based on antihero Harley Quinn for its streaming service, DC Universe.
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Her Booker Prize–nominated breakout, Eileen, gave us an antihero whose physical ugliness matched her inner life.
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Caroline Framke You and Rachel have talked a lot about how Rebecca is something of an antihero.
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Because the superhero genre definitely needs another brooding antihero who struggles with his literal (and metaphoric) demons.
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Here, though, he gets to take the lead, serving as more of an antihero than a villain.
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The footage shows the franchise's main antihero, Kratos, training a young boy to hunt in the wilderness.
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Aptly, for a book about an antihero, "dem" winds its plot not through action but through passivity.
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He said the brooding antihero embodied by Batman comes off as a tone-deaf relic in 2017.
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And, by the way, it should be dark, it should be serialized, it should have an antihero.
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He is now the antihero known as the Red Hood, a name originally used by the Joker.
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The Times spoke with Hawley about how he turned an iconic hero's son into a vicious antihero.
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Created by the genius writer Mike White, Enlightened offered a genuinely new take on the antihero series.
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"Birds of Prey" follows the transformation of the beloved Batman antihero after severing ties with the Joker.
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It's almost like I was writing about a hero and I ended up writing about an antihero.
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Yet we are, in 2017, in a strange glut of bad antihero shows, largely from streaming networks.
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Once it becomes clear that Ava is more antihero than outright villain, Burch picks up the villainous slack.
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Rightfully, Josh lures Burr into a trap that causes the antihero to be covered in pounds of cereal.
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If you don't particularly feel like watching a racist cop antihero in 2018, that more than makes sense.
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It also seems like the main character is an antihero, which could make the audience a bit conflicted.
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Molly's Game has nothing that insulting, but Sorkin still frustratingly refuses to let Bloom be a nuanced antihero.
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Her latest work, yet unpublished, focuses on the "House of Cards" antihero Frank Underwood, played by Kevin Spacey.
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They voted for the antihero who would take on the world and defy all political and social convention.
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And, though it's certainly a story about an antihero, Alyssa is as complex a character as James is.
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Richie hasn't given viewers much reason to root for him, either as a hero or as an antihero.
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Antihero is Raffles, the gentleman jewel thief created by Arthur Conan Doyle's brother-in-law, E. W. Hornung.
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Ryan Reynolds has been acting for decades, but he's especially well-known for playing the Marvel antihero Deadpool.
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He's not cuddly or warm, but he's guileless and well intentioned — the anti-antihero version of Gregory House.
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Tom Hardy's take on the fanged Marvel antihero surpassed box-office analysts' expectations when it opened last weekend.
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Chris and I came up in an age where those male antihero shows were very good, very celebrated.
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Antihero: Ignatius J. Reilly, from "A Confederacy of Dunces" What kind of reader were you as a child?
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It's done it for hokey family sitcoms, for cable news, for weird game shows, for bleak antihero dramas.
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They posted many photographs of themselves together, some with the names of the antihero lovers Mickey and Mallory.
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Refinery29 treats her like a folk hero (or antihero), with descriptions of her "trademark" glasses and distinct hair.
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Deadpool, a profanely sardonic antihero, has been one of Marvel's most popular characters since its debut in 1991.
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Broadly speaking, too, it's very different for TV antihero dramas, of which The Americans is loosely an example.
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But I could point to literally any other great antihero drama and find the sort of visual contrast above.
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No, these words are fighting words, the kind that get you labeled an "antihero" when you're a lead character.
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Fortunately, a few of this year's freshman antihero dramas offer new ways to proceed within an increasingly tired format.
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The first season of Marvel's series about the vigilante antihero The Punisher finally has a release date: November 17th.
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Instead of a hero driving a tank, he was an antihero in a junkheap, stopping to ask for directions.
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Mr. Depardieu, with his lumbering frame and bear-browed intensity, is built to be a Tony Soprano-style antihero.
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And if she were making all the right choices, it wouldn't be as entertaining... she is definitely the antihero.
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Michael K. Williams, best known as Omar on "The Wire," proves again to be an extraordinary monologuist and antihero.
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The film, called "Hi, Mom," continued the story of the antihero in "Greetings," who was now a peeping Tom.
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" (I also loved the character of Dalva, who I created.) My favorite antihero is Stavrogin in Dostoyevsky's "The Possessed.
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Frustratingly absent is any hint of what turned Saviano's antihero, the gang leader Nicolas Fiorillo, into an amoral killer.
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But it also speaks to antihero dramas' long history of giving men — generally only men — license to be bad.
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At the end, Jackson made Anthony into more of a victim than an antihero, a card Anthony played well.
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These early episodes struggled to stand out from the glut of other antihero dramas rattling around in the 2010s.
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The antihero of Mishra's tale — the prophet who best anticipated the crises of our times — is Jean Jacques Rousseau.
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There's a through-line that's a bit of an antihero about "Atlanta," an underdog, a Charlie Brown type, maybe.
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The most interesting characters are both hero and antihero, aren't they — sometimes with a touch of villain sprinkled in?
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The realism only makes Young Adult all the more starkly uncomfortable, and its main character an antihero for the ages.
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If there's a reason The Americans rests uneasily alongside other antihero dramas in its weight class, maybe this is why.
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Some lauded the antihero crime drama as "gritty bingo," while others found the predictability of the show's beats... well, predictable.
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In contrast to more traditional antihero dramas like Billions, Succession finds no glee in watching evil geniuses outwit their enemies.
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It was a comedy informed by antihero dramas more than other "best friends who hang out at a bar" shows.
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As the film's antihero, Weiner has a rabble-rouser's instincts and the combative spirit of a New York movie stereotype.
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There are still antihero shows, but they're not as buzzy or wildly acclaimed as they were just 10 years ago.
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Many shots look through the window of the car, as if forming a frame for a portrait of the antihero.
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Will it be a plucky underdog hero like Jyn Erso, a Walter White-style antihero, or another all-out Voldermort?
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Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, The CW's sparklingly brilliant musical antihero comedy, has received an early season three renewal from the network.
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He had been an antihero on the fringes of the UFC, then suddenly he was better than Pride's lightweight champion.
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First, the entire Trump presidency is a show, and many Americans find it quite entertaining, viewing Trump as its antihero.
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Mr. Costner's antihero picks fights with preachers, Native American leaders and even his children to preserve his power and land.
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"Manchester" highlights the might and idiosyncrasies of family bonds but remains a tough tale with an antihero at its heart.
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A good number of blaxploitation movies took narrative outlines and antihero trappings from classic crime films and changed the ethnicity.
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Early in Men in Black: International, Emma Thompson briefly channels Miranda Priestly, the icy antihero of The Devil Wears Prada.
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Our antihero, meanwhile, is very good at choosing stormy weather for his trips to the hill where he buried that pouch.
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Benach helped evolve Quinn's look in "Birds of Prey" as the antihero moves on from a rough breakup with the Joker.
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Do you worry that BoJack will become one of those antihero men that have become kind of a new TV cliché?
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Bernthal's version of the character — a villain turned sympathetic antihero seeking justice for his family — was loved by fans and critics.
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Mistress of Evil puts Angelina Jolie back in the antihero role, seemingly ready to start a war over... something or other.
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The rogue antihero and his band of intergalactic misfits are back in the first trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.
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"Viola Davis made television history with her unforgettable portrayal of iconic female antihero Annalise Keating," says Karey Burke, president, ABC Entertainment.
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I wish more dramas were tuned to the same level of seriousness as "Madam Secretary" — an early-2000s pre-antihero level.
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And we do not remember the novels of Roth or the movies of Scorsese solely for their interest in the antihero.
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The trailer shows off Robbie's new look as the beloved Batman antihero after severing ties with her old flame the Joker.
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Bhad Bhabie is our era's perfect musical antihero: a teenager forced into the spotlight, learning to rap as a survival mechanism.
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There's still juice in the antihero show — but sometimes you have to turn it into a musical comedy to find it.
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He's an antihero in the bloodiest sense of the word, and will make you question whether the hero part even applies.
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Honda directed most of these releases and presided over Godzilla's transition from a horrific metaphor to a more playful, entertaining antihero.
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In this case, our antihero is one Jim Trewitt (an excellent Chris Perfetti, in a performance that never stoops to charm).
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Cooke plays the outgoing antihero Becky Sharp, a social climber, with Claudia Jessie as Becky's more reserved best friend, Amelia Sedley.
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Joe Exotic, who can only be described as the antihero of Tiger King, has more than one husband in the series.
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Just as the addict antihero has been a male wedge into ambitious TV, the slattern antiheroine has been a female wedge.
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A car-man on screen and off, Brit Jason Statham and his antihero character Deckard Shaw have a clear EV match.
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With his federal sentencing imminent, many of these same fans will see it as another victory for their hip-hop antihero.
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If you miss the griminess of shows like "The Shield," or mid-aughts antihero dramas in general, this is for you.
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Ozark's stubborn blandness raises the question of just why the antihero trope continues to be so appealing to creators and networks.
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There's more to the episode than this — it eventually ends with Ronny killing Loach, then the cops killing Ronny in a supermarket while Barry watches — but you can see how its central tension plays off a longtime trope in antihero shows: Just when the antihero seems cornered, the most unlikely set of circumstances intervene to free him.
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Now, the streaming service has released a full trailer for the new show, showing off Jon Bernthal's antihero in his full glory.
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The studio scored a pair of hits with the antihero movie "Venom" and the animated "Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse" last year.
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Consider the first decisions made by Nick Morton, Tom Cruise's hapless antihero character in the misbegotten Universal Studios franchise-launcher The Mummy.
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Instead of an antihero drama, the show turned into a workplace ensemble show — sort of like The West Wing, but with computers.
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Comedic, violent and sexually charged, "Deadpool" stars Mr. Reynolds as the title character, a Marvel Comics antihero with freakish self-healing powers.
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I've never thought of myself as traditional, so I always wanted to pick up the antihero in hair and to celebrate that.
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That is what makes her so sinister — like Walter White, another results-driven antihero, she stops at nothing to achieve her means.
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Gilmore Girls aired at the dawn of TV's antihero age, when Tony Soprano and his progeny strode the primetime landscape like colossi.
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Where does the conniving male antihero, who has dominated so much of the last decade of TV, go in this newish world?
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Jules Verne's antihero Captain Nemo was a figure who lived outside social laws, sailing the seven seas in search of total freedom.
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One reason Batman has been so intriguing for so long is that he hovers unpredictably on that line between superhero and antihero.
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Gucci knows how to rap about murder — complete with news report footage — and knows how to showcase himself as rap's Lothario antihero.
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When the series began two years ago, it was another start-up chasing a trend — in this case, the cable-TV antihero.
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That's important: You need to see that Frances believes that she's the hero of a drama, not an antihero in a farce.
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This character is and is not to be confused with the historically based antihero created by Christopher Marlowe (who spelled it Tamburlaine).
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She's an antihero with a heart now and is ready to stand beside Gamora as they take on their adoptive father Thanos.
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He's an antihero in the most jagged sense of the word, and will make you question whether the hero part even applies.
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I must say, it's depressing to see our antihero, now knee deep in Season 4, thrilled by small-time thefts like this.
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Undoubtedly, comparisons are going to be made between "BoP" and Fox's R-rated "Deadpool," which also has a fourth-wall-breaking antihero.
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The teaser trailer for "Morbius" has dropped starring Leto as the antihero Dr. Michael Morbius, who is connected to the Marvel Universe.
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And I guess the Count of Monte Cristo is an antihero — he's not a villain, but he's not a role model either.
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"There's nothing that there isn't a swastika on," the actor Rufus Sewell, who played the Nazi antihero, said in a promotional video.
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And the moment we think the film's tone might shift toward the sincere, our antihero is right back to his partying ways.
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Forest Whitaker takes the antihero role as the 1960s heroin kingpin Bumpy Johnson in "Godfather of Harlem," a new series on Epix.
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The show's choice to not look away from the consequences of BoJack's actions sets it apart from so many other antihero series.
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In another context, he might have been the lead character in a prestige cable drama about an antihero dabbling in criminal activity.
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And the moment we think the film's tone might shift toward the sincere, our antihero is right back to his partying ways.
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But I increasingly think it's a slow burn rejection of the antihero movement that has dominated TV for the past several years.
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Ryan Reynold's antihero film has pocketed $993 million in North America and $376 million internationally, including an $18 million overseas haul this weekend.
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On some level, the best antihero dramas play off one of the key ideas that animated The Sopranos, the granddaddy of them all.
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"Embrace your inner antihero," the trailer's tagline reads, and Sony hopes moviegoers will do just that when "Venom" hits theaters on Oct. 5.
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He said the 13 hours of Season 1 will allow him to flesh out the nuances of Castle's antihero, played by Jon Bernthal.
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But because of superhero overload, studios are responding by supplying more super villain and antihero films in the next round of blockbuster content.
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More recently, Childers appeared in 9 episodes of Ray Donovan and played You's Candace, the first girlfriend antihero Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) murdered.
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Any possible rooting interest we had for the antihero in him is gone because of the true destruction he's wreaked on his family.
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Look at the other antihero dramas that Gypsy cribs from, and they almost immediately started unraveling the psychological knots at the protagonists' cores.
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If he is not evil enough to qualify as an antihero, then surely the Judge in McCarthy's other masterpiece, "Blood Meridian," would qualify.
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The comic book antihero was originally introduced as the Joker's henchwoman/love interest, but in recent years is really coming into her own.
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But most of these shows still have at their center the traditional police antihero, a la The Killing, True Detective, and The Fall.
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The hero and the antihero of the first modern novel, which is also the first postmodern novel, and also the first deconstructionist novel.
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In Deadpool, which hits theaters Friday, Reynolds plays Wade Wilson, an antihero who upends traditional Marvel tropes with his NSFW sense of humor.
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She is the spectacular romantic antihero who continually rejects healthy decisions in favor of obviously terrible ones, and then spirals perfectly toward disaster.
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The best antihero shows do this so slyly, you don't quite notice how horrible what's happened is until you really think about it.
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Like countless Paris expats, I fancied myself the antihero of my own romantic narrative, the great cathedral serving merely as a picturesque backdrop.
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After ending Season 3 on the verge of suicide, the show's equine antihero was nowhere to be found in the Season 4 premiere.
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A lot of the energy and pacing of "Madam Secretary" is reminiscent of the pre-antihero era, a throwback in style and story.
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Intriguingly, one of the Disney+ series in development focuses on the loveable antihero from Asgard -- with Tom Hiddleston to star, Disney have confirmed.
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It's not that the show has to keep Rebecca sympathetic; she's as much an antihero as the star of her own rom-com.
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What keeps TV writers coming back to the white-collar, white-guy antihero, when that ground would seem to be so well-trodden?
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Sony has released the first trailer for Venom, starring Tom Hardy as an antihero who gets tangled up with a mysterious and powerful symbiote.
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The "what if I tried to escape?" story has driven arcs on just about any antihero drama you can think of, though rarely successfully.
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It takes place in 2002, six years before Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk) becomes the infamous lawyer to drug-making antihero Walter White (Bryan Cranston).
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It doesn't always know what it wants to be, and it occasionally feels as if it's fetishizing the idea of a white guy antihero.
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She's an antihero in her own right, possessed of a backstory rife with grief and rage that's delivered in one concentrated, partially animated dose.
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The main door now seals him from the outside world, but there is another exit — an emergency one — that beckons toward our borderline-antihero.
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Instead, it's just a generic story about a badass antihero searching for the truth about her past, gussied up with pretty new window dressing.
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The Punisher is bleak and uncompromising, but Bernthal infuses its title character with the dignity the show needs to pull off its antihero story.
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If Gosling's protagonist K were merely a retread of Ford's Deckard, he'd essentially be a noir antihero trapped in a system outside his control.
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With its use of a repellant antihero, Confirmation resembled The Art of Luv (Part 1): Elliot at the Public Theater's Under the Radar Festival.
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If you just heard what it was about, you might imagine it to be the same as dozens of other antihero shows out there.
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Harding is essentially a tragic antihero, a physical genius whose career was both created and destroyed by abusers: first her mother, then her husband.
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That's right: everybody's favorite, foul-mouthed antihero will be taking centerstage, along with the Hulk, Captain Marvel, Rocket Raccoon, and several other unannounced characters.
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Earn was an antihero, as is now customary, but, unlike Don Draper or Walter White or Olivia Pope, he wasn't an expert in anything.
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In its pace, tone and improved dialogue, it provides a way forward that allows for intrigue and ambiguity without turning Kirkman into an antihero.
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Ultimately, Extremely Wicked makes Bundy the same archetype of attractive antihero that has always been available for a specific kind of (white) male lead.
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For Season 1, Payton Hobart (Ben Platt), the series' leading antihero, must face the obstacles between him and the title of Student Body President.
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But "Cherry" adds a dark new chapter to the canon, revealing a young soldier's transformation from hero to antihero, with no sliver of redemption.
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Whether you're rooting for the antihero or cheering for his demise, chances are Trump TV has you under steady — some would say unhealthy — hypnosis.
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Their antihero, Marty Byrde, meets all the criteria, and as with Walter White, his anger is fueled by a sense of unkept American promises.
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He is more than an antihero; he's a bona fide villain, but that persistent desire to be good, despite the antithetical execution, is real.
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He doesn't pretend to be a hero or an antihero — just a young man alone, trying to get through life with some honest grace.
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The humor is self-explanatory: a cartoon antihero in a Lucha Libre mask sardonically answers his fan mail in the lowest-fi text interface imaginable.
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But the other major reason that Venom became such a phenomenon is that the character functions as something of an antihero — or perhaps an antivillain.
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Margot Robbie stars in the film, in her latest turn as the chaotic antihero Harley Quinn, whom she first played in 2016's Suicide Squad.
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Echoing the ethos of "Fight Club" antihero Tyler Durden, Vaynerchuk believes people struggle with money because they spend it in hopes of impressing their peers.
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Jones is the first female detective antihero to be created in America, signaling a cultural willingness to embrace a greater variety of complex female characters.
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It's almost like why, in a monster story, there's a monster, or an antihero, or a little girl, or why the hero goes into darkness.
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The series, about a vigilante antihero who's adept at firearms, has been shadowed by controversy since the mass shooting in Las Vegas on October 1.
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And everyone's favorite antihero, Walter White on the TV show Breaking Bad, hired a consultant to deliver him to a new life off the grid.
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Noah takes the lead in the episode's first segment — technically speaking, anyway, since as usual it's a tale of a hapless antihero buffeted by circumstance.
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But now the Olympics are coming, and the worlds are blending through world-class skaters like Yuto Horigome, who balances between mainstream star and antihero.
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RAT FINK took off in 1965 after Ed "Big Daddy" Roth created a "hot rod" character with that name as an "antihero" to Mickey Mouse.
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Bill Hader's lead character capitalized on the antihero wave ushered in by Breaking Bad, but delivered something more sinister and amusing than previously thought possible.
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It's done it for hokey family sitcoms, for cable news, for weird game shows, for bleak antihero dramas — and now for the prestige finale rollout.
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The character was a bad decision maker — a protagonist so rash he fell short of antihero — but he wasn't meant to be an unsympathetic guy.
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Although the show is about the power of deception, it won't let us fool ourselves into luxuriating in antihero escapism, the way many dramas might.
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As an antihero, I think I'd take Edward Casaubon, from "Middlemarch," who, if he's "bad," is bad in the way real people are bad; i.e.
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It's a high-pitched, keening snort-sigh that's at once desperate and asinine, and it's at the very core of Brent's emergence as a comic antihero.
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Like any worthy cable antihero, Camille Preaker (Amy Adams), the troubled journalist at the center of HBO's new Sharp Objects, is a complicated keeper of secrets.
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But Prevenge leans into the absurdity of its central conceit, and Lowe succeeds in making her antihero seem almost rational even as she becomes increasingly unhinged.
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She's a compelling antihero, honest but unyielding with the garbage men in her life, and unparalleled in her ability to clickity-clack an authoritative stiletto heel.
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The term "antihero" has become so ubiquitous that it's almost lost all meaning, but this combination of doing terrible things and feeling little remorse is key.
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"From the studio that brought you 'Joker,' and the twisted minds at Sesame Workshop, comes the next gritty, antihero origin story," the trailer for "Grouch" begins.
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Ryan Reynolds, in character as his foul-mouthed antihero, posted a NSFW video on Friday spoofing West's now-infamous rant from backstage at Saturday Night Live.
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Season 2200 of Marvel Studios "The Punisher" is new on Netflix, but many superhero comic book fans already are wondering whether the antihero can survive 2000.
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AMC was able to reposition itself through a pair of Difficult Men antihero shows (Mad Men, Breaking Bad) and a punk zombie thriller (The Walking Dead).
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In one of the shots, antihero hitman Wick (Keanu Reeves) walks alongside newcomer Sofia (Halle Berry) and two Belgian Malinois dogs, but not Wick's pit bull.
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You're probably wondering right about now how this is a superhero (or antihero, as Deadpool is usually referred to) movie, but we've finally reached that point.
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Daniel, looking to step as gently in the world as possible, is the opposite of a man-who-knocks like Walter White — he's an anti-antihero.
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" For the anniversary of Brontë's birth, on July 30, 1818, the museum asked Ms. Cole to make a film about Heathcliff, the antihero of "Wuthering Heights.
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Mr. Wayne's correspondence reveals an acceptance of Ms. Kyle, who in her time has been a jewel thief, a villain, an antihero and a mob boss.
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Male antihero TV characters like BoJack — the Don Drapers and Walter Whites who dominated the late 2000s and early 2010s — are usually designed to be empathetic.
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In Archie Bunker, played by Carroll O'Connor, the progressive Mr. Lear produced a classic reactionary antihero who fascinated America despite, or because of, his unfiltered outrageousness.
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Taskmaster sometimes plays more of an antihero role in Marvel Comics, and he's known for his ability to mimic the physical capabilities of anyone he's fighting.
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But his James Bond has always been more antihero than hero, someone who can use his considerable charisma to questionable ends—not too far from Iago.
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Played by Elodie Yung on the TV series, Elektra Natchios is a main character — an assassin and Matt Murdock's antihero soul mate — in the Daredevil comics.
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And just about every network has, at one time or another since The Sopranos launched in 1999, come up with a bad antihero drama of its own.
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The simple answer is that great antihero dramas aren't just about the bad choices their characters make — they're about the good choices the characters don't make, too.
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Watch It If You Like: If you like rooting for an antihero in shows like Ozark, Mr. Robot, or even Unreal, then Breaking Bad is for you.
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Drive, a gruesome LA crime thriller from filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn, gifted Gosling another plum role: a hardboiled, inscrutable antihero in the vein of peak Steve McQueen.
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The language is blue (the very first line, spoken by our aged antihero himself: "Fuck") and the violence is red, with limbs hacked off and faces skewered.
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But as famous as she was for her unique barkeeping skills, it's her run-ins with the law that launched her from local celebrity to international antihero.
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In Netflix's latest Marvel show, The Punisher, Turk finds himself with a gun to his head as he tries to reason with the city's most volatile antihero.
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And he still got a movie—one directed, no less, by Clint Eastwood, the stubbly '70s spaghetti-western antihero experiencing a second life as a conservative icon.
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The first trailer for Venom, featuring Tom Hardy's growly voiced comic book antihero — no, not that one, the other one — was almost laughably devoid of plot details.
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Fox has released a jokey new teaser for the (untitled) sequel to Deadpool, the studio's antihero superhero hit of 2016, and it even includes some actual footage.
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" But he was most acclaimed for his stage roles — and none more than that of Jimmy Porter, the choleric antihero of John Osborne's "Look Back in Anger.
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Showing the clip to the jury would imply that Stone is Michael Corleone -- the trilogy's protagonist and antihero, his legal team argued in a court filing Friday.
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The series was originally set to star Gabriel Luna as the titular antihero, but plans have changed as a result of "a creative impasse," according to reports.
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For almost two decades, Americans have been tuning in to cheer on the antihero on television, on acclaimed series from "The Sopranos" to "Breaking Bad" -- and dozens more.
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Here, he plays Wade Wilson, a breezily amoral hired gun who, after some story filler, turns into Deadpool, an antihero who likes to address the camera between kills.
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The first is pretty standard antihero dross: A handsome guy cuts his way through his problems, leaving bodies in his wake and feeling increasingly despondent about his choices.
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Our antihero Hole is himself a bit of a boor, roughing up his female partner to make a point because he's got to save the day, his way.
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We know from Winter Soldier (and USA's tragically short-lived Political Animals) that he can be a brooding antihero, but Blaine has more dimension than most Marvel villains.
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Hellboy, like Suicide Squad, is a superhero story with an antihero at its center, which asks whether he can overcome the worst parts of himself to be good.
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Its fans have all been won over by the quirky puzzle game's endearingly evil antihero: a cunning waterfowl that just wants to cause a ruckus for a laugh.
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Deadpool is a Marvel antihero with massive burns on his face, and is a bit of a smart-ass — Ryan Reynolds played him in Fox's 2015 titular movie.
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The five-season series has a definitive ending for central antihero Walter White, played by breakout star Bryan Cranston, but that hasn't prevented additional storytelling within its universe.
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You could make an argument for how the show heightened the antihero drama, or for how it was one of the most smoothly executed serialized dramas in history.
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Yet even the biggest fans of the antihero drama would probably admit it's feeling a little threadbare right now (see Matt Zoller Seitz for more on this topic).
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It's a revamp of antihero tropes so bland and formulaic that in one episode, I realized the series was teasing two possible "dangerous" outcomes that were both clichés.
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As Trump enters his tenth month in office, Barack Obama remains his most dependable antihero, with the slights, barbs and outright lies he's uttered about his predecessor mounting.
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In "American Vandal," this avoidance ultimately leads to a strange kind of self-actualization, in which the show's antihero eventually succumbs to his peers' faulty expectations of him.
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Now she's more of an antihero, as in "Suicide Squad," where she and a team of bad guys take on even worse guys in "Dirty Dozen"-style missions.
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In the end, Mr. Harrelson said that he was fascinated by the honesty of portraying himself as an antihero looking for redemption (as well as a few laughs).
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Amy is a different spin on the antihero archetype, one driven less by bad behavior than by being a woman who isn't constantly pleasant and eager to please.
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In the works are offshoot films like "Silver & Black," about the female superheroes Silver Sable and Black Cat, and "Venom," with Tom Hardy playing that razor-toothed antihero.
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After failing to grab fans with his portrayal of Joker in Suicide Squad, Jared Leto is trying his hand at playing a Marvel antihero named Morbius for Sony.
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But recently, the company has been floating new characters, whose personalities are more in sync with the ambivalent humor of memes or the antihero characters of prestige television.
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Enlightened was a very different kind of antihero story, and creator Mike White's beautiful empathy for absolutely every one of his characters made for a uniquely affecting show.
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Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter) is facing an old-school foe in the Season 3 trailer for Netflix's antihero drama, which feels like a terrifying game of cat-and-mouse.
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The antihero stuff proceeds on such a well-worn track because the digressions that initially seem like pointless ways to fill time ultimately start to take over the show.
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February's body-hopping Netflix series Altered Carbon does the same thing, in a more thoughtful and canonical fashion, with its biracial antihero Takeshi Kovacs (played, mostly, by Joel Kinnaman).
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Moura so ably played Escobar's many personas, from loving family man to ruthless criminal, that he could briefly make you forget how much TV has overdosed on antihero shows.
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Despite its name and Bernthal's intense performance, The Punisher is about more than just its ruthless antihero, and proves much more incisive than it may initially seem to be.
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But its third series, which is out on September 1st, faces a problem: its swaggering Colombian antihero is dead, shot on a Medellín rooftop in the previous season's finale.
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LIMONOV: The Outrageous Adventures of the Radical Soviet Poet Who Became a Bum in New York, a Sensation in France, and a Political Antihero in Russia, by Emmanuel Carrère.
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Orange Is the New Black has shaken up that antihero template in two important ways, one of which is immediately obvious and the other of which is less so.
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In the spirit of its nefarious political antihero, Netflix released a House of Cards Season 5 teaser and official release date just half an hour before Donald Trump's inauguration.
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While the film was ripped apart by critics for turning the optimistic superhuman boy scout into a brooding antihero, it made nearly $22 million globally, guaranteeing a second installment.
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It's recognizable as Macbeth, but the antihero this time is a bisexual teenager named Maria, nudged along the path toward success and then disaster by her closeted girlfriend Lily.
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He has a fine premise, a vibrant setting, a charismatic antihero — and a cheerleading squad made up of Stephen King, Don Winslow, Michael Connelly, Lee Child and Harlan Coben.
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But, unlike the deranged antihero Robert De Niro plays, Langhans is attempting to improve morale through the release of his pent-up aggression, to not further encourage social ostracization.
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Dutton is a hand-tooled role for Mr. Costner, but he's not a charismatic villain in the throwback mode of "Dallas," or a principled loner, or a complicated antihero.
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On College Football Be it Don Draper of "Mad Men" or Walter White of "Breaking Bad," television audiences cannot seem to get enough of the beguiling antihero these days.
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On a nearly bare stage, Mr. Selge, 70, becomes Mr. Houellebecq's antihero, François, a nihilistic academic who slowly learns to reconcile himself to a new regime of Shariah law.
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The clip gives us our first look at Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock, the journalist who becomes the vigilante antihero, but the teaser is missing one major thing—Venom himself.
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The first two Hellboy movies paired director Guillermo del Toro and star Ron Perlman, whose craggy face and rumbly voice were an ideal fit for the cynical, cigar-smoking antihero.
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This is to say nothing of all of the facile, hollow antihero dramas that've been on the air for a while, like Showtime's Ray Donovan and Netflix's House of Cards.
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A story that might have been about different ways of approaching the darkness is instead a half-hearted story about an antihero more or less accidentally finding his better nature.
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Fans watched as the Breaking Bad antihero gradually morphed from a gentile next-door neighbor to an unrestrained monster over a five-season slow burn that built to utter destruction.
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Quarry is the nickname of the show's antihero, a just-returned Vietnam vet named Mac Conway (Logan Marshall-Green of "Prometheus") who was implicated in a My Lai-like massacre.
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Showtime's "Billions," a late-night snack of an antihero drama, set among finance weasels in New York and Connecticut, is the rare series that the term "guilty pleasure" suits nicely.
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She is that rare celluloid creation: a female antihero — abrasive, not asking to be liked and destined to not be saved by a man (though she brims with romantic longing).
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Neither a hero nor a romanticized antihero, Pesci exudes the controlled curiosity and integrity of an actual artist while hitting the right beats as a wisecracking, law-bending photographer might.
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Ms. Rauch's interest in women who behave badly has continued since she first played Jenna, and "The Bronze" tests the boundaries of what it means to play a female antihero.
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"Isn't that just the sort of thing people say about inhospitable places?" reflects the antihero of MIDNIGHT SUN (Knopf, $23.95), Jo Nesbo's character study of a fugitive Norwegian hit man.
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He is the Trap God, an antihero who birthed the current sound of Atlanta rap, who went to jail but then re-emerged as a wise, hit-making elder statesman.
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The entire Tuco arc and much of season four is excluded, so Walter doesn't gradually morph into Heisenberg so much as suddenly shave his head and start being an antihero.
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"One of Marvel's most compelling and conflicted characters comes to the big screen as Oscar® winner Jared Leto transforms into the enigmatic antihero, Michael Morbius," the official description reads.
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Snowden was also the subject of Laura Poitras's documentary Citizenfour, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt played him as a moody antihero in Oliver Stone's 2016 big-screen docudrama, simply titled Snowden.
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Joe Lampton (Laurence Harvey), the film's antihero, is a ferocious go-getter from a humble background who takes a job in a North England town controlled by the local industrialist.
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Letty's role in that question does not make her an antihero as much as it makes her a nuanced character, which is to say a good (as in fully realized) character.
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"She's been a very three-dimensional independent woman who was, at a time when female characters really weren't antiheroes, an antihero," the Shondaland queen told Deadline ahead of her series' finale.
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Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of Harley Quinn, the DC flick starring Margot Robbie as her Suicide Squad antihero Harley Quinn, pulled in $33.3 million at the box office.
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Darren Criss's portrait of Cunanan, a queer antihero who became the object of intense public fantasy as one of the first openly gay serial killers, is often mesmerizing and always convincing.
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"We've been fascinated by the antihero, Drive by Nicolas Winding Refn to Badlands by Terrence Malik to Hunter S Thompson and photography work by William Eggleston", the band's frontman Harry says.
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In 2018, the antihero trend lost momentum as pop culture decided that the question of how to become a good person was worthy of being the object of sustained aesthetic interest.
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Critics have talked about how Forrest and the extreme situations he puts himself in functions as a critique of white male privilege, or even of a certain kind of TV antihero.
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As his narratives unfold, the character he is playing becomes fleshed out into a lonely sad sack, the antihero of a sitcom that somehow escapes the confines of his prank show.
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Dennis Franz drew plenty of controversy and accolades alike for his portrayal of the show's central antihero, Andy Sipowicz, who worked through his racism, alcoholism and violent streaks on the job.
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The cold, often intimate violence dispatched by Damon's quiet antihero in "The Bourne Identity" (2002), "The Bourne Supremacy" (2004) and "The Bourne Ultimatum" (2007) helped define action movies of the era.
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My career had been split pretty evenly between good guys and bad guys until I finally grew into myself enough to play a decent antihero, where you can combine the two.
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Since the 1989 debut of Pavement, the curious indie-rock band Mr. Malkmus led, he's been an antihero for the brainy, self-conscious and fearful — the indoor kids, in other words.
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It showed the back of the antihero, William Munny, clad in a long coat, his head turned left for a partial profile of a man waiting to kill or be killed.
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What they're saying: Some Aurora families have expressed concern that "Joker" — which features Joaquin Phoenix as a mentally ill antihero and killer who becomes Batman's foe — hits too close to home.
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"Joker is the antihero the alienated and angry have been waiting for, and that's precisely the problem," wrote Sarah Hagi in a column about the film for the Globe and Mail.
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Fresh off a devastating secret revealed in the first season, the second act follows an arc that's more optimistic and even more electrifying: Our antihero tries to become a better person.
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Lucifer (Luci for short), the antihero of the first arc, is a god who, upon her reincarnation, fashions herself as an androgynous White Duke: Luci befriends a mortal girl named Laura.
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"How could someone with such a kickass life want out?" people wonder aloud, shocked that the truth-talking antihero of wanderers would pursue anything but living the life we all envy.
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Some of them, like Netflix's Gypsy, try to change the basic template around the edges (the antihero is a lady this time!) but don't find anything new or interesting to say.
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Andrea Riseborough stars as an antihero who covers up an accidental death with the help of a friend and then finds herself, years later, frantic to prevent the secret from unraveling.
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But I don't think it's a coincidence that we've capped an era full of white male antihero protagonists with a president who feels like he might as well be the main character of an antihero drama in some other universe, where viewers thrill at how he always dances one step ahead of the forces that would bring him down, cheered on by toadies and sycophants who eagerly abandon principle in the face of finally grasping power.
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There's never been a better time for comic-book shows on TV—but in an age where "quality TV" increasingly means "conflicted antihero," most of those shows are an exercise in bleakness.
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In other words, despite his new softer demeanor, Kratos might continue to serve as an antihero who's working against the protectors of the known universe as he did in the original trilogy.
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His illustrations have found their way to the bottom of skateboards, with a series of graphics illustrated for Antihero skateboards, thanks in part to a connection from artist and friend Todd Francis.
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The show's closest thing to an antihero — reclusive tech entrepreneur Joe (Lee Pace) — discovers that a lover has contracted HIV and anxiously awaits the results of his own test for the virus.
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"Blade," released in 1998, featured Wesley Snipes as a Marvel vampire hunter, and "Hancock" (2008) depicted Will Smith as a slacker antihero, but in each case the actor's blackness seemed somewhat incidental.
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They range from gleefully funny trips to the afterlife to horror miniseries, from the story of TV's most antisocial antihero to a standard-issue cop drama that nonetheless does some interesting things.
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The Elektra of Netflix's Daredevil, the one Miller won't even acknowledge, is a glamorous antihero who, in the hands of actress Elodie Yung, slinks off with the second half of season two.
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As for my favorite antihero, I am enthralled with the way Hilary Mantel took one of the most reviled characters in history, Thomas Cromwell, and turned him into a lovable, laudable man.
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Those punch lines became poignant plotlines and textured, often tragic character studies of washed-up antihero BoJack (Will Arnett in the most dynamic acting of his career) and his circle of despair.
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Art Review PRINCETON, N.J. — A third of the way through "Macbeth," right after the antihero murders the king of Scotland, two noblemen look up into the sky and behold a celestial horror.
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In the age of the antihero, Jane was a guiding light, a moral compass, a heroine to whom we could aspire while empathizing with her mistakes and cheering on her every victory.
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Part of the problem might be that unlike James Gandolfini or Bryan Cranston in earlier iterations, he has to play the criminal antihero with an overlay of racially determined pride and guilt.
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Tony Soprano, Don Draper, Walter White, Hannah Horvath and the rest of the antihero litany are infamously challenging to love, while Anne's appeal is as plain as the freckles on her face.
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Thus Hud, a minor character in Mr. McMurtry's novel, became the film's title character and dominant antihero, a symbol of the rapacious greed and materialism that the screenwriters saw spreading in America.
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Having served, since announcing his campaign in 2015, as the norm-breaking antihero protagonist of America's political TV serial, he now had to share billing with a vast ensemble of co-stars.
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Now, on a series about a fictional antihero, I'd say this is the point — the audience is supposed to be morally mature enough to realize that what the hero does is wrong.
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If you want to read the reports of multiple cops in one of America's most conservative states describe the sexual escapades of a fictional antihero in painstaking detail, you can do so here.
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After witnessing the rise and fall of many a premium-cable (not to mention Wall Street) antihero before this one, we've perhaps grown weary of the precipitous fall of the arrogant, unethical patriarch.
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But unlike AMC's grim tales of drug-running cartels and shady legalese, Mike Judge and Alex Berg are telling the same antihero narrative in a context that feels very real, immediate, and public.
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The Punisher has always been an antihero, a not-quite-good guy with a gun whose motivation for murder is initially sympathetic: bad guys killed his family, and justice has to be dispensed.
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In the process, the crafty drug lord went from being a Robin Hood for the people of his home state, Sinaloa, to a folk hero — or antihero — for a broad swath of Mexicans.
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Of course, by the end of the pilot he's back on coke, and with it he acquires his premium cable antihero powers: smashing guitars, delivering impassioned speeches, doing eccentric things in movie theaters.
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Frank has become a punchline — but luckily, a new antihero is waiting in the wings At his best, Kevin Spacey has always been a terrifying embodiment of all that is wrong with humanity.
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But the idea that action films starring women can't succeed has since been proven false, he added, pointing to "The Hunger Games" franchise and "Suicide Squad," which largely revolved around antihero Harley Quinn.
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Patrick Fugit ("Almost Famous") plays the antisocial antihero, and Philip Glenister, the wild-man cop of the original "Life on Mars," plays the preacher who presses him into duty as an assistant exorcist.
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The film's director, Scott Cooper, gives Mr. Bulger some of his luster back, portraying him as a charismatic antihero, even as he "does terrible, unforgivable things," A. O. Scott wrote in The Times.
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Critic's Notebook The second season of "Daredevil" arrived on Netflix on Friday less than a year after Season 1, but it already feels as if it's falling behind in the Marvel antihero race.
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And like many a comic-book superhero and antihero before him, Tracker grapples painfully with his own identity, even as he fights off a succession of opponents who threaten to thwart his mission.
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Freddie isn't an antihero, he's a genuine villain, and "The Take" covers many years of his violence, showing not only his depravity but also the psychological cost of simply being in his orbit.
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Jaap van Zweden, the music director, leads a cast including the tenor Daniel Brenna as the antihero Siegfried and the soprano Gun-Brit Barkmin as Brünnhilde, daughter of the father of the gods.
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"The Ginger Man" — whose bohemian American-in-Ireland antihero, Sebastian Dangerfield, has been described as impulsive, destructive, wayward, cruel, a monster, a clown and a psychopath — was both banned and burned in Ireland.
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But the "hard" R-rated Birds of Prey so loudly promised a story about a chaotic, unconventional antihero, it's a shame that it didn't swing for something darker, grittier — and something more rewarding.
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In The New 52, DC pivoted her character, and made her more of an antihero than a villain meaning that often, when she did criminal things, she did them for the "right" reasons.
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The rotten-toothed, sweaty antihero — whose glasses magnify his eyes to a cartoonish degree — is portrayed as a buffoon until the moments when, again and again, he suddenly snaps and starts hitting women.
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I'm not sure if Porfiry, the detective in "Crime and Punishment," is the hero or antihero, but I remember finding that character absolutely thrilling, partly because I so fully and totally reviled Raskolnikov.
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I have been thinking a lot about "Wuthering Heights" and will be creating text sets on the discussion of immigration and the treatment of the "other" as we look at Heathcliff as antihero.
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I think I told him that he only thought Kowalski was an antihero because he wanted to get with Marlon Brando, who was the prettiest thing in that film and absolutely knew it.
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Though still tough and pugnacious, she's managed to gain some perspective, allowing her to evolve into a more ambivalent antihero, a character type normally reserved for men — and rarely used for teenage girls.
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She's a true antihero, in the Tony Soprano sense of the word, and between Game of Thrones' writers and Lena Headey's performance (the best in the series), the show delivers whenever she's onscreen.
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Starring Walking Dead's Jon Bernthal as the titular antihero, Punisher goes deep and dark on the story of Frank Castle, a man who becomes a vigilante after the death of his wife and children.
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One of the reasons the antihero became such a popular figure in later Westerns is because the archetype was a vessel through which the genre could question its place in the wider cultural canon.
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It was also used as a tool of fear in gangland Britain, appearing in Graham Greene's novel Brighton Rock, in the form of a small bottle carried by the book's antihero gangster, Pinkie Brown.
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Jackie Chan's characters are usually straightforward heroes, but he seems to be playing someone in much more of an antihero role in The Foreigner, which has Chan facing off against a bearded Pierce Brosnan.
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Although our antihero, played with brash innocence lightly sprinkled with arsenic by Bryce Pinkham, eventually piles up a stack of corpses to rival that of dear old Mr. Todd, he's a much cuddlier fellow.
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In the film Babylon's closing scene, the dreadlocked antihero Blue sings this prayer over heavy beats, calling for a return to the promised land as the dense crowd bounces up and down in trance.
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The Deadpool actor may play a twisted antihero with R-rated charm, but the good he does for children who look up to him for his role as Deadpool is nothing but G-rated.
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This episode is another reminder that if you're a successful antihero on a prestige TV show you're definitely going to screw over the small-time business owner who knew you when at some point.
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As the series opens, everyone thinks our tortured antihero has died, except for a former NSA analyst ("Girls'" Ebon Moss-Bachrach), a maestro of computers and surveillance who enlists Frank in a larger cause.
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But it's the male critics who have profited the most from the Sopranos-commentary boom—the men who were fascinated by the whole "flawed antihero" concept and pumped its meaning up to outsize levels.
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Johnson took to Instagram to share the first look at concept art of him as the DC antihero Black Adam, revealing the release date (December 22, 2021) for the movie of the same name.
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Not heroics or the parody of antihero (the grim Batman; the zombie survivor who does what he must), but instead games that take seriously the drama and trauma of feeling like you're living underwater.
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Merkin is meant to be an antihero, always chasing the next big score, no matter the cost, but judgment is never passed on him — or any of the play's other morally dubious support characters.
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According to ABC7, 18-year-old Austin White allegedly jacked the dozer from a construction site at about 3 AM, cruising through Kankakee, Illinois, like some kind of real-life Grand Theft Auto antihero.
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But as "Loner" barrels toward its shocking and not entirely plausible conclusion, the reader may begin to wonder what value there is in being inside the mind of the novel's deceitful and deranged antihero.
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That includes a woman being brought to orgasm by the idea of her decrepit lover's financial power, and the antihero Merkin solemnly lying to his wife (Miriam Silverman) in the manner of Michael Corleone.
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Normally, I would write off the June-as-antihero idea as spin from a show that lost the thread a bit and is trying to insist that, no, you guys, it was totally intentional.
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They are front and center in his classic "Peer Gynt," from 1876, in which a hopelessly self-involved antihero goes on a journey from Norway to North Africa that veers between realism and fantasy.
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The series, down to its climax, shares interspecies DNA with the difficult-male antihero dramas of TV's recent past (parodied in Season 5 through "Philbert," the darker-than-noir streaming drama BoJack stars in).
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These two shows don't really fit together, so at times, Patriot feels like it's composed entirely of Breaking Bad cold opens — those stylish prologues that kicked off every episode of the decade's defining antihero drama.
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Over the past three decades, the Child's Play series has transitioned from horror to comedy and back to horror again, and Chucky himself has been the villain, the antihero, and yes, even the romantic lead.
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So, Sebastian is a random, excessively pretty romantic interest who appears with herbal remedies to nurse our hero, or, antihero in this case, to health and get them back in the killer-for-hire game?
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Much like Mad Men, Vinyl is centered on an antihero (Finestra) who's become jaded with his success in an industry that's at its peak during the moment the show is set — New York City, 1973.
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Buoyed by strong performances -- including an unrecognizable Christian Bale and Amy Adams as Cheney and his wife Lynne -- the movie ultimately seems too pleased with itself, bringing only marginal insight to its admittedly secretive antihero.
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Earlier this month, my wife attended the red carpet for the finale screening in Los Angeles, and she overheard several of them talking to press about the season as though June had gone full antihero.
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There is a point in all these antihero sagas, around the finale, where the viewing process turns into a kind of moral people's court, where fans debate the precise retributive price the series should exact.
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This is Bardugo's first adult book, but her young adult novels aren't lacking for horniness or violence (the antihero of her Six of Crows duology lustily gouges out an eye in one particularly gross passage).
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The result is that Made in America occasionally plays like a cable antihero drama, with Simpson seeming as if he's torn between his basest impulses and his better angels, until the former ultimately wins out.
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Most antihero shows with good-to-great final seasons, like The Sopranos, The Shield, and Breaking Bad, blow up their plot stakes as big as they can possibly manage in the final stretch of episodes.
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She may break more laws than are worth counting in the process, but this sort of contradiction does not make her an antihero as much as it makes her a fully formed, if TV-ready, character.
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I loved the brooding Abe Lincoln in "Lincoln in the Bardo," by George Saunders, but Mickey Sabbath in Philip Roth's "Sabbath's Theater" is my favorite: a fantastic hero, antihero and even villain, all rolled into one.
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Since then, she has doubled down on her antihero status, spending much of the last decade releasing quirky, experimental EPs and taking an unprecedented eight years between Body Talk and its follow-up, last year's Honey.
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The Sinner frequently hints that its ultimate solution may be slightly too byzantine and convoluted for my tastes, but it's still an interesting experiment in how to think about the issue of reviving the antihero drama.
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Sony showcased all-new gameplay footage for the upcoming God of War reboot, which is bringing back protagonist and antihero Kratos and the franchise's signature brutal hack-and-slash combat to a new Norse mythology setting.
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The superhero-movie industry likes to paint itself as risk-averse, but somehow the Marvel antihero has been given room to fail on the big screen three times before his well-received supporting role in Daredevil.
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The antihero show's sleazy younger sibling has always been reality TV. Or more specifically, reality TV in the Real Housewives model — reality TV that is built around watching terrible people be dramatically terrible to one another.
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When Angela [Kang, the showrunner] pitched the idea to me, she said that we've been oscillating between antihero and hero for the last nine years, and I think we should probably finish with a heroic act.
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While The Castle features a lovelorn antihero en route to meet an unidentifiable authority figure in a realm stripped of signposts, so too do Kafka's other works, many of them written well before he knew Jesenská.
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Now, that mess didn't really affect Squad's box office take—the film broke August records, making $135 million domestically in its opening weekend—but still the fight over the soul of David Ayer's antihero movie raged on.
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What makes Barry both so fun and so difficult to watch is that it takes the tired antihero trope and tosses it into a blender with the self-absorption and glossy, often fruitless dreams of Hollywood hopefuls.
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" To be clear, he's not slated to play Superman in any upcoming projects â€" but he could oppose the hero some day, as he's slated to appear as the antihero Black Adam in the forthcoming Shazam movie.
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Directed by Alex Kurtzman, this franchise reboot stars Tom Cruise as Nick Morton, an antiquities thief antihero who's neither "anti" nor "hero," and Sofia Boutella as Ahmanet, an Egyptian princess-turned-titular mummy after being buried alive.
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For over 250 years, the 300-foot tall antihero has towered over the Tokyo skyline as a perennial warning of the folly of nuclear war and unrestrained technological advancement, like some kind of giant reptilian Jane Fonda.
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In that world, Marcello Mastroianni could be cast as the feckless protagonist of the Dostoyevsky adaptation "White Nights" in 1957 and then, 10 years later, as the existential antihero of "The Stranger," based on the Camus novel.
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A more typical noir antihero, the whiskey-gulping, chain-smoking lieutenant is gifted with uncommon insight and empathy that enable him to first suspect and then confirm his wife's affair by the end of the first chapter.
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If you need a primer, cyberpunk is the sci-fi/film noir mashup subgenre where everyone is a cyborg antihero, corporations rule the world, and every location looks like Tokyo or Hong Kong on a dreary night.
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I get that "BoJack" might be a tough sell for people who typically avoid animation, and I'll also tell you that the first several episodes might seem like just a smart, punny spin on an antihero comedy.
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Her plot is the best animated antihero story since Zuko's, using the conflicted relationship between Adora and Catra as a lens to question why some women feel they must hide their competitive natures and accept being second best.
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Todd: It's also reminiscent of the show's approach to antihero stories, which have always flipped the typical gender script, where the guy is the one willing to do the dark things and the woman is always looking away.
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Yes, other characters (especially Claire, played by Robin Wright) have grown in prominence since the show began, but House of Cards is built around Spacey in a way most antihero dramas are built around their central bad boys.
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And the Man in Black (Ed Harris), the show's sturdy antihero, had gone increasingly mad on his search for "The Door," until he actually killed his own daughter and began to question whether he was a host himself.
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"She's like this bubbly Walter White," said series co-creator and star Rachel Bloom in 2016, comparing her character Rebecca, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend's protagonist and the titular crazy ex-girlfriend, to the meth-dealing antihero of Breaking Bad.
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In every commemorative article about the show, the author inevitably cites the list of prestige shows that followed The Sopranos and that adopted its central conceit of a flawed antihero—Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Deadwood, and so on.
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Though Venom has often served as a villain in the comics and films (you may remember him as the Topher Grace character in Spider-Man 3), he'll be positioned as more of an antihero in the new movie.
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Many viewers were not impressed by Brienne's gracious euphemistic recounting of Jaime Lannister as a heroic noble knight rather than the antihero who left her sobbing in her pajamas in order to return to his incestuous sociopathic lover.
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If much of antihero TV is about what happens when you abandon principle, "The Americans" was about how principle can lead you astray — and how it can then lead you, if not to redemption, at least to restitution.
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Yet many Mexicans saw him as a populist antihero rather than as a murderer, because of his humble origins, his defiance of a corrupt and ineffective federal government, and his reputation for benevolence to Sinaloa's poor and downtrodden.
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Tune in for the unlikely rise of the telenovela female antihero, a woman born and raised in Texas who doesn't exist according to the US government, and a man who walked through Central and South America with his donkey.
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John Wick: Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 built up the mythology of that demimonde, pitting Reeves' superhumanly lethal antihero against wave after wave of mercenary goons, all looking to take him out for violating the "rules" of hired gunnery.
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How that plays out, and whether Negan becomes an antagonist or more of an antihero member of the current crew when he's inevitably let out of the jail cell, is one of the more interesting subplots brewing on TWD.
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His first turn as the gunslinging antihero came in 2009 with X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which much to Reynolds' dismay, included a version of the character way out of line with the fan favorite version from the comic books.
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A month after The Sopranos left us in the dark, we had a suave new antihero to fixate on in the form of Jon Hamm's Don Draper — a love affair that sustained us until the show ended in 2015.
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But the best story, "The Black Spot," features his trademark Detroit setting and tough-guy humor, as well as his durable antihero, the professional hit man Peter Macklin, whose assignment is to take out six targets in 10 days.
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The series, which debuted in 23 one week after the "Mad Men" midseason finale, shared that show's time slot as well as its workplace vibe, enigmatic antihero (here, Lee Pace from "Pushing Daisies") and intricate engagement with historical events.
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Barry, "a man with 2.4 billion dollars of assets under management," is a new variation: One part (Tom) Wolfean Master of the Universe, one part comic antihero, he blends a photogenic lifestyle with a haunting lack of interpersonal understanding.
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The 30-minute "Diktator," with Krenek working to his own libretto, shows its antihero in private moments, swooning for Marie, the wife of an officer blinded in combat, who resolves to kill the dictator to avenge her husband's plight.
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But he didn't break into the global mainstream until 1988, nearly 400 years later, when Alan Moore and David Lloyd published "V for Vendetta," a comic series featuring Guy Fawkes as the ultimate antihero in a future, fascist England.
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As fans of recent antihero-driven cable dramas know, it's hard not to identify with a complicated protagonist, and Mr. Trapero exploits this habit of identification, ensnaring the audience, and maybe also the film itself, in an ethical trap.
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In the process, the series moved from an overfamiliar cable-drama dynamic — the flawed antihero and his effects on others — to a refreshing one: the challenges of different, brilliant, well-meaning personalities working in good faith to create something.
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Given that the antihero age arguably took off with Tony Soprano pitilessly strangling a man in defiance of the growth we expected of him, BoJack's approach is actually something of a step back in terms of trusting an audience.
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In an anti-antihero frame of mind, I took much too long to catch up on what turned out to be one of the wisest, most emotionally ambitious and—this is not a contradiction—spectacularly goofy series on television.
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The streamlining starts with Hays, firmly established as the central character after a season that cast four big-name actors (Colin Farrell, Rachel McAdams, Vince Vaughn and Taylor Kitsch) as variations on the same hard-drinking, morally compromised antihero.
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He was a charismatic antihero in a comedy of manners, an anti-Darcy who proves to be exactly what he is on the surface, and whose superciliousness is bone-deep and directed at everyone in the world around him.
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First impression based on the trailer (which NBC showed at its upfront, but hasn't made available) Yes, indeed, it's like Blacklist — but Carpenter's Erica is less of a scenery-chewing antihero than James Spader, and had good reason to turn traitor.
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You could just as easily point to, say, the rise of antihero TV (usually about a white guy who won't play by the rules) or our love of superhero stories (usually about authoritarians — but for good!) as a parallel to Trump.
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But — as is often the case with comic book characters — Spider-Man and Venom have sometimes shifted into being uneasy allies, and it looks like the new movie will focus on Venom as an antihero rather than outright bad guy.
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Details about the movie's plot or cast weren't revealed, but the writer/director will be James Mangold, director of Logan and The Wolverine, movies about a similar antihero type of dude, and you can imagine this being gritty as heck.
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The Good Place is set in a moral universe that assumes people cannot change who they are without impetus, that good people stay good and bad people stay bad — which is, more or less, the philosophy of the classic antihero show.
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That means you're thinking like Patrick Bateman, the surface-obsessed, unceasingly covetous, all-depersonalizing antihero of this production, adapted by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (book) and Duncan Sheik (songs) from Bret Easton Ellis's notorious 1991 novel, and directed by Rupert Goold.
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Then in the third inning against the Dodgers, Syndergaard went far, far inside, where few pitches ever wander — whipping the ball at 99 miles per hour behind the back and above the waist of the Citi Field antihero Chase Utley.
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But when you put all those books together along with the general cultural debris surrounding the show, you get a very selective impression of what The Sopranos meant to Americans while it was airing—an impression dominated by antihero worship.
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This idiosyncratic thriller, set in Staten Island, is layered with secrets: the antihero, Phil, has the power to read minds; his mother may have committed suicide; his neuroscientist father has incipient dementia; and his wife used a sperm donor to conceive.
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It has been a while since a world-class, life-size misanthrope like Lee has commanded the screen — not another brooding narcissist or a showily difficult cable TV antihero, but a smart, cranky human recognizably made of flesh and blood.
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Ayer will have at least one shot to redeem himself and do right by the DC Comics universe, as he'll be reunited with Margot Robbie (who played Harley Quinn in Suicide Squad) for the all-female antihero Gotham City Sirens movie.
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But they've also been the guiding principles of the last two decades of TV. From the dawn of "The Sopranos" through the rise of Netflix, acclaimed antihero dramas have focused on bad people getting worse or good people going bad.
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Halt and Catch Fire might start out as an antihero drama, but by the end, it's earnestly engaged in the question of not just how we can better ourselves but how we might, through being kind, help others become better too.
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In Anthony Minghella's adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel Tom Ripley (Matt Damon), the story's chameleon antihero, insinuates himself into the life of Dickie Greenleaf (Jude Law), a wealthy young man living it up in Italy with his girlfriend Marge (Gwyneth Paltrow).
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" James (best known for his role as Tobias Eaton in the "Divergent" film trilogy) said that he had grown up watching the Davies's adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice" and had been drawn to the idea of playing the "Austen antihero-hero.
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Made in America occasionally plays like a cable antihero drama, with Simpson seeming as if he's torn between his basest impulses and his better angels If I'm making it sound like the documentary is too sympathetic to Simpson, it's not, really.
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In the era of the glorified antihero, and an overt cultural fixation with real-life villains at the expense of victims, there's very little to be gained from Conversations With a Killer's straightforward, weirdly sympathetic presentation of Bundy as a uniquely special criminal.
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Seeing as Netflix recently canceled another antihero drama, Gypsy, after just one season, we were a bit surprised by today's announcement that Ozark was renewed, especially since there hasn't been much agreement on whether or not this show was actually worth watching.
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First impression based on the trailer: I...look, The Shield is one of the best dramas of all-time, so if you're going to attempt to do a gritty LA antihero cop story, you just have to do better than this, I think.
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Being morally detached is what makes Deadpool such an interesting super-antihero to begin with; he is the Bugs Bunny of the superhero set, but with guns and ninja swords and the ability to bounce back from bodily harm of any kind.
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Culturally, the audience is aware of the centuries of mistreatment and genocide of the Americas' indigenous people, while also being tasked to root for the allegedly murderous military antihero who has a bone to pick with the Native Americans he's tasked to protect.
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Trump, which the Times noted had "adopted the language of Mafia bosses" by referring to people like Cohen as "rats," has been offered as an example of an antihero, and his actions—often odious and potentially deadly, like those of mobsters—are folkloric.
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The box office of the second film suggests that formula can become a long-term franchise, and builds its possibilities with the addition of antihero teammates from Marvel Comics for the title character, including Josh Brolin&aposs Cable and Zazie Beetz&aposs Domino.
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In the ad, Archie Parnell, who is running for the real-life House seat once held by the fictional "House of Cards" antihero, is seen hovering over a chessboard, wearing a tuxedo and reflectively laying on a couch, all the while quoting Underwood.
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We don't need another tale of a white male antihero (who we quickly learn screwed over a Black blues singer to whom he promised a recording contract) struggling to fight the good fight between artistic integrity and selling out to The Man.
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It was an inflection point: The Sopranos ushered in the age of antihero TV, the era of Breaking Bad and Mad Men, a period when some of the most prestigious, highly acclaimed shows on television were shows about terrible people doing terrible things.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Bhad Bhabie is our era's perfect musical antihero: a teenager forced into the spotlight via memeification and the internet hype machine, learning to rap as a survival mechanism lest she be eaten alive by gatekeepers and trolls.
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ER feels so weirdly fresh now because it's the type of show that's fallen a little out of favor in the antihero era that TV has been stuck in (or responding to) since the debut of The Sopranos in 1999: an ensemble drama.
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Apple was sensitive to a reputation it earned, early on, as a home for uplifting programming, with little or no room for the gritty antihero fare that has defined many critically acclaimed series over the last two decades, from "The Sopranos" onward.
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Adapted from the novel by Booth Tarkington, this rendition — which Welles wrote, directed and narrated, but did not appear in — was handsomely mounted but moody and downbeat, with Joseph Cotten playing the kind of complex antihero that was decades away from vogue.
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Just as Batman could be a camp icon in the 1960s and a brooding antihero in the 21st century, so can "Trek" complicate itself for the era of complex TV. Of course, it's not just critics who have to think about this.
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One, a former Procter & Gamble executive who'd become a bigwig at Google, recalled how much he'd once been like Gordon Gekko, the "greed is good" antihero of 103's Wall Street, until the sudden illness of his daughter snapped his priorities straight.
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Intrigue now attaches to the heist and if there's no quick character to take on the antihero role, look for the elements of a popular myth to quickly fall into place, with the rule breakers playing the leads -- again, perfect for a dramatization.
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And if nothing else, the franchise's breakout character and main antihero, the hitman Alejandro (Benicio del Toro), is Latino himself, so the movie at least complicates the "white Americans good; foreigners of other races bad" dichotomy of so many American action films.
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The big idea of Fosse/Verdon, the thing that's supposed to keep it from becoming just another antihero show, is that it elevates the prominence of Gwen Verdon, showing just how much of a creative constant she was in Bob Fosse's life.
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Sherlock registers a glimmer of self-awareness that her death is his fault, but by this point, the show seems to be so far immersed in the cult of worship around its antihero that the scene is hardly more than an afterthought.
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Maybe the show is only defying my expectations, which have been heavily set by previous final seasons of serialized antihero shows where the shit hit the fan early and regularly (most notably in Breaking Bad but also memorably in The Sopranos and The Shield).
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The creators of All in the Family were rarely sure what to make of how many of their viewers seemed to empathize heartily with Archie Bunker, who frequently expressed controversial (read: racist and misogynistic) opinions, and whom they intended as a kind of sitcom antihero.
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In the new season of Mr. Robot, the critically acclaimed TV show featuring a team of hackers led by a paranoid, psychotic antihero, the hacking group uses ransomware to lock the evil corporation they're fighting out of their computers and force them to pay up.
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The decline and fall, when it comes, is not entirely new to the Scorsese canon: in "Casino", the last film which he, Mr De Niro and Mr Pesci made together, the antihero is reduced from being a celebrity high-roller to a small-time tipster.
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Alas, it's necessary groundwork for the far more interesting Season 2, where the show moved away from its watered-down antihero stories and instead focused on its female characters and their passion for their work in creating an early version of an online gaming site.
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As Brett Martin argued in his 2013 book Difficult Men, an antihero who creates his own problems (Tony Soprano's great insight is that he is his "own worst enemy") in order to solve them introduces narrative stretches full of tension, action, fear, and glory.
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Others mine the style for laughs, as did Vogue, in its February issue, with a leather-clad Ben Stiller, the hapless antihero of "Zoolander 2," saddled up and propped on all fours as a camera-toting Penélope Cruz (the film's sharp-eyed investigator) looked on.
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What started as a response to a Trump presidency now seems to speak to our times in many ways, with a plot that intertwines an ethically compromised antihero, political extremism, corruption, environmental activism and a lack of accountability for the destruction of a town.
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He offers some sketches of his own of this kind, cataloging great films, for example, by identifying six archetypal figures and themes within them that have plausible resonance with prehistoric human experience: the hero, the antihero, the monster, the quest, the pair bond, other worlds.
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It challenges the mostly negative depictions of Nero relayed by Tacitus, Suetonius and Cassius Dio — ancient fake news, as it were — with the portrait of a more nuanced antihero, who was thwarted from pursuing what his heart really desired: a life declaiming poetry and song.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Australian actress Margot Robbie hinted that her new female-led action film "Birds of Prey" could be the first in a series of movies as she reprised the role of comic antihero Harley Quinn in what she has called a passion project.
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Behn died the day after Spacey, for the second consecutive year, released a Christmas Eve video in character as Frank Underwood, the antihero politician he portrayed on Netflix's "House of Cards" before he was written off the show in 2017 amid numerous sexual misconduct allegations.
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Crime Poor Riley Wolfe, the devilishly charming antihero of Jeff Lindsay's witty caper mystery JUST WATCH ME (Dutton, $26), the first volume in a new series — now that Dexter, the twisted serial killer at the center of Lindsay's previous books, has gone to his reward.
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And even if you can find new ground to break (as I would argue both Ozark and Gypsy have — at least on a surface level), it's far too easy to confuse the antihero drama for the "people do bad things to garner our cheap thrills" drama.
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The series debuted in February, and on its surface, it's the most traditional antihero drama of them all — complete with a white-collar white dude who is hiding some terrible secrets (like how he works for the CIA and has racked up an impressive body count).
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But it appears that Hollywood was saving the horniest monster for last, because this week, the world got our first up-close look at Tom Hardy's Venom—the comic-book icon and Spiderman antihero, known for his rows of imposing fangs and massive schlong-like tongue.
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Created by Marti Noxon, based on the thriller novel by Sarai Walker, "Dietland" finds its misfit antihero figure in a furious fat girl, Plum Kettle (Joy Nash), a self-loathing nebbish who ghostwrites the editor's letter for a cruel fashionista (Julianna Margulies, her eyebrows set on "evil").
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Bringing three seasons of experience and dissatisfaction on Saturday Night Live with her, Julia Louis-Dreyfus helped shape who Elaine was—a revolutionary antihero with a "big wall of hair" and a "face like a frying pan," as George describes her in a season four episode.
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Former McDonald's CEO Ray Kroc, who was responsible for the mass expansion of the McDonald brothers' burger-stand concept, is the "founder" of the film's title, which should be a tip-off that this is more of an antihero story than a tale of small-business woe.
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Mystique (who straddles the line between villain and antihero depending on the movie and the comic) and William Stryker — a premier villain in the comic books and the main antagonist of Bryan Singer's X2 — embody a similar kind of charisma, a set of beliefs that forge action.
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It also feels a little dated in this age of antihero TV. The prestige television of today likes to ruminate on the corrupt heart of humanity itself, on the darkness that lurks within us all — and this, too, can be very, very boring when not done well.
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As BoJack has alternated between trying to claw his way to being a better person (so to speak) and backsliding into bad habits and worse behavior, the series has increasingly turned a critical eye toward the very premise of "redemption" and the underlying tropes of antihero television.
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The new "Better Call Saul" season picks up where last year left off, with the antihero (played by Bob Oedenkirk) settling into his "Saul Goodman" persona, while a change in leadership in the Albuquerque meth-trafficking business tests the resolve of criminal fixer Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks).
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And if the rise of Trump seemed eerily predicted by TV's antihero era — a long decade of series about dark-hearted men who believed they were owed everything they ever wanted — then the TV of 20173 was pointing toward some other future, just over the horizon.
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Eventually you run out of all the people who are on the same political team as you, and think the same way as you do, and are active users and good message-senders and now you're just left with all these people who are like your personal antihero.
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But when we're reporting on what seems like the nexus of internet culture, geek culture, and the anarchistic upheaval in these types of antihero films — how would you suggest we do it without perpetuating misinformation and conflating rational fear about real-world consequences with irrational panic over dangerous fiction?
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But dammit, I've gone ahead and loved so many of them anyway, because for as long as I can remember, pop culture has taught me to take what I can get when it comes to even halfway decent representation of anyone who isn't a tortured white guy antihero.
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But professional wrestling is an even purer example of strife sold as entertainment—and it became the perfect place for Trump to hone his act as a bigger-than-life, self-inflating, insult-flinging antihero, while taking notes from impresarios like Vince McMahon, the CEO of Worldwide Wrestling Entertainment.
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The actor playing Jack feels like an odd fit – that's Jon St John, a man best known as the titular antihero of the Duke Nukem series, heard dishing out such choice lines as "my balls, your face" and "quit bleeding, pussy" in 2011's deplorable Duke Nukem Forever.
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" Among the other notable snubs: Benjamin Walker was passed over for his bare-chested and blood-soaked performance as Patrick Bateman, the antihero at the dark heart of "American Psycho," while Jennifer Hudson was not nominated for her sultry turn as a nightclub singer in "The Color Purple.
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There were so many shades of gray that it was hard to tell who to root for, which may be admirable in some dramas but is problematic in a comic-book adaptation, even when the source material was written by Frank Miller, the master of the ambivalent antihero.
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The movie — and Yeun's performance as Ben, the cosmopolitan rival of the country-bumpkin antihero — earned rave reviews at the Cannes Film Festival in May, and the experience of working overseas made Yeun realize that he didn't feel exactly at ease in either the United States or South Korea.
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The illustrator, Matthew Forsythe, isn't reinventing the wheel by depicting the bad mood as a cloud, but of course, that particular wheel is perfect as it is; it's remarkable, really, how with only a squiggly outline and a wash of color the artist creates so vivid an antihero.
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Creators Christopher C. Rogers and Christopher Cantwell originally set up the series as a conventional antihero drama about the sneering, self-proclaimed genius Joe Macmillan (Lee Pace), who hijacks a small Texas computer manufacturer in the early 1980s and tries to get it to build his dream machine.
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Noirish gloom seems to follow him around: The first season of Netflix's "Ozark" (the only one I've seen) took material that wanted to be dark comedy and squeezed much of the fun out of it, though Laura Linney, as the wife of Bateman's antihero, worked heroically to counteract that.
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Addison can come off as cold and harsh, especially to people who try to help her, but her character is far more nuanced than the typical tough-as-nails antihero — as evidenced by some of the heart-tugging scenes between her and her now mute, emotionally detached sister.
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But many people think of Lucifer as an antihero, maybe the first one — a fallen being, formerly an angel of light, who nonetheless is sort of the one we want to root for — and he's ready to challenge an almighty, distant God when he feels wronged by the universe.
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Conrad creates antihero shows, about bad people who do bad things, but he roots them in an overall thesis about how America creates those bad people and why they're a logical outcome of a system that hollows out social institutions in the name of making more and more money.
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What's thrilling about The Good Place is that it takes it as a given that this struggle to become a better person is just as interesting and compelling, just as worthy of aesthetic attention, as the nihilistic downward spiral of a white man at the center of an antihero show.
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Corey seems convinced of Beach's significance, but he nonetheless comes off as a kind of oddball antihero, along the lines of Pizzoli's Tricky Vic, but less menacing: Believe in your dreams, kids, and spare no effort as you go for it, even if it means finagling your way around the law!
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Both passed on the role, much to the dismay of executives at AMC and Sony Pictures Television who couldn't get past Cranston's history of comedic roles (he'd previously been known for roles like the dopey father on the sitcom "Malcolm in the Middle") to see him as the show's antihero.
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While I am one of those increasingly stooped and wizened diners who remembers, in detail, Mr. DiSpirito's cooking at Union Pacific, far more people recall him as the meatball-pushing antihero of "The Restaurant," an NBC series about Rocco's on 22nd, an actual (and doomed, it turned out) Italian-American restaurant.
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Then again, maybe it shouldn't be a surprise that the guy behind the near-pitch perfect 22015 blockbuster "Deadpool," about a sardonic Marvel antihero with a twisted mind and a filthy mouth, could only have developed his wicked brand of humor after a lifetime of alchemizing comedy out of angst.
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Under their patronage, Shakespeare would produce "Catiline," an account of Lucius Sergius Catilina's conspiracy against the Roman Senate in 62 B.C., with an antihero driven by Trumpian vices — "a vicious and depraved disposition," per Sallust, "pursuing objects extravagant, romantic and unattainable" — and by resentment at an establishment that scorned him.
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In series ranging from "Fosse/Verdon," FX's Broadway-musical-antihero show, to Gen Z soaps like Freeform's "Good Trouble" and "The Bold Type," as well as on network sitcoms like "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" and cable dramedies like "Barry," creators are visibly adjusting to, and at times struggling with, the changing landscape.
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Which brings me to the qualm I have with this otherwise stellar season so far: In a show that's studiously avoided having us root for (or against!) any of its major protagonists, and that has simultaneously skirted the biggest clichés of the antihero genre, Elizabeth is starting to seem … well, like a villain.
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It's the circle of Peak TV. There's also a noticeable shift in the type of shows that have been nominated — most of them offer a wildly different narrative than the troubled male antihero genre that dominated the awards circuit from The Sopranos all the way through to Breaking Bad and Mad Men.
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The latter character, who'd go on to be the central hero of the following two movies (and the antihero, I suppose, of the fourth), is the obvious star of Last Survivor, which recounts the sequence of the movie where the Nostromo is set to self-destruct—and the grisly discoveries made during it.
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The setup for this episode is a classic antihero trope: Barry has been cornered by the cops, but Detective Loach, the cop who has caught him, wants not to bring Barry to justice but to blackmail Barry into carrying out a hit against the man who is sleeping with Loach's ex-wife.
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Crime The much-lamented death of Philip Kerr means that METROPOLIS (Marian Wood/Putnam, $28) is the last we'll see of his cynical antihero, Bernie Gunther, an honest policeman whose life is a daily struggle to preserve a shred of human decency in the decadent world of Berlin between the two world wars.
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But the antihero of this inspired collaboration between John ("All My Friends Are Dead") and Oswald ("Mingo the Flamingo") has a fascinating back story, involving a happy childhood on a sunflower, a terrifying incident at a ballpark that sent him to the dark side and years of delinquency before he decides to reform.
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We've got the W.W. II VET coming out on top of the NETIZEN, and some very fresh and crunchy entries like ANTIGONE, HOUSE PET, ROOT BEER, SPLIT UP, FOLK ART, ROB A BANK, I SEE NOW, GETS DOWN, WOOL CAP, ANTIHERO, DWEEZIL, TIE SCORE, CAN'T FAIL, ONE HORSE, NUFF SAID and POOH BAH.
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This has the curious effect of turning them into the long-suffering wives of a cable drama antihero from the 2000s, even as the show clearly longs to afford them perspective equal of Bob Fosse's, more than it wants to show what these women have in common with Breaking Bad's Skyler White.
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The best antihero dramas of the early 2000s, like the best great films of the '70s, were cautionary tales, deeply moral stories about how, in some ways, the men at the center of them stood in for an America — or at least a white male America — that couldn't stop gobbling up everything it saw.
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Great TV existed before the arrival of milestones like The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, The Wire, and The Shield, but the gritty antihero saga has played a central role in getting TV accepted by even the most insecure of snobs as something that can be taken seriously and talked about without apologetic prefaces at parties.
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There are no good guys here, just shades of antihero: Giamatti's crusading US attorney is working on the side of justice in the legal sense, and his targets are billionaire scum, but the ways he tries to bring them down is so corrupt that it's unclear who exactly you're supposed to be rooting for.
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HeroVillain is ridiculous and "Vino" was one of the dumbest self-assigned nicknames ever.) The public didn't forgive Bryant for his alleged sexual assault or for driving his teammates insane (or for driving Shaquille O'Neal out of town) but they allowed Bryant to have a complicated redemption narrative—Bryant was complicated, the NBA's antihero.
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Many of them obscured their faces with balaclavas and masks, and had patches on their uniforms of the skull worn by the Punisher, a Marvel Comics antihero who kidnaps, extorts, and murders people in the pursuit of his own conception of justice; the skull is the last thing that his victims see before they die.
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The move signals worries about slowing growth and increased pressures from the trade war with the U.S. • "Venom," starring Tom Hardy as a fanged antihero, and the bittersweet romance "A Star Is Born," this time with Lady Gaga in the lead role, vastly exceeded expectations, sending the North American box office to an October record.
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In those early days of sobriety, when I first read Charles Jackson's 1944 best seller "The Lost Weekend," a tragicomic account of a single extended bender, I found myself torn between rooting for its antihero, an aspiring writer named Don Birnam, to get sober and wanting him to find a way to keep drinking.
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SCOUTING REPORT Mayfield has been the closest thing to college football's antihero this season: planting the Sooners flag at midfield at Ohio Stadium in September after avenging Ohio State's victory last season in Norman; verbally mocking players for then-winless Baylor before their game; and making vulgar taunting gestures from the sideline against Kansas.
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Low Winter Sun dutifully ticked multiple items on that list — middle-aged antihero with a secret, preponderance of drugs-sex-violence, a scene of corpse disposal, and a Detroit setting that promised some forthcoming commentary on America — while also being awful enough to become a Weird Twitter punchline (and, surely, an inspiration for Darkness at Noon).
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As such, Mitchell is a classic mid-century white antihero, the kind that can be found, in works ranging from "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" to "Portnoy's Complaint," exuding professional mediocrity, evading responsibility, humiliating himself sexually, and cowering in the face of his supposed inferiors: women, children, household help, members of all kinds of the putative lower classes.
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Better Call Saul may have started out looking like another gritty antihero drama in the vein of Breaking Bad, but it's developed into its predecessor's fascinating inverse – it lures you with the promise of illicit thrills, and then shows you how these bad deeds weigh painfully on the soul, and drag down everything else in its orbit.
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If you needed someone to explain to you that Frank Underwood, the antihero of "House of Cards," owes something to Machiavelli; that "Mad Men" is "shorthand for Madison Avenue men"; that movie spectacles ask us to "switch off our brains"; and that modern television has exploded "the old idea of a single auteur," then by all means hunker down.
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Introduced in "The Pink Panther" (1964) with a pratfall, and a magnet for mishap thereafter (every door is his enemy), Sellers catapulted out of the ensemble of this mildly racy all-star jewel heist caper — distinguished by Friz Freleng's classic animated credit sequence and Henry Mancini's classy score — to become the antihero of "A Shot in the Dark" (1964).
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"It's kind of surreal to see someone who brought down his party, who has been indicted in pretty much all media around the world, indicted in the US, indicted in Malaysia, to be out and about and to be able to make himself look like ... an antihero or even hero among some segments of the population," Pua said.
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" Hence the relative reserve with which the narrator subsequently details her liaison with Cliff, a rakish, "reckless" horseman — he rides like a Cossack — whom she falls for with the same helpless lust with which teenage bibliophiles swoon over Emily Brontë's brooding antihero: "It is hard to describe how handsome Cliff was, how sexy and how attracted I was.
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Plus, I should note that as a critic, I'm part of a community that has been hugely responsible for the rise of white male antihero dramas — praising them to excess, hailing them as bold storytelling, building up an idea that a "good" TV show too often features a damaged guy who makes tough, dark choices and somehow escapes the consequences.
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In the buildup to the release of Joker, the much-discussed new antihero film centered on the main villain of the Batman franchise, the media latched onto one specific narrative: that the film had potential to inspire real-world violence, particularly from incels, who some believed might feel some sort of kinship with the movie's "angry loner" version of the Joker.
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Much of "The Chase" is set inside the malaria-muddled mind of its protagonist, Chuck Scott (Robert Cummings), who, like many a noir antihero, is a veteran of World War II. Back home and at loose ends, he is introduced standing outside a Miami luncheonette, hungrily watching a cook flip pancakes, when, as if by magic, a wallet materializes at his feet.
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Here's the lesson of yesterday's deflating testimony by former Special Counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerMueller report fades from political conversation Trump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony MORE: Never cast an antihero as the face of an investigation where the fate of the presidency and the nation is playing out in a political theater.
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He changed his name to Limonov as "a tribute to his acidic and bellicose humor, because 'limon' means lemon, and 'limonka' is slang for a kind of hand grenade," Emmanuel Carrère wrote in his semifictional biography, "Limonov: The Outrageous Adventures of the Radical Soviet Poet Who Became a Bum in New York, a Sensation in France, and a Political Antihero in Russia" (2014).
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"A sad horse" is maybe not who I would have expected to choose as the decade's finest antihero when BoJack Horseman began in 2014, but Netflix's animated tale of a middle-aged anthropomorphic equine with addiction problems and a substantial paunch around his midsection hit all the right beats for a story about a character who's compelling even though he's awful.
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The team includes one guy dressed like an owl and another like a moth; a savvy sexpot, Silk Spectre, and her cynical daughter, Laurie; a mentally ill antihero named Rorschach; the all-American Captain Metropolis; a Vietnam vet; a bright-blue, naked, nuclear-powered Übermensch ; a preening billionaire, Ozymandias; Hooded Justice, who wears a noose; and others, some barely walk-ons.
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Deprived of meaning and identity in a mindlessly nihilistic world of consumerism, our antihero resorts to bloodshed as a way to assert his individualism in a sea of identical collectible building blocks: That we are drawn to root for him despite the carnage and mayhem he leaves behind says far more about our own quest for mindless entertainment than his thirst for destruction.
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Please be cool to the employees it's not their fault But as Roiland and Harmon — and to an extent Rick and Morty itself, which clearly aims to portray its characters, including its antihero Rick, with empathy and clarity — try to separate Rick and Morty from certain Rick and Morty fans, incidents like this McDonald's Szechuan Sauce dustup will only make it harder.
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Or remember how the second season of mockumentary The Comeback skewered this same tendency by plunking fading sitcom star Valerie Cherish (Lisa Kudrow) into an HBO series in which she's been cast as a monstrous fictionalized version of herself; meanwhile, her old boss Paulie G (Lance Barber) has parlayed his professional flameout into a plum cable series gig in which he portrays himself as the beleaguered antihero.
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Bannon, a lifelong Catholic, is an antihero in his own image, profoundly narcissistic and convinced that his fate is parallel to those of his heroes from the movies and from Milton: He self-identifies as a tragic figure tasked by some force, God or the universe or something like it, with tearing apart the modern world and handing power back to the ordinary, common man.
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As a television creator, he is known for the Emmy-winning anthology series "Fargo," adapted loosely from the Coen brothers' darkly comic movie, and for "Legion," a dense, surrealistic series based on an X-Men antihero, both for FX. As a novelist, he has written five books, the latest of which, "Before the Fall" (2016), has been optioned for the big screen by Sony Pictures.
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From the USA procedurals of Psych, Monk, Burn Notice, and White Collar to the network hits of The Mentalist, Bones, Lie to Me, Numb3rs, and many others, much of the drama has become the precarity of the antihero's work, as he (or she) searches in vain for steady employment, often existing at the periphery of the government agencies that once provided the antihero with stable employment.
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Even as an enormous admirer of the decadent Joris-Karl Huysmans novel À Rebours (21950) (translated as Against Nature) — in which the dandy Jean Des Esseintes (an eccentric, reclusive aesthete antihero who loathes bourgeois society) tries to retreat into an ideal artistic world of simulacrum — I am no longer in uncritical agreement with the premise of this show: that the artificial fictitiousness is a priori poetic and thus beneficial.
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He made kimchi and sauerkraut in huge mason jars he monitored on the kitchen counter like a mad botanist; he once spent an hour describing the plot of Against Nature to me in exquisite detail, including his favorite scene, in which the eccentric and vile antihero encrusts a tortoise's shell with exotic jewels and the poor creature, "unable to support the dazzling luxury imposed on it," dies from the weight.
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Though the film sold more than $872 million in tickets worldwide, that total was still a disappointment in the current blockbuster arms race, in which Marvel's "Captain America: Civil War" has sold more than $1.1 billion globally since its release in May, and Fox's "Deadpool," based on a Marvel antihero with far less name recognition, has sold more than $782 million in tickets since it opened in February.
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" Nor is Gagosian the only dealer "Boom" tracks from early days to global fame — David Zwirner, Gagosian's major foil; Iwan and Manuela Wirth of Hauser & Wirth; and the father-and-son Glimchers, Arne and Marc, of Pace Gallery, get the fullest treatment of the many others — but he is its focus and its livest wire, a Faustian antihero "bumptious and cutthroat in his quest to make a deal.
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Granted, it's a much more multicultural crew than the original seven—the film's one real updating nod—but it's worth noting that the only three that make much of a presence are all Western white-guy heroes: An old Confederate soldier suffering from what we'd now call PTSD (Ethan Hawke), a Bible verse-spouting hatchet expert (Vincent D'Onofrio) and the rebellious, gambling, smoldering, sarcastic antihero with a heart of gold (Chris Pratt).
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Most actors say that it's more fun to play the villain, and you get the sense that the writers are similarly having a little too much fun scripting ridiculous, showboating dialogue for Negan, just as the directors keep framing him in appreciative close-ups and lingering one-shots, like he's the tortured antihero in a blood-soaked western, not a murderous control freak who gets off on mentally torturing women and children — even if he hilariously draws the line at killing them.
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But even beyond this political dimension, Barry is interested in larger questions about why we're so obsessed with antihero shows in the last 20 years, or why the idea of men who commit terrible acts is so arresting to us where, say, the story of a woman leaving her abusive husband and going to Los Angeles to try to become an actress, then booking a few small parts that pay the bills (more or less the backstory for Barry's girlfriend, Sally, played by Sarah Goldberg), would not be.
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And now Vox can offer this exclusive look at the new art for season three, which leans into the idea of the cantankerous BoJack as a conflicted male antihero character on the level of Tony Soprano, Netflix's own Frank Underwood from House of Cards, and Mad Men's Don Draper: Netflix It's a comparison that at least my colleague Todd VanDerWerff finds particularly apt: This might sound ridiculous, but I promise it's not ... [BoJack Horseman]'s a strange, sad trip through the dark underbelly of fame, mixed with some of the most brilliant, caustic social commentary out there.
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