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the best anti-hero movie characters


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rambo

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Sam Spade, Rick Blaine, Harry 'Steve' Morgan ... as played by Bogart.

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rick blaine is a great example.

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Selena Kyle (at least, the Michelle Pfeiffer one).
Hannibal Lecter
Wednesday Addams
The T-800 (Terminator)
Wolverine

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hannibal lecter? i have to think about that one.

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Jackie Scanlon (Sorcerer)
Leon (The Professional)
Martin Blank (Grosse Pointe Blank)
Harry (The Devil at Four O'Clock)
Boo Radley (To Kill a Mockingbird)

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If you go to Wikipedia for anti hero, the first picture is Clint. That's who I always think of.

Might want to add some anti heroines. The last 10 years their been a big rise in movies with those.

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i can't think of any female.

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This is a good one, imo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCxPLlFWdFo

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D-Fens in Falling Down

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Ellen Page as Boltie in Super (2010)

Although she wasn't so much heroic as psychopathic. But only Ellen Page ( before mental illness overtook her ) could make a homicidal maniac endearing.


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Paul Kersey(Charles Bronson) in the Death Wish movies.

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McMurphy (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)

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