List of anti-heroes

List of anti-heroes

N.B. Within each genre, the names of the protagonists are alphabetically ordered.

Table of contents

1 Drama
2 Literature
3 Poetry
4 Film
5 Comic books
6 Television

Drama

Adam in The Shape of Things by Neil LaBute
Mr. and Mrs. Bates in Brimstone and Treacle by Dennis Potter
Michael Cartts in Japes by Simon Gray
Donald in The Philanthropist by Christopher Hampton
Guy in My Night with Reg by Kevin Elyot
Felix Humble in Humble Boy by Charlotte Jones
Laurence in Abigail's Party by Mike Leigh
Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Archie Rice in The Entertainer by John Osborne
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Vladimir and Estragon in Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Stephanie Washburn in The Eclipse by Joyce Carol Oates

Literature

Virgil Adams in Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington
Alex in A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Alice (as well as some other characters) in King Solomon's Carpet by Barbara Vine
Jacopo Belbo in Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Martin Brock in 12 Step Fandango by Chris Haslam
Sydney Carton in A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Case in William Gibson's Neuromancer
Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Charlie in The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Thomas Covenant in The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever by Stephen R. Donaldson
Mark Crawley (as well as some other characters) in A Vicious Circle by Amanda Craig
Jim Dixon in Lucky Jim, by Kingsley Amis
Elric of Melniboné in stories and novels by Michael Moorcock
Des Esseintes in Against the Grain by Joris-Karl Huysmans
Billy Fisher in Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse
Artemis Fowl in the Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer
Barnaby Gaitlin in A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler
Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gollum (Sméagol) in The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
Peter Jernigan in Jernigan by David Gates
Asa Leventhal in The Victim by Saul Bellow
Victor Mancini in Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
Walter Mitty in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber
The narrator in Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Felix Nasmyth in Budding Prospects by T.C. Boyle
Alexander Portnoy in Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
Marc Remillard in The Saga of Pliocene Exile by Julian May
Alan Sherwood in Altered States by Anita Brookner
Long John Silver in Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Arthur Abdel Simpson in The Light of Day (filmed as Topkapi) and Dirty Story by Eric Ambler
Smith in The Loneliness of a Long-Distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe
Steerpike in the Gormenghast novels by Mervyn Peake
Stevens in The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Gerald Tarrant in The Coldfire Trilogy by CS Friedman
Turin Turambar in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth universe
Luke Wakefield in Mr Wakefield's Crusade by Bernice Rubens
John Wheelwright in A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Yossarian in Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Poetry

Achilles in The Illiad by Homer
Gerontion in Gerontion by T.S. Eliot
Warren Harding in Two Poems About President Harding by James Wright
Henry in The Dream Songs by John Berryman
Prufrock in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot

Film

Han Solo in Star Wars
Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon
Wanda Gershwitz in A Fish Called Wanda

Comic books

Batman (DC Comics)
Daredevil (Marvel Comics)
Hellboy (Dark Horse)
The Incredible Hulk (Marvel)
The Punisher (Marvel)
Rayek in the comic book Elfquest by Wendy and Richard Pini
Spider-Man (Marvel)
Venom (Marvel)
Wolverine (Marvel)
Spawn (Image Comics)

Television

Eric Cartman (South Park)
'Satan' (South Park)
Edmund Blackadder (Blackadder)
Arnold Rimmer (Red Dwarf)
Bernard Black (Black Books)
Peter Griffin (Family Guy)
Victor Meldrew (One foot in the grave)