antihero

The core of Philipps’s book is Special Operations Chief Eddie Gallagher, a senior enlisted SEAL and antihero who is portrayed as possessing almost superhuman powers.

Comedy has seen its share of influential male antiheroes as well, from “social assassin” Larry David on Curb Your Enthusiasm to New Girl’s prickly, problem-drinker love interest Nick Miller.

In the late ’90s, The Sopranos ushered in the age of the antihero.

The era of the female villain-turned-protagonist—or at least antihero—is in full swing, with Margot Robbie and Sarah Paulson recently taking on the roles of Harley Quinn and Nurse Ratched, respectively.

What could have been yet another instance of cheap cable carnality—the irresistible male antihero!

Everyone has a theory on how Mad Men will end, and one of the most popular is that our suave, slick antihero will die.

I also want to say that there's a degree to which we never really thought of this as an antihero show.

So when he graduated from antihero to pop stalwart in the mid-aughts, the rap world largely lost interest.

At Last is the fifth novel about Patrick Melrose, St Aubyn's unhappy and self-absorbed antihero.