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antihero

The protagonist of a novel or play who, instead of displaying heroic or sympathetic characteristics, is incompetent, foolish, and often immoral. Examples include Don Quixote in Cervantes' Don Quixote (1605) and Jimmy Porter in John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger (1957).


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He describes the project as Donald Goines meets The Sopranos by way of Jack Kirby, as it has a main character named Rack Butler, an antiheroic, gang boss with super strength.
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New Comics," comic art oppositional to the corporate produced and syndicated comic strips like "Spiderman," the "X-men," and "Garfield," and created by independent artists like Art Spiegelman, Los Bros Hernandez ("Love and Rockets"), and Roberta Gregory ("Naughty Bits"), have been described as antiheroic, nihilist, subversive, political, autobiographical, and postmodern (Callahan 6-14).
 
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