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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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With Lehanka, though, one finds neither the pathos of antiheroism nor heroism itself, in contrast to Jonathan Meese, for example, who celebrates the anarchy in his art like some high priest.
Marko Lehanka: carlier / gebauer by Fricke, Harald / Artforum International
This isn't just a time of antiheroism, that intellectual mainstay of the past half-century.
Forrest Gump by Alleva, Richard / Commonweal
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