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Cipiteca396

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No you.

(What do you define as an anti-hero, by the way?

One of the reasons people like Anti-Heroes is because they can feel more relatable than a true paragon Hero.

Another may be that they are just a new and different thing from the typical fairytale heroes kids grow up with. It can make them feel more 'Mature' since they don't show up in kids stories as much. A bit silly, but still a reason.

Sometimes it's fun to let loose and wreck some stuff, and the traditional hero might not be able to do that without raising some eyebrows.

Lastly, are you saying and seeing the term Anti-Hero, when what you're actually looking at is an Anti-Villain? Because that happens a LOT.)
 

Additive_Wizard

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Very simple reason. It's easier to relate to someone that is motivated by saving their own skin than for some sense of altruism. The Anti-Hero looks out for himself and sometimes does the morally correct thing in the process. Very few people (IMO) can say they'd behave good all the time. We do what we have to, to survive.
 

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Funny thing i craved anti-hero years ago while everyone like isekai/cultivation, good MCs and evil MCs but no one liked anti-hero.
 

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Because there are things you can explore with antiheroes that you can't with straight-up heroes or villains
 

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When written well they are super entertaining, see Code Geass or Death Note.
Offtopic : Sad that death note got a crap ending, and worse of all, author+artists did a sequel oneshot. But guess what. "They did it again" meme. The worse is that the MC was not evil and not even anti-hero but just sold the death-note to gov but DEUX-EX MACHINA that the TOP-DEATHGOD coincidentally wrote a new rule that "You can't sell the deathnote or you die" => *pop* MC die in the train station with the bag of money where he planned everything safely and could get safe retired life.
 

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Their by far the more well written and understandable characters. They also just look so fucking cool when compared to the MC who is always kinda bland.
 

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Writing an orthodox altruistic hero MC is not quite as flexible as writing anti-hero. It's not like they love the concept of 'anti-hero', in fact what they want is just a better basis which has more potential to expand. For altruistic hero MC, only people who like altuistic hero MC and who don't mind would read that kind of story. But for anti-hero MC, authors can create many different personalities and motives yet they all still conform inside 'anti-hero' umbrella.
 

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Long story short, anti-hero protagonist is based.
 

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Why are you obsessed with what other people are obsessed with? Don't yuck on someone else's yum. That's not nice. Stop it.
 

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And why, pray tell, do you think I should do anything that you say when you are so lazy you refuse to even make a persuasive argument as to why I should "stop it" as you say?
 

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I'm fine with antiheros. What I'm not cool with is edgelords and villains labeled as antiheros. Crackhead Dante, edgy the hedgy, various xianxia protags genociding folk, etc.

Lotta try hards just not understanding the essence of antiheros.
 

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Because nobody wants to be a hero... unless you're weird.
 

TheEldritchGod

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Nope. And since you told me what to do. I'm gonna Anti-Hero HARDER. I'm gonna anti-hero AS HARD AS I CAN.
YOU WILL SEE MY ANTI-HERO FROM FUCKIN' ORBIT!! And I'm gonna fill your DM with links of me Anti-heroing.

Ten thousand guys wearing trenchcoats in the rain at night, brooding about angsty shit while shooting thugs in the head in a crapsack word of bleak hopelessness. They will come as a tidal wave of you.


That's you at the end. That's what you will look like.

GINGER!
 

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It exploded when Deadpool Ryan Reynolds came. ?
 
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