Anti-Hero In Superhero Movies

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When you think about anti-heroes in anything you've read or watched from 2013 to now, you might have noticed most of them have a back story that is leaning towards giving the reader/watcher some sort of sympathy. Despite the character on the TV screen being a flawed and most of the time corrupt human being, along with lacking any heroic traits, there's something about their struggle that leads them to where they are that makes you feel sorry for them. Depending on the genre you are watching, the anti-hero could be differently created—but, that often brings up the question what is the difference between the anti-hero and the villain? And how do those differ from the hero? If there is one. Have they found that line where you as viewers blatantly …show more content…

What they were doing in these plays was something fresh and new, so it was not overused. It started with a flawed character who was intending on being good but essentially went back to their old habits every now and again to get what they needed. This character makes emotional moral judgments that the hero would not otherwise make. With the diversity of different types of anti-heroes, it could cause it to become overused. Superhero movies have a huge fan base for anti-heroes because they derive from the comics and the comics are one of the things that also created the glamorization of the anti-hero. For every anti-hero you had in a comic it would be followed by a hero and a villain; normally, all three would be included in a series, they needed one to have the other and so forth for the …show more content…

Qualities, if they have less redeemable qualities, then they are more than likely a villain or simply just a character (antagonist, etc.) Throughout plenty of series', comic book characters have went from hero to villain to anti-hero back to hero again and it works when it does, but most of the time it doesn't and makes a character seem like someone they are not or simply unreliable. Not only that but switching a character from hero to anti-hero makes it unsuccessful after that fact because we already viewed them as a hero with heroic qualities and then they all of a sudden start killing innocent people, it just doesn't look good to the reader's eye. Another thing is the beginning of a character's arc, if they don't show redeemable qualities starting from the beginning of the introduction of the character, it's really hard to make them an anti-hero after that fact. Like mentioned before, the back story is one of the important things for a successful