List of fictional antiheroes

Gustave Doré's depiction of Satan from John Milton's Paradise Lost.

This list is for characters in fictional works who exemplify the qualities of an antihero – a protagonist whose characteristics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Each of these examples has been identified by a critic as an antihero, although the classification is somewhat subjective. Some of the entries may be disputed by other sources and some may contradict all established definitions of antihero.

This is an incomplete list that may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

Literature

CharacterWorkAuthorFirst publishedNotes
Annie Allen[7][8] Annie Allen Gwendolyn Brooks 1949
Redmond Barry[9] The Luck of Barry Lyndon William Makepeace Thackeray 1844
James Bond[10][11][12][13][14][15] List of James Bond novels and short stories Ian Fleming 1953-1966 Adapted into a series of films starting with Dr. No in 1962
Pinkie Brown[16] Brighton Rock Graham Greene 1938
Holden Caulfield[17] The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger 1951
Quentin Compson[18] The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner 1929
Cross Damon[19] The Outsider Richard Wright 1953
Macon "Milkman" Dead III[20][21] Song of Solomon Toni Morrison 1977
Stephen Dedalus[22] A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses (novel) James Joyce 1916, 1922
Roland Deschain[23] The Dark Tower Stephen King 1982
Raoul Duke[24] Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson 1971
Tyler Durden and the Narrator[25][26] Fight Club Chuck Palahniuk 1996 Adapted in a film in 1999.
Huckleberry Finn[27][28] Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1884 (UK), 1885 (U.S.)
Randall Flagg[29] The Stand, Eyes of the Dragon and The Dark Tower Stephen King 1978
Harry Flashman[30] The Flashman Papers George MacDonald Fraser 1969
Artemis Fowl II[31] Artemis Fowl series Eoin Colfer 2001 Soon to be adapted into a film.
Jay Gatsby[32] The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 1925 Recently adapted into a film in 2013.
Prince Hamlet[33] Hamlet William Shakespeare 1599-1602
Bob Jones[34] If He Hollers Let Him Go Chester Himes 1945
Lucifer/Satan[35] Paradise Lost John Milton 1667
Macbeth[36][37] Macbeth William Shakespeare 1599-1606
Meursault[38][39] The Stranger Albert Camus 1942
Philip Marlowe[40] The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely, The High Window, The Lady in the Lake, Playback, The Little Sister, and Poodle Springs Raymond Chandler 1939
Dexter Morgan[41][42] Darkly Dreaming Dexter, Dearly Devoted Dexter, and Dexter in the Dark Jeff Lindsay 2004 Later adapted into a TV series.
The Narrator[43] Invisible Man Ralph Ellison 1952
Scarlett O'Hara[44] Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1936 Adopted in a film in 1939.
Okonkwo[45] Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe 1958
Othello[46] Othello William Shakespeare 1603
Alexander Portnoy[47] Portnoy's Complaint Philip Roth 1969
Raskolnikov[48] Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky 1866
Rincewind[49][50] Discworld novels Terry Pratchett 1983 First appeared in The Colour of Magic
Tom Ripley[51] Tom Ripley series (the "Ripliad") Patricia Highsmith 1955
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern[52] Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Tom Stoppard 1966
Becky Sharp[53] Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray 1847 First serialized in 20 parts.
Shylock[54] The Merchant of Venice William Shakespeare 1596 (ca.)
Severus Snape[55] Harry Potter J. K. Rowling 1997
Sam Spade[56] The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett 1930
Bigger Thomas[57] Native Son Richard Wright 1940
Lázaro de Tormes[58] Lazarillo de Tormes anonymous 1554
Woland[59] The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov 1966
Wei Xiaobao[60] The Deer and the Cauldron Jinyong 1969
Alex[61] A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess 1962 Later adopted into a film in 1971.

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James Gandolfini, known for portraying antihero Tony Soprano.

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