The character was a film noir antihero in every sense ; Gibson himself claimed the literary inspirations were Bram Stoker's Dracula and Edward Bulwer-Lytton's " The House and the Brain ".

* Greg House, fictional medical drama protagonist / antihero.

It was also mentioned by the fictional antihero Dr. Gregory House ( played by actor James Hugh Calum Laurie ) on the Television Series, House MD ( episode Lines in the Sand ).

Fitz is a classic antihero, unfaithful to his wife, alcoholic, a chain smoker, obese, addicted to gambling, manic, foul-mouthed and sarcastic, and yet cerebral and brilliant.

Elric of Melniboné is a fictional character created by Michael Moorcock, and the antihero of a series of sword and sorcery stories centering in an alternate Earth.

Although the protagonist is often referred to as the " good guy ", it is entirely possible for a story's protagonist to be the clear villain, or antihero, of the piece.

" Fraser's Flashman is an antihero who runs from danger or hides cowering in fear, betrays or abandons acquaintances at the slightest incentive, bullies and beats servants with gusto, beds every available woman, carries off any loot he can grab, and gambles and boozes enthusiastically.

In the series, is the co-protagonist and antihero.

Spike was described as an " antihero in the true sense of the word, Spike is morally ambiguous and ready to fight pretty much anyone, for fun.

Always a picaresque character, he is a sort of antihero who solves his problems using his wit, not his talent or work.

In fiction, an antihero ( sometimes antiheroine as the feminine ) is generally considered to be a protagonist whose personality can be perceived as being villainous and heroic together, in contrast to the more perpetually noble characteristics of an archetypal hero or the perpetually immoral characteristics of an archetypal villain.

There is no definitive moment when the antihero came into existence as a literary trope.

Ostap Bender (; also Ostap-Suleyman-Berta-Maria-Bender-Bey, Bender-Zadunaysky, Ostap Ibragimovich ) is a fictional con man and antihero who first appeared in the novel The Twelve Chairs written by Soviet authors Ilya Ilf and Yevgeni Petrov and released in January 1928.

The Punisher is a fictional character, an antihero that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics.

Kyle's antihero is 35-year-old Hauptsturmführer Franz Rasch, a much decorated Waffen SS commando.

Stephen Dedalus is James Joyce's literary alter ego, appearing as the protagonist and antihero of his first, semi-autobiographical novel of artistic existence A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and an important character in Joyce's Ulysses.

Rorschach ( born Walter Joseph Kovacs ) is a fictional character and an antihero of the acclaimed 1986 DC Comics miniseries Watchmen.

Roland Deschain of Gilead is a fictional character, the protagonist and antihero of Stephen King's The Dark Tower series.

Patrick Bateman is a fictional character, the antihero and narrator of the novel American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, and its film adaptation.

" Jarry's metaphor for the modern man, he is an antihero — fat, ugly, vulgar, gluttonous, grandiose, dishonest, stupid, jejune, voracious, cruel, cowardly and evil — who grew out of schoolboy legends about the imaginary life of a hated teacher who had been at one point a slave on a Turkish Galley, at another frozen in ice in Norway and at one more the King of Poland.

The Byronic hero is also featured in many contemporary novels, and it is clear that Byron's work continues to influence modern literature as the precursor of a commonly-encountered type of antihero.

The antihero star of Look Back in Anger ( 1956 ) by playwright John Osborne is a coster who sells candies from his cart.

Rat ( debut: December 30, 2001 ) is a narcissistic, misanthropic rat, and is an antihero.

Jonah Hex is a fictional character, a Western comic book antihero who appears in comic books published by DC Comics.

Post-modern fictional works have fomented the increased popularity of the antihero, who does not follow common conceptions of heroism.

* Marvel Comics mentioned the Hungerford massacre as background for their fictional mutant antihero Pete Wisdom, stating that his mother was one of the victims.

* Ostap Bender, a fictional antihero by Ilf and Petrov

* Fenwick Travers, a fictional character and antihero created by Raymond M. Saunders

Each game in the series incorporates elements of action and puzzle-solving in its gameplay and all are set in the fictional setting of Nosgoth, united by the character of Kain, the series ' vampire antihero.

Manchester Black is a fictional character, and an antihero in the DC Comics universe.

Raoul Duke is the fictional character and antihero based on Hunter S. Thompson in his autobiographical novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Pinkie Brown is a fictional character, the main character and antihero in John Boulting's 1947 film noir Brighton Rock.

Gordon Gekko is a fictional character, the main antagonist of the 1987 film Wall Street and the antihero of its 2010 sequel Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, both directed by Oliver Stone.

Genis-Vell, also known as Legacy, Captain Marvel, and Photon, is a fictional superhero ( and sometime antihero ) in the Marvel Comics universe.

Random ( Marshall Evan Stone III ) is a fictional character and antihero created by writer Peter David for the Marvel Comics series X-Factor.

With A Generation ( 1955 ), the first-time director poured out his disillusionment over jingoism, using as his alter ego a young, James Dean-style antihero played by Zbigniew Cybulski, 22-year-old Roman Polanski also featured.

They began to gig regularly as a duo, performing to backing tracks played from a Teac 4 track tape-recorder christened " Winston " ( after the antihero of George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-four ).

Richard B. Riddick ( played by Vin Diesel ), more commonly known simply as Riddick, is the antihero protagonist with a deuteragonist like additude of four films in the Riddick series, namely Pitch Black, The Chronicles of Riddick, the animated movie The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury and the upcoming Riddick ; as well as the two video games The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay and The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena.

Some readers feel that the inclusion of Jenner as an antihero was heavily influenced by the film adaptation of the first book, The Secret of NIMH, in which Jenner played a much more central role than he did in the book.

His breakout role would be in the 1965 film Abashiri Prison, and its sequel Abashiri Bangaichi: Bokyohen ( Abashiri Prison: Longing for Home, also 1965 ), in which he played an ex-con antihero.

Some of the antihero roles he played were an unscrupulous politician, corrupt policeman, traitor, and mingy landlord.