Kevin's Watch

Mine would have to be Seth Gecko, the best role George Clooney ever played. I hated him on ER because I couldnt embrace him as anything other than the stupid part he had on The Facts of Life. That is until I saw From Dusk Till Dawn. Just add some Tarantino, shake well, and serve cold. Clooney's portrayal of Seth Gecko made you say Ok so thats a Bad Ass. Since then Ive measured all movie bad asses against him, and in my opinion they have all fallen short."This is Mr. .44, he's got six little friends, and they can all run faster than you!"

That was a pretty cool character, that's for sure.

For me, it's a tough choice. There are so many good ones.

Some, off the top of my head, that would make my Top Ten list would be:

Travis Bickle, from Taxi Driver.
The Comte de Valmont, from Dangerous Liaisons.
The Man With No Name, from the dollars trilogy.
Kikuchiyo, from Seven Samurai.
Macbeth, from Roman Polanski's Macbeth.

Snake Plissken

Tyler Durden

Conan.

Might rate as a villian, instead, but Vincent D' Onofrio's Pooh Bear in The Salton Sea is just so easygoing and lovable

Richard B. Riddick



The Pitch Black version of him, at least. Starts off as a self-interested, ruthless opportunist and ends up as...a self-interested, ruthless opportunist. One of my favourite aspects of Pitch Black was the refusal to make Riddick a hero.

It's a shame they cocked all that up in the sequel...

Yes Riddick is much more the anti-hero than Pooh Bear-PB can get down <vent> nasty!

Cail wrote:Snake Plissken

What he said (Heh). Or Montressor's list. Or Mad Max (in the first two, anyway).

Oooh! Does Iago from Othello count?

Plissken wrote: Oooh! Does Iago from Othello count?

I s'pose, if I got away with Macbeth, surely Iago is a legit pick.

How about the man with no name from the Leone movies?



Or Bronson, who was basically the same character in OUATITW

The Man-with-no-name is tops. Snake, too, but not sure he actually qualifies. Too much of a villian. How is Conan an anti-hero? I guess if Spiderman and Batman are considered anti-heroes by some, and I can see shades of grey in each, then I suppose Conan can be considered an anti-hero, but just barely, and then he would be near the top, too.

How about Charles Bronson's Death Wish character? Are vigilantes who go to extreme measures, but for reasons we understand and want, considered anti-heroes?

Snake did save the President.....

How about Neil McCauley, Robert De Niro's character from Heat?

Mad Max, beyond Mount Thunderdome.

danlo wrote:Yes Riddick is much more the anti-hero than Pooh Bear-PB can get down <vent> nasty!

Oh come on, he's called Pooh Bear

Have you ever seen The Salton Sea?

Depending on the movie The Man With No Name ranges from being completely mercenary to downright goody goody. In Fistful he's more of a straight hero, in For a Few Dollars More he's a straight mercenary. In Once Upon a Time in the West, Bronson plays a character who does a lot of good, and kills an extremely evil man for revenge. Sounds like a perfect example of an Anti-Hero to me. (Besides, can you really say the Man with No Name doesn't qualify with Jules from Pulp Fiction and Riddick on this list

The Dreaming wrote:Besides, can you really say the Man with No Name doesn't qualify with Jules from Pulp Fiction and Riddick on this list

In what way is Riddick not an anti-hero? He's a serial killer, who keeps a couple of people alive purely because he has no other way to escape.

Incidentally, the whole 'Man With No Name' thing confuses me. He has a name. Someone says it.

Monco, Joe, and Blondie. arguably nicknames, tho.

In fiction, an anti-hero is a protagonist who is lacking the traditional heroic attributes and qualities, and instead possesses character traits that are antithetical to heroism.

A hero (from Greek ἥρως hērōs), in Greek mythology and folklore, was originally a demigod, the offspring of a mortal and a deity,[1] their cult being one of the most distinctive features of ancient Greek religion.

Later, hero (male) and heroine (female) came to refer to characters that, in the face of danger and adversity or from a position of weakness, display courage and the will for self-sacrifice, that is, heroism, for some greater good, originally of martial courage or excellence but extended to more general moral excellence.

Hans Solo. John Hartigan. Spawn.