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Hero of their own stories in popular media
Quantus:
does it count if the hero was so poorly done that I ended up cheering for the villain? I know a few of those... :P
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
Does the Count of Monte Cristo and descendant antiheroes such as V for Vendetta count ?
A lot of what makes Monte Cristo endure as an archetype, IMO, is that Dumas got a very compelling balance of sympathy there between "this person has been wronged and wishes to avenge said wrongs" and "this person is actually unhinged"; too many subsequent antiheroes fail in the direction of "this person is sympathetic and therefore when they do something awful it's excusable by the extreme circumstances" rather than succeeding at "this person has done something awful so maybe we are not meant to be entirely comfortable finding them sympathetic."
novium:
a whole list of 'em here:
dreaded tvtropes link
Quantus:
I wasnt even thinking anime, but two very good examples are DeathNote and Code Geass. Both are stories told from the villain's POV, and both calculatingly and methodically bring the world to its knees, as a shadowy God of Death that can kill anyone any time, and one as an Evil Overlord building his Legions of Doom and ultimately his Sky-Fortress of World Domination.
LizW65:
--- Quote from: novium on August 04, 2009, 08:26:03 PM ---a whole list of 'em here:
dreaded tvtropes link
--- End quote ---
And thank you SO much for posting a link to a site that I got lost in for hours, to the point of forgetting to cook dinner. ;D
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