plural antiheroes
: a protagonist or notable figure who is conspicuously lacking in heroic qualities
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Theresa is easy not to notice in everyday life, and Keaton tapped into that ordinariness, along with the wanderlust that gripped so many discontented antiheroes of the 1970s.
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Tim Grierson, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2025
In his nitpicking and narcissism, the relatability of his grievances and his unhinged methods of redressing them, Ron also resembles a younger, Middle American version of Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm antihero.
—Judy Berman, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
Her composite antihero is a mother gone mad in a rural village in France.
—Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2025
Many of Herzog’s films capture that sense of a quixotic, even bizarre quest, an antihero searching for some kind of truth that may be obvious only to himself.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2025
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Tim Grierson, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2025
In his nitpicking and narcissism, the relatability of his grievances and his unhinged methods of redressing them, Ron also resembles a younger, Middle American version of Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm antihero.
—Judy Berman, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
Her composite antihero is a mother gone mad in a rural village in France.
—Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2025
Many of Herzog’s films capture that sense of a quixotic, even bizarre quest, an antihero searching for some kind of truth that may be obvious only to himself.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2025
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“Antihero.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/antihero. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.
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