Recent Examples on the WebLuckily, Annapurna stepped in to see it through, leaning into the antiheroine’s nonconformist personality — the very thing that made ND Stevenson’s graphic novel so original.—Peter Debruge, Variety, 14 June 2023 In the first film of the franchise, Pattinson's Batman follows the trail of a deranged serial killer called the Riddler (Paul Dano) and uncovers corruption in Gotham, meeting the antiheroine Catwoman (Zoë Kravitz) along the way.—Charlotte Walsh, Peoplemag, 9 Mar. 2023 As the film progresses, our antiheroine reroutes her own life, willingly, for a month at a swank Alpine clinic where she’s treated for depression.—Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 21 Jan. 2022 At its best this is a horror comedy, and its antiheroine has learned all her tricks from previous movies.—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2023 Still, there’s a satisfaction in watching the young, helpless Diana turn into a myopic, friendless antiheroine whose efforts to be understood can only take the form of vengeance.—Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2022 But charmless and unprepossessing won’t cut it on TV: there, Sorokin becomes a brash antiheroine who looks like a beautiful TV star, because she’s played by Julia Garner, a beautiful TV star.—Molly Fischer, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022 Possibly sociopathic and certainly capable of slitting Achilles tendons while lurking under a bed — smiling all the while — Comer’s Villanelle was a sui generis TV antiheroine not given to sentimentality.—Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2022 Catwoman is a powerful female antiheroine that appears alongside other characters in the Gotham TV series.—Katarina Avendano, Good Housekeeping, 12 May 2022
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