History PlayingWith / Antihero

** DesignatedHero

** Alternatively: [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Alice is arrested for killing a criminal because, as it turns out, murder is murder.]] At best, [[HatedByAll she becomes alienated and reviled from society]].

** Alternatively: [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Alice is arrested for killing a criminal because, as it turns out, murder is murder.]] At best, [[HeroWithBadPublicity she becomes alienated and ostracized from society]].

** Alternatively: [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Alice is arrested for killing a criminal because, as it turns out, murder is murder.]] At best, [[HeroWithBadPublicity she becomes alienated and ostracized.]]

** Alternatively: [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Alice is arrested for killing a criminal because, as it turns out, murder is murder.]] At best, [[HeroWithBadPublicity she becomes alienated and ostracized from society from her insatiable bloodshed.]]

** Alternatively: [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Alice is arrested for killing a criminal because, as it turns out, murder is murder.]]

* '''Averted''': All the heroes in the story actually act conventionally heroic.

** [[SociopathicHero Alice]] is so evil, [[EvenEvilHasStandards even the villains find her disgusting.]]

** VillainousProtagonist

Back to AntiHero.

* '''Subverted''': Alice appears to be killing crooks left and right, but it turns out she [[BrainwashedAndCrazy didn't have control]] of her actions at the time; when she's back to normal, she's TheCape, through and through.

** Alternatively: Alice is arrested for killing a criminal because, as it turns out, murder is murder.

* '''Double Subverted''': Alice is revealed to have been BrainwashedAndCrazy, but underneath that...she's just as brutal.

** All [[VillainProtagonist Alice]] does is just murder millions of people for [[DisproportionateRetribution petty]] [[FelonyMisdemeanor reasons,]] cross the {{moral event horizon}}, Dress up in [[EvilWearsBlack black]] [[SpikesOfVillainy spiky]] [[TinTyrant armor]] only [[EvilOverlord evil overlords]] would wear, [[CardCarryingVillain proudly declare she’s evil,]] and yet [[UnreliableNarrator the story]] ''[[InformedKindness still]]'' [[DesignatedHero treats her like the hero.]] In other words, she is no hero.

** All [[VillainProtagonist Alice]] does is just murder millions of people for [[DisproportionateRetribution petty]] [[FelonyMisdemeanor reasons,]] cross the {{moral event horizon}} thousands of times, Dress up in [[EvilWearsBlack black]] [[SpikesOfVillainy spiky]] [[TinTyrant armor]] only [[EvilOverlord evil overlords]] would wear, [[CardCarryingVillain proudly declare she’s evil,]] [[ThatManIsDead Change her name to “Lord Alice Atrocity”,]] and yet [[UnreliableNarrator the story]] ''[[InformedKindness still]]'' [[DesignatedHero treats her like the hero.]] In other words, she is no hero.

** All [[VillainProtagonist Alice]] does is just murder people for [[DisproportionateRetribution petty]] [[FelonyMisdemeanor reasons,]] Dress up in [[EvilWearsBlack black]] [[SpikesOfVillainy spiky]] [[TinTyrant armor]] only [[EvilOverlord evil overlords]] would wear, [[CardCarryingVillain proudly declare she’s evil,]] [[ThatManIsDead Change her name to “Lord Alice Atrocity”,]] and yet [[UnreliableNarrator the story]] ''[[InformedKindness still]]'' [[DesignatedHero treats her like the hero.]] In other words, she is no hero.

** All [[VillainProtagonist Alice]] does is just murder people for [[DisproportionateRetribution petty]] [[FelonyMisdemeanor reasons,]] Dress up in [[EvilWearsBlack black]] [[SpikesOfVillainy spiky]] armor only [[EvilOverlord evil overlords]] would wear, [[CardCarryingVillain proudly declare she’s evil,]] [[ThatManIsDead Change her name to “Lord Alice Atrocity”,]] and yet [[UnreliableNarrator the story]] ''[[InformedKindness still]]'' [[DesignatedHero treats her like the hero.]] In other words, she is no hero.

** All Alice does is just murder people for [[DisproportionateRetribution petty]] [[FelonyMisdemeanor reasons,]] Dress up in [[EvilWearsBlack black]] [[SpikesOfVillainy spiky]] armor only [[EvilOverlord evil overlords]] would wear, [[CardCarryingVillain proudly declare she’s evil,]] [[ThatManIsDead Change her name to “Lord Alice Atrocity”,]] and yet [[UnreliableNarrator the story]] ''[[InformedKindness still]]'' [[DesignatedHero treats her like the hero.]] In other words, she is no hero.

** All Alice does is just murder people for [[DisproportionateRetribution petty]] [[FelonyMisdemeanor reasons,]] and yet [[UnreliableNarrator the story]] ''[[InformedKindness still]]'' [[DesignatedHero treats her like the hero.]] In other words, she is no hero.

** All Alice does is just murder people for [[DisproportionateRetribution petty]] [[FelonyMisdemeanor reasons,]] and yet the story ''[[InformedKindness still]]'' [[DesignatedHero treats her like the hero.]] In other words, she is no hero.

** All Alice does is just murder people for [[DisproportionateRetribution petty]] [[FelonyMisdemeanor reasons,]] and yet the story ''still'' [[DesignatedHero treats her like the hero.]] In other words, she is no hero.

** Alice is a lazy, hedonistic freeloader, but when the push comes to shove, she's a hero who stops bank robbers, {{evil overlords}} [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and]] [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil people who steal content from the internet.]]

** Alice tries to bring about her own brand of harsh justice, but she lives in a SugarBowl society where there's hardly ever even any conflict -- Alice spends most of her time {{angst}}ing that there's nothing to {{Angst}} about.
** Alice is a lazy, hedonistic freeloader, but when the push comes to shove, she's a hero who stops bank robbers, evil overlords [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and]] [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil people who steal content from the internet.]]

** Alice is a [[MrViceGuy Ms Vice Girl]].

** Alice is rapidly becoming [[NotSoDifferent just as brutal as]], [[HeWhoFightsMonsters if not WORSE than]], [[EvilVersusEvil her villains]], and when she's killed all of the real threats to society, she's still a dangerously unstable and violent individual.

'''Basic Trope''': A heroic character that is flawed and/or morally ambiguous.