Discussion Main / NinetiesAntiHero

Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Examples don't fit the description, started by nzm1536 on Aug 5th 2011 at 5:18:40 PM

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

"Superman and Batman got Anti-Hero Substitutes. For Superman, it was the Eradicator, one of the four replacement Supermen who appeared after he died. For Batman, it was Jean-Paul Valley, the man formerly (at the time), known as Azrael, who replaced him after Bane broke his back. Nightwing chewed Bruce out over it and Bruce himself admits it was one of his worse mistakes."

Wouldn't Artemis be a '90s Anti-Hero replacement for Wonder Woman?

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Other Potential examples that may fit this trope: Before I just add them onto the example page, I would like to get people's input as to whether the following can be classified as N.A.H.s.

Anime and Manga

• Jack from Violence Jack, even though it was created in 1973.

Comicbooks

• Lady Death
• Warrior Nun Areala: "Shotgun" Mary Delacroix

Film

• Riddick from Pitch Black and its sequels. He's a morally ambiguous person who desires to kill anyone who gets in his path and is only good in comparison to his enemies.
• The Terminator (specifically the one from Terminator 2 which is also cited on the analysis page as a possible influence).

Live Action TV

• Heroes: Sylar, the Big Bad of the first season, is this from Season 2 onwards.

Video Games

• Kratos: Has a thirst for power (specifically to kill the Olympian gods), is lethal and very brutal in his methods, and is very morally gray.
• K' from The King Of Fighters who is noted to have some traits under his own character entry.
• Scorpion and possibly other Mortal Kombat characters (the analysis page even suggests that Mortal Kombat was one of the influences of this archetype).

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The Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure example just seems... bizarre. Jojo is a bit of a Blood Knight, but he really doesn't fit other than that. He's a teenage kid who wears a school uniform named and is named Jojo. Which is a far cry from the Darker and Edgier implications of the trope.

He's more of the Japanese Delinquents archetype. While he does share a few aspects of the '90s Anti-Hero (Deadpan Snarker, willingness to kill, heavily muscled), those are pretty... common traits. The more distinctive traits of the '90s Anti-Hero he lacks.

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I'm going to hate myself for asking this, but is the page image a parody or was that a genuine title?

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I'm surprised not many people refard the Rambo films as an influence on the '90s Anti-Hero.

Or if they have, I may have missed it.

Is it really fair to have the caption "everything that was wrong with the 90s..." in the image?

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Removing this ridiculously conflicted entry:

• Square Enix played this trope pretty straight in The '90s with heroes Cloud Strife, Squall Lionheart and Amarant. Arguably, however, Kain, Shadow, and Magus are all milder versions.
  • Cloud and Squall don't quite fall into the category, though; neither seem to have the penchant for killing and bloodshed of the average Nineties Anti Hero, and have a strict code of honor. Granted, this may simply be a result of being Japanese as opposed to American-made, but it still counts.
    • Kain also doesn't count; he was just a Brainwashed and Crazy hero. Ultimately, none of these except possibly Amarant and Magus really fits the trope as Americans would see it.

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Any specific examples of Nineties Anti Heroines whose physiques' are "often taken to disfiguring extremes courtesy of the ineptitude of the trope's pioneering artists"? Because I have a hard time imagining one who already even more unrealistic than the more unrealistic "standard" Super Heroines.

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Is the Nineties Anti Hero still an example of Tropes are not bad?

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I don't think Witchblade belongs on the page. While she did kill villains, she was still, at the heart of her characterization, a cop. She still protected the innocent and solved crimes.

For that matter, Spawn had his share of redeeming qualities, most notably his devotion to and protection of his wife and child. And also that he took care not to get "innocent" homeless killed or involved in what he was doing.

I think we either need to tweak the description so that characters who are violent, kill bad guys, and are morally grey can fit, or else do a purge of examples that don't quite fit the description as being "completely made up of flaws."

Waiting on a TRS slot? Finishing off one of these cleaning efforts will usually open one up.