History Quotes / AntiHero

-->-- ''Film/CasinoRoyale''

-->-- ''Film /CasinoRoyale(2006)''

-->-- ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy''

->''♫ "Stay in the lines, don't make a scene"\\

So I can save you when the time comes! ♫''

->''""You may not like the way I do things, but I get things done!"''

->''"What? No, I wasn’t! I didn’t wear a cape! I didn’t have a gigantic gun! Or a gigantic sword! And I didn’t treat all my fellow humans like shit because of past trauma, a lack of trust, and general douchebaggery. But it’s justified because they were better than everyone else. And were inserting their awesomeness over everyone."''
-->--'''WebOriginal/{{Ultimate}}''' Ultimate being ''very wrong'' [[https://theultimatewriting.com/ultimate-3/ Identity 1.3:]]

-->--'''WebOriginal/{{Ultimate}}''' [[https://theultimatewriting.com/ultimate-3/ Identity 1.3:]]

-->--'''WebOriginal/{{Ultimate}}''' [[theultimatewriting.com Identity 1.3: I'm no classical Anti-Hero, you douche]]

-->-- '''[[spoiler:Phyllis to Batman in the Phantom Zone]]''',''WesternAnimation/TheLegoBatmanMovie''

->''"Men have this idea that [[LetsFightLikeGentlemen they can fight with dignity]], that there is a proper way to kill someone... it's absurd. We need that idea, to endure the bloody horror of murder. You must destroy this idea. Show them what a messy, terrible thing it is to kill a man, and show them that [[BloodKnight you relish in it]]. Shoot to wound, then execute the wounded, burn them, take them in close combat. Destroy any preconceptions as to what a man is and you become their personal monster... when they fear you, you become stronger, you become better."''
-->-- '''The Jackal''', ''VideoGame/FarCry2''

->''"Good men mean well. We just don't always end up doing well."''
-->-- '''Isaac Clarke''', ''VideoGame/DeadSpace3''

-->-- ''Morcheeba'', "Blood Like Lemonade"

->It wasn't the noblest path, but Brad wasn't the noblest person. He was an ambitious guy who [[GroundhogDayPeggySue could predict the future]].

->'''VRISKA''': So I'm going to keep fighting for people the only way I ever knew how.
->'''VRISKA''': 8y 8eing me.

->''"There has always been something of the bizarre about the {{Series/Torchwood}} team but until now it has just been the most collection of [[DysfunctionJunction flawed and sexually corrupt human beings ever to have been assembled]] in one environment. To have the man who cannot die heading the organization and the man who died and lives on as their Chief Medical Officer seems to fit somehow. A true bunch of grotesques."''

->"Over the aeons, your proclamations of 'peace' always seemed pointless. You must admit [[BloodKnight you love the smell of battle]]."

->''"[[ThinkNothingOfIt Glorification is only fitting for those in the light.]] [[IDidWhatIHadToDo Shadows shall proceed down the necessary path.]]"''

-> '''Kid:''' What do we do, Isaac? They want to be saved.\\

->"Over the aeons, your proclamations of 'peace' always seemed pointless. You must admit [[BloodKnight you love the smell of battle.]]"
-->--'''Unicron''' to '''Optimus Prime''', Anime/TransformersArmada.

-->-- '''Comicbook/ThePunisher'''

->''"[[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids Back off, Pollyanna!]] I don't have time for fairy tales. Maybe I'm not your idea of a hero... but there's no Santa Claus, either."''

-->-- '''[[spoiler: Phyllis to Batman in the Phantom Zone]]''',''WesternAnimation/TheLegoBatmanMovie''

'''Film/JamesBond''': Employment.

-->--'''Seth Gecko''', ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn''

->'''James Gordon:''' Why is he running, Dad?\\
'''Commissioner Jim Gordon:''' Because we have to chase him.\\
'''James Gordon:''' He didn't do anything wrong.\\
'''Commissioner Gordon:''' Because he's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now.

->'''[[ComicBook/StarLord Peter Quill]]''': What should we do next: Something good, something bad? Bit of both?\\
'''ComicBook/{{Gamora}}''': We'll follow your lead, Star-Lord.\\

-->--''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy''

-->--''Film/VanHelsing''

->'''[[TheHero Arthur]]:''' [[WouldHurtAChild Killing little girls]], possessed or no, hardly strikes me as your average good-guy behavior.
->'''[[TokenEvilTeammate Kayla]]:''' Who the feck said anything about being good guys? Good guys are comic books and popcorn movies. They're feckin' fake. We don't do the right thing, Arthur. We do the necessary thing. [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids How the feck have you not figured that out yet]]?
-->--'Anti-Hero'', by Jonathan Wood

->'''Elena Gilbert:''' Why won't you let anyone see the good in you?\\
'''Damon Salvatore:''' 'Cause when people see good, they ''expect'' good. And I don't wanna live up to anyone's expectations.

->'''Hart:''' Do you ever wonder if you're a bad man?\\
'''Cohle:''' No, I don't wonder, Marty. World needs bad men. We keep the other bad men from the door.

-->-- {{Music/Crush 40}}, [[VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog "I Am All of Me"]]

->''"You both have [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids childlike ideals]]. Believing in simplicity and shouldering the role of a criminal for the sake of that ideal. Turning yourselves into the greatest evil to eliminate all the small evils in this world. You and Kiritsugu act like the saviors we call '[[AntiHero anti-heroes]]'."''

->''"Men have this idea that [[LetsFightLikeGentlemen they can fight with dignity]], that there is a proper way to kill someone...it's absurd. We need that idea, to endure the bloody horror of murder. You must destroy this idea. Show them what a messy, terrible thing it is to kill a man, and show them that [[BloodKnight you relish in it]]. Shoot to wound, then execute the wounded, burn them, take them in close combat. Destroy any preconceptions as to what a man is and you become their personal monster...when they fear you, you become stronger, you become better."''

->'''VRISKA:''' I only ever wanted to do the right thing no matter how it made people judge me, and I don't need a magic ring to do that....
->'''VRISKA:''' And you don't have to 8e a good person to 8e a hero.
->'''VRISKA:''' You just have to know who you are and stay true to that.
->'''VRISKA:''' So I'm going to keep fighting for people the only way I ever knew how.
->'''VRISKA:''' 8y 8eing me.

->'''Gear:''' ...Shooting people in the back isn't very ''heroic'', you know.\\
'''Benzene:''' Steffi's the one who believes in things like heroics. Which is why I need to protect her from people like ''you''.

-->-- '''Ninja07Keaton''', ''Youtube''

->'''[[VideoGame/{{Deltarune}} Ralsei]]:''' Welcome, heroes...!\\
'''[[WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged Vegeta]]:''' Okay, we'll use that word loosely.

->''"Yes, I do; though a very flawed hero. An anti-hero, perhaps. He is not a particularly likeable man in many ways. He remains rather cruel, a bully, riddled with bitterness and insecurity — and yet he loved, and showed loyalty to that love and, ultimately, laid down his life because of it. That’s pretty heroic!"''

->''"The anti-heroes are central to these television shows, and people are really getting behind them, even though they're not necessarily the most moral characters. So I'd say that I've become more familiar with the character who's obviously very flawed but gets you on their side — you have complicated feelings about them. But I think I saw the story too much from this character's perspective to perceive any flaws."''