A Designated Hero is someone who the story presents as The Hero but does not act like The Hero. It is a dissonance between what the writer is trying to do and what the audience preceives. That's why it is on the YMMV page.
The Designated Hero could be a villain by their actions yet the writer, through narration and the reactions of other characters, insist that this character is unambigiously heroic.
From the trope's page, "This is not the same as the deliberately morally ambiguous Anti-Hero." Sora is clearly a deliberately morally ambigious Anti-Hero. Steph thinks he's a jerk, his people riot when they think he's gone too far, and he himself says that he sucks (by way of saying that humanity as a whole sucks).
A Designated Hero is someone who the story presents as The Hero but does not act like The Hero. It is a dissonance between what the writer is trying to do and what the audience preceives. That's why it is on the YMMV page.
The Designated Hero could be a villain by their actions yet the writer, through narration and the reactions of other characters, insist that this character is unambigiously heroic.
From the trope's page, "This is not the same as the deliberately morally ambiguous Anti-Hero." Sora is clearly a deliberately morally ambigious Anti-Hero. Steph thinks he's a jerk, his people riot when they think he's gone too far, and he himself says that he sucks (by way of saying that humanity as a whole sucks).