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This is a list of anti-heroes. Central or supporting characters who do negative things but are (mostly) heroic in nature.

Drama

Adam in The Shape of Things by Neil LaBute
Archie Rice in The Entertainer by John Osborne
Donald in The Philanthropist by Christopher Hampton
Felix Humble in Humble Boy by Charlotte Jones
Guy in My Night with Reg by Kevin Elyot
Jack Gurney in The Ruling Class by Peter Barnes
Laurence in Abigail's Party by Mike Leigh
Michael Cartts in Japes by Simon Gray
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Stephanie Washburn in The Eclipse by Joyce Carol Oates
Tom and Amy Bates in Brimstone and Treacle by Dennis Potter
Vladimir and Estragon in Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Sweeney Todd in "Sweeney Todd" by Stephen Sondheim

Literature

Alan Sherwood in Altered States by Anita Brookner
Alex DeLarge in A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Alexander Portnoy in Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
Alice (as well as some other characters) in King Solomon's Carpet by Barbara Vine
Artemis Fowl II in the Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer
Anita Blake in the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series by Laurell K. Hamilton.
Arthur Abdel Simpson in The Light of Day (filmed as Topkapi) and Dirty Story by Eric Ambler
Asa Leventhal in The Victim by Saul Bellow
Barnaby Gaitlin in A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler
Barry Lyndon (aka Redmond Barry) in The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray (also in the film Barry Lyndon by Stanley Kubrick)
Bernard Marx in [[Brave New World]] by Aldous Huxley
Bartleby in [[Bartleby the Scrivener]] by Herman Melville
Billy Fisher in Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse
Carrietta White in Carrie by Stephen King
Case in William Gibson's Neuromancer
Cenodoxus in The Legend of the Damnation of the Good Doctor of Paris by Jacob Bidermann
Chance in Being There by Jerzy Kosinski
Charlie in The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Cheradenine Zakalwe in Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks
Conan the Cimmerian in stories by Robert E. Howard
Chris Chambers in Stand By Me by Stephen King
The Creature in Frankenstein
Des Esseintes in Against the Grain by Joris-Karl Huysmans
Dmitri Ravinoff or Raven in Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Don Birnam in The Lost Weekend by Charles Jackson
Don Juan in Don Juan by Lord Byron
Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter series (specifically Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince) (note: this is debated)
The Dragon King in Robert Stanek's In the Service of Dragons books
Elric of Melniboné in stories and novels by Michael Moorcock
Erik in the Phantom of the Opera
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser fictional characters created by Fritz Leiber
Felix Nasmyth in Budding Prospects by T.C. Boyle
Gerald Tarrant in The Coldfire Trilogy by C.S. Friedman
Glen Selvy in Running Dog by Don DeLillo
Grendel in Grendel by John Gardner
Gruban Malić in Hero on a Donkey by Miodrag Bulatović
Hamlet in Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Harry Keogh in the Necroscope series by Brian Lumley
Harry Paget Flashman in the Flashman books by George MacDonald Fraser
Heathcliff in 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Brontë
Heracles in The Twelve Labors in Greek Mythology
Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Humbert Humbert in Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.
Jacopo Belbo in Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Jarom Tyrranth in Robert Stanek's The Kingdoms and the Elves of the Reaches books
Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jim Dixon in Lucky Jim, by Kingsley Amis
Joe Christmas in Light in August, by William Faulkner
John Wheelwright in A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Leopold Bloom in "Ulysses" by James Joyce
Lestat in Interview with the Vampire and its sequels by Anne Rice (some of the other vampires are arguably anti-heroes, while others are pure villians)
Long John Silver in Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Luke Wakefield in Mr Wakefield's Crusade by Bernice Rubens
Marc Remillard in The Saga of Pliocene Exile by Julian May
Mark Crawley (as well as some other characters) in A Vicious Circle by Amanda Craig
Martin Brock in 12 Step Fandango by Chris Haslam
Meursault in L'Étranger or The Stranger by Albert Camus
Michael Corleone in The Godfather by Mario Puzo
Miles Derry in One of the Guys, novel by Robert Clark Young
Moist von Lipwig in Terry Pratchett's novel Going Postal
Oedipus in Oedipus Rex
The narrator/Tyler Durden in Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Peter Jernigan in Jernigan by David Gates
Pinkie Brown in Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
Raistlin Majere in most of the core Dragonlance novels by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
Raoul Duke in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Renton in Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
Rincewind from Terry Prachett's Discworld books
Roland Deschain in The Dark Tower series, by Stephen King
Roy Hobbs in The Natural by Bernard Malamud
Samuel Vimes in Terry Pratchett's Discworld books
Sathar in Robert Stanek's The Kingdoms and the Elves of the Reaches books
The Shrike, from the Hyperion series by Dan Simmons
Shylock in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice
Smith in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe
Soames Forsyte in the Forsyte novels by John Galsworthy
Spud in Trainspotting and Porno by Irvine Welsh
Steerpike in the Gormenghast novels by Mervyn Peake
Stevens in The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Sydney Carton in A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Takeshi Kovacs in Altered Carbon and sequels by Richard Morgan
Thomas Covenant in The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever by Stephen R. Donaldson
Tom Ripley in the "Ripliad" series by Patricia Highsmith.
Túrin Turambar in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth universe
Underground man, unnamed narrator in Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Victor Mancini in Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
Virgil Adams in Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington
Wei XiaoBao in The Deer and the Cauldron by Jin Yong
Winston Smith in Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Yossarian (John) in Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Zaphod Beeblebrox from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Edmund Pevensie from The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S.Lewis

Poetry

Achilles in The Iliad by Homer
Gerontion in Gerontion by T.S. Eliot
Henry in The Dream Songs by John Berryman
Satan in Paradise Lost by John Milton
Turin Turambar in Lays of Beleriand by J.R.R. Tolkien
Warren Harding in Two Poems About President Harding by James Wright

Film

Æon Flux in Æon Flux
Alfred J. Kwak
Alonzo Harris in Training Day
Anakin Skywalker in the Star Wars series, particularly Episode II and Episode III (though he is considered a full villain when he enters the persona of Darth Vader)
Ash Williams in Evil Dead, Evil Dead II and Army of Darkness
Battra in Godzilla vs Mothra
Beavis and Butt-Head in Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
Benjamin O'Ryan in Suspect Zero
The Bride in Kill Bill
Butch Coolidge, Vincent Vega and Jules Winfield in Pulp Fiction
Captain Benjamin L. Willard in Apocalypse Now
Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean
Chip in The Cable Guy
Chris Taylor in Platoon
The Crow in The Crow
Dante Hicks and Randal Graves in Clerks.
Dominic Toretto in The Fast and the Furious
Dr. Peyton Westlake in Darkman
The Dude in The Big Lebowski
Ellie and Jimmy Hudson in Cursed
Eric Draven in The Crow
Godzilla in Godzilla series
Han Solo in Star Wars
Hando in Romper Stomper
Hannibal Lector in Silence of the Lambs
Harold and Kumar in Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle
Harry Callahan from the Dirty Harry films
Harry Lime in The Third Man
Hawkeye Pierce in M*A*S*H
Jack Skellington in Tim Burton'sThe Nightmare Before Christmas
Jay and Silent Bob in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Jimmy Smith Jr. (Rabbit) in 8 Mile
Jimmy the Saint in Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
John Constantine in Constantine
Johnny in Naked
Josey Wales in The Outlaw Josey Wales
Karl Childers in Sling Blade
Leon in The Professional
Lester Burnham in American Beauty
The MacManus Brothers in The Boondock Saints
Martin Blank in Grosse Pointe Blank
Max Rockatansky in Mad Max
Michael Corleone in The Godfather trilogy
Monty Brogan in 25th Hour
Napoleon Dynamite in Napoleon Dynamite
Napoleon Wilson in Assault on Precinct 13
Nikita in Nikita
Norman Bates from Psycho series
Peyton Westlake in Darkman
Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Rex in Babe (film)
Richard Chance in To Live and Die in L.A.
Rick Blaine in Casablanca
Riddick in The Chronicles of Riddick and Pitch Black
Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon
Saya in Blood: The Last Vampire
Shirotsugh Ledatt in Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise
Shrek and Donkey in Shrek
Snake Plissken in Escape From New York, Escape From L.A.
Sgt. Todd 3465 in Soldier
Tommy Callahan in Tommy Boy
Tony Montana in Scarface
The Man With No Name in Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy
The Trader in Waterworld
Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver by Martin Scorsese
Tyler Durden in Fight Club
Verbal Kint in The Usual Suspects
Walker in Point Blank (or as it was remade: Porter in Payback)
Wanda Gershwitz in A Fish Called Wanda
Willy Wonka in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
The Warriors in The Warriors
Xander Cage in XXX
Zach Mayo in An Officer And A Gentleman

Comic Strips

Belkar Bitterleaf - Order of the Stick
Black Mage - 8-bit Theatre
Bun-Bun - Sluggy Freelance
Dogbert - Dilbert
Garfield - Garfield comics
Gaston Lagaffe
Nearly the entire cast of Something Positive
Rat - Pearls Before Swine
Seto Kiba -"Yu-Gi-Oh"

Television/Webcomic

Al Bundy in Married with Children
Alan Shore and Denny Crane in Boston Legal
Al Swearengen in Deadwood
Amuro Ray and to a different extent Char Aznable in the anime Mobile Suit Gundam
Angel from Angel and Buffy the Vampire Slayer (as well as most of the characters from the Buffyverse of which include Buffy, Willow Rosenberg, Anya Emerson/Anya Jenkins/Anyanka/Aud, Spike/William the Bloody, Faith Lehane, Rupert Giles, Andrew Wells, Illyria, Cordelia Chase, Lorne and many, many others).
Archie Bunker in All in the Family
Bart Simpson in The Simpsons
Beka Valentine in Andromeda
Bender Bending Rodriguez from Futurama
Benjamin Sisko from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Bernard Black in Black Books
Sgt. Bilko in The Phil Silvers Show
Blooregard Q. Kazoo in Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
Brian Kinney in Queer As Folk
Cassandra in Sabrina's Secret Life
Certain district attorneys in the Law & Order franchise, particularly Jack McCoy and Abbie Carmichael.
Christian Troy in Nip/Tuck
Cole Turner aka Belthazor from Charmed
Daffy Duck in Looney Tunes
Dastardly and Muttley
Dave Lister in Red Dwarf
David Brent, Tim Canterbury, and Gareth Keenan in The Office
Dee Dee in Dexter's Laboratory
Detective Harvey Bullock in Batman: The Animated Series
Diana in the PAX made for TV movie Mermaids
The Doctor from Doctor Who (most notably as portrayed by actors; William Hartnell, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy and Christopher Eccleston but many consider the Doctor to be an antihero in general).
Dr. Eddie "Fitz" Fitzgerald in Cracker
Edmund Blackadder in Blackadder
Elim Garak in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Eric Cartman in South Park
Flippy in Happy Tree Friends
Garfield in Garfield and Friends
Gary Oak from the Pokemon anime
Gendo Ikari and to a different extent Shinji Ikari in Neon Genesis Evangelion
Dr. Gregory House in House
Hawkeye Pierce in M*A*S*H
Heero Yuy in Gundam Wing
I. R. Baboon in I Am Weasel
InuYasha from InuYasha
Jack Bauer on 24
Jack Spicer in Xiaolin Showdown
James Ford, better known as "Sawyer", in Lost
Jinxfrom Teen Titans after "Lightspeed"
Joel Dawson in Bonus Stage
Kerr Avon and, to varying degrees, several of the other characters in Blakes Seven
Lina Inverse in the Slayers series
Luke Spencer in General Hospital
Malcolm Reynolds in Firefly
Merrick Baliton/Lunar Wolf Ranger in Power Rangers: Wild Force.
Michael Garibaldi in the sci-fi series Babylon 5
Miroku (InuYasha) from the anime series InuYasha
Mojo Jojo in a few episodes of The Powerpuff Girls
Mugen from Samurai Champloo

Prince Zuko From Avatar: The Last Airbender
Quantum Ranger in Power Rangers Time Force
Raven in the Zoids: Chaotic Century and Zoids: Guardian Force anime
Raven from Teen Titans
Nearly the entire cast of Red vs Blue
Rex Balsom in One Life to Live
Rick Hunter in the animated show Robotech
Ricky, Julian and Bubbles in Trailer Park Boys
Rokusho in Medabots
Rose/Thorn the Huntsgirl in American Dragon: Jake Long
Roy Rooster of the U.S. Acres cartoons on Garfield and Friends
Ryan O'Reilly in the HBO television series, Oz
Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune in Sailor Moon, particularly Sailor Moon S
Saito Hajime from Rurouni Kenshin
Sasuke Uchiha in the early story arcs of Naruto (he later becomes a flat-out villain).
Scar from Fullmetal Alchemist- in the beginning of the series, he is depicted as a villain and slowly becomes an ally near episode 41.
Scooby-Doo and Shaggy from Scooby-Doo
Sesshomaru from the Inuyasha anime
Shinn Asuka in the Gundam SEED DESTINY anime
Slade from Teen Titans the End trilogy
Spenser and Hawk in Spenser: For Hire
Spike Spiegel in the Cowboy Bebop anime
Stephen "Patch" Johnson on Days of Our Lives
Stewie Griffin in Family Guy
Strong Bad from Homestar Runner
Terra in Teen Titans
Terrence & Philip in South Park
Tony Soprano in The Sopranos
Urd in the Ah! My Goddess TV series
Valerie Gray in Danny Phantom
Vic Mackey in The Shield
Victor Meldrew in One Foot in the Grave
Xena from Xena Warrior Princess
Yamato Ishida, Ken Ichijouji, BlackWarGreymon, Ruki Makino, Impmon, Kouji Minamoto and Kouichi Kimura in Digimon
Zev (later Xev) Bellringer in Lexx
Zim of Invader Zim

Computer and video games

Mr. 47 (Tobias Rieper) in the Hitman series
Blanka, Cammy and Zangief in Street Fighter
Alice in American McGee's Alice
Anton Slavik in Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun
Black Bomber in Bomberman
Arthas in Warcraft 3
Kratos Aurion in Tales of Symphonia
Bass in the Mega Man series
Caleb in Blood
Captain Qwark of Ratchet & Clank (Specifically in Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal)
Canderous Ordo and Jolee Bindo in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Carl "CJ" Johnson in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Claude Speed/Claude in Grand Theft Auto 2 and Grand Theft Auto III
Dante and his father Sparda both of the Devil May Cry series
Nearly the entire cast of Darkstalkers
The player character in Doom
Dr. Eggman from the Sonic series (Recent games have put Eggman as being neutral. he wants to conquer the world, but he values life and will protect the planet if it is threatened. Also, the Eggman in Sonic Heroes is actually Metal Sonic in disguse, so that doesn't count.)
Duke Nukem from the Duke Nukem series of games.
The protagonists of Fear Effect series
Garrett in the Thief series
Grey Fox and Big Boss in the Metal Gear series
Guybrush Threepwood from the Monkey Island series by LucasArts
The Hacker (also known as Employee 2-4601) in System Shock
Heihachi Mishima from the Tekken series
Illidan Stormrage in Warcraft 3
Iori Yagami from the King of Fighters series
James Earl Cash in Manhunt
Kain in the Legacy of Kain series
Karst, Agatio, and Alex in Golden Sun: The Lost Age
Kerrigan and Zeratul in Starcraft
Knuckles the Echidna in the Sonic the Hedgehog series (early Genesis games; in newer games such as Sonic Heroes and Shadow the Hedgehog, Knuckles can be more accurately described as a hero.)
Kyle Katarn in the Star Wars Dark Forces series
Kreia in Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
Kratos in God of War
Laharl from Disgaea: Hour of Darkness
Lyle in Phantasy Star 3
Magus in Chrono Trigger
Malcolm, the villain turned player-character in the Legend of Kyrandia series
The Marine Combat Engineer from Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil
Marta Louise Velasquez, the main character of Traffic Department 2192
Max Payne and Mona Sax in the Max Payne series
Meta-Knight in the Kirby series
The Prince Predator in Aliens versus Predator 2
Raziel in the Legacy of Kain series
Riku in the Kingdom Hearts series
Your Rival from the Pokémon Games
Rune in Phantasy Star 4
Ryu Hayabusa in Ninja Gaiden
Sam Fisher from the Splinter Cell series
Samurai Goroh from the F-Zero series
Scorpion in the Mortal Kombat series
Seifer Almasy from Final Fantasy VIII
Shadow the Hedgehog in the Sonic the Hedgehog series
Sol Badguy in the Guilty Gear series
Solid Snake\Big Boss in Metal Gear Solid series
Squall Leonhart from Final Fantasy VIII
Tanner in the Driver series
The player character in Unreal
The unnamed player character in System Shock 2, affectionately called Goggles in some fan communities. Also known as The Soldier.
Tommy Vercetti in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Toni Cipriani in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
Vladimir in Max Payne (not Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne)
Wario in the Wario Land series
Wes from Pokémon Colosseum
Wolf O'Donnell from the Starfox series
Yuri Hyuga from the Shadow Hearts series