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Anti-hero

An anti-hero is a protagonist who we watch take the inversion of the classic heroes journey. Hero's learn benevolence, anti-heros become increasingly egocentric. Hero's protect, anti-heros destroy. Hero's rescue victims, Antiheroes create victims and perceive themselves as one. Hero's are reliable narrators, anti-heros are not. As a hero grows into his cape, as it were, we find the anti-hero's ego outgrowing everything and everyone, eclipsing everything else.

A hero is a hero in actions, he doesn't need you to know it or tell him so. An anti-hero needs you to validate how hard they had it and how they moulded that into gold- They are walking contradictions, and the journey ends when their egos become so massive, they collapse in on themselves like a dying star. In a parallel universe, our hero takes that place in the sky.
Oy cunt, check out the lyrics of Taylor Swift's song ANTI-HERO

I have this thing where I get older but just never wiser
Midnights become my afternoons
When my depression works the graveyard shift
All of the people I've ghosted stand there in the room
I should not be left to my own devices
They come with prices & vices
I end up in crisis (tale as old as time)
I wake up screaming from dreaming
One day, I'll watch as you're leaving
'Cause you got tired of my scheming
(For the last time)
It's me, hi, I'm the problem it's me
At tea time everybody agrees
I'll stare directly at the sun but never in the mirror
It must be exhausting always rooting for the anti-hero
by ProCho1983 November 10, 2025
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1up-Hero

Some guy who bullies others in Minecraft.
His favorite saying is Get noobed, that stupid saying annoys everyone who hears it.
And thinks he is the most popular Minecraft player out there
1up-Hero says get noobed
Get eed kid
by Brrrruuuuhhhhh April 16, 2020
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Pvz Heroes

A fun card game based on a popular game PVZ (Plants vs Zombies)
Me: Pvz heroes is so fun
Monebt bruh: hell no that game sucks
Me: Say it one more time dummy
by @SoManyStamples February 11, 2024
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Hero's Mess

A term originally coined by SPC Groth while deployed in eastern Afghanistan. He used the term to describe a soldier who was covered in his own blood and tears. It then caught on to most of the camp in the following weeks. Songs were written about it, etc.
LT - Has anyone seen Wheeler?
Groth - Yea, he's up that staircase. He's bleeding out and crying; it's a real hero's mess up there.

(The name above, 'Wheeler' has been changed from the original name of the soldier)
by SSG winning August 26, 2013
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Anti-Hero

An Anti-Hero is a central main character working along the side of good but having characteristics that do not make them what usual heroes are like. They are the type to lie, cheat, and steal their way into things or even go against the law or even be seen as an outright villain. However, the villain is who the audience despises and detaches themselves from while the anti-hero is whom we cheer and root for. The Anti-Hero has an ambiguous morality between good and bad and depending on the story decide where there fate goes with the thought of a type of redemption as a hero or becoming corrupt as a villain.
Many Anti-Heroes are often the types the audience would resonate towards than the one dimensional goody two shoes heroes.
by Mr. Magistral Malik March 7, 2021
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You Need A Hero

There was a time in your life
When it was easier livin' all alone
Find yourself livin' on the edge
Of another reason why you can't go home

I got news for you
Nothing's lost if what we have is love
Just someone to catch you when you fall
Is the only thing you wanted at all

You need a hero, someone to rescue you
Yeah, someone that you can run to
You need a hero, someone to rescue you
Don't run away, I'm waitin' to love you
We're just a heartbeat apart
Closer than we've ever been before
I'll be there to catch you when you fall
It's the only thing you wanted at all

You need a hero, someone to rescue you
Just someone that you can run to
You need a hero, someone to rescue you
Don't run away, I'm waitin' to love you

I'll be there to catch you when you fall
It's the only thing you wanted at all

You need a hero, someone to rescue you
Yeah, someone that you can run to
You need a hero, someone to rescue you
Don't run away, don't run away

You need a hero, someone to rescue you
You need a hero, someone to rescue you
Don't run away, I'm here for you
You need a hero, someone to rescue you
You need a hero
by Death Menace August 11, 2023
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