Who do you consider an Anti-Hero in fiction?

[sckeener]

Inspired by What is a "Hero" in your campaign?,

who do you consider to be an Anti-Hero?

My list would be

Elric (all the eternal champions) by Michael Moorcock (see Stormbringer RPG)
Many of the characters in the Black Company Series by Glen Cook (see Green Ronin)
Ditto for the Thieves World series (see Green Ronion)
Riddick (Pitch Black and Chronicles)
Karr Avon from Blake's Seven
Corwin from Chronicles of Amber (see Amber the diceless RPG)
The Hunter, Gerald Tarrant, Neocount of Merentha, the former Prophet of Damien's Church from Black Sun Rising by C.S. Friedman
Gaius Baltar from BattleStar Galactica on SciFi Channel (admittedly I'll take this view on an episode by episode basis )
Edmund Blackadder
Valmont from Les Liaisons dangereuses (2, 3)
Kevin from Devil's Advocate
Scorpius from Farscape
Lestat from Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe and I recommend the PBS version
Dean Corso in Ninth Gate (what a dark achrivist...)
Elphaba from Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Salome in Salome's Last Dance

 

[Fishbone]

Spawn
Jules Winfield

 

[Xer0]

Hari Michaelson, from Matthew Woodring Stover's Heroes Die and Blade of Tyshalle.

 

[Richards]

Cugel the Clever from Jack Vance's books Eyes of the Overworld and Cugel's Saga.

Johnathan

 

[rvalle]

Thomas Covenant in "The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever"

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[MarkB]

Scorpius from Farscape

Bialar Crais from Farscape would qualify, but I don't think Scorpius ever quite makes it past "villain with some complexities". Though admittedly, that's close to the definition of "anti-hero".

For me:

Avon from Blake's Seven
Captain Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean
Ichijouji Ken from Digimon

 

[cutup]

Ay Matey! Here be some Antiheroes (mostly movies, shows and comic books):
Rorscharch from the Watchmen
Han Solo from that one space movie
Yojimbo from Yojimbo/Sanjuro (though this could easily be argued either way)
Hamlet
Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven
The Limey in The Limey (but that movies just a big bunch of moral ambiguity)
Al Swearengen from Deadwood(it could be argued he's just a villain with complexity, but in later seasons..)
Practically every character on Lost (though Sayid, Mr. Ekko, Sawyer, Anna Lucia, Michael, and John Locke particularly fit the bill)
Scarface
John Wayne in the Searchers
Casey Jones from TMNT

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Slippery Jim DiGriz
Harry Flashman
Doc Holliday in most movies

I disagree about the characters from Lost. Most of them are heroes overcoming trials in their past. They behave in a heroic manner now and do so for the right reasons. Sawyer is an antihero, though, and Locke ... well, it's probably too soon to tell what Locke is, but I'm betting he turns out to be a major villain before the final season.

 

[JEL]

Donquixote or Willy Loman. Most of the ones people mention above I'd classify as heroes.

 

[Michael Dean]

Harry Flashman from George McDonald Fraser's series is the ultimate anti-hero, imho.