Plan B Forum

I've always been one to enjoy a good Anti-Hero. I got to thinking of them all which one was the best. Who did wrong for the right reasons, right for the wrongs reasons or just plain wrong in a broadly identifiable manner?

I think that I've come up with the best but in hopes to get some conversation going before laying the grand-daddy (or grand-momma) of them all on ya I'm going to hold off for a while.

Who's your favorite?

You may have heard me mention him before...Bronson

Or a real life one? Lenny McLean

A musical one? John Martin

Literature? John Rebus Jack Frost and Endeavor Morse

That guy in V for Vendetta.

David Lister.

Scarlett O'Hara. She did right for the wrong reasons (taking care of Melanie and her baby as a means of staying close to Ashley), wrong for the right reasons (marrying without love to get enough money to pay taxes and keep a roof over the heads of her family), and just plain wrong (using convict labour and putting on a helpless female act to cheat the customers of her lumber mill).

Dr Tony Hill, 'Wire in the Blood'.



Procedures and protocols are sometimes put aside in order to get the right result.

Oh, that's in my Netflix queue. I'll probably start watching it right after I finish watching the available episodes of Waking the Dead. Speaking of which, DS Peter Boyd is a pretty good anti-hero.

I prefer the "Wire in the blood" books (written by Val McDerrmid,) to the TV show. But then again, I prefer the books in 99.99999% of cases. A good call for a topic I think!

Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader

Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) in Pulp Fiction
Winston 'The Wolf' Wolfe, is a close second.

Pancho Villa, as himself.

Spike, from Cowboy Bebop.

The seventh samurai.

Cerebus the Aardvark.

Wedge Donovan (John Wayne) in 'The Fighting Seabees'.

Ulysses Everett McGill (George Clooney) in 'O Brother, Where Art Thou'?

Jack Sparrow, nuff' said.

And now....

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My answer...

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D-FENS (he never had a name)

Something cathartic abut seeing someone do everything you would do if you didn't have to worry about surviving the day.

"We are not the same.... I'm an American.... You're a sick asshole."

Oh, I thought with the mention of grand-momma, you were gonna say;

Dr. Mrs. The Monarch

What no comments? you all shamed that you forgot about Poor D-FENS?

Never bloody hear of him/her/it?

From the Movie Falling Down Strop. Michael Douglas' character.

Now watch in amazement as this suddenly turns into a Catherine Zeta-Jones appreciation thread.
In 5...4...3...

Can't stand Michael Douglas. Mind you he is shagging.....

Kirk Douglas' son, produced the film 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' (1975).

Star of one my favorite thrillers, 'The Game'.