antihero

1. (literature, roleplaying games) A protagonist who proceeds in an unheroic manner, such as by criminal means, via cowardly actions, or for mercenary goals.Examples: "Alienation: A stage on the downside of the passage wherein the holdfast and the antihero take actions which bring about a disintegration of personality."; "JK Rowling says that “girls are very apt to romanticise” the antihero, and reveals that she had been forced to pour “cold common sense” on the startling number of readers who fall for the arrogant, unscrupulous bully Draco Malfoy in her Harry Potter books."; "The Deadpool fly is a species of Robber fly, which are “assassins of the insect world” – fitting for the mercenary antihero."Synonyms: unhero