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Modesty Blaise and Willie Garvin.
Orphaned at an early age and growing up in Middle East displaced persons camps, Modesty becomes a dealer in a gambling club owned by a French criminal syndicate. When the syndicate boss is killed by a rival gang, Modesty rallies what's left of the gang and forms the Network, a very successful gang. She buys Willie Garvin out of a jail in Thailand after seeing him fight in a Thai style match, and he becomes her chief associate and foreman (but not lover.) Her goal is to retire rich with half a million pounds, and on achieving it, she dissolves the Network and goes to live in England, along with Willie Garvin who fulfills his dream of owning a pub. But luxurious retirement grows palling to a pair accustomed to a life of adventure, and they find themselves recruited by Sir Gerald Tarrant, a senior British intelligence officer, to assist with occasional difficulties. Modesty originated as a syndicated comic strip written by Peter O'Donnell and drawn by Jim Holdaway, and has also been the protagonist of a series of novels by O'Donnell. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modesty_Blaise ______ Dennis |
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One antihero that hasn't been mentioned yet is Jack, of Zelazny's strange little book Jack of Shadows.
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I wouldn't call Arthur Dent an anti-hero; an unlikely hero would be a little closer to the mark.
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Hannibal Lecter
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Surprised no one else mentioned him. Titus Groan from Mervyn Peakes Gormenghast trilogy.
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I liked Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs, but I absolutely hated Hannibal.
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There were no heroes in that series, anti- or straight-up. The closest folks to heroes in those books were the Vogons, who, without complaint, worked to clear local neighborhoods of slums and improve traffic flow.
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John Constantine (Hellraiser)
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I fail to see how Pinhead could be any kind of hero at all. (I've only seen the first movie.)
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