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Old 11-11-2009, 03:30 PM   #61
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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
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Old 11-11-2009, 04:14 PM   #62
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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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Old 11-11-2009, 11:29 PM   #63
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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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Old 11-12-2009, 02:16 AM   #64
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I would not think of Death as an anti-hero. I'd think of Rincewind.
I just can't get my mind around Rincewind as any kind of hero.

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Old 11-12-2009, 02:47 AM   #65
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Old 11-12-2009, 09:34 AM   #66
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Oh, yes!!! He was such an unrepentant bad guy, but fell in love with, and saved Clarice.

I will never get those last few descriptive pages of "Hannibal" out of my head......the movie didn't do it justice.....
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Old 11-12-2009, 10:18 AM   #67
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I wouldn't call Arthur Dent an anti-hero; an unlikely hero would be a little closer to the mark.
I agree. Zaphod Beeblebrox is definitely the anti-hero of that series.

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Old 11-12-2009, 10:22 AM   #68
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Surprised no one else mentioned him. Titus Groan from Mervyn Peakes Gormenghast trilogy.
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Old 11-12-2009, 10:38 AM   #69
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Oh, yes!!! He was such an unrepentant bad guy, but fell in love with, and saved Clarice.

I will never get those last few descriptive pages of "Hannibal" out of my head......the movie didn't do it justice.....
Damn, now you ruined it for me!

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Damn, now you ruined it for me!


There are those who would say that it was Thomas Harris who ruined it.
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Old 11-12-2009, 11:42 AM   #71
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There are those who would say that it was Thomas Harris who ruined it.

Well, to be totally honest, I've never really had any desire to read his work.
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I liked Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs, but I absolutely hated Hannibal.
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Old 11-12-2009, 12:33 PM   #73
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I agree. Zaphod Beeblebrox is definitely the anti-hero of that series.

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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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Old 11-12-2009, 01:23 PM   #75
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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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