What type of hero attracts you the most?

**SaraBell** · 10-09-2010 11:21 AM

Chivalrous Hero and Chosen One...I like the idea of the anti-hero a lot, but they usually seem too angsty and whiney to me.

**geGamedev** · 10-09-2010 01:32 PM

For me, it's a tie between comedic hero and anti-hero. The knight type is boring, imo. Chosen one is good but it's also much easier to screw it up.

**vicki7172** · 10-09-2010 01:38 PM

Comedic Hero.

**AkiKaza** · 10-09-2010 02:05 PM

Like Promethea, I prefer villains

Anti-heros are cool. Chosen ones, only if they don't go around being all pompous about their destiny and all that.

**Mjolnir** · 10-09-2010 07:26 PM

Definitely the Anti-Hero. But even more, I agree with CrazyGlitch about villains. I would love to see more things where the villain wins.

**nevermore** · 10-09-2010 09:17 PM

Anti-hero. But not the extreme anti-hero. I must be able to sympathize with them in some way.

I would say chosen one, but that theme has been terribly overdone. That sense of destiny hanging over a protagonist's shoulders just seems dodgy, not to mention "look! we're in a story!" unless its very well done or relates to the theme in some way.

That being said, I love many movies/books where the writers went for the Chosen One trope, especially since I love fantasy.

**saturnne** · 10-10-2010 12:58 AM

The anti-hero!
I don't know if any of you has read Life and Times of Michael K, but he is my ideal hero.

**Thu** · 10-10-2010 01:36 AM

I'd say the knight and the anti-hero. The other two are just thrown into the situation, but the knight and the anti-hero are doing something for something, they have a cause all the way through the story.

**kallisti** · 10-10-2010 06:43 PM

anti-hero. it gives the story more depth. chosen one is good, but overdone

**wafflecake** · 10-10-2010 09:25 PM

Originally Posted by Radiant Flux

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Hero of the New World : The Anti Hero >> The tragic, misunderstood hero
Changes in audience mindsets have facilitated a change in the way heroes are portrayed in fictional works. The old type of heroes who are sincerely good in every sense of the world no longer survived easily at the mercy of increasingly cynical audiences.

The answer was the creation of the anti hero. He exists with the similar goal of defeating the villain, but he is prone to being a little dark and is likely to have questionable morals. This type of hero has an honourable goal but he is usually prepared to perform dishonourable deeds to achieve it.

Um, antiheroes aren't that new (see: Byron's writings).

With that said, the antihero is my favourite, though villians always seem to be infintely more interesting.