Anti-hero
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In fiction, an anti-hero is a protagonist who is lacking the traditional heroic attributes and qualities, and instead possesses character traits that are antithetical to heroism.
The word anti-hero is a 20th-century construction. The 1940 edition of the Merriam-Webster New International Dictionary listed "anti-hero", but did not define it. The 1992 American Heritage Dictionary of the American Language defined anti-hero as a persona characterized by a lack of "traditional" heroic qualities.
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