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Top 10 Anti-Heroes in Video Games - The Gamer
- Thread starter AdaWong
- Start date
Dante is the good Christian hero Sonic kids wanted
...except that time he shot up a church but ya'know
...except that time he shot up a church but ya'know
This. Being brooding or cynical doesn't mean you're an anti-hero.
If we wanted to force it, he is unintentionally the cause of the Maverick virus. I don't think it says anything about his motivations or morality though, given the nature of how it was started, but there is that.
I think you may be misremembering the story a bit. In the first campaign of WC3, Arthas murders civilians, betrays his allies and butchers them, and then leaves his friend to die rather than save him.
He then murders his father and slaughters every living person he can get his hands on in his home kingdom. He then goes on to invade the Elven lands, killing every living thing he comes across before eventually flattening Quel'Thelas and Dalaran to bring Archimonde into the world.
He's absolutely the villain of the story before you even start Act 2 of the original game, never mind The Frozen Throne. The Frozen Throne isn't the story of his descent, it's the story of his rise to becoming the one Lich King.
Pretty much. Just because he kills bad gods doesn't mean he's not a villain.
The author is getting the fact that they aren't goody two shoes obvious hero archetypes that they are anti heroes. Basically a hero can't be cynical or unenthusiastic or have any personality
A big number of those anti heros are not even anti heros. Bayonetta, Dante and Geralt are legit heros, they are just not the stereotypically perfect hero figures, and Kratos is more of an outright villain, at least in the original series. In GoW2018 I can see him more as an anti hero.
