How to Use antihero in a Sentence

antihero

noun

• Pictured above, the photo features the show's eponymous antihero alongside a massive bloodhound.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 2 Dec. 2016
• Fifty years ago, in his debut novel, Carrie, Stephen King popularized a new kind of antihero.
  — Rafaela Bassili, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2024
• All that time in his vile proximity serves as a challenge to recognize what’s right in front of you; not an antihero, not a misunderstood victim, not a bully who just needs a little parental guidance to stop acting out.
  — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 12 Sep. 2024
• Do the Emmys show the age of the antihero (Tony, Walt, Don) is over?
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2021
• In the late ’90s, The Sopranos ushered in the age of the antihero.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 19 July 2021
• The Goldfinch,’ this novel is told from the point of view of its con man antihero.
  — WSJ, 20 Oct. 2017
• How will Ava, a bad boss and a Black woman, torque the antihero trope?
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2022
• The Rock, who will play the antihero, announced the news via a takeover in Times Square on Sunday.
  — Rachel Yang, EW.com, 29 Mar. 2021
• So, which of Good Grief’s three antiheroes does Levy relate to the most?
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 4 Jan. 2024
• She’s the protagonist and the antihero, and gets the most screen time by far.
  — Stephanie Burt, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2021
• Many shots look through the window of the car, as if forming a frame for a portrait of the antihero.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 25 Jan. 2018
• Namor, the brown antihero of the film, is no shallow villain.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2022
• All with a hint of the prestige TV antihero for good measure.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 14 Sep. 2020
• The antihero pulled straight from Spider-Man’s comics and played by Tom Hardy will star in a sequel in 2020.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 22 Aug. 2019
• That most of these movies end with their antiheroes jailed or dead never dawns on them.
  — Pam Grady, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 May 2018
• This is a common thing for an antihero drama to try for a few episodes.
  — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 1 Sep. 2018
• The series stars Oscar Isaac as the Marvel antihero and is due out in March.
  — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2022
• Goggins is the Ghoul, an antihero of sorts who crosses paths with Lucy.
  — Danielle Directo-Meston, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 May 2024
• El Muerto is an antihero and the son of a luchador, or Mexican wrestler.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 June 2023
• Now, in the diffuse and shapeless post-vaccine Biden era, both antihero shows and sweet shows seem to have run out of steam.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 16 June 2024
• As with the first film, the namesake antihero will be dark and complex with an aesthetic to match.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 28 Oct. 2022
• The journey to bring The Crow back to life has been as tortured as its immortal antihero.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 22 Aug. 2024
• For many, Zaslav is something of an antihero, at the center of the town’s story for all the wrong reasons.
  — Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2023
• Pope was a rare female antihero in a Tom Ford power suit.
  — Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2019
• Jared Leto plays the Marvel antihero in this action thriller.
  — Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2021
• Elba is still quite good as the antihero John Luther, who starts the story in jail due to some of the questionable choices he’s made over the years.
  — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2023
• The new movie is set to follow the antihero nearly 5,000 years after he was bestowed with the powers of the Egyptian gods.
  — Carson Burton, Variety, 23 July 2022
• What if we’d been asked to see her—as we are asked to see every superhero in the comic—as an antihero?
  — Namwali Serpell, The New York Review of Books, 24 Mar. 2020
• Even for fans who might recognize a bit of themselves in these shows, there are thrills to be found watching the antiheroes squirm.
  — Jay Cheshes, Robb Report, 4 Mar. 2023
• The project is based on antihero Morbius the Living Vampire.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 June 2018

Last Updated: 22 Nov 2024