How to Use antihero in a Sentence

antihero

noun
Definition of antiheronext
  • 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
  • How will Ava, a bad boss and a Black woman, torque the antihero trope?
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2022
  • So, which of Good Grief’s three antiheroes does Levy relate to the most?
    — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Namor, the brown antihero of the film, is no shallow villain.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2022
  • The series stars Oscar Isaac as the Marvel antihero and is due out in March.
    — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2022
  • El Muerto is an antihero and the son of a luchador, or Mexican wrestler.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 June 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Do like the supervillain-turned-antihero and sport it with brown trousers, a white button-down shirt and a gold TVA belt buckle.
    — Danielle Directo-Meston, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Phase 5 will end with the fourth Captain America movie and the arrival of a new antihero team called the Thunderbolts.
    — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 23 July 2022
  • Any effort at high-minded seriousness about the role of the antihero in a world of caped crusaders is out the window.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2021
  • That version of the show didn’t get picked up, but a year later the studio re-imagined it for streaming and made the lead character a lot messier and more of an antihero.
    — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 8 Nov. 2022
  • During this time, he was being portrayed as an antihero seen by fans as a wrestling deity.
    — Martin Douglas, SPIN, 21 Jan. 2022
  • In the mid-two-thousands, the Baton Rouge rapper Kevin Gates emerged as a folk antihero and unlikely local rap star.
    — Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Part of the problem is in the script: Gary is not a flawed antihero but a smiling, normal guy with none of the usual Andersonian irony about him.
    — Jo Livingstone, The New Republic, 3 Dec. 2021
  • Moving forward, our next show out is Agatha, and there are parallels there with two antiheroes.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Mar. 2024
  • He's flickered between being an antihero and a hero, and he's often been depicted as a member of the Avengers.
    — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 8 July 2022
  • Kelly Reilly, Beth is that too-rare figure in the world of prestige TV: an antihero who is also a woman.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Readers of The Sandman comic know that Dream later recreates the Corinthian as more of an antihero than a villain.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 16 Dec. 2022
  • The antihero dramas were followed by a wave of great, quirky shows that were freed from the constraints of appealing to mainstream audiences.
    — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
  • As James Gandolfini played him (with a brilliance worthy of Brando), Tony was a great antihero.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 21 Sep. 2021
  • In fact, several episodes over the last three seasons don’t even feature the titular antihero at all.
    — Hanna Flint, ELLE, 31 Oct. 2022
  • The warehouses of literature are full of wicked mothers, but the bad-mom-as-antihero trend feels more recent.
    — The New Yorker, 4 July 2022
  • There’s a consistency to it all that our weary-looking antihero would approve of.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 11 June 2023
  • Williams tells this story in a split timeline, covering what led to Bull and Norm’s feud as well as what happens after the antihero aims for payback.
    — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2022

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