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The (Anti) Hero Paradox

Down with three posts, and audiences have rightly, by and large, identified the one common theme in my blog posts, my unabashed and unapologetic praises for the rather controversial figures in mythology and history. I wouldn't go so far as to call them straight out villains, but rather be more subtle and tag them as Anti Heroes. But then, just like with everything else, there is a catch here too. The important thing here is that there is a thin line between what separates a villain from a Anti hero or what separates an antihero from a white meat babyface. Now, i come across this question a lot, a lot of my readers have posted it too, that does an Antihero exist ? Or is it just a imaginative figure, an internet darling, a script seller, restricted to the realms of imagination potrayed only in books and movies ? I, on the other hand, blessed with a somewhat twisted mind, with a fetish for all things unconventional have another prominent question "Does the quintessential Hero