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Alfred001
12-06-2011, 10:05 AM
Does anyone know what the tearm is for this kind of a villan?
Alexander III
12-06-2011, 10:24 AM
Good guy ?
hillwalker
12-06-2011, 10:52 AM
Maverick? Baadass? M***er****er?

It depends in what context you intend using the term.

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Alfred001
12-06-2011, 10:59 AM
I think the tearm I'm looking for is from literary criticism.
MystyrMystyry
12-06-2011, 04:18 PM
You don't mean anti-hero? It doesn't necessarily mean the villain admits he's a villain, usually not, usually unaware.

There are terms ending in -esque, taken from the more famous anti-heroes though. You might mean one of them?
kelby_lake
12-06-2011, 04:31 PM
Apart from saying that they have self-knowledge, I can't think of a specific term.
Charles Darnay
12-06-2011, 04:33 PM
I think you're referring to someone like Iago (from Othello) or Richard III?

In this case, I have never come across a specific term....just villain.

Some would say Machiavellian to describe someone like Iago....but this term has connotations that I don't think apply in this case.
Alfred001
12-06-2011, 04:57 PM
I think you're referring to someone like Iago (from Othello) or Richard III?

In this case, I have never come across a specific term....just villain.

Some would say Machiavellian to describe someone like Iago....but this term has connotations that I don't think apply in this case.

The character it was used for was Herod from Herod The Gread.

It is not anti-hero.
kiki1982
12-07-2011, 05:55 AM
In Victorian and 18th century lit it would be a rake, like Lovelace, but I'm not sure about Herod...
JuniperWoolf
12-07-2011, 06:10 AM
If I didn't know the right term and I had to reference this trait in an essay, I'd call him a "self-aware antagonist."
Drkshadow03
12-07-2011, 08:36 AM
A Satanic Villain?
kiki1982
12-07-2011, 11:53 AM
If I didn't know the right term and I had to reference this trait in an essay, I'd call him a "self-aware antagonist."

I like that :lol:
chrisvia
12-13-2011, 03:03 PM
You don't mean anti-hero? It doesn't necessarily mean the villain admits he's a villain, usually not, usually unaware.

There are terms ending in -esque, taken from the more famous anti-heroes though. You might mean one of them?

I was thinking anti-hero as well.