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What is the noun for antiheroes?

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antiheroine
  1. (literature, role-playing games) A female protagonist who proceeds in an unheroic manner, such as by criminal means, via cowardly actions, or for mercenary goals; a female antihero.
  2. Examples:
    1. “There was no tentativeness in her first staged performance of Richard Strauss's deranged antiheroine, even in her Dance of the Seven Veils.”
      “The film, based on the DC Comics antiheroine of Batman fame, begins shooting next week.”
      “And like many a dispossessed antiheroine, Elle's reality is that she has always been alone.”
antihero
  1. (literature, role-playing games) A protagonist who proceeds in an unheroic manner, such as by criminal means, via cowardly actions, or for mercenary goals.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “He is delightful as the no-good antihero of this obscure made-for-TV movie.”
      “He plays scorned lover Jed with an untempered delicacy and spidery creepiness, while the antihero is the epitome of controlled frustration.”
      “I first saw the new antihero last year on a waitperson's chest, but I didn't know her name then.”
antiheroism
  1. (literature) The quality of being an antihero
antiheroines
  1. plural of antiheroine
antiheroes
  1. plural of antihero
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The pair make two of the most cold-blooded and vile antiheroes ever found in a Hollywood Western.”
      “Cyberpunk, a science-fiction subgenre characterized by countercultural antiheroes trapped in a dehumanized, high-tech future.”
      “Play the part of these antiheroes and go to war in this new action experience!”
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