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* TokenEvilTeammate Diethard and [[spoiler:Rolo]] of \\\'\\\'Anime/CodeGeass\\\'\\\'.
* Vegeta from \\\'\\\'Manga/DragonBall Z\\\'\\\' slowly becomes this (and more slowly bypasses this), first starting out as the BigBad of the Saiyan arc who had committed serial genocide while working for Frieza. Then as a VillainProtagonist seeking to overthrow his former master in the Namek arc. Then as an antihero who helps defend the planet, but only for his own selfish reasons in the Cell and Buu arcs. At the very end of the Buu arc he may have transitioned to a Type III. NobleDemon Bardock is another example.
* Mello from \\\'\\\'Manga/DeathNote\\\'\\\'. He is solely dedicated to being the one to stop Kira and is more than willing to become a mob boss, kidnap innocent girls, and in the manga, even threaten the President to sabotage his rival so said rival can\\\'t catch Kira.
** Near is initially just as bad, but (particularly in a bonus chapter taking place after the story) starts to develop more toward L\\\'s Type IV territory. He\\\'s thoroughly sympathetic in \\\'\\\'Film/LChangeTheWorld\\\'\\\'.
* Alucard of \\\'\\\'Manga/{{Hellsing}}.\\\'\\\'
* Guts of \\\'\\\'Manga/{{Berserk}}\\\'\\\' during his phase as the vengeance-obsessed Black Swordsman was very much this. An utterly ruthless warrior who cared about nothing except killing demons, and would not lift a finger to help innocents caught in the crossfire, considering them small fry without the strength to truly live -- and in many cases, he could be seen as even more horrifying than the Apostles that he was driven to kill. Only after finding Casca again has he been able to move out of this territory into Type III-IV, though he still has to deal with a particularly nasty EnemyWithin that represents who he used to be.
** Also Griffith prior to the Eclipse.
* Revy, Dutch and Roberta of \\\'\\\'Anime/BlackLagoon\\\'\\\'.
* Mugen of \\\'\\\'Anime/SamuraiChamploo\\\'\\\' is a BloodKnight who will frequently abandon his companions in the name of pursuing a good fight, and cares little for his promise to Fuu, instead trying to fulfill his promise to kill his rival, Jin. [[spoiler:That said, he goes through a lot of CharacterDevelopment by the end. Enough so that he honors his companions as true friends.]]
* Hibari Ginza of \\\'\\\'Anime/SpeedGrapher\\\'\\\'. Chaotic, ruthless, selfish and very dedicated to her job as a cop.
* Kanta from \\\'\\\'Manga/DesertPunk\\\'\\\'. He has no real redeeming moral qualities and doesn\\\'t care about anything except money, boobs and staying alive. However, much of his work ends up being vaguely heroic because of the jobs he\\\'s assigned tend to be things like \\\"Take out this gang terrorizing our town.\\\" [[spoiler:By the end of the series he crosses the MoralEventHorizon and does a FaceHeelTurn]].
** Kanta has elements of a Type I as well, being a short, ugly little perv who is hated by everyone.
*** Other characters in the series also qualify. Junko is Kanta\\\'s (physically) attractive female counterpart and is equally amoral and only not a villain because her job is taking out people who tend to be worse [[spoiler:and like Kanta, she ultimately pulls a FaceHeelTurn]]. Rainspider is a heartless enforcer for [[LoanShark loan sharks]] and implied deviant who has a tendency to abandon his teammates when battles are stacked against them. However, he\\\'s [[LaughablyEvil hilarious]], and always follows his fleeing by a BigDamnHeroes moment at the right time. He\\\'s kind of more likable than Kanta, if no morally better.
* \\\'\\\'Anime/{{Noir}}\\\'\\\': the title characters (or at least Mireille) start off like this. Also, [[spoiler:it\\\'s open to interpretation but in Noir the position seems to be an attempt by the Soldats to intentionally create type V anti heroes]].
* The main character of \\\'\\\'Anime/AfroSamurai\\\'\\\' (in the Anime) is something of a tragic example of this; he is not without some humanity in him, but ends up burying it in his all-consuming pursuit of vengeance and adherence to his brutal code of honor.
** It\\\'s actually questionable if Afro counts for even that much, or if he\\\'s just a full-out VillainProtagonist. Most Type V anti-heroes are distinguished from villains by the fact that they\\\'re marginally better than those they fight. Afro\\\'s goals are, effectively, identical to those that he fights, and a strong argument could be made that the audience only sympathizes with him because we saw his back story, and didn\\\'t see theirs.
* [[spoiler:Ryoko Asakura]] in \\\'\\\'Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya\\\'\\\', from Book 10 and onward.
* Bando (in the manga) and [[VillainProtagonist Lucy]] from \\\'\\\'Manga/ElfenLied\\\'\\\' and anime versions, respectively.
* BloodKnight Kyoya Hibari of \\\'\\\'Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn\\\'\\\'.
* Thorfinn of \\\'\\\'Manga/VinlandSaga\\\'\\\' is as clear-cut a Type V Anti Hero there is, what with his uncaring partaking into as much slaughter and destruction he can hope to muster. The only thing that prevents him from being a full-on VillainProtagonist is the fact that he doesn\\\'t enjoy it.
* Mayuri and Kenpachi from \\\'\\\'Manga/{{Bleach}}\\\'\\\'. They start out as full-on antagonists, but even after the ConspiracyRedemption they still remain as TokenEvilTeammate and a largely amoral BloodKnight.
** Ichigo\\\'s AxCrazy SuperpoweredEvilSide, [[FanNickname Shirosaki]] also qualifies as a Type V AntiHero.
* Yukiteru of \\\'\\\'Manga/MiraiNikki\\\'\\\' eventually [[TookaLevelinBadass becomes]] this, by [[MoralEventHorizon slaughtering orphans]], and getting \\\'\\\'[[SerialEscalation worse from there.]]\\\'\\\'
* In \\\'\\\'FullmetalAlchemist\\\'\\\', Scar starts off the beginning of the series as this trope, going about murdering [[PersonOfMassDestruction State Alchemists]] for their participation in the wholesale slaughter of his ethnic group.
* NobleDemon Dark Schneider (And his subordinates) from \\\'\\\'Manga/{{Bastard}}\\\'\\\' (with moments of Type IV). Although he has some PetTheDog moments toward his allies and more specifically Yoko, he is a complete egocentric JerkAss who destroy his enemies in a huge level of sadism, openly admits that as soon as he takes down the BigBad of the series, he will subjugate the world through mass-murder and warfare, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking treats nearly everyone in the rudest manner possible, and gropes girls without any sense of shame]].
* \\\'\\\'[[Manga/{{Naruto}} Sasuke Uchiha]]\\\'\\\' jumps from Type III to Type V before [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope cannonballing off the slippery slope]] into being a straight-up VillainProtagonist.
* Hiei, resident NobleDemon of \\\'\\\'Manga/YuYuHakusho\\\'\\\', though over time he start to mellow out into Type IV.
* The Rail Tracer [[spoiler:(Claire Stenfield)]] of \\\'\\\'LightNovel/{{Baccano}}\\\'\\\', [[spoiler:saves a train and its passengers from being hijacked from two enemy factions, all the while [[HighHeelFaceTurn winning the heart]] of a [[TheSpeechless silent beauty]]. Nevermind that he\\\'s a trained mafia assassin who brutally murders dozens of people from both factions and [[BreakTheCutie tortures]] a [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld little boy]].]]
** [[spoiler:That the little boy is an immortal and, just little bit earlier, was trying to convince the leader of one of the factions to massacre everyone on the train helps takes the sting out of it a little.]]
* Kyo of \\\'\\\'Manga/SamuraiDeeperKyo\\\'\\\'- see the description of Dark Schneider, except in Sengoku Japan and with no interest in world domination.
* Kuroudo Akabane of \\\'\\\'Manga/GetBackers\\\'\\\'.
* Giuse of \\\'\\\'Manga/GunslingerGirl\\\'\\\'. As he reveals to Henrietta, he\\\'s only nice to her... until things go to hell and Henrietta is \\\"reset to factory settings\\\", leading Giuse to take a \\\'\\\'very\\\'\\\' steep dive over the DespairEventHorizon and [[TookALevelInJerkass treat her like he does practically everybody else]] following the realization that he could do nothing to help her. [[spoiler:[[LaserGuidedKarma Later on, though, he thinks his behavior led Henrietta to]] [[UnfriendlyFire frag him during the nuclear power plant strike]].]]
* \\\'\\\'{{Gundam 00}}\\\'\\\' has two; Hallelujah Haptism, the SuperpoweredEvilSide of ReluctantWarrior Allelujah Haptism, and Nena Trinity in the second season by virtue of being against [[CompleteMonster Ali Al-Saachez]] and [[BigBad Ribbons Almark]], who are much, \\\'\\\'much\\\'\\\' worse than her.
* Yuri from \\\'\\\'Anime/AngelBeats\\\'\\\', at first. The OVA (released after the anime was completed) made her out as a VillainProtagonist by having her run toward the MoralEventHorizon... [[ForegoneConclusion then stopping right at the edge]]. She matured to Type III following the Naoi incident that nearly ended with her disappearing through false happy memories, and after Kanade\\\'s HeelFacePirouette she\\\'s more of a Type II, especially after her redemption at the end of the Shadows incident with an act that sealed her HeelFaceTurn.
** In the manga, her tenure as VillainProtagonist lasts from the moment she decides to [[spoiler:kill all the students at the Afterlife School]] to the moment where Hinata convinces her to not follow through with the murders. Other than that, she\\\'s a Type V in the manga as well.
* The Three protagonists, Mataichi, Ogin and Nagamimi of \\\'\\\'Literature/RequiemFromTheDarkness\\\'\\\'.
* [[MagnificentBastard Kokujo]] of \\\'\\\'Anime/DuelMasters\\\'\\\'.
* Nougami Neuro from \\\'\\\'Manga/MajinTanteiNougamiNeuro\\\'\\\'.
* [[DirtyCoward Joichiro Nishii]] and [[BloodKnight Shion Izumi]] of \\\'\\\'Anime/{{Gantz}}\\\'\\\'. Though Izumi at the very end of his life falls into type IV as his very last act was a heroic sacrifice to save a girl who was arguably his love
** Many of the Osaka members on the other hand are type V at best. Several of them are sadists who get off on hurting defenseless aliens who just happen to be their enemies. For the most part they could care less about their own team mates and threaten to kill innocent people who simply irritate them and one is a serial rapist who because its illegal simply rapes female aliens before murdering them. They are complete monsters who just happen to be fighting for the good of mankind.
* Paul, ArrogantKungFuGuy and {{Jerkass}} {{Badass}} extraordinaire from \\\'\\\'Anime/{{Pokemon}}\\\'\\\'.
* Ninjas Anastasia of the Glacier and Kamonosuke Yuri of the \\\'\\\'{{Brave 10}}\\\'\\\'. The former just cares for herself, her master and somewhat reluctantly about her team mates; besides that, she\\\'ll do \\\'\\\'anything\\\'\\\' to do her job. The latter is an AxCrazy sociopath who loves killing and stealing but gets [[FoeYay strangely infatuated]] by the hero of the story after being thoroughly beaten by him.
* The eponymous SkullMan, at least in ShotaroIshinomori\\\'s original 1970 manga. He carves a bloody swathe of violence through the story, killing both {{Yakuza}} and policemen in his quest for {{Revenge}}, and does so with an EvilGrin on his face the whole time. When Ishinomori tried to get \\\'\\\'[=SkullMan=]\\\'\\\' turned into a TV series, Toei rejected it in part because of this, leading him to revamp the concept and produce a much more heroic character: KamenRider.
* All members of the [[WellIntentionedExtremist Chronos Organization]] from \\\'\\\'BlackCat\\\'\\\'.
* Kurei Mori/Hanabishi from \\\'\\\'FlameOfRecca\\\'\\\'. Even after his HeelFaceTurn, he\\\'s still as ruthless as before. Despite separating himself and his loyal followers from the Uruha, and pursuing the same quarry as Recca and his allies, his vicious and ruthless nature remains unchanged, even until the end of the series.
* Kyoko Sakura from \\\'\\\'PuellaMagiMadokaMagica\\\'\\\' is this when we first meet her, willing to sacrifice humans to familiars if it means she gets more Grief Seeds. Her bond with [[spoiler: Sayaka]] causes her to move up the ranks, to about a Type II or III. It\\\'s also implied that she used to be more of a straight hero, before [[spoiler: her father\\\'s murder-suicide of her mother and sister [[BreakTheCutie broke her]].]]
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* ComicBook/TheGoon and Franky of \\\'\\\'The Goon\\\'\\\' comic are both tried and true, card-carrying gangsters with all that would imply. However, what prevents them from being {{Villain Protagonist}}s are the fact that they possess strict honor codes, will always protect those who need it, and only fight those who\\\'ve done wrong.
* ThePunisher (the original NinetiesAntiHero) generally sits here, especially in the MAX series, but is sometimes played as a type IV. He is a BloodKnight VigilanteMan SerialKillerKiller who won\\\'t hesitate to use mass murder and the JackBauerInterrogationTechnique in his war on crime. He is also extremely diligent in [[NeverHurtAnInnocent not killing innocents]] (although there have been a few exceptions), and the guys he fights are usually [[CompleteMonster considerably worse]], [[AntiVillain but]] [[WellIntentionedExtremist not]] [[NobleDemon always.]] Personality-wise he\\\'s also an UngratefulBastard who will kill you if you\\\'re on the \\\"black\\\" side of his BlackAndWhiteMorality viewpoint regardless of if you saved his life.
* The last \\\'\\\'SinCity\\\'\\\' \\\"hero\\\" to be mentioned here would be Miho, who is at least as bad as Marv, and probably even more extreme. Her true motives are mostly unknown since she is mute. She seems to have loyalty almost exclusively to Old Town. She has assisted Dwight in the past only because he once saved her life but that didn\\\'t stop her from essentially threatening to kill him if he interfered while she was torturing a corrupt cop in the middle of a street. This incident was so violent and brutal that Dwight and the Old Town girls showed open disgust with her actions. Otherwise, the best you can say about her is that she doesn\\\'t target innocent people.
* From \\\'\\\'Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}\\\'\\\', the Comedian: a laughing thrill-killing BloodKnight torturer, rapist, war criminal and all-around PsychoForHire.
** The Creator/AynRand-like KnightTemplar Rorschach (who idolizes the Comedian as \\\"a patriotic war hero\\\"), is either this or a type IV. [[WellIntentionedExtremist His goals are generally noble]], [[BlackAndGreyMorality most of the people he kills are far worse than him]] and he has a number of PetTheDog moments such as [[ChildrenAreInnocent his sympathy towards his landlady\\\'s children]] and disgust over what happened to Kitty Genovese.
* Hyde, Nemo, and Griffin in \\\'\\\'TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen\\\'\\\'. A couple of serial rapists and murderers (and a psychopathic pirate in Nemo\\\'s case) who are offered an official pardon if they\\\'ll turn those qualities against the Empire\\\'s enemies.
** Rather (un)fortunately, the [[Film/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen film version]] could not secure Griffin, so they exchanged him for freshly-created [[LoveableRogue Rodney Skinner]], which was a good or a bad change, depending on who you ask.
* [[TheAntiChrist Daimon]] [[AntiAntiChrist Hellstrom]].
* MarvelComics\\\' original Comicbook/{{Venom}}, Eddie Brock. And 1990s GhostRider sometime \\\"substitute\\\", Vengeance.
* The NobleDemon HeroicComedicSociopath {{Deadpool}} is this, and an AntiVillain [[SlidingScaleOfAntiVillains Type I]]. He easily eclipses even the Punisher, as he frequently finds it \\\'\\\'funny\\\'\\\' to casually torture, dismember, and murder people.
* The SecretSix are this, and {{Antivillain}}s [[SlidingScaleOfAntiVillains Type I]]. Even the most sociopathic of the Six are, in some manner, sympathetic characters, who generally fight villains for money or out of personal grudges. Black Alice may or may not be a type IV though.
* [[SamAndMaxFreelancePolice Max.]] Dear God, Max. He admittedly lacks any form of a conscience, considers it a compliment to be called a grade-A sociopath, and was even dubbed the most terrifyingly dangerous force in the universe by \\\'\\\'the villain\\\'\\\' in the video games. The only thing that really seems to keep him in line is his less sociopathic partner.
* DependingOnTheWriter, {{Lobo}} is sometimes portrayed as one, instead of a SatireParodyPastiche of a RuleOfCool BadAss [[VillainSue unstoppable villain-full-stop]]. Considering that he is worse than Hitler, \\\'\\\'without any hyperbole involved\\\'\\\', [[WhereIWasBornAndRazed as he wiped out his own]] PillarsOfMoralCharacter utopian species for kicks and giggles... when he was a teenager, this reveals a lot about certain media conventions.
* {{Fables}}\\\' [[WouldHurtAChild Frau Totenkinder]].
* The Superhero team TheAuthority largely started as types IV under WarrenEllis, extremely violent with great collateral damage, but only against potential world-ending threats that were a sufficient danger to not hold back against, although Warren much later stated that he wrote them as [[EvilVersusEvil villains aimed at greater evils]], so it is definitely arguable. However, they were extremely benevolent in other respects; and overall genuinely attempted to make the world into a better place. On the other hand, from the point MarkMillar got a hold of them and onwards they turned into outright proud extreme psychopath hedonists, who used overkill extremes of inventive torture, mutilation, dehumanisation, and mass-murder against completely outmatched normal human opponents, and casually {{Mind Rape}}d, permanently transformed/mutilated, or otherwise routinely went to petty DisproportionateRetribution extremes against harmless bystanders, exes, anybody they disagreed with, because they were bored and found it funny, and so onwards based on personal whims, while sprouting flippant arrogant sadistic {{OneLiner}}s.
* {{Garfield}}. [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/crosses_5856.png See here.]]
* All the [[ComicBook/TheMetabarons Metabarons]]. Steelhead in particular tends more towards VillainProtagonist in his darker moments.
* Comicbook/{{Ares}} of \\\'\\\'DarkAvengers\\\'\\\' and \\\'\\\'IncredibleHercules\\\'\\\' fame - during his time as a member of IronMan\\\'s \\\'\\\'Mighty Avengers\\\'\\\' he was a TokenEvilTeammate - misogynistic, AxeCrazy, disobeying orders because he wanted to fight Hercules and knocking out his teammate when he tried to talk things out with Herc. Yet in DarkAvengers he was a TokenGoodTeammate, mostly because the team was full of [[VillainProtagonist Villain Protagonists]] and somebody had to keep them in line. AFatherToHisMen, loves his son and may jump into a time vortex to finish a fight.
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* The main character of Fanfic/ChristianHumberReloaded, when he isn\\\'t being a VillainProtagonist. At times, he\\\'s willing to atone for the crimes he or his corrupted side committed and hunt down criminals or other villains. However, he not only has no qualms about killing people, but seems to enjoy doing so and tends to use lethal force even when it\\\'s unnecessary.
* The forces of [=newChaos=] from \\\'\\\'FanFic/TheOpenDoor\\\'\\\' straddle the thin line between this and outright VillainProtagonist; they do have a good motivation in wanting to protect their universe\\\'s branch of humanity and stop the OmnicidalManiac C\\\'tan, and they [[EvenEvilHasStandards do have standards]], such as going MamaBear[=/=]PapaWolf on child abusers, but they also have a lengthy list of atrocities against them more befitting of evildoers.
* Many \\\'\\\'many\\\'\\\' {{Original Character}}s fit this trope, thanks to SturgeonsLaw. [[FanFic/MyImmortal Ebony Dark\\\'ness Dementia Raven Way]] is perhaps the most well-known example.
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* [[Franchise/TheChroniclesOfRiddick Riddick]] (Conan in Space).
* [[EscapeFromNewYork Snake Plissken.]] Practically counts as type IV and V.
* Tyler Durden, the nihilistic anarchist of \\\'\\\'FightClub\\\'\\\'.
* Film/{{Beetlejuice}}
* Takuma \\\"Terry\\\" Tsurugi of \\\'\\\'Film/TheStreetFighter\\\'\\\' is a brutal and pitiless man. He\\\'s especially nasty in the first film, where he sells a girl into slavery and kills her brother when they\\\'re not able to pay him for services rendered, and he\\\'s not above sacrificing innocents that he\\\'s not directly helping. He avoids VillainProtagonist territory by fighting against {{Yakuza}}, whom he despises, and working to protect the good guys, even though he does so for his own reasons. He\\\'s more of a Type IV in \\\'\\\'The Street Fighter\\\'s Last Revenge.\\\'\\\'
* Hugo Stiglitz and Aldo Raine of \\\'\\\'InglouriousBasterds\\\'\\\' are either this or at least Type iV.
* Jules Winnfeld of \\\'\\\'PulpFiction\\\'\\\'.
** By the end, Jules shows signs of mellowing out to a Type II or III, as he decides to quit his job as a hitman and take on a spiritual life. He solidifies this in the diner scene where he deals with Honey Bunny and Pumpkin peacefully and acknowledges that he\\\'s not a good man but he\\\'ll try to do better.
* Tony Montana from \\\'\\\'{{Scarface}}\\\'\\\'.
* Tuco in \\\'\\\'Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly\\\'\\\'. What stops him from becoming a full VillainProtagonist are his PetTheDog moments with his \\\"partner\\\" Blondie and his priest brother (whose scene where they meet is a straight TearJerker) and his being less evil than the antagonist of the film, Angel Eyes.
** This is debatable. While he\\\'s no paragon of integrity, Tuco doesn\\\'t really do anything outright evil in the movie, which places him at Type IV, but how you fit him depends on whether or not you believe he was actually guilty of the crimes he\\\'s wanted for.
* Royce of \\\'\\\'{{Predators}}\\\'\\\'.
* Steven the Irishman of \\\'\\\'Film/{{Braveheart}}\\\'\\\'. He seems to have only joined the Scots because he\\\'ll be able to kill Englishmen, not to help the Scots to get freedom.
* Ronnie Barnhard of \\\'\\\'ObserveAndReport\\\'\\\'.
* Captain Barbossa in the third \\\'\\\'PiratesOfTheCaribbean\\\'\\\' film. In the first movie, he was an AntiVillain.
* The Heisei incarnation of {{Godzilla}} falls under this. He\\\'s \\\'\\\'\\\'faaaaaar\\\'\\\'\\\' from being a \\\"good guy\\\", but he does save the world (mostly [[TheTokyoFireball Japan]]) from more-dangerous monsters and is absolutely [[PapaWolf devoted to his son, \\\"Junior\\\".]]
* [[TaxiDriver Travis Bickle]] is somewhere between this and a Type IV. A SociopathicHero, he genuinely wishes to save Iris from a life of prostitution, but his methods are... extreme. It also should not be forgotten that, had his whole plan worked out, he would have [[spoiler:assassinated a senator and presidential candidate.]]
* The Swedish Chef in TheMuppets. He roasted innocent talking vegetables to death in the 2011 movie and \\\'\\\'attempted to kill and eat [[SesameStreet Big Bird]].\\\'\\\' In a \\\'\\\'Christmas special.\\\'\\\'
* Oilman Daniel Plainview from \\\'\\\'ThereWillBeBlood\\\'\\\'. By the near end of the film he jumps into VillainProtagonist territory.
* [[TheChessmaster Michael Corleone]] from \\\'\\\'Film/TheGodfather\\\'\\\'.
* Wesley Gibson of Film/{{Wanted}} is this type of anti-hero in the movie, but a VillainProtagonist in the [[ComicBook/{{Wanted}} comic books]].
* The starring columbiana from \\\'\\\'Columbiana\\\'\\\'. She even admits to it.
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* Karsa Orlong from Steven Erikson\\\'s \\\'\\\'MalazanBookOfTheFallen\\\'\\\' is as anti as a hero can get. Being something of a {{deconstruction}} of the ProudWarriorRaceGuy, Karsa aims to improve the world... by slaughtering millions of people and smashing civilization back to barbarism.
* Mike Harmon in John Ringo\\\'s \\\'\\\'Literature/PaladinOfShadows\\\'\\\' series is this in \\\'\\\'Ghost\\\'\\\', the first book of the series, and is much of the reason for the famous cry \\\"OH JOHN RINGO NO.\\\" He later moves towards Type IV. As he himself puts it, \\\"I\\\'m a very, very bad man who tries to be nice.\\\"
* Thomas Covenant of \\\'\\\'The ChroniclesOfThomasCovenant\\\'\\\' is a mix of this and Type I in the first trilogy. In the second trilogy he\\\'s more of a Type III.
* Yarol, the Venusian sidekick in C.L. Moore\\\'s Literature/NorthwestSmith stories, is heavily implied to be a Type V antihero. The narration never specifies his enormities, but hints that his [[{{Bishonen}} angelic beauty]] belies his absolutely evil nature. That Northwest Smith himself enjoys Yarol\\\'s company does not speak well of his own moral character, either, though he seems to be more of a Type IV character.
* Maldoror in Isidore Ducasse\\\'s \\\'\\\'Songs of Maldoror\\\'\\\'.
* Frank Dominio, the [[SuperOCD supremely]] [[TheUnfettered obsessive]] [[VillainProtagonist narrator]] of ThomasLigotti\\\'s \\\'\\\'My Work Is Not Yet Done\\\'\\\'.
* [[{{Everworld}} Senna Wales]], the witch of \\\'\\\'Everworld.\\\'\\\' She is motivated by her completely selfish goal of overthrowing the powers of Everworld, seizing control over the foundations of reality, and then [[DimensionLord ruling over the universe]] as [[AGodAmI an absolute god]]. However, she is kept from being a VillainProtagonist because most of the real villains that she opposes (Huizilopocli, Hel, Ka Anor) are complete monsters, she [[TokenEvilTeammate helps the other protagonists more often than she goes against them]], and she seems to genuinely think that Everworld and its people would be better off with her ruling them all.
* Meursault from TheStranger.
* Lestat of TheVampireChronicles.
* Raskolnikov, ByronicHero of \\\'\\\'Literature/CrimeAndPunishment\\\'\\\'.
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[[folder:\\\'\\\'\\\'Examples:\\\'\\\'\\\']]
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* TokenEvilTeammate Diethard and [[spoiler:Rolo]] of \\\'\\\'Anime/CodeGeass\\\'\\\'.
* Vegeta from \\\'\\\'Manga/DragonBall Z\\\'\\\' slowly becomes this (and more slowly bypasses this), first starting out as the BigBad of the Saiyan arc who had committed serial genocide while working for Frieza. Then as a VillainProtagonist seeking to overthrow his former master in the Namek arc. Then as an antihero who helps defend the planet, but only for his own selfish reasons in the Cell and Buu arcs. At the very end of the Buu arc he may have transitioned to a Type III. NobleDemon Bardock is another example.
* Mello from \\\'\\\'Manga/DeathNote\\\'\\\'. He is solely dedicated to being the one to stop Kira and is more than willing to become a mob boss, kidnap innocent girls, and in the manga, even threaten the President to sabotage his rival so said rival can\\\'t catch Kira.
** Near is initially just as bad, but (particularly in a bonus chapter taking place after the story) starts to develop more toward L\\\'s Type IV territory. He\\\'s thoroughly sympathetic in \\\'\\\'Film/LChangeTheWorld\\\'\\\'.
* Alucard of \\\'\\\'Manga/{{Hellsing}}.\\\'\\\'
* Guts of \\\'\\\'Manga/{{Berserk}}\\\'\\\' during his phase as the vengeance-obsessed Black Swordsman was very much this. An utterly ruthless warrior who cared about nothing except killing demons, and would not lift a finger to help innocents caught in the crossfire, considering them small fry without the strength to truly live -- and in many cases, he could be seen as even more horrifying than the Apostles that he was driven to kill. Only after finding Casca again has he been able to move out of this territory into Type III-IV, though he still has to deal with a particularly nasty EnemyWithin that represents who he used to be.
** Also Griffith prior to the Eclipse.
* Revy, Dutch and Roberta of \\\'\\\'Anime/BlackLagoon\\\'\\\'.
* Mugen of \\\'\\\'Anime/SamuraiChamploo\\\'\\\' is a BloodKnight who will frequently abandon his companions in the name of pursuing a good fight, and cares little for his promise to Fuu, instead trying to fulfill his promise to kill his rival, Jin. [[spoiler:That said, he goes through a lot of CharacterDevelopment by the end. Enough so that he honors his companions as true friends.]]
* Hibari Ginza of \\\'\\\'Anime/SpeedGrapher\\\'\\\'. Chaotic, ruthless, selfish and very dedicated to her job as a cop.
* Kanta from \\\'\\\'Manga/DesertPunk\\\'\\\'. He has no real redeeming moral qualities and doesn\\\'t care about anything except money, boobs and staying alive. However, much of his work ends up being vaguely heroic because of the jobs he\\\'s assigned tend to be things like \\\"Take out this gang terrorizing our town.\\\" [[spoiler:By the end of the series he crosses the MoralEventHorizon and does a FaceHeelTurn]].
** Kanta has elements of a Type I as well, being a short, ugly little perv who is hated by everyone.
*** Other characters in the series also qualify. Junko is Kanta\\\'s (physically) attractive female counterpart and is equally amoral and only not a villain because her job is taking out people who tend to be worse [[spoiler:and like Kanta, she ultimately pulls a FaceHeelTurn]]. Rainspider is a heartless enforcer for [[LoanShark loan sharks]] and implied deviant who has a tendency to abandon his teammates when battles are stacked against them. However, he\\\'s [[LaughablyEvil hilarious]], and always follows his fleeing by a BigDamnHeroes moment at the right time. He\\\'s kind of more likable than Kanta, if no morally better.
* \\\'\\\'Anime/{{Noir}}\\\'\\\': the title characters (or at least Mireille) start off like this. Also, [[spoiler:it\\\'s open to interpretation but in Noir the position seems to be an attempt by the Soldats to intentionally create type V anti heroes]].
* The main character of \\\'\\\'Anime/AfroSamurai\\\'\\\' (in the Anime) is something of a tragic example of this; he is not without some humanity in him, but ends up burying it in his all-consuming pursuit of vengeance and adherence to his brutal code of honor.
** It\\\'s actually questionable if Afro counts for even that much, or if he\\\'s just a full-out VillainProtagonist. Most Type V anti-heroes are distinguished from villains by the fact that they\\\'re marginally better than those they fight. Afro\\\'s goals are, effectively, identical to those that he fights, and a strong argument could be made that the audience only sympathizes with him because we saw his back story, and didn\\\'t see theirs.
* [[spoiler:Ryoko Asakura]] in \\\'\\\'Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya\\\'\\\', from Book 10 and onward.
* Bando (in the manga) and [[VillainProtagonist Lucy]] from \\\'\\\'Manga/ElfenLied\\\'\\\' and anime versions, respectively.
* BloodKnight Kyoya Hibari of \\\'\\\'Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn\\\'\\\'.
* Thorfinn of \\\'\\\'Manga/VinlandSaga\\\'\\\' is as clear-cut a Type V Anti Hero there is, what with his uncaring partaking into as much slaughter and destruction he can hope to muster. The only thing that prevents him from being a full-on VillainProtagonist is the fact that he doesn\\\'t enjoy it.
* Mayuri and Kenpachi from \\\'\\\'Manga/{{Bleach}}\\\'\\\'. They start out as full-on antagonists, but even after the ConspiracyRedemption they still remain as TokenEvilTeammate and a largely amoral BloodKnight.
** Ichigo\\\'s AxCrazy SuperpoweredEvilSide, [[FanNickname Shirosaki]] also qualifies as a Type V AntiHero.
* Yukiteru of \\\'\\\'Manga/MiraiNikki\\\'\\\' eventually [[TookaLevelinBadass becomes]] this, by [[MoralEventHorizon slaughtering orphans]], and getting \\\'\\\'[[SerialEscalation worse from there.]]\\\'\\\'
* In \\\'\\\'FullmetalAlchemist\\\'\\\', Scar starts off the beginning of the series as this trope, going about murdering [[PersonOfMassDestruction State Alchemists]] for their participation in the wholesale slaughter of his ethnic group.
* NobleDemon Dark Schneider (And his subordinates) from \\\'\\\'Manga/{{Bastard}}\\\'\\\' (with moments of Type IV). Although he has some PetTheDog moments toward his allies and more specifically Yoko, he is a complete egocentric JerkAss who destroy his enemies in a huge level of sadism, openly admits that as soon as he takes down the BigBad of the series, he will subjugate the world through mass-murder and warfare, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking treats nearly everyone in the rudest manner possible, and gropes girls without any sense of shame]].
* \\\'\\\'[[Manga/{{Naruto}} Sasuke Uchiha]]\\\'\\\' jumps from Type III to Type V before [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope cannonballing off the slippery slope]] into being a straight-up VillainProtagonist.
* Hiei, resident NobleDemon of \\\'\\\'Manga/YuYuHakusho\\\'\\\', though over time he start to mellow out into Type IV.
* The Rail Tracer [[spoiler:(Claire Stenfield)]] of \\\'\\\'LightNovel/{{Baccano}}\\\'\\\', [[spoiler:saves a train and its passengers from being hijacked from two enemy factions, all the while [[HighHeelFaceTurn winning the heart]] of a [[TheSpeechless silent beauty]]. Nevermind that he\\\'s a trained mafia assassin who brutally murders dozens of people from both factions and [[BreakTheCutie tortures]] a [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld little boy]].]]
** [[spoiler:That the little boy is an immortal and, just little bit earlier, was trying to convince the leader of one of the factions to massacre everyone on the train helps takes the sting out of it a little.]]
* Kyo of \\\'\\\'Manga/SamuraiDeeperKyo\\\'\\\'- see the description of Dark Schneider, except in Sengoku Japan and with no interest in world domination.
* Kuroudo Akabane of \\\'\\\'Manga/GetBackers\\\'\\\'.
* Giuse of \\\'\\\'Manga/GunslingerGirl\\\'\\\'. As he reveals to Henrietta, he\\\'s only nice to her... until things go to hell and Henrietta is \\\"reset to factory settings\\\", leading Giuse to take a \\\'\\\'very\\\'\\\' steep dive over the DespairEventHorizon and [[TookALevelInJerkass treat her like he does practically everybody else]] following the realization that he could do nothing to help her. [[spoiler:[[LaserGuidedKarma Later on, though, he thinks his behavior led Henrietta to]] [[UnfriendlyFire frag him during the nuclear power plant strike]].]]
* \\\'\\\'{{Gundam 00}}\\\'\\\' has two; Hallelujah Haptism, the SuperpoweredEvilSide of ReluctantWarrior Allelujah Haptism, and Nena Trinity in the second season by virtue of being against [[CompleteMonster Ali Al-Saachez]] and [[BigBad Ribbons Almark]], who are much, \\\'\\\'much\\\'\\\' worse than her.
* Yuri from \\\'\\\'Anime/AngelBeats\\\'\\\', at first. The OVA (released after the anime was completed) made her out as a VillainProtagonist by having her run toward the MoralEventHorizon... [[ForegoneConclusion then stopping right at the edge]]. She matured to Type III following the Naoi incident that nearly ended with her disappearing through false happy memories, and after Kanade\\\'s HeelFacePirouette she\\\'s more of a Type II, especially after her redemption at the end of the Shadows incident with an act that sealed her HeelFaceTurn.
** In the manga, her tenure as VillainProtagonist lasts from the moment she decides to [[spoiler:kill all the students at the Afterlife School]] to the moment where Hinata convinces her to not follow through with the murders. Other than that, she\\\'s a Type V in the manga as well.
* The Three protagonists, Mataichi, Ogin and Nagamimi of \\\'\\\'Literature/RequiemFromTheDarkness\\\'\\\'.
* [[MagnificentBastard Kokujo]] of \\\'\\\'Anime/DuelMasters\\\'\\\'.
* Nougami Neuro from \\\'\\\'Manga/MajinTanteiNougamiNeuro\\\'\\\'.
* [[DirtyCoward Joichiro Nishii]] and [[BloodKnight Shion Izumi]] of \\\'\\\'Anime/{{Gantz}}\\\'\\\'. Though Izumi at the very end of his life falls into type IV as his very last act was a heroic sacrifice to save a girl who was arguably his love
** Many of the Osaka members on the other hand are type V at best. Several of them are sadists who get off on hurting defenseless aliens who just happen to be their enemies. For the most part they could care less about their own team mates and threaten to kill innocent people who simply irritate them and one is a serial rapist who because its illegal simply rapes female aliens before murdering them. They are complete monsters who just happen to be fighting for the good of mankind.
* Paul, ArrogantKungFuGuy and {{Jerkass}} {{Badass}} extraordinaire from \\\'\\\'Anime/{{Pokemon}}\\\'\\\'.
* Ninjas Anastasia of the Glacier and Kamonosuke Yuri of the \\\'\\\'{{Brave 10}}\\\'\\\'. The former just cares for herself, her master and somewhat reluctantly about her team mates; besides that, she\\\'ll do \\\'\\\'anything\\\'\\\' to do her job. The latter is an AxCrazy sociopath who loves killing and stealing but gets [[FoeYay strangely infatuated]] by the hero of the story after being thoroughly beaten by him.
* The eponymous SkullMan, at least in ShotaroIshinomori\\\'s original 1970 manga. He carves a bloody swathe of violence through the story, killing both {{Yakuza}} and policemen in his quest for {{Revenge}}, and does so with an EvilGrin on his face the whole time. When Ishinomori tried to get \\\'\\\'[=SkullMan=]\\\'\\\' turned into a TV series, Toei rejected it in part because of this, leading him to revamp the concept and produce a much more heroic character: KamenRider.
* All members of the [[WellIntentionedExtremist Chronos Organization]] from \\\'\\\'BlackCat\\\'\\\'.
* Kurei Mori/Hanabishi from \\\'\\\'FlameOfRecca\\\'\\\'. Even after his HeelFaceTurn, he\\\'s still as ruthless as before. Despite separating himself and his loyal followers from the Uruha, and pursuing the same quarry as Recca and his allies, his vicious and ruthless nature remains unchanged, even until the end of the series.
* Kyoko Sakura from \\\'\\\'PuellaMagiMadokaMagica\\\'\\\' is this when we first meet her, willing to sacrifice humans to familiars if it means she gets more Grief Seeds. Her bond with [[spoiler: Sayaka]] causes her to move up the ranks, to about a Type II or III. It\\\'s also implied that she used to be more of a straight hero, before [[spoiler: her father\\\'s murder-suicide of her mother and sister [[BreakTheCutie broke her]].]]
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* ComicBook/TheGoon and Franky of \\\'\\\'The Goon\\\'\\\' comic are both tried and true, card-carrying gangsters with all that would imply. However, what prevents them from being {{Villain Protagonist}}s are the fact that they possess strict honor codes, will always protect those who need it, and only fight those who\\\'ve done wrong.
* ThePunisher (the original NinetiesAntiHero) generally sits here, especially in the MAX series, but is sometimes played as a type IV. He is a BloodKnight VigilanteMan SerialKillerKiller who won\\\'t hesitate to use mass murder and the JackBauerInterrogationTechnique in his war on crime. He is also extremely diligent in [[NeverHurtAnInnocent not killing innocents]] (although there have been a few exceptions), and the guys he fights are usually [[CompleteMonster considerably worse]], [[AntiVillain but]] [[WellIntentionedExtremist not]] [[NobleDemon always.]] Personality-wise he\\\'s also an UngratefulBastard who will kill you if you\\\'re on the \\\"black\\\" side of his BlackAndWhiteMorality viewpoint regardless of if you saved his life.
* The last \\\'\\\'SinCity\\\'\\\' \\\"hero\\\" to be mentioned here would be Miho, who is at least as bad as Marv, and probably even more extreme. Her true motives are mostly unknown since she is mute. She seems to have loyalty almost exclusively to Old Town. She has assisted Dwight in the past only because he once saved her life but that didn\\\'t stop her from essentially threatening to kill him if he interfered while she was torturing a corrupt cop in the middle of a street. This incident was so violent and brutal that Dwight and the Old Town girls showed open disgust with her actions. Otherwise, the best you can say about her is that she doesn\\\'t target innocent people.
* From \\\'\\\'Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}\\\'\\\', the Comedian: a laughing thrill-killing BloodKnight torturer, rapist, war criminal and all-around PsychoForHire.
** The Creator/AynRand-like KnightTemplar Rorschach (who idolizes the Comedian as \\\"a patriotic war hero\\\"), is either this or a type IV. [[WellIntentionedExtremist His goals are generally noble]], [[BlackAndGreyMorality most of the people he kills are far worse than him]] and he has a number of PetTheDog moments such as [[ChildrenAreInnocent his sympathy towards his landlady\\\'s children]] and disgust over what happened to Kitty Genovese.
* Hyde, Nemo, and Griffin in \\\'\\\'TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen\\\'\\\'. A couple of serial rapists and murderers (and a psychopathic pirate in Nemo\\\'s case) who are offered an official pardon if they\\\'ll turn those qualities against the Empire\\\'s enemies.
** Rather (un)fortunately, the [[Film/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen film version]] could not secure Griffin, so they exchanged him for freshly-created [[LoveableRogue Rodney Skinner]], which was a good or a bad change, depending on who you ask.
* [[TheAntiChrist Daimon]] [[AntiAntiChrist Hellstrom]].
* MarvelComics\\\' original Comicbook/{{Venom}}, Eddie Brock. And 1990s GhostRider sometime \\\"substitute\\\", Vengeance.
* The NobleDemon HeroicComedicSociopath {{Deadpool}} is this, and an AntiVillain [[SlidingScaleOfAntiVillains Type I]]. He easily eclipses even the Punisher, as he frequently finds it \\\'\\\'funny\\\'\\\' to casually torture, dismember, and murder people.
* The SecretSix are this, and {{Antivillain}}s [[SlidingScaleOfAntiVillains Type I]]. Even the most sociopathic of the Six are, in some manner, sympathetic characters, who generally fight villains for money or out of personal grudges. Black Alice may or may not be a type IV though.
* [[SamAndMaxFreelancePolice Max.]] Dear God, Max. He admittedly lacks any form of a conscience, considers it a compliment to be called a grade-A sociopath, and was even dubbed the most terrifyingly dangerous force in the universe by \\\'\\\'the villain\\\'\\\' in the video games. The only thing that really seems to keep him in line is his less sociopathic partner.
* DependingOnTheWriter, {{Lobo}} is sometimes portrayed as one, instead of a SatireParodyPastiche of a RuleOfCool BadAss [[VillainSue unstoppable villain-full-stop]]. Considering that he is worse than Hitler, \\\'\\\'without any hyperbole involved\\\'\\\', [[WhereIWasBornAndRazed as he wiped out his own]] PillarsOfMoralCharacter utopian species for kicks and giggles... when he was a teenager, this reveals a lot about certain media conventions.
* {{Fables}}\\\' [[WouldHurtAChild Frau Totenkinder]].
* The Superhero team TheAuthority largely started as types IV under WarrenEllis, extremely violent with great collateral damage, but only against potential world-ending threats that were a sufficient danger to not hold back against, although Warren much later stated that he wrote them as [[EvilVersusEvil villains aimed at greater evils]], so it is definitely arguable. However, they were extremely benevolent in other respects; and overall genuinely attempted to make the world into a better place. On the other hand, from the point MarkMillar got a hold of them and onwards they turned into outright proud extreme psychopath hedonists, who used overkill extremes of inventive torture, mutilation, dehumanisation, and mass-murder against completely outmatched normal human opponents, and casually {{Mind Rape}}d, permanently transformed/mutilated, or otherwise routinely went to petty DisproportionateRetribution extremes against harmless bystanders, exes, anybody they disagreed with, because they were bored and found it funny, and so onwards based on personal whims, while sprouting flippant arrogant sadistic {{OneLiner}}s.
* {{Garfield}}. [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/crosses_5856.png See here.]]
* All the [[ComicBook/TheMetabarons Metabarons]]. Steelhead in particular tends more towards VillainProtagonist in his darker moments.
* Comicbook/{{Ares}} of \\\'\\\'DarkAvengers\\\'\\\' and \\\'\\\'IncredibleHercules\\\'\\\' fame - during his time as a member of IronMan\\\'s \\\'\\\'Mighty Avengers\\\'\\\' he was a TokenEvilTeammate - misogynistic, AxeCrazy, disobeying orders because he wanted to fight Hercules and knocking out his teammate when he tried to talk things out with Herc. Yet in DarkAvengers he was a TokenGoodTeammate, mostly because the team was full of [[VillainProtagonist Villain Protagonists]] and somebody had to keep them in line. AFatherToHisMen, loves his son and may jump into a time vortex to finish a fight.
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* The main character of Fanfic/ChristianHumberReloaded, when he isn\\\'t being a VillainProtagonist. At times, he\\\'s willing to atone for the crimes he or his corrupted side committed and hunt down criminals or other villains. However, he not only has no qualms about killing people, but seems to enjoy doing so and tends to use lethal force even when it\\\'s unnecessary.
* The forces of [=newChaos=] from \\\'\\\'FanFic/TheOpenDoor\\\'\\\' straddle the thin line between this and outright VillainProtagonist; they do have a good motivation in wanting to protect their universe\\\'s branch of humanity and stop the OmnicidalManiac C\\\'tan, and they [[EvenEvilHasStandards do have standards]], such as going MamaBear[=/=]PapaWolf on child abusers, but they also have a lengthy list of atrocities against them more befitting of evildoers.
* Many \\\'\\\'many\\\'\\\' {{Original Character}}s fit this trope, thanks to SturgeonsLaw. [[FanFic/MyImmortal Ebony Dark\\\'ness Dementia Raven Way]] is perhaps the most well-known example.
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* [[Franchise/TheChroniclesOfRiddick Riddick]] (Conan in Space).
* [[EscapeFromNewYork Snake Plissken.]] Practically counts as type IV and V.
* Tyler Durden, the nihilistic anarchist of \\\'\\\'FightClub\\\'\\\'.
* Film/{{Beetlejuice}}
* Takuma \\\"Terry\\\" Tsurugi of \\\'\\\'Film/TheStreetFighter\\\'\\\' is a brutal and pitiless man. He\\\'s especially nasty in the first film, where he sells a girl into slavery and kills her brother when they\\\'re not able to pay him for services rendered, and he\\\'s not above sacrificing innocents that he\\\'s not directly helping. He avoids VillainProtagonist territory by fighting against {{Yakuza}}, whom he despises, and working to protect the good guys, even though he does so for his own reasons. He\\\'s more of a Type IV in \\\'\\\'The Street Fighter\\\'s Last Revenge.\\\'\\\'
* Hugo Stiglitz and Aldo Raine of \\\'\\\'InglouriousBasterds\\\'\\\' are either this or at least Type iV.
* Jules Winnfeld of \\\'\\\'PulpFiction\\\'\\\'.
** By the end, Jules shows signs of mellowing out to a Type II or III, as he decides to quit his job as a hitman and take on a spiritual life. He solidifies this in the diner scene where he deals with Honey Bunny and Pumpkin peacefully and acknowledges that he\\\'s not a good man but he\\\'ll try to do better.
* Tony Montana from \\\'\\\'{{Scarface}}\\\'\\\'.
* Tuco in \\\'\\\'Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly\\\'\\\'. What stops him from becoming a full VillainProtagonist are his PetTheDog moments with his \\\"partner\\\" Blondie and his priest brother (whose scene where they meet is a straight TearJerker) and his being less evil than the antagonist of the film, Angel Eyes.
** This is debatable. While he\\\'s no paragon of integrity, Tuco doesn\\\'t really do anything outright evil in the movie, which places him at Type IV, but how you fit him depends on whether or not you believe he was actually guilty of the crimes he\\\'s wanted for.
* Royce of \\\'\\\'{{Predators}}\\\'\\\'.
* Steven the Irishman of \\\'\\\'Film/{{Braveheart}}\\\'\\\'. He seems to have only joined the Scots because he\\\'ll be able to kill Englishmen, not to help the Scots to get freedom.
* Ronnie Barnhard of \\\'\\\'ObserveAndReport\\\'\\\'.
* Captain Barbossa in the third \\\'\\\'PiratesOfTheCaribbean\\\'\\\' film. In the first movie, he was an AntiVillain.
* The Heisei incarnation of {{Godzilla}} falls under this. He\\\'s \\\'\\\'\\\'faaaaaar\\\'\\\'\\\' from being a \\\"good guy\\\", but he does save the world (mostly [[TheTokyoFireball Japan]]) from more-dangerous monsters and is absolutely [[PapaWolf devoted to his son, \\\"Junior\\\".]]
* [[TaxiDriver Travis Bickle]] is somewhere between this and a Type IV. A SociopathicHero, he genuinely wishes to save Iris from a life of prostitution, but his methods are... extreme. It also should not be forgotten that, had his whole plan worked out, he would have [[spoiler:assassinated a senator and presidential candidate.]]
* The Swedish Chef in TheMuppets. He roasted innocent talking vegetables to death in the 2011 movie and \\\'\\\'attempted to kill and eat [[SesameStreet Big Bird]].\\\'\\\' In a \\\'\\\'Christmas special.\\\'\\\'
* Oilman Daniel Plainview from \\\'\\\'ThereWillBeBlood\\\'\\\'. By the near end of the film he jumps into VillainProtagonist territory.
* [[TheChessmaster Michael Corleone]] from \\\'\\\'Film/TheGodfather\\\'\\\'.
* Wesley Gibson of Film/{{Wanted}} is this type of anti-hero in the movie, but a VillainProtagonist in the [[ComicBook/{{Wanted}} comic books]].
* The starring columbiana from \\\'\\\'Columbiana\\\'\\\'. She even admits to it.
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* Karsa Orlong from Steven Erikson\\\'s \\\'\\\'MalazanBookOfTheFallen\\\'\\\' is as anti as a hero can get. Being something of a {{deconstruction}} of the ProudWarriorRaceGuy, Karsa aims to improve the world... by slaughtering millions of people and smashing civilization back to barbarism.
* Mike Harmon in John Ringo\\\'s \\\'\\\'Literature/PaladinOfShadows\\\'\\\' series is this in \\\'\\\'Ghost\\\'\\\', the first book of the series, and is much of the reason for the famous cry \\\"OH JOHN RINGO NO.\\\" He later moves towards Type IV. As he himself puts it, \\\"I\\\'m a very, very bad man who tries to be nice.\\\"
* Thomas Covenant of \\\'\\\'The ChroniclesOfThomasCovenant\\\'\\\' is a mix of this and Type I in the first trilogy. In the second trilogy he\\\'s more of a Type III.
* Yarol, the Venusian sidekick in C.L. Moore\\\'s Literature/NorthwestSmith stories, is heavily implied to be a Type V antihero. The narration never specifies his enormities, but hints that his [[{{Bishonen}} angelic beauty]] belies his absolutely evil nature. That Northwest Smith himself enjoys Yarol\\\'s company does not speak well of his own moral character, either, though he seems to be more of a Type IV character.
* Maldoror in Isidore Ducasse\\\'s \\\'\\\'Songs of Maldoror\\\'\\\'.
* Frank Dominio, the [[SuperOCD supremely]] [[TheUnfettered obsessive]] [[VillainProtagonist narrator]] of ThomasLigotti\\\'s \\\'\\\'My Work Is Not Yet Done\\\'\\\'.
* [[{{Everworld}} Senna Wales]], the witch of \\\'\\\'Everworld.\\\'\\\' She is motivated by her completely selfish goal of overthrowing the powers of Everworld, seizing control over the foundations of reality, and then [[DimensionLord ruling over the universe]] as [[AGodAmI an absolute god]]. However, she is kept from being a VillainProtagonist because most of the real villains that she opposes (Huizilopocli, Hel, Ka Anor) are complete monsters, she [[TokenEvilTeammate helps the other protagonists more often than she goes against them]], and she seems to genuinely think that Everworld and its people would be better off with her ruling them all.
* Meursault from TheStranger.
* Lestat of TheVampireChronicles.
* Raskolnikov, ByronicHero of \\\'\\\'Literature/CrimeAndPunishment\\\'\\\'.
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