A heroic character that is flawed, and/or morally ambiguous at worst. A morally questionable hero who lacks conventional heroic qualities. An anti-hero is a protagonist who has the opposite of most of the traditional attributes of a hero. They may be bewildered, ineffectual, deluded, or merely apathetic. More often an anti-hero is just an amoral misfit. While heroes are typically conventional, anti-heroes, depending on the circumstances, may be preconventional in a "good" society,