How to Use antihero in a Sentence

antihero

noun

• Do the Emmys show the age of the antihero (Tony, Walt, Don) is over?
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2021
• In the late ’90s, The Sopranos ushered in the age of the antihero.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 19 July 2021
• How will Ava, a bad boss and a Black woman, torque the antihero trope?
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2022
• The Rock, who will play the antihero, announced the news via a takeover in Times Square on Sunday.
  — Rachel Yang, EW.com, 29 Mar. 2021
• So, which of Good Grief’s three antiheroes does Levy relate to the most?
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 4 Jan. 2024
• She’s the protagonist and the antihero, and gets the most screen time by far.
  — Stephanie Burt, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2021
• Namor, the brown antihero of the film, is no shallow villain.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2022
• All with a hint of the prestige TV antihero for good measure.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 14 Sep. 2020
• The antihero pulled straight from Spider-Man’s comics and played by Tom Hardy will star in a sequel in 2020.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 22 Aug. 2019
• The series stars Oscar Isaac as the Marvel antihero and is due out in March.
  — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2022
• Goggins is the Ghoul, an antihero of sorts who crosses paths with Lucy.
  — Danielle Directo-Meston, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 May 2024
• El Muerto is an antihero and the son of a luchador, or Mexican wrestler.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 June 2023
• Now, in the diffuse and shapeless post-vaccine Biden era, both antihero shows and sweet shows seem to have run out of steam.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 16 June 2024
• As with the first film, the namesake antihero will be dark and complex with an aesthetic to match.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 28 Oct. 2022
• For many, Zaslav is something of an antihero, at the center of the town’s story for all the wrong reasons.
  — Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2023
• Pope was a rare female antihero in a Tom Ford power suit.
  — Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2019
• Jared Leto plays the Marvel antihero in this action thriller.
  — Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2021
• Elba is still quite good as the antihero John Luther, who starts the story in jail due to some of the questionable choices he’s made over the years.
  — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2023
• The new movie is set to follow the antihero nearly 5,000 years after he was bestowed with the powers of the Egyptian gods.
  — Carson Burton, Variety, 23 July 2022
• What if we’d been asked to see her—as we are asked to see every superhero in the comic—as an antihero?
  — Namwali Serpell, The New York Review of Books, 24 Mar. 2020
• Even for fans who might recognize a bit of themselves in these shows, there are thrills to be found watching the antiheroes squirm.
  — Jay Cheshes, Robb Report, 4 Mar. 2023
• Do like the supervillain-turned-antihero and sport it with brown trousers, a white button-down shirt and a gold TVA belt buckle.
  — Danielle Directo-Meston, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Oct. 2022
• Phase 5 will end with the fourth Captain America movie and the arrival of a new antihero team called the Thunderbolts.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 23 July 2022
• This pitch-black tale of elder-care abuse and fraud finds Rosamund Pike in peak icy form as the ambitious antihero of J. Blakeson’s thriller.
  — David Canfield, EW.com, 9 Sep. 2020
• In the world of Marvel Comics, a female antihero—a female anything—is a step forward.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 14 June 2019
• Any effort at high-minded seriousness about the role of the antihero in a world of caped crusaders is out the window.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2021
• In 2018, Oscar winner Jamie Foxx signed on to star as the titular antihero.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 25 July 2024
• That version of the show didn’t get picked up, but a year later the studio re-imagined it for streaming and made the lead character a lot messier and more of an antihero.
  — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 8 Nov. 2022
• Joe Exotic, who can only be described as the antihero of Tiger King, has more than one husband in the series.
  — Lydia Wang, refinery29.com, 29 Mar. 2020
• These characters are all more antiheroes (if not straight-up villains) than superheroes.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 28 July 2024

Last Updated: 20 Sep 2024