Anti-hero protagonist

Creatures theme

Protagonists who lack traits commonly attributed to heroes, such as nobility, bravery, selflessness, etc. Generally any villainous and/or selfish protagonist though includes cowards, fools and others.

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games

platforms

Name variations: selfish protagonist

UnEpic

WIN 2011-10-02

Wanted: Weapons of Fate

PS3 2009-03-24

Deadpool

PS3 2013-06-25

Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna

SX1 1989-02

WIN 2008-06-27

X360 2007-11-14

WIN TBA 2015

PS3 2011-02-25

The Suffering: Ties That Bind

XBOX 2005-09

Overlord

X360 2007-06-26

Assassin's Creed

WIN 2008-04-08

Dreamweb

AGA 1994

Redundant clarification:
Although protagonist is often interchanged with main character and hero in various contexts, the last one is only because it's the most common type of protagonist. As such the name of this tag is not paradoxical by implying unheroic hero (negating itself), instead it stands for unheroic main character.

Can be combined with hero protagonist.

Parent group

Protagonist variants

Child group

Foolish protagonist

Games by year

The first Anti-hero protagonist video game was released on March 14, 1983.

Kalypso Media Digital, Activision and THQ published most of these games.

Platforms