• Num10ck@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    it was so different because he was an anti-hero, and he got visibly beat thoroughly and never stopped being a smart ass about it.

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      11 months ago

      I wanted to say that’s not what ‘anti-hero’ means, but I kind of see where you’re coming from. In my mind, an anti-hero does terrible stuff to achieve good goals (Deadpool being a prime example), while John McClaine does do some pretty vicious things, but is more or less just trying to survive, not because he wants to do the terrible things.