The Sliding Scale of Anti Heroes

Post » Mon May 16, 2011 11:38 pm

As most of us know Tv Tropes will completely ruin your volcabulary. Sadly, being the mindless sheep that I am, I figure if you can't beat em', join em'. So, quite simply, where do your characters (Vault Dweller/Chosen One, ect...) fall on the scale, if anywhere. Here's a link for more information.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SlidingScaleOfAntiHeroes

For my it goes as follows,
Vault Dweller: Type II
Chosen One: Type III
Lone Wanderer/Courier(I roleplay them as the same person): Starts of as a Type I, spent most of Fallout 3 as a straight hero, became a Type II in New Vegas.
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Manuela Ribeiro Pereira
 
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Post » Tue May 17, 2011 2:46 am

All of mine are villain protagonists. I just dispense with the hero part all together.
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Megan Stabler
 
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Post » Tue May 17, 2011 12:33 am

Vault Dweller isnt an Anti-Hero, he is just a hero.
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Karen anwyn Green
 
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Post » Tue May 17, 2011 3:21 pm

Vault Dweller isnt an Anti-Hero, he is just a hero.

Canonically, yes, but DalekBob classified his character as an Anti-Hero.
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JUan Martinez
 
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Post » Tue May 17, 2011 11:14 am

True, I was aking about the characters we created rather than the canonical version.
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Allison Sizemore
 
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Post » Tue May 17, 2011 10:37 am

Moat of my character are

Anti Hero type V

OR

Neutral Evil


OR

Chaotic Neutral


As most of us know Tv Tropes will completely ruin volcabulary


You bet?
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marie breen
 
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Post » Tue May 17, 2011 10:52 am

I can never get the [censored] that that website is trying to tell me.
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Post » Tue May 17, 2011 1:03 am

@Dario Meza: Am you saein ver someting rong wif meye speling?
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Bloomer
 
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Post » Tue May 17, 2011 11:55 am

I can never get the [censored] that that website is trying to tell me.

They do write in their own unique way :P

But what they are saying are that the classical heroes are like knights in shining armor, or super heroes like Superman that only do good things exactly all the time.
And then anti-heroes are like lesser heroes. They have good intentions, they want to do good, but may fail alot or turn to evil actions to have a good outcome. Think the movie Kickass. He's an Anti-Hero Type 1, most likely. He only has good intentions, to save people like the classical heroes do, but he svcks at it, he's just a teenager with no fighting experience. Then that Batman wannabe comes into the picture - He's probably an Anti-Hero Type 4. Good intentions, he wants a better world but recongnize that the world is full of scum and always will be, and he ruthlessly kills these scum. He's a likeable character, he's got good intentions, but he's out on a revenge, on a killing spree of bad guys. He fights evil in evil ways.

So do you see how that Type 1 Anti-Hero is a good hero that is mostly good but not 100% good, and a Type 5 Anti-Hero is a good hero that is mostly evil but not 100% evil. The higher the number of the type they are, the worse of an hero they are while they are not crossing the line of becoming a Villain.
If you don't play characters that are either a Hero (goody two-shoes that only does good decisions all the time, never getting negative karma) or Anti-Hero (what I just described, good intentions but sometimes you do something less good because the outcome might be better in the end or you just need money), then you are probably a Villain (or in Fallout - Stupid Evil) or Anti-Villain (like the Anti-Hero, but reversed - you do evil things, you are greedy and all that, but sometimes you just do something good or wants to be a better villain that someone, and through greed, help the good side)
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