In an age of upheaval and challenged faith, traditional heroes are hard to come by, and harder still to love, with their bloodstained hands and backs unbowed by

Modern films, shows, video games, and books are filled with bad guys gone good, "heroes" who fight for justice in unconventional ways. As entertaining as they a

The most interesting characters are almost never the good guys. Doing the right thing is great and all, but a little bit of darkness—or a lot of it—often ma

The antihero prevails in recent American drama television series. Characters such as mobster kingpin Tony Soprano (The Sopranos), meth cook and gangster-in-the-

The last ten years have seen a shift in television storytelling toward increasingly complex storylines and characters. In this study, Hagelin and Silverman zoom