In Ahsoka, from Disney +, the character played by Rosario Dawson repeats on more than one occasion that he no longer follows the Jedi code. However, she seeks to do good and stand up to the last members of the evil galactic Empire. Her goals coincide with those of the extinct group of Force-sensitives, though the former padawan He has decided to go his own way. Anti-hero series and movies are very attractive to the public, so the story of this ancient Jedi is expected to be a success.
As lonely as she is skilled, the protagonist will face the Sith and to the nascent First Order. Ahsoka Tano he is the latest incarnation of the anti-hero in popular culture. Wielding two lightsabers and bearing the wounds of betrayal, the Togruta imagined by Dave Filoni leads Star Wars into new territory: questioning the values and goals of its main faces.
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To celebrate the arrival of Ahsoka To the Disney platform, we leave you five anti-hero films that narrate their ambiguity, an essential element of their appeal in film and television. From a man with mastery of magic who must fight demons and angels, to a mutant dying between old regrets. The selection covers the best of a type of stories that delves into the different facets of power and humanizes central figures who aspire to perfection.
Constantine
First appeared in The Saga of the Swamp Thing #37in June 1985, the creation of Allan Moore He has a complex personality. Grumpy, violent when the situation calls for it and most of the time full of traps and dirty tricks, he couldn’t qualify as a hero.
So, it is not surprising that his arrival on the big screen in 2005 was through a movie. neo noir. Director Francis Lawrence turned DC’s story of a clash between heaven and hell into a cynical plot. Especially, by establishing parallels between good and evil through mafia organizations, each with its rules and limits.
The various diabolical possessions, conversations with biblical hierarchs and supernatural phenomena are more like crimes than miraculous events. The protagonist of one of the most peculiar anti-hero movies, played by Keanu Reeves, crosses dangerous ground after being sentenced to hell after his suicide. Reluctantly and without quitting, he will have to risk his life by facing off against Satan himself. Finally, the battered and ill-tempered figure is given redemption as a strange form of revenge.
Loganthe X-Men antihero movie
James Mangold chose the most popular mutant in the Marvel universe to tell a twilight story in the style of a Western. The result was a melancholic film about the anti-hero in the last stage of his life. As an old man who has partially lost his ability to heal, Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) is far from the splendor of him in the franchise he was the center of. Although he still retains his qualities as a born rebel.
The plot tells how, in full decline, Logan discovers that his genes were used to create X-23 (Dafne Keen), a girl with the same abilities. Little by little, an affectionate relationship will be born between the two that will allow the redemption of the mutant, who bears the blame for the deaths and mistakes of the past.
The script, by Michael Green and James Mangold, manages to capture the essence of the personality that made Wolverine famous. Ironic, full of rage, anger and pain, he traverses rural North America on an almost expiatory journey. Which allows the director to achieve that the film of this anti-hero has the same melancholic air as the epics of Sergio Leone. In the end, Logan sacrifices himself for the greater good and the eternal curmudgeon ends up finding peace.
Watchmana pioneer story
The founding comic Allan Moore it is considered one of the most influential graphic novels in the history of the genre. A challenge for the director zack snyder, which brought this alternate universe of superheroes with a harsh past to the movies. Its protagonists are full of defects, horrors and excesses. The filmmaker narrates this anti-hero film with his usual epic air, which is now slowly succumbing to decadence.
Released in 2009, it is a pioneer of pessimistic stories about fallible superheroes and an evident antecedent of The Boysof Prime Video. His greatest narrative strength is to humanize a group of violent and macabre figures. Although, as often happens, Alan Moore did not like the result of the adaptation, it is considered a vivid version of his work. Especially the way the film shows the various dimensions of the anti-heroes in search of their own conception of justice.
Saga deadpool
The Marvel character, played by Ryan Reynolds, is the quintessential antihero. But not for the reasons of the classic movies. At least, not exclusively because of his penchant for foul language or cold-blooded murder.
It is also for being built as the antithesis of all the great heroes of the franchise. Cruel, ironic and without prejudice when it comes to killing, he is closer to a soulless villain than to the classic well-meaning figures.
Even so, he is capable of sacrifices —without losing his good humor— and even of committing himself, halfway, to just causes. deadpool is a daring version of a jester with killing skills. A narrative surrounded by mocking and direct humor that surprised its arrival at the cinema in 2016. For the sequel to the film, from 2018, Wade Winston Wilson tried to redeem himself with more or less acceptable results. For the third part of him – the first within the canon of the Marvel Cinematic Universe – it is expected that his evolution into a central antihero is complete.
hellboya horror movie antihero
With three films under his belt, this Mike Mignola anti-hero combines all the elements of a grudging hero with a violent fate. Born Anung Un Rama, this beer-loving, cat-loving demon made it to the movies at the hands of Guillermo del Toro in 2004.
The feature film partially adapted the first adventures of the comic, but was criticized for lack of attachment to the complex world that surrounds the character. With a context that takes elements from Jewish, Nordic, Russian and Greek mythology, Mignola’s work is a tribute to good according to what is human and divine.
For that reason, Hellboy’s decision to fight evil is quite a statement of intent. His supernatural heritage condemns him to bring about the end of the world sooner or later. Something that explores the sequel to the original, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, released in 2008.
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The enigmatic anti-hero returned to the cinema in a third film in 2019, although this one did not have the success of its predecessors and was much less complex in the moral duality of its protagonist. All in all, it opened the door to a possible continuation, which is currently being shot and which could be the beginning, now, of a successful franchise.