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Originally Posted by Mesnick

So an anti-hero is someone who does mostly good deeds for malicious reasons?What are the names of those who have equal amounts of good and evil at the end of the work? I think the individualistic approach is to blame here. In the Soviet Union after World War II, the realization came that the enemies in the Civil War were not so bad and this resulted in the creation of books and films where the White Guards were portrayed as likable. And then for ambiguous heroes the terms were used: "one of our own among strangers" and "a stranger among our own" emphasizing that their was an exception to the rule. In general, Lewis spoke about this even earlier in the last book about Narnia: ?If you do good in the name of evil, then you serve good. If you do evil in the name of good, then you serve evil.

Well yeah, an antihero's reasons are malicious at worst, opportunistic at best. For people with equal amounts of good and evil actions, I think they'd either be an extreme antihero or an extreme antivillain, defaulting to the side that's closer to their motivation. It's true that sometimes there's a difference of perception, as evil people who rely on good publicity will depict themselves as good and their enemies as evil, which is of course called propaganda. This can be seen from Lyon Arkland in 01hers, where he points out that "malice" isn't hip and that "justice" is a more sympathetic word and thus more successful in manipulating the good-identifying civilian majority to support an evil cause. A euphemism is a powerful weapon.