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10 Greatest Anti-Heroes In Comic Book Movies

The more inundated cinema becomes with superhero movies, the more we are seeing the less squeaky-clean elements of comic book heroes making it to the screen. Even a well-loved character like Iron Man was once an arms dealer and Batman’s more self-destructive qualities were played up in Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy. Yet these characters might as well be kid-friendly cartoon characters compared to the fully-fledged anti-heroes of the genre.
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Published: Mar 4, 2016 03:23 pm

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10) Harry Osborn

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Though the character from the comics isn’t often described as such, Harry Osborn in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy is best summed up as an anti-hero. While he begins the series as Peter Parker’s loyal best friend, after he believes Spider-Man killed his father Norman he becomes obsessed with Spidey’s downfall, something that is complicated when he finds out that his enemy and his best friend are one and the same.

In Spider-Man 3, he is given the, let’s say, ambitious story arc of becoming a fully-fledged villain as the New Goblin then becoming good again as he gets amnesia, before going bad again and then good again just in time to fight at Peter’s side and then die at the climax.

He might not have the neatest character trajectory ever, and he isn’t as badass as the other characters on this list, but an anti-hero is surely defined by their murky morals, and there aren’t many comic book movie characters who switch sides as much as James Franco’s Harry Osborn.

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Christian Bone is a Staff Writer/Editor at We Got This Covered and has been cluttering up the internet with his thoughts on movies and TV for over a decade, ever since graduating with a Creative Writing degree from the University of Winchester. As Marvel Beat Leader, he can usually be found writing about the MCU and yet, if you asked him, he'd probably say his favorite superhero film is 'The Incredibles.'
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