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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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9) Suicide Squad

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Suicide Squad isn’t even out yet, but we have a pretty good feeling that the group will deserve their placement as some of the best comic book movie anti-heroes of all-time.

The movie will see several DC supervillains – including Harley Quinn, Deadshot, Boomerang, Killer Croc and Enchantress – being forcibly recruited into the service of the US government to combat an even greater threat (possibly Jared Leto’s Joker?). The idea being that they are more expendable than proper good guys. Hence the name that Will Smith’s Deadshot gives them in the trailer – the Suicide Squad.

Thanks to a great marketing campaign, Suicide Squad is increasingly rising up the list of most anticipated upcoming superhero films. The cast is stellar and can hopefully be trusted not to water down their villainous characters into mere good guys.

Combined with Deadpool, 2016 is clearly a great year for comic book movie anti-heroes.

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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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