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Farerb wrote: ChocolatEyes613 wrote: SlayerNina wrote:

PS: I'm loving Merida and Arthur because they are the classic "templar" hero/some kind of antihero, sorry. I am loving Arthur as an anti-hero, but hating Merida. My main problem, is that Merida will probably be victimized, due to being a woman. While, Arthur will be villainized, due to being a man. Arthur is not an anti-hero. "An anti-hero is someone with some of the qualities of a villain, up to and including brutality, cynicism, and ruthlessness, but with the soul or motivations of a more conventional hero. The anti-hero is the hero who does the right thing, albeit with tactics that are not always what you would call ethical. They are more interested with getting the job done than doing it as virtuously as possible, therefore showing how morally ambiguous they are."

OUaT's  King Arthur is very much an anti-hero. His ultimate goal is to destroy the Darkness, which is heroic. It is his methods to how he would achieve this, that are a different story. Merlin had very high hopes for Arthur, when he predicted that he would be King of Camelot. Arthur just became obssessed with reforging Excalibur, and believes that Merlin gave him false prophecies.