Anti-Heroes in Media

Ichabod Crane's anti-hero character in Washington Irving's "The legend of Sleepy Hollow" spawned a overwhelming amount of such characters in US media, in books, movies, and television shows. Spreading past just American media, but other countries, namely japan that cranks out out anti-heroes in animes like there hotcakes, characters like Sasuke Uchia, from Masashi Kishimoto's popular series "Naruto".

Sasuke Uchia

Sasuke is the deuteragonist, being only second to the main character Naruto. Sasuke is a cold, ruthless, cynical, arrogant kid, that is willing to do whatever it
to further is own agenda( like Ichabod Crane) of becoming strong enough to kill his brother that murdered his entire family. Going as far as murdering other, within the show Sasuke has killed a grand total of 1005 people, one of whom was he brother that he finally got around to killing.



In the first season of the show when he meets his team mates the two other protagonist he show a cold indifference toward them feeling that he was superior to them in all ways, Even as the how progresses and little hints of a possible friendship that arise are quickly squashed by Sasuke.

Sasuke ruthlessly cutting down his partner that was taken hostage by Danzo, because she was standing in the way of him and the dude he wanted to kill, to Sasuke friends are just another obstacle on his way to the top, before and after he killed his brother.







Sasuke Uchia like Ichabod Crane is shining example of a anti-hero in Medea, though he is a self-centered, hardhearted douche-bag, that doesn't give a rat's furry rear-end about anybody but himself. But despite it all he is a tragic hero, that's actions are driving by the death of his entire family (clan), that's my personal favorite character from the show.