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also anti-villain and anti-hero are COMPLETELY different concepts.

anti-villain = a villain who acts with traditional "hero" tendencies (for example has a code of honor, respects opponents, tries to minimize civilian casualties etc)

anti-hero = a hero who acts WITHOUT traditional "hero" tendencies (for example kills opponents, does not play well with others, will break the law if it is for the greater good (or even personal whim) - are considered rogue or mad by more conservative heroes) : they differ from villains and anti-villains in the fact that while being scumbags they ARE still "on the side of good".. remember a rule that Hopkins from Bully embodied "good is not always nice" - Hopkins was a thug and a bully himself but he is an anti-hero because he usually screwed over people worse than himself and ultimately improved his setting rather than ruin it.