12 Greatest Ever Comic Book Movie Anti-Heroes

3. The Comedian

Quite where the limit between anti-hero and outright criminal actually is is probably a matter for debate, particularly since The Comedian was at least an attempted racist. But complexity is precisely what sells him - much like the appeal of fellow Watchmen character Rorschach.

Blake's appeal is in his provocative commitment to taking the law into his own hands, and not being scared of killing people for their own benefit. He's fractured - bearing the scars of his time at war - outrageous and he should be absolutely unlikeable, since Alan Moore spends no time trying to make hi sympathetic. Again, he's a rogue defined by his actions, and you very much get the sense - particularly in Jeffrey Dean Morgan's performance - that there are no ties that convince him not to complete his objective.

And of course, he belongs to the same cigar chomping anti-hero club as Wolverine, Hannibal and Gomez Addams.