non-hero

1. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) another name for antihero

2. (Film) another name for antihero

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

References in periodicals archive ?

Only one thing was certain: This non-hero does not belong in the hallowed grounds of the Libingan ng mga Bayani.

The Marcos myth-making continues

Resolutely unsentimental, this book celebrates the love shared by a kid and his non-hero dad.

Parker, Danny (text) Matt Ottley (illus.): No Kind of Superman

"He is always able to find the heroic in a non-hero. Eddie is just like that.

Playing it straight; Playing dowdy cab dispatcher Sandra in The Street is a long way from Gavin & Stacey's feisty Nessa. But that's exactly how Ruth Jones likes it, finds Emily Lambert

TREHALOSE [di-glucose] A cognate anagram "heat loser" (like all sugars it gives up its latent heat when metabolised); an arguably definitive double transsubstitution halo-sweet ('holo-' meaning wholly glucose or "blood sugar"); and an irrelevant rebus about a non-caring non-hero: "Teary?

Are all words interesting?

Compared to traditional Chinese film anti-Japanese heroes and the non-hero in Red Sorghum, the characters in Devils on the Doorstep are almost anti-heroes.

From Red Sorghum to Devils on the Doorstep: conceptual evolution in Chinese film adaptations

Your correspondent Mr Hughes has Cunedda as a non-hero. Cunedda, his eight sons and his grandson, came to Cambria (Wales) to clear out the Scotti invaders (Irish) in order for the legitimate High King 'Constantine the Blessed' to return from exile.

Blame it on Bede

Our tortured non-hero heads for the dark continent where, one by one, he saves his chums and proves he's a brave man after all.

Bright as a Feather; THE FOUR FEATHERS Cert: 15, 131 mins

Instead, if they at first sight retain some manliness through their toughness and the overpowering presence of the aging Gable, these modern day non-heroes are left behind by an industrialized and city-oriented society.

Cinematographic imperfection: the art of life in film (On John Huston's The Misfits, 1961)

For Collingwood was a hero amongst non-heroes who rose from the ashes of a humiliating Test thrashing in Australia to hand England a totally unexpected going home present.

Colly's double dream

Congratulations to psychotic Scotsman Jason for providing an even more revolting spectacle than the carnage of the chimpanzees' food fight that left at least three of our non-heroes facing the possibility of criminal charges.

The BIG BIG BROTHER PAPER: The evil is over ..so, what now?

And here is the worst part of Apted's directing, as he tries in vain to whip up a pulsing thriller out of these essentially cerebral elements, these two non-heroes having a brainstorm.

Easy on the adrenals: too easy, in Enigma's case; Harvard Man is more stimulating