What are Anti-Heroes? How do regular people become Anti-Heroes? For one thing not every hero is recognized and has a secluded home in the arctic, or is so rich in their everyday life that they have a massive cave under their house with high tech gadgets. Not everyone is that lucky. Heroes have almost always had tragic backstories that led them to want to help others so they wouldn't have to feel the same pain. Anti-Heroes are just a different standard of hero. Too brutal to be considered heroes. Takes a tad bit of money here and there from jobs SO THEY CAN EAT! sometimes the words Anti-Hero and Villain are associated a bit too close. Sometimes the promises they couldn't keep, the lies they were force fed, and the losses that they've suffered were too harsh of a hell to come back from completely. Maybe these Anti-heroes can't completely be heroes because they can't completely fill the hole that made them this way. If they did fill this hole that made them heroes... They wouldn't be heroes.