antiheroine

See also: anti-heroine

English

anti- +‎ heroine.

antiheroine (plural antiheroines)

(literature, role-playing games) A female protagonist who proceeds in an unheroic manner, such as by criminal means, via cowardly actions, or for mercenary goals; a female antihero.
- 2009, January 18, “Charles Isherwood”, in Hedda Forever: An Antiheroine for the Ages:
  Since she sprang from the imagination of the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen in 1890, this coldhearted antiheroine has maintained a tight grip on the attention of audiences across the globe, outstripping all the many other complicated women in Ibsen’s oeuvre, even the door-slamming Nora of “A Doll’s House”.

female antihero