SFX#200: Anti-Heroes

VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! For your favourite SF and fantasy dodgy good guys and reluctant heroes

Anti-Heroes, Slackers & Accidental Good Guys

Welcome to another round in SFX ’s 200 Greatest SF and fantasy characters ever poll in celebration of SFX ’s 200th edition, coming up in August.

In part one of this poll SFX forumites posted hundreds and hundreds of suggestions for SF and fantasy's greatest characters. We have now gone through those lists and a) tallied up who was getting the most votes and b) split the nominees into 10 categories.

Now we’re letting you to vote in each of those categories. The latest category is Anti-Heroes (and other similar shady, dodgy types) .

  • If you want to vote for your favourite HERO click here .
  • If you want to vote for your favourite HEROINE click here .
  • If you want to vote for your favourite SUPERHERO click here .
  • If you want to vote for your favourite MONSTER click here .
  • If you want to vote for your favourite ROBOTS, ANDROIDS AND AIs click here .
  • If you want to vote for your favourite ALIEN click here .
  • If you want to vote for your favourite SAGE BOFFIN OR MENTOR click here .

(Of course, some characters could fit in multiple categories, so we’ve had to make some arbitrary decisions here and there, but we’re running the poll, so live with it!)

We will start revealing the results from 16 August, in the lead up to isue 200 going on sale! Then, finally there will be an ultimate megapoll pitting all the winners of the various individual polls to find out who is the most popular character ever!

PLEASE NOTE: You are voting for the character as a whole, not individual incarnations or representations of that character. The images below are purely to stop the page from looking dull, they are not an indication that you are voting for a particular version of that character

Next poll up, will be Villains on Monday

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