MIDTERM RESEARCH PAPER (2500 words) allows you to explore a literary or media anti-hero of your choice by reviewing the relevant literature, developing an argument, and providing support for your thesis. Some of the broader questions to pose could be: what counts as evil or dangerous in tv’s fictional worlds? What has been the evolution of “evil characters”? How does genre shape notions of amorality or evil and characterizations of the anti-hero? How does the tv anti-hero connect to archetypes from the past?