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I'm trying to wrap my head around the idea of an "anti-villain." I'm familiar with "anti-hero" but never the villain variant. So like.. an anti-hero does good things with generally selfish intent, so an anti-villain would be.. uh.. he does bad things, but with the best intentions? That just sounds like a buffoon, but with a nicer spin on it. A Mr. Bean if you will.
Anti-hero is what I should have said, but I typed that up an hour where I wasn't fully awake and didn't catch that in a proofread. My bad.
Though if I had to I'd call an anti-villain someone who exists entirely to "punish the evil doers" An actual anti- to villains. He has no noble goals and doesn't care about the innocent or doing anything good, just hurting villains. That decouples it from being a foil to anti-hero, but it sounds better to me because that sounds like an interesting character.