From this, the anti-hero became the center of countless novels, radio shows, and the new technology of the television. As television has grown, so has the genre of the anti-hero. Audiences love to see a bit of themselves in the characters they love, yet they also enjoy seeing something to aspire to, goals to reach for, or new possibilities of limits reached and exceeded. Brombert lends credence to this idea that the anti-hero cannot be pinned down to any specific set of traits, because, like real life, each one is unique. Brombert claims that the anti-hero is a study in paradox and that the most basic definition of an anti-hero that is able to prevent leaving anyone out of the spectrum is that the anti-hero is only a “countermodel” of the hero motif. Today, the anti-hero can be found in many different versions, with just about any personality along the spectrum of anti-hero behaviors, anywhere in the world. One such anti-hero, is Will Burton, from the BBC’s 2013 legal drama, The…show more content… He interviews with a small firm in Scotland. They express extreme interest in him, basically offering him a job if he really wants to move away from London. The woman Will interviews with tells him he has chosen “a great place for families” and suggests he “tour around a bit.” Will rents a car and drives around. He stops at a pub to use the restroom, where he runs into Foyle washing his hands. Will sits outside of the pub in his car and follows Foyle home, hoping to get him to talk about Kate’s murder so that he can record the conversation and use it as “compelling new evidence” to try Foyle for Kate’s murder a second time. Of course, Foyle doesn’t fall for it and actually charges at Will, knocking him to the ground. In the process, Will pulls out a knife he has in his pocket and manages to cut Foyle on the arm. The cut isn’t serious and Foyle shows no concern over
