Anti-hero, or Asshole? The life and times of Thomas Cromwell. ONE
"I'm not a tiara, I simply bedazzled my horns," (most likely from) "She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, After a moment I pushed my chair back and went over to the french windows. I opened the screen and stepped out on to the porch. The night was all around, soft and quiet. The white moonlight was cold and clear, like the justice we dream of but don’t find. ― Raymond Chandler, The High Window The anti-hero has become something of a thingie in the 20th and 21st centuries. Main characters of books and life are understood through a series of grey shades, rather than the evangelicalized black and white paradigm. I rather liked this treatment of the modern anti-hero: https://www.altaonline.com/dispatches/a8699/noir-antihero-david-l-ulin/ If you use a type of 'weight scale', where good and bad are measured, I think Thomas Cromwell might come out in the middle somewhere. Of course, if you talk to any architectural or art historians out there (Cromwell de