To ‘hero’ or to ‘antihero’? That is the question ~

Now don’t get me wrong. In my novels I’ve had stormy characters of the antihero clan come in their flawed, scarred armour and battle-worn wit and rescue me from the multi-headed Hydra of “The Writer’s Block”, so my point could never be against them. For better or for worse, both readers and writers tend to claim they identify more easily with a more “human” and “real” character… At least that’s what the definition of an antihero almost always entails.