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List of Byronic Heroes: Media

Discover some of the most famous bad boys and antiheroes in pop culture.

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The original Byronic hero
Lord Byron, oil on canvas by Richard Westall, 1813; in the National Portrait Gallery,...
Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London
Byronic hero and heroine?
Laurence Olivier as Heathcliff and Merle Oberon as Cathy in William Wyler's 1939...
© Samuel Goldwyn Productions—Photo 12/Alamy