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DONNIE DARKO ESSAY: Donnie Darko is perceived by viewers of the film as being a classic anti-hero. He displays no consistent attributes that either a hero or superhero would normally possess but rather has glimpses of heroic feats that come about due to events out of his control. Donnie proves his anti-heroism on two separate occasions, the first which was flooding the school enabling him to meet the girl of his dreams was done physically by him but mentally he was unaware of his actions at all, the word anti-hero means a hero of unconventional type and isn’t a hero that isn’t awake during his actions incredibly unconventional. Donnie’s actions enabled him to meet Gretchen and show her how “beautiful the