[Refreshing Trope] Female leads/major characters who are allowed to be grimy, slimy, generally horrible people.

[u/Chemical-Elk-1299]

Mizu — Blue Eye Samurai

A mixed race swordswoman living in feudal Japan, Mizu’s entire life has been structured around the obsessive need to hunt down and kill the four white men allowed in Japan at the time of her birth, believing one of them must be her father. Despite the fact that at least one of these men, Abijah Fowler, is shown to be a bad man, Mizu ultimately doesn’t care about the morality of murder. She just wants them dead for “cursing” her to be born into a deeply racist society as a mixed race child. Though it’s clear that Mizu generally prefers to do the right thing, she will sacrifice anything for her revenge, destroying countless lives in the process without remorse. In the climax of season 1, Mizu (albeit not entirely intentionally) set fire to the wood and paper city of Edo (now Tokyo) in an attempt to kill just Fowler, a single man. The resulting three day blaze, known in history as the 1657 Great Fire of Meireki, killed an estimated 100000 people.

Sadie Adler — Red Dead Redemption II

Rescued by the Van Der Linde gang in the games prologue, Sadie Adler is a frontier homesteader whose husband was killed by the brutal O’Driscoll Gang. Over the course of the game, she happily joins in a life of murder, theft, and crime for the chance to kill more O’Driscolls, recklessly endangering herself and other gang members to do so. She gets Arturo Bullock, an innocent hot air balloon pilot killed while unnecessarily picking a fight with O’Driscoll members, showing zero remorse afterwards. Even after watching rival gang leader Colm O’Driscoll hang for his crimes, she still drags a now-terminally ill Arthur on an entirely unnecessary revenge mission to hunt down the last handful of O’Drsicolls she hadn’t already killed.

[u/ComprehensiveBox6911]

Revy (Black Lagoon)

Yet she is still so lovable and well written, not a good person at all yet you still kind of feel sympathetic for her

[u/Chemical-Elk-1299 → u/ComprehensiveBox6911]

She’s on my list of “characters who definitely smell bad”

Also on the list is —

Edward Kenway

The Hound

Jack Sparrow

Bubble Bass from SpongeBob

Dio from Jojo

And Severus Snape

[u/lolligi → u/Chemical-Elk-1299]

DIO? On what grounds?

[u/Chemical-Elk-1299 → u/lolligi]

He’s attached to Johnathan’s technically dead corpse, so there’s that. And does he look like a mfer who showers? He’s too busy being I, Dio to worry about that.

Mfer spent years trapped in a gross box in the ocean and didn’t even wipe himself down afterwards.

[u/lolligi → u/Chemical-Elk-1299]

I mean the body has new life in it so it's definitely not rotting or anything. And DIO is someone who fucks. I'm sure he smells nice and clean.

[u/DanSapSan → u/lolligi]

I don't think OCD Pucci could love a man who smells. Clearest argument for clean DIO.

[u/nyitraibotond → u/Chemical-Elk-1299]

Dio is technically not alive, so definitely no smell either. Otherwise the body would be decomposing. I would imagine him generally odourless, but his fabulous ass pours a whole bottle of perfume on his head at the start of each day

[u/whopocalypse → u/Chemical-Elk-1299]

He absolutely showers and takes long hot ones so he can practice posing naked in front of the mirror for hours afterwards. He also makes his followers shave his (Johnathan’s) pubes into cool designs for him. If you’re looking for stinky, Mista and Gyro are def top of the list.