Average medieval epic then?
I mean, I get what you're saying, but... no?
Marlowe was the father of the anti-hero, and very much a Renaissance man (in every sense). So where Beowulf and Co are meant to be seen as the good guys (though a modern reader is likely to be less impressed), we
know Tamberlaine, Faustus, the Jew of Malta, etc., are awful (a Muslim, a devil-worshipper, and a Jew, for goodness sake!), but he still makes us admire them.
Sorry. Two graduate degrees in this shit. Don't get me started--I
will talk your ear off.
In any case, yeah,
combige, Tamberlaine is kinda Akira. Only way worse. You know how some ridiculous percentage of the world's population is descended from Genghis Khan? Yeah. Timur Khan was the second most responsible individual for spreading that bloodline. He took rape-and-pillage to a whole new level.