Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-48285-20160610171807/@comment-25814498-20160610180147

I'm not sure that's the case anymore. Hisoka is very quickly moving away from being an anti-hero to going full blown antagonist. As bad as the Phantom Troupe is, they're very well fleshed out, and Hisoka is being incredibly brutal with his series of murders(decapitation and tying one of his victims to a swing). If he starts becoming too villainous he'll lose his plot armour due to the structure of Shounen manga; bad people lose and good prevails. Hisoka may be a fantastic manga but it's never strayed from this formula, so Hisoka's actions may eventually lead to his death by way of "Poetic justice".