Noir fiction is closely associated with noir protagonists who consistently embrace characterizations of an anti-hero. The anti-hero noir protagonists oftentimes demonstrate conducts of pursuing goals, overcoming obstacles, taking risks and suffering consequences, yet they lack the traditional heroic qualities that engage sympathy from their surroundings, including from their readers. Scrutinizing one noir anthology from Malaysian noir fiction entitled KL Noir: White (2013), this paper aims at examining the absence of anti-hero and, on the contrary, the presence of hero depicted within its two selected noir stories. In this paper, I argue that the archetypal characterization of anti-hero is ambivalently occurring as there are noir protagonists living with their heroic characterization. This notion confirms the fluidity of noir genre that has been scholarly recognized yet has not been discussed under KL Noir anthologies. Fluidity of KL Noir: White and the heroic noir protagonists that are manifested in the production of KL Noir are also contextualized with the idea of being hero in the multiracial society of Malaysia, that is further identified as a distinct aspect of noir sensibility promoted in the anthology. By employing the definition of hero, proposed by Stephanie S Halldorson (2007), I examine how the heroic noir protagonists of Lim Li Anne’s “Time Agents” and Terence Tang’s “Yummy Meats” are narrated, and, in the end, I conclude that the occurrence of hero in these noir short stories is surprisingly evident, yet they are still called noir stories.