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The List - 7 Righteously Confident Protagonists

YotaruVegeta wrote:

@Desa An antagonist is a character in a story- an important character. You said that if you remove a character and the story cannot go on without him/her/it, then that character is a protagonist. A definition of a protagonist is a character who puts the plot into motion. An antagonist is a character who is negatively affecting the plot the protagonist has put into motion.

Care to cite at least one example? Antagonists are antagonists because they oppose the protagonists. It is the protagonists that advance the story, not the antagonists.

Removing key antagonists will change the story, but it won't prevent the story from continuing so long as the protagonists are able to advance. If removal of an antagonist will halt the story, then said antagonist is not an antagonist but another protagonist. One cannot simply be an antagonist; he must be an antagonist to something.

Protagonists don't always have an antagonist, but all antagonists must be tied to their respective protagonists. If they were independent, they would be focal points (protagonists) of their own story which they can advance separately or concurrently to the stories of other protagonists, which is often the case when there are stories within stories, or stories that share a setting but different timelines, or vice versa.

His supernatural capabilities allow him to merely will effects into being at a faster rate than most and also has access to three (instead of the usual single) types. All three are considered rare or are otherwise unobserved outside of Tatsuya. He has magic abilities as well but they're artificial (and part of why he's known as the "irregular).