In a traditional story, the protagonist has several very specific requirements, and if your protagonist doesn't meet those requirements, your story will break down. The protagonist can also be called the hero or main character, but these terms are imprecise, and for some stories, plainly false....
Picture a novelist penning a novel about writing that very novel. The protagonist bears the novelist’s name, and the book’s title mirrors itself. This isn’t merely a story; it’s a reflection on the act of creation, a narrative that disrupts both genre conventions and your own expectati...
As you let them off, you would be upgrading your explosives. First to missiles, then to missiles that exploded in a horizontal line, then to missiles that exploded in an "X" pattern. You could put in as many credits as you wanted (obviously, because we owned the machine). But, in ...
often — in the mind of a rapidly-aging dead-end zero. So maybe there’s something in that — a superhero movie that’s less about the hero and more about the person who thinks he’s a hero.Don Quixotecomes to mind — a "take" on an adolescent fantasy genre (the chivalric adventure...
their personalities are completely flat while their bodies are anything but. Instead of being granted an independent personality of their own, they exist as subservient to the male main character, with his schoolboy crush on the female protagonist being a main motivation to win whatever battle he’...
Jessie's a mechanic, his mother-in-law's a manic / His new wife's in a panic, saying When you comin' home / Danny drives a tractor, left it in the pasture / Bosses gettin' madder 'cause he won't pick up the phone / Might not be an Ivy League Einstein crowd / But when it ...
It should be said that Renee makes Kristy far more interesting than a mere “love interest”; she’s nobody’s trophy. Working with Hillman Grad producers Rishi Rajani and Lena Waithe, Shao presents a complex and at times off-putting protagonist in Chang. Sure, he easily grabs our sympathy...
Protagonist & Antagonist Every good story has a hero and an anti-hero. If you want your customers to relate to your story, then you must make them the protagonist. Give the hero all the characters that your customers and potential customers can relate with. And in the story, the hero wil...
much as I had hoped. The biggest downside to the story would have to be the fact that for a lot of the problems that the Coppelion would face at the most crucial point in evacuating survivors it could always be solved by sending Haruto to the rescue. Overall I give the story an 8/...
Lady A hit the bar to try to forget about a lost love for a while in "Bartender." The protagonist asks the barkeep to pour 'em hot tonight" as she tries to have fun with her friends and get drunk enough to push those thoughts away, if only for the night. 51. Gretchen Wilson,...