1 | '''Basic Trope''': The main character who is not the main focus of the story. |
2 | * '''Straight''': Alice is TheHero, but the story is told from Bob's POV. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': The POV jumps to a different character every chapter; Bob, Charlie, Diane, Edwin... But ''never'' Alice. |
4 | * '''Downplayed''': Alice and Bob share the POV between them but Alice is still TheHero and Bob is still her {{Sidekick}}. |
5 | * '''Justified''': |
6 | ** Bob has a hero complex and thinks he's TheHero but the story makes it clear that Alice is. However, Bob is still important to the story, so he's not a DecoyProtagonist. |
7 | ** Bob is Alice's Sidekick. |
8 | ** Bob sees himself as a RidiculouslyAverageGuy; that is, someone with no remarkable qualities to speak of that would make him worthy of deserving TheHero status. |
9 | * '''Inverted''': Bob is not the real protagonist, but Alice is. |
10 | * '''Subverted''': Alice is a DecoyProtagonist. After the second chapter, Bob takes over as TheProtagonist and TheHero. |
11 | * '''Double Subverted''': In the third chapter, Alice is back and roles are restored. |
12 | * '''Parodied''': ??? |
13 | * '''Zig Zagged''': The roles of protagonist and hero are swapped between Alice and Bob. |
14 | * '''Averted''': The view point character and the main character are the same character. |
15 | * '''Enforced''': |
16 | ** Bob was the one who wrote the story, and he deliberately plays up Alice's contributions and minimizes his own involvement. |
17 | ** Including Alice's POV would ruin [[MysteriousStranger the mystique of her character]]. |
18 | ** The various Heroes coming to Bob's Fast Food joint and their interaction with the proprietor is the FramingDevice for the AnthologyFilm. |
19 | ** The executives want Bob in the cast as a LeadYouCanRelateTo. The writers know for a fact that Alice will be the EnsembleDarkHorse because she is so badass, and so technically cut out the middle man by making Bob less interesting (and focus-worthy). |
20 | * '''Lampshaded''': "I'm not the hero of this story but it is still my story." |
21 | * '''Invoked''': ??? |
22 | * '''Exploited''': ??? |
23 | * '''Defied''': Alice is writing the story of her adventures as they happen. She chooses to act like TheHero so she'll have something worth writing down. |
24 | * '''Discussed''': ??? |
25 | * '''Conversed''': ??? |
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27 | Back to SupportingProtagonist |
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29 | %% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion: |
30 | %% |
31 | %%* '''Implied''': ??? |
32 | %%* '''Deconstructed''': ??? |
33 | %%* '''Reconstructed''': ??? |
34 | %%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ??? |
35 | %%* '''Played For Laughs''': ??? |
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