Away on the wind~
Antagonist, but not a villain.
There are too many toasters in my chimney!
vigilantly taxonomish
Antagonist, but with comedic anti-hero potential if his perspective is shown often, since this is a sitcom type environment.
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Probably an antagonist, with potential to serve as a Hero Antagonist when the heroes are about to break something, or begrudging ally if someone really nasty shows up.
Apparition in the Woods
Depends. If he tries to help the protagonists in any way, or at least has some kind of noble motivation, he is a classic Type III Anti-Hero; if he is overtly oppositional, he probably cleaves closer to the "noble" subtype of Lawful Evil; and if he falls into neither column, or shifts between... Lawful Neutral Jerkass (or Hero Antagonist) it is!
I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.
Stayin' Alive
I guess it depends on a lot of things in-story, such as if he's funny to watch while being a Jerkass, but he sounds like a bit of a Knight in Sour Armor / Grumpy Bear instead of being an outright villain. I'd say he's closest to antagonistic, but that's kinda hard to pull off that often if all the guy wants is to be left alone.
edited 2nd Feb '11 8:47:22 AM by Dec
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If you wanted, you could make him a Knight Templar / Well-Intentioned Extremist / Anti-Hero IV/V because he's trying to do the right thing from his own point of view and genuinely offended by others calling him on it.
edited 2nd Feb '11 10:16:37 AM by FrodoGoofballCoTV
There's a character in one of my developing works who has a difficult personality. Initially this was intentional, but his difficult traits are becoming a lot stronger over time.
He's cynical, misanthropic, kind of bitter, resents company and generally only opens his mouth to make snide remarks, without any huge justification in his backstory for being so, other than a bit of isolation. He's pure Jerkass with no visible heart of gold. Over the course of the story - so far, at any rate - he doesn't mellow as kinder folk attempt to involve him in stuff or be nice to him. If anything, he gets self-righteously angry that they're trying to change him, etc.
On the other hand, he holds himself to a strict (if vaguely defined) code of honour and generally doesn't inflict anything but a bit of emotional harm on others.
The setting is a quirky, generally light-hearted science-fictional Planet Eris - sort of a webcomic sitcom. Nothing new, but a setting in which social mores are, logically or not, usually respected. I'm wondering if this character would slide towards Villain status, or at least Antihero or Anti-Villain status. There aren't any other recurring evil characters, and in a sitcom environment I don't think he'd end up well-liked.
Opinions?
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