I have attended lectures that referenced plants as having neurology. (Which makes sense since they have mechanisms very similar to a nervous system, but not literal neurons.)
Non-characters may act as antagonists, which is somewhat common, but that is a metaphor, the (literary) definition specifies that an antagonist is a character or institution.
If the meaning or name of No Antagonist is to be altered, that is a TRS issue.
Becky: Who are you? The Mysterious Stranger: An angel. Huck: What's your name? The Mysterious Stranger: Satan.
It gets kind of murky when you're talking about nature as the antagonist. I don't think sharks are considered sapient, but Jaws in Jaws 3 is obviously treated like a character. And an Eldritch Abomination might be sentient, but it usually acts more like a force of nature.
Let's stick with a Man vs. Self image, just so there's no debating whether or not it's an example.
I tried to find something from 127 hours, that movie about the guy who got his arm stuck between 2 rocks and had to amputate it, but I can't find something clear enough.
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edited 6th Apr '12 4:19:12 AM by Willbyr
Hmm. Then I may be mistaken. On the other hand, was it non-sapient entities that were still portrayed as characters? Like, even a regular, non-sapient hurricane can be described as if it had motivations and a personality for poetic and artistic reasons, and then it could still be treated as a character...