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TompaDompa Since: Jan, 2012

Apr 24th 2014 at 3:17:31 AM •••

Regarding No Real Life Examples Please: I understand that we don't want to call Real Life people "villains", but "antagonist" is a relative term - two opposing forces in any conflict are antagonists to each other.

With that in mind, I don't see why this has to be No Real Life Examples Please. It's not unheard of for people fighting for different sides in a war to become friends. The same thing can be said of political opponents. The former is definitely a case of "befriending the enemy", even if the latter is not (political opponents are hardly "enemies", in most cases).

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SeptimusHeap MOD (Edited uphill both ways)

Apr 24th 2014 at 10:03:24 AM •••

Feel free to put that argument forward here.

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xanderiskander Since: Mar, 2012

Apr 24th 2014 at 1:38:19 PM •••

Calling someone an "antagonist" implies they're in the wrong and/or provoked the conflict. It's not much better than calling someone evil IMO. And either way it would still be shoehorning a fictional role/term on real life people so I think making an argument based off that is just splitting hairs.

But in any case this trope sometimes involves true evil villains, and that makes the whole page No Real Life Examples Please by default.

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