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Would Norman Mc Cay from DC Comics's Kingdom Come (1996) be considered a Supporting Protagonist? The story's protagonist is Superman, but the events are told from his point of view (courtesy of The Spectre).
Okay it's been a few years, and I still think this trope often doesn't make much sense in terms of its description. The hero and/or protagonist is not the focus of the series...what does this even mean?
By tv tropes definition, the protagonist is the person who the story is about. So that sounds like the person that's being focused on. Muddling this up even more is the fact that some of the entries bring up "the true protagonist of the piece" and then the Supporting Protagonist.
If the Supporting Protagonist is "a" main character, then this makes sense.
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Speaking of which, my comment from five years ago asks if the Supporting Protagonist is the main character or not, to which the response was "protagonist by definition means main character".
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First of all (you already know this), the Protagonist is the Main Character. To answer your question, the Supporting Protagonist is definitely a Main Character, but not in the sense that the story is about them. They're a Main Character in the sense that the entire story (or most of it) is told from their point of view.
Would Booker count? Based on what I've seen/read/heard, it sounds like Elizabeth is the true focus of the story.
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do Judas out of Jesus Christ Superstar and Chris Thorndyke count as Supporting Protagonists
I'm a bit confused about the way this trope works? Is the supporting protagonist supposed to be the main character or not? Or are they just not the hero?
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Really, the definition of the own The Protagonist trope in this wiki is "main character"
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I'm both kind of happy that the technique I'm using in my story is a trope and dissapointed that the idea's not as original as I thought it was.
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That's not automatically a bad thing. Some tropes cannot be shown with just a picture, especially characterization tropes (like The Lancer). That's why this picture is showing two people, so we know which is which.
If you can find a way to actually visualize being the hero vs the POV character, that's the only way to truly get a better picture.
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Seikai: Just something interesting I noticed, and thought might be worthy of discussion - a common defense for using a Supporting Protagonist is to give a unique, different Point of View to the story (just as the trope page says, and from what I see around). But at the same time, in countless "Common Mistakes in Writing Fiction" or "How to Write Good Fiction" books and articles, it's really common to see this as being something listed as a problem. For example, from an article I stumbled on: "The writer should stop and seriously think about why this character inhabits the novel in the first place. What is their role? Are they crucial to the story? [...]In that case, the writer needs to step back and rethink the entire novel. Four hundred pages devoted to a dull character no one will care about may be a signal that the story doesn't fit the character, or the character doesn't fit the story. Maybe the story belongs to the cop instead of the victim." And judging by how many of the characters listed here could also be found in the Protagonist Scrappy section, the advice might have at least some basis of truth to it...
Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Rename and clean-up? (Crowner swapped Aug.25)
, started by MagBas on Jul 13th 2011 at 2:55:39 PM
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