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Author: Euodiachloris

Aug 28th 2012 at 9:47:45 AM

Eh, no, actually.  DesignatedHero: my version... "When the one you're supposed to cheer for, according to all in-world sources, is hardly one you'd currently find heroic, or, sometimes, even the main character."  Reverse for villain.  Both are distinct Anti- tropes. <shrugs>  The problem comes in when DesignatedProtagonistSyndrome is attached due to the shift/ dissonance between description and actuality. <yet another shrug>

Something I've noticed with Protagonist Pools... this happens, sometimes at points, often for full arcs with the person who was, at one point, a full on whatever... <shrugs>  CharacterDerailment or not, it's sometimes hard to tell until you hit the end of whichever arc hands you answers. :D  It's why I put it in.  I kind of hope people follow the link to see why... although, I could make it clearer... How?  Open to suggestions (and, outright direct editing, you know).  Edit wars!  Heee!  (Now's the time to have 'em, rather than store it up for later. ;) )

I'm not familiar enough with ''{{Pluto}}'' to make a judgement :(... a little help, here!

Omniscient Narrators are a kind of FirstPersonPeripheralNarrator, though... and you'll get arcs in many stories where this occurs.  Hmmm... How did I forget ''TheSandman''?  ''World's End'', specifically... part of that's all told as a flashback from a guy telling a bartender his story, so it's a FramingDevice wherein a one-off "protagonist" tells a tale that shows what the real main characters are getting up to (and a lot of mainish ones) that still moves a significant chunk of plot.  A very spoilerific one.

I don't see how you can weed that out, without losing the useful ones. <shrugs>

And, no: this is about the protagonists you get in complex plots where you just can't label a single person (or the standard three or four) as "main", but start having to draw up lists for the occasion, depending on where in the plot you are (some of whom might actually be major plot-movers, but not actually shown focus -- hence my bringing up "The Other Car": that comes into play here when you ''do'' suddenly get them driving the plot in focus).

Did I over-egg the pudding?

EDIT: OMG -- How did I also forget ''{{Dune}}''?!?  Progressive Protagonists, in the main, true... but, it's still a carpool. :P