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Author: xanderiskander

Jan 9th 2014 at 8:56:17 AM

If this gets off the ground {{Deuteragonist}} is going to need some tweaking in it's description and examples to fit with this.

But it seems based off reading wikipedia that a Deuteragonist is primarily an ally to the TheProtagonist, with his own part in the story separate from the main character's but can chose to oppose TheProtagonist later as well depending on how the story plays out.

The Tritagonist on the other hand is primarily antagonistic to TheProtagonist first, and the least sympathetic of the three, but not an outright Antagonist. A Tritagonist is thus often TheRival or other kind of {{Foil}}.

Some examples to put it into perspective

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*''Franchise/YuGiOh'': Seto Kaiba would be TheTritagonist to Yugi, who he wants to defeat in Duel Monsters to salvage his reputation from his past defeats, and prove he's the superior Duelist. His motives are portrayed as hateful and selfish, and he often opposes Yugi's destiny as TheChosenOne, and disbelieves any of the supernatural stuff that [[WeirdnessMagnet Yugi attracts]] calling it "Hocus Pocus". The {{Deuteragonist}} would be Joey/Jounichi, who gets his own side stories/development separate from Yugi, and is primarilly Yugi's ally, but has to duel against Yugi occasionally to meet his own goals.

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*''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Zuko would be the Tritagonist to Aang, because of his sympathetic motives. He at first opposes Aang because wants to capture and bring Aang to the fire lord to regain his honor, so he's no longer exiled from his home. Katara, and Toph would share the Deuteragonist role getting a lot of their own stories, and being important characters, but not outright support characters.