Great Characters in Great Stories
The Protagonist Podcast is a weekly podcast hosted by Joseph Darowski and Todd Mack that discusses great characters in great stories. The podcast episodes rotate through discussions of films, novels, TV shows, and comics, with occasional special episodes. The podcast home page is here
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This podcast has discussed the following characters:
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2014 - 2015
- #001 - President Jed Bartlet in "Two Cathedrals" from The West Wing
- #002 - Kitty Pryde in Astonishing X-Men v. 1-4
- #003 - Rick Blaine in Casablanca
- #004 - Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit
- #005 - Mary Richards in "Chuckles Bites the Dust" from The Mary Tyler Moore Show
- #006 - Thanos in The Infinity Gauntlet
- #007 - Special Episode Draft: Great Characters in Great Love Stories
- #008 - Rapunzel in Tangled
- #009 - Esperanza Cordero in The House on Mango Street
- #010 - Geordi La Forge in "I, Borg" from Star Trek: The Next Generation
- #011 - Listener Feedback
- #012 - Lieam in Mouse Guard
- #013 - Sean Thornton and Mary Kate Danaher in The Quiet Man
- #014 - Nobody Owens in The Graveyard Book
- #015 - Richard Castle in "The Wrong Stuff" from Castle
- #016 - Superman/Clark Kent in All-Star Superman
- #017 - Sir Percy Blakeney in The Scarlet Pimpernel
- #018 - Marvel Cinematic Universe Draft
- #019 - Princess Leia in A New Hope
- #020 - Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games
- #021 - Lucy Ricardo in "Lucy Does a TV Commercial" from I Love Lucy
- #022 - The Hero's Journey
- #023 - Vladek in Maus
- #024 - The Princess Bride
- #025 - Ender Wiggins in Ender's Game
- #026 - Listener Response Episode
- #027 - Henry Bemis in "Time Enough at Last" from The Twilight Zone
- #028 - Peter Parker/Spider-Man in Amazing Fantasy #15
- #029 - Chihiro Ogino in Spirited Away
- #030 - Draft of Weird Children's Films and TV Shows
- #031 - Catherine and Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights
- #032 - Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan in "A Man on Death Row" from Bones
- #033 - Asterios Polyp in Asterios Polyp
- #034 - Thursday Next in The Eyre Affair
- #035 - Rudy Ruettiger in Rudy
- #036 - Aang in "Bitter Work" from Avatar: The Last Airbender
- #037 - Phil Sheldon in Marvels
- #038 - Buzz and Woody in Toy Story
- #039 - C. Auguste Dupin in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"
- #040 - Sally Sparrow in "Blink" from Doctor Who
- #041 - Bruce Wayne/Batman in Batman Vol. 1: The Court of Owls
- #042 - Peter Venkman in Ghostbusters (1984)
- #043 - Harry Potter in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
- #044 - Special Halloween Draft: The Mount Rushmore of Fear
- #045 - Marie Barone in Everybody Loves Raymond
- #046 - Coyote and Jones in Gunnerkrigg Court
- #047 - Lucy Eleanor Moderatz in While You Were Sleeping
- #048 - Lance Kilkenny in Kilkenny
- #049 - Big Bird in Christmas Eve on Sesame Street
- #050 - Christmas Special about Christmas Specials
- #051 - Buddy in Elf
- #052 - Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol
- #053 - George Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life
- #054 - 2015 Year in Review
- #055 - Alicia Alarcón and Julio Olmedo in Episodes 1-2 of Gran Hotel
- #056 - The Incredible Hulk in Planet Hulk
- #057 - Jack Burton in Big Trouble in Little China
- #058 - Haviland Tuf in Tuf Voyaging
- #059 - Veronica Mars in the pilot episode of Veronica Mars
- #060 - Valentine's Day Special 2016
- #061 - Hikaru, Umi, and Fuu in Magic Knight Rayearth
- #062 - Beatrice and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing
- #063 - Sammy in Psion Beta
- #064 - Niles Crane in "Are you being served?" and "Murder Most Maris" from Frasier
- #065 - Kamala Kahn in Ms. Marvel
- #066 - Norman Dale in Hoosiers
- #067 - Meg Murry in A Wrinkle in Time
- #068 - Jessica Fletcher in "The Corpse Flew First Class" from Murder, She Wrote
- #069 - Superheroes in Marvel 1602
- #070 - Peter Pan/Banning in Hook
- #071 - Celia Bowen in The Night Circus (Part 1)
- #072 - Mother's Day Special 2016
- #073 - Celia Bowen in The Night Circus (Part 2)
- #074 - Jeff Winger in Community
- #075 - Comic Book Recommendations Draft
- #076 - Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell in Chariots of Fire
- #077 - Jane Eyre in Jane Eyre
- #078 - Special: TV Elevator Pitches
- #079 - Bone in Bone
- #080 - Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice
- #081 - Hazel and Bigwig in Watership Down
- #082 - Malcolm Reynolds in Firefly
- #083 - Calvin and Hobbes in Calvin and Hobbes
- #084 - Lizzie Bennet in The Lizzie Bennet Diaries
- #085 - Ponyboy Curtis in The Outsiders
- #086 - Anne Shirley in Anne of Green Gables
- #087 - Doctor Strange in Doctor Strange: The Oath
- #088 - The Joker in The Dark Knight
- #089 - Orual in Till We Have Faces
- #090 - Shawn Spencer and Burton Gustor in Psych
- #091 - Charles Christopher in The Abominable Charles Christopher
- #092 - Coach Herman Boone in Remember the Titans
- #093 - Danny and his father in Danny, the Champion of the World
- #094 - Eleven in Stranger Things
- #095 - Nami in One Piece
- #096 - Elinore and Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility
- #097 - Nausicaä in Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
- #098 - Halloween Special 2016
- #099 - Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye
- #100 - Special 100th Episode
The podcast has demonstrated the following tropes:
- Early-Installment Weirdness: The first dozen episodes had a looser format and varied more in length.
- Not That Kind of Doctor: Joe and Todd both have PhDs, the former in American Studies and the latter in Iberian and Latin American Cultures.
- One-Steve Limit: Averted when Todd Peterson appears as a guest.
- Comic Books are Serious Business: Joe wrote his PhD dissertation on the X-Men
