Talk:Antagonist
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antagonist- villian or some one that is evil
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- basically it's simply greek for opponent or etymologically more precisely: ant-agonistis, anti-fighter. it's the opposing fighter or generally the opponent.
I'd say that the in-game world that I encountered is the Glitch Droid. He is the antagonist, he can posses the AIs and the rest of it. Best Gamer 4 August 2006
The Moby-Dick part is right to say that the protagonist and antagonist are ambiguous, so it should not definitively say that Captain Ahab is not the protagonist. 65.184.47.233 01:30, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Literary term?
The Chambers Dictionary makes no reference to narrative in its definition of 'antagonist'. The word simply means something (or someone) that acts in opposition to something else. Whereas 'protagonist' (meaning 'first actor' or 'leading character') is a dramatic or literary term that has moved into general use (often to mean something completely different), 'antagonist' is an everyday word that seems to have been pressed into literary service – presumably owing to a mistaken belief that it is somehow the 'opposite' of 'protagonist'. It isn't.
It's questionable whether the literary sense deserves an article at all. To make it the eponymous article, leaving the acknowledged biological and chemical senses two (or even three) clicks away, seems, frankly, ridiculous. Grant 03:28, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
"Antagonist" is a literary term, but it does not necessarily mean the "opposite" of a protagonist. It is, however, a legitimate literary term that refers to some kind of force that acts against the protagonist, which must always exist in order for there to be conflict in a story. 65.184.47.233 01:33, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Confusion of terms
This is the first page which comes up when searching for antagonists, and although it is accurate it bears no mention to chemical antagonists. A seperate page or paragraph should be included to link the two pages. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 129.11.218.36 (talk) 14:39, 12 March 2007 (UTC).
