Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-107.184.24.227-20140726103232/@comment-226878-20140827005026

The quality of an antagonist directly correlates to its impact on the protagonist. The antagonist's actions, taunts, and hidden motives should all culminate in the direction the protagonist follows and how they grow in character. Of course, we have to actually see some kind of character growth no matter how little or how subtle in order to admit the antagonist has fulfilled their role. Cardin was an antagonist to Jaune. He is not as prevalent or important as Roman (arguably Blake's antagonist) or even Cinder, but he does affect his purpose which is essentially to force Jaune to grow a backbone (that is his purpose as a literary construct, obviously Cardin prefers a mousey Jaune he can push around).