Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-180.248.165.4-20170401235747/@comment-4010415-20170611091255

GreyStark wrote: Hell the protagonist can be the bad guy and the antagonist is simply the person who gets in their way One example: Death Note. The protagonist is Light, who uses the Death Note that he found to start magically murdering any and all criminals in the world. The main antagonist is L, a famous and highly skilled detective who has been called on to help track down the identity of this murderer who has been nicknamed Kira. In that story, law enforcement are the antagonists, and a young man who has taken it upon himself to murder all criminals in the world is the protagonist.

Simply put, the protagonists are the characters who the story follows, and the antagonists are the characters who stand in opposition to the protagonists.