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11-07-2009, 03:24 PM
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#1 | | Resident Autobot Ninja Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 3,959 News Credits: 6 | Villain protaganists
For my final research paper in English, I have to use Peter Schaffer's play Amadeus as my main source for an analysis of a villain who usually is a main character. In the case of the play, that is Salieri
By using TV tropes, I found out that this type of character is called a Villain Protagonist. Villain Protagonist - Television Tropes & Idioms
Also, my teacher said other examples would be Shakespeare's Macbeth which I haven't read yet. I talked to him via phone and asked him if characters like Darth Vader apply. He said yes.
So, I want to ask what other characters in media are applied to this term.
Does anyone have any good examples? LOST Season 6: Destiny is Found 2/2/2010. | 
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11-07-2009, 03:30 PM
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#2 | | Twilight gets you laid. Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 9,350 Location: the filthy nasty dirty south...BR, Louisiana Collection Count: never have bothered to count | Mickey and Malore Knox from Natural Born Killers.
Any lead from a gangster movie is a villain protagionst.
Bonnie and Clyde.
I'm on the fence about Darth Vader being a villain protaganist. Someone needs to convince cause I really don't see it.
SMK
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11-07-2009, 03:45 PM
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#4 | | May be tripping balls Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 6,896 Location: Staring at the refrigerator Collection Count: Um... this is going to need a trip into the attic | Quote:
Originally Posted by smkspy  I'm on the fence about Darth Vader being a villain protaganist. Someone needs to convince cause I really don't see it. | I can kinda see it. With the prequel stories, the whole Star Wars series of films is about the fall and redemption of Anakin/Vader, but that's really a retrospective thing. A New Hope doesn't feature Vader as a protaganist. Hell, he's pretty much the Dragon for that film. 
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11-07-2009, 03:56 PM
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#5 | | is the meat Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 5,701 Location: Manchester, UK Collection Count: 345 and counting News Credits: 11 | Alex DeLarge in A Clockwork Orange, perhaps? | |
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11-07-2009, 04:15 PM
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#7 | | Twilight gets you laid. Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 9,350 Location: the filthy nasty dirty south...BR, Louisiana Collection Count: never have bothered to count | Quote:
Originally Posted by Optimus Sledge I can kinda see it. With the prequel stories, the whole Star Wars series of films is about the fall and redemption of Anakin/Vader, but that's really a retrospective thing. A New Hope doesn't feature Vader as a protaganist. Hell, he's pretty much the Dragon for that film. | Yeah, this is kinda the way I see it too. Though in the prequels, I see him more as the tragic hero than a villain protagonist.
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11-07-2009, 04:29 PM
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#9 | | The British Butcher Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 21,610 Location: UK! Collection Count: An awful lot. And a few SWTFs. | I think you really ought to read Macbeth. Quote: |
Originally Posted by Lance Halberd Sol Fury can be likened to a German clock. A very exact, complex, and tightly-wound precision instrument that occasionally goes cuckoo. | | |
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11-07-2009, 04:30 PM
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#10 | | May be tripping balls Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 6,896 Location: Staring at the refrigerator Collection Count: Um... this is going to need a trip into the attic | Vader really isn't a good example. I can see the argument, but I don't agree with it.
By the way, if the OP has read the TV Tropes article, how many more examples does he need?
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