Then is he really a villain? Take one of my favorite protagonists Madara Uchiha. He's trying to build a world with no hate, no winners, and full of love. Sounds noble right? Except in order to do this, a few lives need to be sacrificed and people are unwilling to make that sacrifice so he has to force it. It's being a "villain" and being a "hero" at the same time.
No he just doesn't know in the beginning. But like halfway through he's like "Oh!" And then like: "Whelp, might as well finish what I've started." And goes full on villain
Hitler genuinely believed he was doing the right thing. So were the Crusaders. And as much as I hate ISIS, I have to admit that some of them believe they're donig the right thing.
The Hobbit, from the perspective of Smaug: and then, you know, all these dwarves just come and try to rob me! so, I do the only logical thing, and try to stop them!
A long time ago I was writing something like that where there were two schools of superheroes-in-training, one for girls and one for boys. And at both schools they're taught that the head of the other school is corrupt (i.e., the boys think the girls are evil, the girls think the boys are evil.) And they go to war often, and then one of the female students falls in love with the headmaster of the boys' school, and then her twin sister kills him because she wants to protect her sister, but then the sister in love realizes that he wasn't evil at all. Anyway, the whole point of the story was that you can never be sure who's right or wrong. It's not always black and white.
Your story sounds great and I love the concept of not being sure about who's good and who's evil. I plan to write a story or short story where you can decide who is the hero and who is the villain and you can argue for both sides.
Literally the back cover on almost every book describes him as a CRIMINAL MASTERMIND. Sure,he may be the protagonist, but he's also most certainly the villain.
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· 9 years ago
He can not be the antagonist.
The antagonist is someone who is opposing in ideas of the main character.
So he would be the protagonist.
Actually, I'm also writing one now but I'm not sure if it fits really. Basically the protagonist is this good-at-her-job hitwoman, who loves the feeling of taking people's lives. And in a twisted turn of events she accidentally wins the leadership of a gang. Together they basically become a group version of what she used to be, so just a mercenary gang. She would have no difficulty putting a bullet through the head of a loved one, but she never classifies anyone as "good" or "evil", not even herself.
Heyyyyyyyy really late but for a great series where the viewpoint of the "villain" is represented and honestly intriguing, the Grisha Trilogy is the bomb. The villain believes with every molecule of his being that /he's/ the hero.
The antagonist is someone who is opposing in ideas of the main character.
So he would be the protagonist.
And isn't Deadpool sort of an example of this?
Fascinating...
I had no idea what I was getting into.