Anakin is most certainly the protagonist...he's the anti-hero of the movie, just as Macbeth and Medea are the protagonists of their works. And just because you don't see him chop up the kids doesn't make it any less disturbing when he pulls the 'sabre on them.Jdvn1 said:
When he tries to kill Obiwan, I'd take awa 'protagonist' status from him. When he turns on everyone, same thing.Rystil Arden said:
I only mention it because your kiddies wouldn't be watching the slaughter. Like when Bambi's mother is killed, you don't see anything too gruesome.
He did kill the children offscreen. He drew a lightsabre on them and then when Obi-Wan and Yoda came in, they checked the children's corpses and saw that they had been slaughtered via lightsabre, then they found the perpetrator to be Anakin.Steve Jung said:
Medea and Macbeth also killed plenty of people, she her children and her husband's new wife and the wife's father, he just about everyone he could. You don't lose protagonist status for being evil. That just makes you an antihero.Jdvn1 said:
Depends on how you see it. A protagonist could be defined as "a hero of a literary work" in which case an anti-hero wouldn't qualify. It could also be defined as "the central character in a literary work" in which case Anakin would be the protagonist.Rystil Arden said:
