Feminously Gendered Feline Hivemind Thread

[Jdvn1]

Antihero

n : a protagonist who lacks the characteristics that would make him a hero (or her a heroine)

So this means that by definition...

Going by the third and fifth defintions here, an antihero is not necessarily a protagonist, by virtue of not being a hero.

When my point is that it depends on what definition you use, isn't it silly just to list one definition?

 

[Rystil Arden]

Going by the third and fifth defintions here, an antihero is not necessarily a protagonist, by virtue of not being a hero.

When my point is that it depends on what definition you use, isn't it silly just to list one definition?

If you accept that the word antihero exists, then you must accept that it can be a protagonist because it was created specifically to describe a protagonist that is not a hero. There is no other literary definition for an antihero beyond those bounds

Anyways, you are the one who first used an exclusive worldview in definition when you claimed that Anakin could not be the protagonist of RotS

No, I've seen it, but I'm not sure what you're talking about. Anakin is hardly a protagonist

When he tries to kill Obiwan, I'd take awa 'protagonist' status from him. When he turns on everyone, same thing.

 

[Jdvn1]

If you accept that the word antihero exists, then you must accept that it can be a protagonist because it was created specifically to describe a protagonist that is not a hero. There is no other literary definition for an antihero beyond those bounds

Well, the third and fifth defintions at the link I posted disagree with you. You don't have to give them credence, but it does mean that I don't have to accept that an anti-hero describes a protagonist that is not a hero.

Anyways, you are the one who first used an exclusive worldview in definition when you claimed that Anakin could not be the protagonist of RotS

Hm, true. I shouldn't have used absolutes. I didn't think of Anakin as a protagonist, really.

 

[Lady_Acoma]

My brain now hurts at the sheer geekyness of this conversation...there is not enough fire here....

*wanders off in search of fire*

 

[Jdvn1]

My brain now hurts at the sheer geekyness of this conversation...there is not enough fire here....

*wanders off in search of fire*

Oh, sorry.

And then Anakin catches on fire, and later Vader's body is burned.

Happy?

 

[Rystil Arden]

Oh, sorry.

And then Anakin catches on fire, and later Vader's body is burned.

Happy?

Yes, burned, burned by a tiny little ember without actually touching the lava. Weird stuff!

 

[Jdvn1]

Yes, burned, burned by a tiny little ember without actually touching the lava. Weird stuff!

Did he not? I don't recall, but I thought he just barely touched it. Or maybe the rock around the lava was hot enough to catch him on fire?

Regardless, he was well on his was to being a piece of charcoal.

 

[Lady_Acoma]

Yay! Fire GOOOOOOD!

 

[Rystil Arden]

Did he not? I don't recall, but I thought he just barely touched it. Or maybe the rock around the lava was hot enough to catch him on fire?

Regardless, he was well on his was to being a piece of charcoal.

Yup. But Obi-Wan so should have just finished him

 

[Jdvn1]

Yup. But Obi-Wan so should have just finished him

Oh, definitely. I don't know why he didn't, except maybe because he knew there'd be six episodes afterwards.