: Re: Two protagonists where one is dark - a mistake? I'm currently writing a tale with two protagonists. One of them is a dark protagonist - that is, technically evil. The other protagonist is not

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Take a look at "Transformers: Beast Wars" for a good example of this, with specific focus on the characters of Rattrap and Dinobot. The former is a life long soldier for the Maximal cause and is quite possibly the most vocal supporter of fighting for the heroic side. Meanwhile, Dinobot is a devotee to Predicon idealology and warrior culture but betrayed the other Predicons because he felt they were barely paying lip service to these ideals. Notable here is, until very late in his story arc, does Dinobot have any regrets for anything he did while working with the Predicons. This causes conflict between the two as Rattrap believes Dinobot thinks like he does... that there is nothing Dinobot will do as long as its for the cause... and believes Dinobot is truly loyal to the Predicons. Dinobot doesn't trust Rattrap because Rattrap's mentality of "The Ends Justifies the Means" was the whole reason he left the Predicons in the first place. The dynamic is interesting, and while the pair are fan favorites, but Dinobot is considered the highlight of the entire series. Without giving away much as to why, nearly 10 years after the show wrapped up, when the Transformers franchise created a hall of fame for its various important charcters, inductees entered in a rule of 2 Autobots, 2 Decepticons, and one fan voted character. Dinobot pulled a surprising upset victory in the very first Fan Voting and became one of the first five inductees into the Hall of Fame, and the only one in his class to be from a series that wasn't the original cartoon.

Rattrap has yet to recive such an honor.

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