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It's difficult to identify with, or care much about a character who is purely reactive. One of the most valuable aspects of fiction is that it gives us a wide range of role-models whose actions and choices we can either emulate or avoid. But there's little to learn from a character who does nothing but react.

Even a passive character needs to be "actively passive" in order to be compelling (in other words, making choices to not engage, making choices to stay silent, making choices to turn away friends, etcetera).

The most notorious counterexample is Forest Gump. But personally, I hated that character.

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