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No.
He can actually be a monster with very little redeeming features and be completely unrepentant, and it can still make for a gripping story.
Consider Hannibal Lecter.
He is noted as the main antagonist the first novels, and becoming a protagonist in the third only, however, in all the novels he is much more of a main character than anybody else in them.

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