Wait...[]
Isn't it a mistake to think Marina is the tritagonist and that Rocko is the deuteragonist? Maybe it's the other way around? What could possibly make Rocko more important than Marina?
Interstate2011 07:53, December 9, 2011 (UTC)
- Words like this are used with two different meanings. The first meaning is in the sense of main characters with "deuteragonist" meaning there are two equally-important main characters and "tritagonist" meaning there are three equally-important main characters. The second meaning is that the deuteragonist is the second-most important character and the tritagonist is the third-most important character.
- Sometimes people use the first meaning and sometimes they use the second meaning. It gets more complicated when they start adding qualifiers to them like "secondary tritagonist", which makes it a contradiction no matter which definition you use. For the first definition, it becomes "there are three equally-important characters, but this one is less important than the other two". For the second, it becomes "this is a third-level character but they're less important than other third-level characters", which makes them some other level below that.
- To avoid confusion and contradiction, simpler phrases are better: "main character", "secondary character" and then "minor character" to cover everyone else who really isn't important to the story. To further avoid arguments about ranking one character above or below another, saying "one of the main characters" or "one of the secondary characters" works well. —RRabbit42 (leave a message) 05:24, September 30, 2019 (UTC)
- In the two years since I left that message, I've come to the conclusion that antagonist and protagonist labels are worthless. Beyond the meanings that flip-flop back and forth, the contradictions that occur when you try to add qualifiers, the arguments and edit wars that occur over which one is "right" and the people that can never make up their mind what label a character should have, at their core, labels say nothing worthwhile about the character.
- "Marina is the tritagonist." Okay, now what? That's a label, just like "a white man", "a black man", "an Asian woman" are labels. There's more to them than just being a label. When labels are the first thing on the page for a character, that says the label is the most important thing about them.
- What about her as a person? Who are her family and friends? How does she relate to them? What are her interests and goals? What happens to her in the story?
MWoD[]
Can you believe this aired on The Magical World of Disney once, possibly in 1998? Interstate2011 (talk) 03:49, April 20, 2014 (UTC)
Honestly...[]
..This is one of the most underratted films I've ever seen Hfmbears (talk) 22:29, November 18, 2017 (UTC)