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by llm_nerd 24 days ago
"one protagonist (who we know is good) and one antagonist (who we know is evil)"

The protagonist is merely the main character, while the antagonist is the person or group standing in their way.

There are many stories where the protagonist is evil/bad. Like I hope people don't think Walter White was good, while ASAC Schrader was bad.

And FWIW, while the pendulum went far into the "all non-whites are morally superior", just a couple of decades earlier minorities were almost always the bad guy. Like in the 80s an Arab or clearly Muslim character = terrorist. It was a lazy shortcut, just like the current waning "put in a black woman and she'll be superior to everyone" thing is a lazy shortcut.