The 21st chapter was omitted from the editions published in the United States prior to 1986 .< ref > Burgess, Anthony ( 1986 ) A Clockwork Orange Resucked in < u > A Clockwork Orange </ u >, W. W. Norton & Company, New York .</ ref > In the introduction to the updated American text ( these newer editions include the missing 21st chapter ), Burgess explains that when he first brought the book to an American publisher, he was told that U. S. audiences would never go for the final chapter, in which Alex sees the error of his ways, decides he has lost all energy for and thrill from violence and resolves to turn his life around ( a slow-ripening but classic moment of metanoia — the moment at which one's protagonist realises that everything he thought he knew was wrong ).

A prime example is Kiss Me Deadly ( 1955 ); based on a novel by Mickey Spillane, the best-selling of all the hardboiled authors, here the protagonist is a private eye, Mike Hammer.

Shakespeare's audience, in this view, expected villains to be wholly bad, and Senecan style, far from prohibiting a villainous protagonist, all but demanded it.

Victor Meldrew ( Richard Wilson ) – Victor is the main protagonist of the sitcom and finds himself constantly battling against all that life throws at him as he becomes entangled, like the pawn he is, in machiavellian plots.

Set largely in Denmark, it treats the Neolithic society with knowledge and respect while not hiding its own faults — and it is there that the protagonist, having access to literally all periods of the past and future, finally decides to settle down and finds a happy and satisfying life.

The expansions pick up right where the first game left off, use all the same weapons and powerups, monsters and gothic atmosphere / architecture and continue / finish the story of the first game and its protagonist.

* The Matrix, a science fiction film, in which the protagonist Neo discovers that all what he believed was a reality is in fact computer simulation.

Deighton's protagonist is nameless ; this is maintained through all the sequels ( although later in the series called " Charles " ).

Tom Swift ( technically Tom Swift, Jr .) was also the name of the protagonist of the 33 volumes in the Tom Swift, Jr. Adventures, 11 volumes in the third Tom Swift series, 13 volumes in the fourth, and a half-dozen more in the most recent series, Tom Swift, Young Inventor, for a total of 103 volumes over all series.

Again however the lead protagonist is never named at any point, although they are clearly the same character in all of the books.

Despite this, and despite the lead protagonist being unnamed, all six books have been unofficially called the Harry Palmer novels, based on the protagonist's name given in the subsequent film adaptations of The IPCRESS File and its sequels.

In Vincent Clark's novel Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, the protagonist ( a world-weary criminal lawyer ) has a drunken outburst of anger at Perry Mason: " It's all fine for Mister Perry Mason to go off and find the real culprit, in book after book after book.

In the theatre of Ancient Greece, three actors played all of the main dramatic roles in a tragedy ; the leading role was played by the protagonist, while the other roles were played by deuteragonist and the tritagonist.

In a private audience with the emperor on the penultimate eve of the tournament, when confronted with the seeming absurdity of the possibility that a novice with a mere two years of experience at the game could systematically defeat players ' whose whole lives were devoted to its mastery, the protagonist comes to understand that his proficiency is merely a reflection of his experience with strategic games of all sorts.

She is often portrayed as Mario's love interest and has appeared in nearly all the Mario games to date ; with the most notable being in Super Princess Peach where she is the main protagonist.

Formula plot devices were followed for all but a handful of episodes: the protagonist was usually a normal person suddenly dropped into a threatening or bizarre situation ; solutions were " withheld until the last possible second "; and evildoers were usually punished in the end.

In Chrétien's Yvain, the Knight of the Lion, she is praised for her intelligence, friendliness, and gentility, while in Marie de France's Lanval ( and Thomas Chestre's Middle English version, Sir Launfal ), she is a vindictive adulteress, disliked by the protagonist and all well-bred knights.

All four characters are playable, and the game is not fully completed until the player clears all levels with each protagonist.

The character Gaston Lagaffe is often hailed as the first anti-hero ( in the sense of a protagonist lacking all heroic qualities, not a villain ) in the comic's history.

The protagonist, known as The Nameless One, is an immortal who has lived many lives but has forgotten all about them, even forgetting his own name.

Jorj X. McKie, the protagonist of all the works listed below, is a saboteur extraordinary first appeared in the story " A Matter of Traces " in 1958.

Bravo also named the show's protagonist, Archie Bunker, TV's greatest character of all time.

In " The Dreams in the Witch House " ( 1932 ), the protagonist Walter Gilman dreams that he is told by the witch Keziah Mason that " He must meet the Black Man, and go with them all to the throne of Azathoth at the centre of ultimate Chaos ....

He is a central character in the action in the early part of the novel, essentially fulfilling all the requirements of being a conventional protagonist.

* Corvus, the protagonist of the Raven Software games Heretic and Heretic II

In addition to titles in which Link does not star as the protagonist, games such as the shooter title, Link's Crossbow Training ( for the Wii ), have been considered spin-offs due to the lack of a traditional " Save Hyrule " plot-line.

* Duke Nukem, a series of video games with a protagonist of the same name

He also appears frequently in the Star Wars " Expanded Universe " of novels, comic books and video games, including a series of novels in which he is the primary protagonist.

Peach was not a playable character in New Super Mario Bros. Wii because it would require special programming on how the game handles her dress, however, she is the main protagonist in Super Princess Peach and is a playable character in most Mario spin-offs such as Mario Party, Mario Kart and also sports games.

It is also notable for being one of the first games featuring a female protagonist.

Miner Willy is the protagonist in a series of platform games for the ZX Spectrum, MSX, Amstrad CPC and the Commodore 64 home computers starring Miner Willy.

Even well-plotted games sometimes involve the protagonist in a series of relatively unconnected and unjustified tasks.

In dark fantasy or horror the parallel world is often a hiding place for unpleasant things, and often the protagonist is forced to confront effects of this other world leaking into his own, as in most of the work of H. P. Lovecraft and the Doom computer game series, or Warhammer / 40K miniature and computer games.

Often the quest is given to the protagonist through the realm's magic mirror ( the first game involves obtaining the magic mirror, that becomes an important feature in the later games ).

Gohan, known as in the Japanese version, is a character from the Dragon Ball series created by Akira Toriyama as a protagonist for the media franchise, which consists of a series of manga, anime, soundtracks, movies, television specials, video games, and other collectibles.

The game's protagonist, Princess Athena, has gone on to appear in later fighting games by SNK as a secret character or assistant to her descendant Athena Asamiya, a frequent main character in these games.

The action-adventure games feature the protagonist travelling the world in search of rare objects and mystical artifacts.

* Nathan Drake ( character ), protagonist of the Uncharted video games

* Joe Musashi, the protagonist of the Shinobi video games

Other examples include the power armor used by the Space Marines and other characters from Games Workshop's Warhammer 40k franchise, and the power armor used by the Brotherhood of Steel in the Fallout franchise, and the iconic MJOLNIR Armor worn by protagonist Master Chief in the Halo series of video games.

It omits locations and characters from previous games, aside from protagonist Link and a passing mention of Princess Zelda.

Role-playing video games ( commonly referred to as role-playing games or RPGs, as well as computer RPGs or CRPGs ) are a video game genre where the player controls the actions of a protagonist as this character lives immersed in a fictional world.

Raiden's unexpected introduction as the main protagonist in Metal Gear Solid 2, due to his lack of appearances in the games ' trailers and how he replaces fan-favorite character Solid Snake, have been deemed as one of the most controversial parts of the entire series.

In the standard games, he is the protagonist and player-character.