Like Case, many cyberpunk protagonists are manipulated, placed in situations where they have little or no choice, and although they might see things through, they do not necessarily come out any further ahead than they previously were.

The protagonists may also travel to places that are not of this earth, represented in the Dreamlands ( which can be accessed through dreams as well as being physically connected to the earth ), as well as travel to other planets or the voids of space.

* In the 1983 comedy Strange Brew, which is loosely based on Hamlet, the protagonists are given jobs at Elsinore Brewery.

In the first story of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale Die Wichtelmänner, the title protagonists are two naked mannequins, which help a shoemaker in his work.

In this book the hapless protagonists are ensnared in a web of deceit by a malignant monk called Schedoni and eventually dragged before the tribunals of the Inquisition in Rome, leading one contemporary to remark that if Radcliffe wished to transcend the horror of these scenes she would have to visit hell itself.

Charlotte's Jane Eyre and Emily's Cathy are both examples of female protagonists in such a role.

The female protagonists pursued in these texts are often caught in an unfamiliar and terrifying landscape, delivering higher degrees of horror.

As female protagonists in novels like Adeline in The Romance of the Forest learn that their superstitious fantasies and terrors are replaced with natural cause and reasonable doubt, the reader may understand the true position of the heroine in the novel:

With Rhett's " swarthy face " juxtaposed against Scarlett's " magnolia-white skin ", the two white protagonists are a metaphor for an interracial couple, and their romance represents racial conflict.

A pictorial parody in which the the slaves are white and the protagonists are black appeared in a 1995 issue of Vanity Fair titled, " Scarlett ' n the Hood ".

There is no strong antipathy of race or religion ; the war turns on no political events ; the capture of Troy lies outside the range of the Iliad ; and even the protagonists are not comparable to the chief national heroes of Greece.

The protagonists of Jarmusch's films are usually lone adventurers.

The protagonists of his films are often strong, independent girls or young women.

In all the books except Ethan of Athos and Falling Free, the protagonists are connected to the planet Barrayar, home of the Vorkosigan clan.

Names of characters also often carry puns, such as Ash Ketchum and Goku (" kakarot "), the protagonists of the anime series Pokémon and Dragonball, respectively, both franchises which are known for including second meanings in the names of many of their characters.

His protagonists are usually very intelligent teenagers who have to make their way in the adult society they see around them.

While the two protagonists are separated, one or both of them usually realizes that they are ideal for each other, or that they are in love with each other.

Nihilism, post-modernism, and film noir techniques are common elements, and the protagonists may be disaffected or reluctant anti-heroes.

While Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten, Unter uns, Verbotene Liebe and Alles was zählt are currently the only daily soaps on the air, the telenovelas Sturm der Liebe and Rote Rosen are considered soaps by the press as well, thanks to the changing protagonists every season.

When the protagonists are captured and imprisoned by a Norman baron, Scott interrupts the story to exclaim: It is grievous to think that those valiant barons, to whose stand against the crown the liberties of England were indebted for their existence, should themselves have been such dreadful oppressors, and capable of excesses contrary not only to the laws of England, but to those of nature and humanity.

In other stories which are found in One Thousand and One Nights, protagonists who had to leave their homeland and travel to the unknown places of the world saw signs which proved that Solomon had already been there.

Blues ballads tend to deal with active protagonists, often anti-heroes, resisting adversity and authority, but frequently lacking a strong narrative and emphasising character instead.

Thereafter, the acting company players serve as the protagonists of the film and frequently use acting / costumes to deceive various characters in the film.

Wong's films frequently feature protagonists who yearn for romance in the midst of a knowingly brief life and scenes that can often be described as sketchy, digressive, exhilarating, and containing vivid imagery.

In the films of New Queer Cinema, the protagonists and narratives were predominantly LGBT, but were presented invariably as outsiders and renegades from the rules of conventional society, and embraced radical and unconventional gender roles and ways of life, frequently casting themselves as outlaws or fugitives.

Characters who maintain a more accepted lifestyle are frequently at odds with the protagonists.

In his Cop's Story column, Antônio Maria would frequently interview the protagonists of the moment, right in the police stations and on the streets of Copacabana or in the middle of the night.

At the same time, nagas are important players in many of the events narrated in the epic, frequently no more evil nor deceitful than the other protagonists, and sometimes on the side of good.

Rohmer's films concentrate on intelligent, articulate protagonists who frequently fail to own up to their desires.

H. P. Lovecraft frequently used occultatio to add an element of mystery to his stories, as his unfortunate protagonists met things too horrible or too alien to describe.

By the end of the 19th century, the failure of the arrangement was freely admitted by the governments of the three powers since the principal protagonists in Samoa acted directly for their own interests, frequently overruling the officials of the condominium.

Throughout his career, Estevez has appeared in numerous film and television roles in lead, supporting, and minor parts playing protagonists and antagonists, and he frequently appears in moderate and low-budget independent features and B-movies.

Rand frequently declared her motive and purpose in writing to be " the projection of an ideal man "; all of her protagonists are heroes.

His plots frequently employ unlikeable protagonists in dystopic settings, where they are faced with the brutality of everyday life and are often thwarted by their own actions in the end.

In 2005, dozens of local organizations and hundreds of their volunteers celebrated the theme of the 1905 peace treaty — reached with ordinary citizens providing a crucial, neutral, supporting atmosphere, not for one or the other of the protagonists, but for peace.

It is characterized by the fact that its protagonists are ordinary citizens.

Unusually for the thriller genre, Innes ' protagonists were often not " heroes " in the typical sense, but ordinary men suddenly thrust into extreme situations by circumstance.

In these essays, he explains that his novels combine fiction and history to place ordinary individuals ( like his novelistic protagonists Arthur Mervyn or Edgar Huntly ) into situations of historical stress ( like the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1793 or settler-Indian violence on the Pennsylvania frontier after the Walking Purchase ) in such a way as educate his audience about virtuous behaviors and the historical causes and conditions of individual actions.

Many of the stories he published were set on Earth in the present day or near future, with ordinary people as protagonists.

Academic and literary editor, Delys Bird, summarises the author's themes as follows: " Astley's novels and stories typically present a sceptical view of social relationships among ordinary people, one often coloured by her former Catholicism, and directed through the struggles of her self-conscious protagonists to find an expressive space within their uncongenial surroundings ".

It is characterized by the fact that its protagonists are ordinary citizens.

Like the original, MDK2 features three protagonists: Kurt Hectic, an ordinary janitor and reluctant hero, Max, a mechanical six-legged dog, and Doctor Fluke Hawkins, Max's creator and all-round eccentric scientist.