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:

In international law interpretation is within the domain of the protagonists, but may also be conferred on judicial bodies such as the International Court of Justice, by the terms of the treaties or by consent of the parties.

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

Dream scenes may be indistinguishable from those set in the dreamer's real world, a narrative device that undermines the dreamer's and the audience's sense of security and allows horror film protagonists, such as those of Carrie ( 1976 ), Friday the 13th ( 1980 ) or An American Werewolf in London ( 1981 ) to be suddenly attacked by dark forces while resting in seemingly safe places.

A frequently-used plot device holds that ships with shields raised may not use their transporters, which often prevents protagonists extracting colleagues from hazardous situations, because doing so would require lowering the shields and endangering the ship.

< p > At deeper levels, drug users may regress to childhood as they relive their memories, or they may project themselves into the series of dreamlike images before their closed eyelids and become the protagonists of symbolic dramas enacted for the mind's eye.

In some ways, such protagonists may be considered the literary descendants of the knight errant which stood at the center of earlier extensive genres such as the Arthurian Romances.

As with protagonists, there may be more than one antagonist in a story.

When the work contains subplots, these may have different protagonists from the main plot.

In some novels, the protagonists may be impossible to identify, because multiple plots in the novel do not permit clear identification of one as the main plot, such as in Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The First Circle, depicting a variety of characters imprisoned and living in a gulag camp, or in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, depicting 15 major characters involved in or affected by a war.

Sometimes, antagonists and protagonists may overlap, depending on what their ultimate objectives are considered to be.

Such protagonists, either due to age or physical unsuitability may be limited to cerebral conflicts ( such as those based on conversational interplay ) while leaving the physical action to a younger or more physically capable sidekick.

The protagonists are frequently ordinary citizens unaccustomed to danger, although commonly in crime thrillers, they may also be " hard men " accustomed to danger such as police officers and detectives.

" Run and gun " games feature protagonists on foot, rather than spacecraft, that often have the ability to jump ; they may feature either scrolling or multidirectional movement.

Although the protagonists were not intended to represent any specific individuals, the character of the American was loosely based on chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer, while elements of the story may have been inspired by the chess careers of Russian grandmasters Viktor Korchnoi and Anatoly Karpov.

In storylines where the protagonists are in physical danger, a happy ending would mainly consist in their surviving and successfully concluding their quest or mission ; where there is no physical danger, a happy ending is often defined as lovers consummating their love despite various factors which may have thwarted it ; and a considerable number of storylines combine both factors.

Because they are rebelling against the basic norms of society, protagonists of transgressional fiction may seem mentally ill, anti-social, or nihilistic.

In this sense, each narrative thread is the narrative portion of a work that pertains to the world view of the participating characters cognizant of their piece of the whole, and they may be the villains, the protagonists, a supporting character, or a relatively disinterested official utilized by the author, each thread of which is woven together by the writer to create a work.

Given that the eponymous Miss Lonelyhearts and his fellow protagonists are struggling for existential meaning and interpersonal relationships in the uncertain, threatening sociopolitical context of the Great Depression, Dick may have intended this citation as a parallel narrative to the similar alienation, existential and interpersonal crises of his own protagonists in a world on the brink of Nazi-Japanese nuclear war after the Axis won World War II in its alternative universe ( and, as an ironic contrast, our own ).

The series may have been influenced by William Le Queux's The Great War in England in 1897 ( 1894 ) in which the French launch a surprise invasion of England and penetrate into the heart of London but are finally defeated after much desperate and heroic fighting by the British protagonists.

Like many of the previous Castlevania protagonists, Nathan uses a whip to attack and defeat enemies, alongside secondary weapons — an axe, cross, holy water, dagger and stopwatch — only one of which may be carried at any time by the player.

" Schrader may have finally achieved the violent transfiguration that he seeks along with his protagonists ; the film has all the ritual sharpness and beauty of that final sword.

It also included an innovative scene that would combine a series of on stage dances with singing from both solo protagonists and the chorus.

Jumping on the spy bandwagon, other writers also started writing about spy fiction featuring female spies as protagonists, such as The Baroness, which has more graphic action and sex, as compared to other novels featuring male protagonists.

* The Tattooed Map, a novel by Barbara Hodgson also published by Raincoast Books, reads as a journal being kept by the protagonists as they travel to Morocco, complete with hardwritten notes, photos and magazine cutouts from the journey.

In early times, horror films such as My Bloody Valentine ( 1981 ), Halloween ( 1978 ), and Friday the 13th ( 1980 ) pertained mostly to a male audience in order to " feed the fantasies of young men ".< ref name = Nowell > Their main focus was to express the fear of women and show them as monsters ; however, this ideal is no longer prevalent in horror films .< ref name = Williams > Women have become not only the main audience and fans of horror films but also the main protagonists of contemporary horror films.

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.

It also includes segments of fictitious silent films starring its protagonists.

With the proliferation of male protagonists in the spy fiction genre, writers and book packagers also started bringing out spy fiction with a female as the protagonist.

Not only Esmond but also Barry Lyndon and Catherine are set then, as is the sequel to Esmond, The Virginians, which takes place in America and includes George Washington as a character who nearly kills one of the protagonists in a duel.

They were also linked by a common focus on the advancement of scientific knowledge, de Camp's chosen protagonists being explorers, artisans, engineers, innovators and practical philosophers rather than famous names from antiquity, who are relegated to secondary roles.

The two protagonists of NO Quarter, Maestro and Bone, also appear as minor characters in the Dragons novels.

The films establish that there was originally a Jedi Knight named Anakin who fell to the dark side of the Force ; he is also revealed to be the father of both Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia Organa, the two main protagonists of the original trilogy.

Forsyth also mentions the OAS in The Dogs of War, with several of its protagonists having joined the movement.

In addition to the two main protagonists, several of the fictional characters depicted in the film also have real-life counterparts.

Although the protagonists in the novel were fictional, several historical figures, such as Andrew Mellon, Henry Clay Frick and Daniel Morrell were also depicted in the book.

There is also a greater difference between the two protagonists abilities.

Joyce also used epiphany as a literary device within each short story of his collection Dubliners as his protagonists came to sudden recognitions that changed their view of themselves or their social condition and often sparking a reversal or change of heart.

He also has two sisters: Sidonie, who appears in La curée, and Marthe, one of the protagonists of La conquête de Plassans.

He also has two sisters: Sidonie, who appears in La curée, and Marthe, one of the protagonists of La conquête de Plassans.

Although the relationship between these two protagonists is the primary focus of the series, many of the supporting characters are also well-developed.

" Gerry " is also a slang term used throughout the misadventure by both protagonists, meaning " to screw up ".

* Tomás de Torquemada is one of the main protagonists of Jerzy Andrzejewski's novel And Darkness Covered the Earth ( also translated as The Inquisitors ).