While " animation " designates any style of illustrated images seen in rapid succession to give the impression of movement, the word " cartoon " is most often used in reference to TV programs and short films for children featuring anthropomorphized animals, superheroes, the adventures of child protagonists and related genres.

Popular films in the genre such as Little Caesar ( 1931 ), The Public Enemy ( 1931 ), and Scarface ( 1932 ) demonstrated that there was an audience for crime dramas with morally reprehensible protagonists.

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.

Many of his films were noted for creating " psychological dilemmas " for his male protagonists along with having a strong " sense of environment ," similar in style to films by director Sidney Lumet, for whom he had earlier worked as assistant director.

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

Many television shows and films have been produced which portray in-character professional wrestlers as protagonists, such as Ready to Rumble, ¡ Mucha Lucha !, Nacho Libre, and the Santo film series.

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

In films such as The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ), Spellbound ( 1945 ), The Manchurian Candidate ( 1962 ) and Inception ( 2010 ), the protagonists must extract vital clues from surreal dreams.

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.

Western films commonly feature as their protagonists stock characters such as cowboys, gunslingers, and bounty hunters, often depicted as semi-nomadic wanderers who wear Stetson hats, bandannas, spurs, and buckskins, use revolvers or rifles as everyday tools of survival, and ride between dusty towns and cattle ranches on trusty steeds.

" He suggests that because Allen's films blur the protagonist with " past and future protagonists as well as with the director himself ", it " makes a difference as to whether we are most responsive to the director's or the character's framing of events ".

Particularly significant in this respect were the Carry On series of films and the BBC radio series Round the Horne, although this humor is carried because of the apparent " nonsense " language that the protagonists use but in fact are having a " rude " conversation in Polari ( gay slang ).

The influence of Döblin's novel can be seen in many of Fassbinder ’ s films most of whose protagonists are named Franz, some with the surname Biberkopff like the naïve working class lottery winner in Fox and his friends, who is played by Fassbinder himself.

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.

First released on 15 May 2003, the same day as The Matrix Reloadeds North American release, Enter the Matrix gives players control of two of the supporting characters in that film, Ghost and Niobe, members of the same group of rebels as Morpheus, Trinity, and Neo, the protagonists in the films.

Some comparison can be made to the long takes in Antonioni's films from the 1960s, in which the camera continues to linger on desolate cityscapes populated by a few distant figures, or none at all, in the absence of the film's protagonists.

He is apparently destroyed at the end of the film by protagonist Nancy Thompson, but the last scene reveals that he had survived ; he went on to antagonize the teenage protagonists of the next five films in the series.

These three films are united by their chalk-line style, the stick-figure clown protagonists, and the constant transformations.

Because of this, both serve as protagonists, and the films start shortly before the switch, illustrating the conflict between the two, then follow the trouble both have adjusting to their new circumstances, and the new respect and understanding they both come to have for each other before switching back.

In the latter half of the 1970s and early 1980s he produced and directed films which focused on the female protagonists: Satyam Shivam Sundaram ( 1978 ) with Zeenat Aman, Prem Rog ( 1982 ) with Padmini Kolhapure and Ram Teri Ganga Maili ( 1985 ) which introduced Mandakini.

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.

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.

Integral to jianghu is the smaller circle of martial arts practitioners usually including the protagonists called wulin.

Sentinels are designed to hunt mutants who often represent the protagonists of Marvel stories ; therefore, the sentinels are usually employed as supervillains or as the tools of other villains.

They featured fantasies and isolated protagonists, usually loners, who performed daring heroic deeds.

The protagonists of most wuxia stories usually have beautiful maidens to accompany them on their adventures and the story typically concludes like a fairy tale, in which the protagonist and his lover are married and live happily ever after.

Also, the protagonists usually acted out of more selfish motives ( money or revenge being the most common ) than in the classical westerns.

She writes usually with female protagonists in the first person, set in Colonial-Civil War era America or World War I era.

His protagonists, usually weak men or women with masochistic tendencies, pay a heavy price for their victimization.

Since authors usually adopt human protagonists, such planets are typically described as very hospitable to human life and, other than in geography, nearly indistinguishable from Earth ; Brian Stableford calls such planets " Earth-Clones ".

The protagonists are usually children or teens who have unique abilities, gifts, possessions or even allies that allow them to face powerful adversaries.

The story usually involved some crisis in the relationship of the three protagonists.

Victims, couples, virtuous and heroic characters or suffering protagonists ( usually heroines ) in melodramas are presented with tremendous social pressures, threats, repression, fears, improbable events or difficulties with friends, community, work, lovers, or family.

) Nonhuman creatures and cultures are usually presented sympathetically, with human protagonists sometimes supporting them against oppressive human authorities.

Eventually he developed the formulaic " well-made play "; popular pieces with elaborate plots featuring clever twists and turns, and usually centering on a misunderstanding ( quiproquo ) which is revealed early on to the audience but not realised by the protagonists until the final scenes.

Harem,, broadly speaking, is a loose subgenre of anime and manga characterized by a protagonist ( or several protagonists ) surrounded, usually amorously, by three or more members of the opposing sex and / or love interests.

Meg and Charles Wallace Murry, the protagonists of the other three books, only appear on the last two pages of this one, while Sandy and Dennys, usually minor characters, are fully developed.

Autobot, a faction of sentient robots from the planet Cybertron, are usually the main protagonists in the fictional universe of the Transformers, a collection of various toys, graphic novels, paperback books, cartoons and movies first introduced in 1984.

The series follows the protagonists as they hunt down the cursed antiques, which are usually in the possession of people who have discovered their evil powers and are unwilling to give them up.

Often stoner films involve evading authority figures, sometimes law enforcement agents, who are portrayed as comically inept, but also parents, coworkers, friends, and security guards who disapprove of the protagonists ' marijuana usage usually out of a greater lack of acceptance of their lifestyle of leisure and innocence.

They tended to deal with active protagonists, often anti-heroes, resisting adversity and authority, often in the context of increasing industrialisation, but they usually lacked the strong narrative common in European ballads ( perhaps because the events were familiar ) and emphasised instead the character of the protagonists.

The most common kind of joke features a conversation between the characters, where in the final frame a twist ending becomes apparent-the context of the conversation was not what the reader had supposed, usually reflecting on the protagonists ' materialistic values and priorities.

This rule was followed throughout Europe for centuries: usually, princes and members of the nobility, such as Andreas Gryphius ' Carolus Stuardus ( i. e. King Charles I of England ), Jean Racine's Phèdre ( the wife of Theseus, a mythical king of Athens ) or William Shakespeare's King Lear, serve as tragic protagonists.