Similar viewpoints have been expressed by Stanley Crouch in a New York Daily News piece, Charles Steele, Jr. of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and African-American columnist David Ehrenstein of the LA Times who accused white liberals of flocking to blacks who were " Magic Negros ", a term that refers to a black person with no past who simply appears to assist the mainstream white ( as cultural protagonists / drivers ) agenda.

Despite the fact that Brite's first novel was criticized by some mainstream sources for allegedly " lack a moral center: neither terrifyingly malevolent supernatural creatures nor ( like Anne Rice's protagonists ) tortured souls torn between good and evil, these vampires simply add blood-drinking to the amoral panoply of drug abuse, problem drinking and empty sex practiced by their human counterparts ", many of these so-called " human counterparts " identified with the teen angst and goth music references therein, keeping the book in print.

One stereotype that is criticized is when the protagonists do not identify as gay, but rather are simply in love with that particular person.

A core rule book, simply titled The World of Darkness, has full rules for human characters and ghosts ; though it has no specific setting material, it establishes a tone and mood for games featuring human protagonists.

Similarly, human characters are depicted as both antagonists and protagonists, further underlying the theme that the characters in the novels are neither " good " nor " evil " simply based on their race.

It was also included in the 2011 list of the best violent video games of all time by The Daily Telegraph for the reason that " few games have ever been so keen to have their protagonists murder civilians, burning them with flamethrowers, blowing them up with rocket launchers and simply mowing them down.

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.

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

The repression accelerated in June and July 1794, a period called " la Grande Terreur " ( the Great Terror ), and ended in the coup of 9 Thermidor Year II ( 27 July 1794 ), leading to the Thermidorian Reaction, in which several protagonists of the Reign of Terror were executed, including Saint-Just and Robespierre.

Except in The Horse and His Boy, the protagonists are all children from the real world magically transported to Narnia, where they are called upon by the lion Aslan to protect Narnia from evil and restore the throne to its rightful line.

The two main protagonists are Harold Godwinson, recently crowned King of England, leading the Anglo-Saxon English, and William, Duke of Normandy leading a mainly Norman army, sometimes called the companions of William the Conqueror.

The British progressive rock group Strawbs feature a Ford / Hudson composition called ' Lady Fuschia ' ( sic ) on their 1973 album Bursting at the Seams, about one of the main protagonists of this trilogy.

Similarly, OOP protagonists who claim their paradigm is superior are met with opposition from strong sceptics such as Alexander Stepanov who suggested that OOP provides a mathematically limited viewpoint and called it, " almost as much of a hoax as Artificial Intelligence "

It is presented in French-English, with Dora and Boots ( called Babouche ) speaking French and other protagonists speaking and answering in English.

Dora and Boots ( called Botas ) speak Greek and other protagonists speak and answer in English.

On Nickelodeon Brazil, Dora and Boots ( called Boots in the Portuguese version and Botas in the Brazilian version ) speak Portuguese and the other protagonists speak and answer in English.

Dora and Boots ( called Botas ) speak Spanish and the other protagonists speak and answer in English.

The nickname was a reference to an X-Files episode ( Ghost in the Machine ) in which a computer called COS was trying to terminate the series ' protagonists, Mulder and Scully.

Although it is, at first, a rather humble weapon in comparison to other mecha, brandishing only an array of missiles and a double barreled energy cannon called the Glenn Cannon on its abdomen as well as limited melee and defensive shields, this changes gradually as the series progresses and the protagonists delve further into the Ideons ' secrets.

A speeder also features in the Russian film Stalker, where it is used to transport the protagonists into the heart of a forbidden area called The Zone, created in the aftermath of an alien landing.

Through their own distinct investigative means, the two protagonists discover more about the shadowy group, which is called Sigma.

All the protagonists in his novels discover that they are happier in arrangements which would nowadays be called polyamorous or polyfidelitous.

Maria, now a Queen in a magical world called Magicant, explains everything to the protagonists of Mother after her memories are restored.

The Silver Child is about a group of children in an abandoned ship building site called Coldharbour, given special talents dubbed by the young protagonists as " gifts " to fight a force known to them only as " The Roar ".

In The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands, the book's protagonists, led by the gunslinger Roland, travel from Lud to an alternate reality version of Topeka, Kansas via a supersonic monorail called Blaine.

Charles Baudelaire, from which the protagonists ' surnames are derived, wrote a poem called " La Beatrice.

Moreover, one of the later book's protagonists is also called Rodney Savage ( the great-grandson of the central character of Nightrunners ) and in many ways seems the same character, and he also meets the descendants of Sumitra Devi in the same settings where his ancestor had met her.

In John Updike's 1965 short story " God Speaks " ( collected in " Museums and Women ") Gish Imra is the name of one of the protagonists, the son of the assassinated leader of a Central Asian state called Nuristan.

In John Updike's 1965 short story " God Speaks " ( collected in " Museums and Women ") Gish Imra is the name of one of the protagonists, the son of the assassinated leader of a Central Asian state called Nuristan.

* The Japanese anime Gaiking: Legend of Daiku-Maryu has the protagonists spend much of their time in a hollow Earth called Darius, home of an empire of humanoids that are currently amassing a force to invade and conquer the surface world.

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.

" The Stone Pillow " offers the rise of the rebellion which the protagonists of " If This Goes On -" later join ; it is noteworthy that the Rebellion ( styled the " Second American Revolution " in later stories of the Future History ) includes Mormons, Catholics, and Jews, groups suppressed by the Theocracy, working in concert with Freemasons.

His protagonists were often young American women facing oppression or abuse, and as his secretary Theodora Bosanquet remarked in her monograph Henry James at Work:

The film featured many songs created for the fictitious campaign waged by the protagonists: " Good Old Shoe ", " The American Dream " and " The Men of the 303 " are but salient examples.

* Rabun County is a prominent location in Larry Burkett's 1991 novel The Illuminati ( Thomas Nelson )-Clayton and Rabun County are the refuge of the book's protagonists once the powers that be begin to exert their control over the American economy-Clayton is safe due to the antiquated analog communications gear and general out-of-the-wayness that has fomented the popular perception of this remote area.

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.

William Motter Inge (; – ) was an American playwright and novelist, whose works typically feature solitary protagonists encumbered with strained sexual relations.

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.

James Rosenquist ( born November 29, 1933 ) is an American artist and one of the protagonists in the pop-art movement.

While the burning is taking place, the protagonists of the novel attempt to obtain secret papers stored there by Himmler about the involvement of British and American companies with German industry during World War II.

The main protagonists of the series are George Stobbart, an American patent lawyer, and Nicole " Nico " Collard, a French freelance journalist, although Nico does not appear as a playable character in the original game The Shadow of the Templars.

I emphasize my euharistia to you, Kyrie to the eugenic and generous American Ethnos and to the organizers and protagonists of his Amphictyony and the gastronomic symposia.

* In the 1979 movie The In-Laws, a South American dictator speaks to the protagonists indirectly, via a " Johnny "- like character drawn on his hand named " Señor Pepe.

The Magical Negro, or magical black friend, is a supporting stock character in American cinema who is portrayed coming to the aid of a film's white protagonists.

The protagonists of the South American trip were all given " positions of trust " after their return.

* Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, protagonists of American TV series Hart to Hart

Compared to other Ellis protagonists, Victor is less " sensitive and insightful " than Less Than Zero < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s Clay, neither the " preening psychopath " that is American Psycho < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s Patrick Bateman ", he is nevertheless an " sympathetic protagonist ( in his own way, he's as morally bankrupt as ... Patrick Bateman ).

Nugent's story was Smoke, Lilies and Jade, an overtly homoerotic story with black and Latino protagonists, and the first such story published by an African American.

Some Western viewers have made comparisons between the Trio's behaviors, abilities and personalities with those of the Warners, the protagonists of the American animation anthology Animaniacs.

The child protagonists are a contemporary American boy and girl ; their father, Professor Jones, teaches physics at a university.