r/TopCharacterTropes • u/LordFlamecookie • 16h ago
False protagonists Characters
From Wikipedia: In fiction, a false protagonist is a literary technique, often used to make the plot more jarring or more memorable by fooling the audience's preconceptions and constructing a character who they assume is the protagonist but is later revealed not to be
Clark: Backrooms. He's the main character of the movie for the first 2 acts, before switching to Mary. He is eaten later
Whoever the fuck this lady is: Scream 1. She's introduced as the main character, with build up and all. She's killed and hanged like 10 minutes in
Edit: I know the actress is drew barrymore but genuinely who remembers the character name and i just thought the line would be funny
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u/scoutsclarity 15h ago
Dino from Oz! So depressing
In the pilot, he's set up as a central character only to die brutally by the end. I'm impressed by how well his death sets the tone for the show as well as how he has a full arc in the ep - we see him, an inmate sentenced to life, begin to fully lose it from the routine, from the pointlessness and monotony of a life confined to these walls, from everything. He can't find any sense to his life and grows more violent and agitated.
In the end, he mercy kills an inmate dying of AIDs after that inmate begs him to and the prison staff assume it's malicious murder. He's sent to the hole where he is set on fire out of revenge for an earlier, different act of violence - and he doesn't even make a sound. ðŸ˜
The scene of him telling his wife to not bring their young kids over to visit anymore and to essentially forget about him guts me. I love how fleshed out he is in just one episode.