List of Often Seen Types of Protagonists in Fiction

I don't know if you guys have noticed (you probably haven't) but I read a lot.  I mean, really, A LOT.

And when you read, there are certain things you kinda notice that writers often use.

You know, like, vampires.

But anyway, I'm not talking about genre I'm talking about plots.

First, what are plots?  Well, they have a beginning, middle, end, and a building up part to a climax somewhere between the beginning and the middle, and the middle and end.  Well, the end is the climax and the, well, I guess it's kinda like the resolution of sorts.

And anyway, I'm not talking about plots I'm talking about the protagonists in the stories.

Here's a list.  Most of them are "general I've seen before" types but some of them are ones I took from the stories I've read.  Mostly fantasy, as you may notice.

1. Was a nothing average kid and suddenly has the whole world on his or her shoulders because of some heritage or destiny...  The Destiny Child.  Wait, Destiny Child sounds familiar...isn't it a celebrity name or something?

2.  Nothing average kid wakes up one morning and feels different.  Then meets people with strange powers and goes to save the world or something.

3.  Magical fantasy land with magical princess or prince going to get married soon but hates it and runs away, hides identity, finds a peasent or country girl or boy falls in love but is forbidden... well, you know, love stories that cross between ranks.

4.  The chosen one stories.  Oh, wait, I know a good chosen one story.  The Pokemon movies.  Not the TV series.  In the movies, every single one, Ash (Satoshi in Japanese) goes out to save the city, the country, the world, the pokemon species.  Good grief.   Sometimes I think he should give one of his buddies a chance at the saving the world thing.  Don't get me wrong, I like the Pokemon movies.  But I think it might be interesting if the protagonist wasn't always the protagonist like in the TV series.

And, in a way, Harry Potter is kind of like the chosen one, isn't he?  Not too much, but kinda.

5.  Speaking of Harry Potter, those protagonists who naturally have some great power with them the moment they were born.

6.  Protagonists that revolt against some authority force and are the leader of that revolutionary group.

7.  Protagonists with amnesia.

8.  Girl protagonists with a corrupt family and school life who find love with some guy that help them bring their life around.

9.  Speaking of love stories, nothing average girls getting asked out by popular boys and the struggles they go through with entering the popular girl world or not.

10.  I'm running out of ideas... uhm... Suicidal insane protagonists finding love or finding power they didn't know they had and realizing they weren't insane or end up staying insane or succeed in killing themselves.  Sorry for the frankness.  And I'm saying sorry to those of you who have lost someone because they took their own life.

There.  I don't know, maybe these are cliche but maybe someone of you writers out there can mix-mash them and create something new?  *grins* I dare you to try to mix these up good.  And show me!  However long I don't care.  I'd love to see creative creative writers :)

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