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There are no tritagonists, tertiary antagonists, etc.[]
Given the amount of edit wars we've had over this issue, going back to "Bikke is totally major", I would like to propose that we have some variant of:
- Try to avoid attaching any qualifiers to the words "protagonist" and "antagonist", aside from "main". While the importance of a character can be obvious, it is often subjective, in which case it can cause edit wars. This also applies to using the words "deuteragonist", which can sometimes be justifiable, and "tritagonist", which almost never is. Furthermore, if a character is a permanent party member, you can just call them a party member.
(Up to a few small edits, this proposal was essentially written by SCM.) This gives us a policy that we can point to, to justify why these edit wars should not happen. Cat (meow ∙ hunt) 21:44, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
- Just to elaborate on the "tritagonist" thing, which was (probably correctly) trimmed for length. FF's tendency towards ensembles makes it difficult to identify a "third" protagonist, even when one exists, beyond the lead and maybe one other person, most of the main cast start getting similar levels of story coverage.
- As it turns out, video games are not ancient Greek theater. -- Some Color Mage ~ (Talk) 22:32, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
Following up on this, Techno consulted some of his other wiki-admin friends and they suggested we trim the edit war bit slightly to just say something like "it is often subjective and contentious" instead, which makes sense.
If there's no objections here I'll add this in a few days. -- Some Color Mage ~ (Talk) 03:25, 7 December 2021 (UTC)