Antagonists

“	YOU ARE A HUMAN! I MUST CAPTURE YOU! THEN, I CAN FULFILL MY LIFELONG DREAM!!! POWERFUL! POPULAR! PRESTIGIOUS!!! THAT'S PAPYRUS!!! THE NEWEST MEMBER...OF THE ROYAL GUARD!	„
	~ Papyrus before his boss fight.

“	Byakuren: I can't change your desire to eliminate all youkai. However, if you're going to seal me away again... I will resist you with all my strength. Reimu: Yes, there we go! I'll beat anyone who's a friend to youkai! Byakuren: Humans haven't changed since my days in the temple. How foolish and self-centered you are! Now, namusan ―― !	„
	~ Byakuren Hijiri before fighting against Reimu Hakurei.

Heroes who opposes the protagonists and the supporting characters of the protagonists in the stories they appear in. These heroes are not the same as Redeemed Villains as these heroes only opposed the protagonists and the supporting characters. While the most common is that Pure Goods be the protagonists in a story, antagonists can also count as long as they meet all criteria.

In some very rare cases, Pure Good antagonists can be the main antagonist of a story, given that all of the protagonists are villains and all of the antagonists are the heroes (e.g. Soichiro Yagami), as well as them opposing other heroes in a story arc before redeeming themselves (e.g. Sae Niijima). This may also apply to secondary antagonists (e.g. The Collector, Kaworu Nagisa), or, in extremely rare cases, overarching antagonists (e.g. Preston Garvey).

They are the opposite of False Antagonists, although it is possible for them to be both if they act antagonistic a few times but are not a true antagonist of the story overall (e.g. The Puppet . Their darker counterpart are Villainous Protagonists

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