User blog comment:LiamFrostveins/Antagonists 2.0/@comment-4547854-20130804065757

Something that I always find is that sure, you mostly see people sweeping antagonism under the rug, however the majority that don't are like "Well, us protagonists are going to win, k?" No.

While sure, we have mostly seen the protagonists prevail over antagonists multiple of times, such as in movie classics, like any Batman movie, Superman movie, Harry Potter, Star Wars Episode VI, Star Wars Episode I(As much as I hate the movie in story-line), somehow in the end the protagonists will prevail. But, why not the antagonists?

We also need to remember when usually the antagonists prevail most of the time over the protagonist, even if in a series they end up losing. We see this heavily in both trilogies of the Star Wars movie series, where in Episode II, III, IV, and V, the Antagonists will prevail in some form. 3 and a half out of seven Harry Potters(If we're going to count Deathly Hallows Part 1), the antagonists end up on the winning side, the antagonists pretty much won in The Dark Knight(I do not recall the Joker ever dying.)

I find that the more memorable role-play moments are when the antagonists prevail, because it always leads to some sort of storyline of the protagonists fighting back. Such examples are:

Russia and his Zamorakian Empire

Oh yeah, I'm gonna steal some spotlight, Aztarwyn in all of his conquests

Zenthos defeating Ehrick in Varrock

Kandarin in Falador

Morytania ending some stupid Holy Crusade

The Worshipper take-over of Misthalin

Before the Sicarius became over-rated, the Sicarius Wars were always memorable(Or considered World War I in RP)

Vectis Vekon betraying Jason Ryder

Sultan Feroze's scandal was a good one. The Nazir one. The communism was also great too.

While we have this short list of good ol' antagonists taking the spotlight, we have a bigger list of unmemorable protagonist victories. Who remembers when Ehrick (failed in) killing Zenthos(He did not land the killing blow)? That's really only remembered because of the amount of Mahjarrat that were pissed off.And who in the hell remembers any of the rebellions in Asgarnia, such as the War of 169, or any of Galastus' attempts to take-over the throne, which ended up failing? Probably only the people that organized them. And while at that, T.G.S.G.'s take-over of Falador, hardly anyone acknowledges that.

My point is, protagonism takes more spotlight than it should. Whenever protagonists prevail in any situation, hardly any are renown for being great and are remembered(Only one comes to mind, which is the Commonfailth and the Kinshra war in Falador.) It is not the case that the antagonists usually end up losing, they usually end up winning most of the time.

Tl;dr, support bra.

DID YOU KNOW: When I wrote this post, my Xbox 360 controller died mid-way and I was still able to type for some reason.