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...

own antagonist). Sometimes, a work will have a false protagonist, who may seem to be the protagonist, but then may disappear unexpectedly. The character...

Limbo concept. A red herring can also be used as a form of false foreshadowing. A false protagonist is a character presented at the start of the story as the...

narrative, after the protagonist and before the tritagonist. The deuteragonist often acts as a constant companion to the protagonist or someone who continues...

acclaimed TV shows. Literature portal Anti-fairy tale Anti-novel False protagonist List of fictional antiheroes "Anti-Hero". Lexico. Oxford University...

criminal be caught by law enforcement and brought to justice? Will the protagonist be murdered by the fugitive? This question must be answered in the climax...

villains. North by Northwest's MacGuffin is nothing that motivates the protagonist; Roger Thornhill's objective is to extricate himself from the predicament...

classic example is the double false awakening of the protagonist in Gogol's Portrait (1835). Studies have shown that false awakening is closely related...

dog story – a long-winded anecdote designed to lure the audience into a false sense of expectation, only to disappoint them with an anticlimactic ending...

— Friedrich Nietzsche Nietzsche argued that the deus ex machina creates a false sense of consolation that ought not to be sought in phenomena. His denigration...