Automoderated users, Autopatrolled users, Bureaucrats, Comment administrators, Confirmed users, Forum administrators, Interface administrators, Moderators, Rollbackers, Administrators
116,479
edits
(Import from TV Tropes TVT:Main.RogueProtagonist 2012-07-01, editor history TVTH:Main.RogueProtagonist, CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported license) |
Looney Toons (talk | contribs) (standardized section heads) |
||
(13 intermediate revisions by 4 users not shown) | |||
Line 12:
Alternatively, the original character really has [[Fallen Hero|gone to the dark side]] for whatever reason. [[Villain Protagonist|(Or may have been there the whole time...)]]
This often appears in [[Video Game
While it can appear that way, this isn't in effect in a [[POV Sequel]], given that said [[POV Sequel]] is retelling of the original story.
A subtrope of [[Sudden Sequel Heel Syndrome]]; also compare with [[Not
Compare and contrast with [[Fallen Hero]]. Not to be confused with a hero who happens to be a [[Fighter, Mage, Thief|Rogue.]] Or [[X-Men|Rogue]] herself.
{{examples|Examples:}}▼
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Yomi in ''[[Ga
* {{spoiler|Bernkastel}} in ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro
* Sasuke in ''[[Naruto Shippuden]]''.
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Star Wars]]'': If you go chronologically, Anakin is the protagonist and becomes the antagonist.
* ''[[Mission: Impossible (
* {{spoiler|Tron}} in ''[[Tron
== [[Literature]] ==
* Jacen Solo in ''[[Legacy of the Force]]''.
== [[Live
* ''[[Kamen Rider Decade]]'' plays with this as Tsukasa/Decade spends ''Final Chapter'' hunting down all the Kamen Riders, while the Riders believe that they must stop Decade's rampage in order to save [[The Multiverse]]. {{spoiler|In the end, Decade turned out to still be [[Good All Along]], as his trying to "kill" the Riders <ref>actually preserving them in cards</ref> was the only way to save the Multiverse ''and'' the Kamen Rider legacy.}}
== [[Video Games]] ==
* This is how you appear to your former squadmates in ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'', seeing as how you're currently working for Cerberus, a terrorist group whose members were shoot-on-sight enemies in the first game. Ashley and Kaidan outright refuse to go with you because of it, and Tali rejoins with serious reservations about the Normandy's Cerberus-comprised crew (they attacked her people, so [[
* Lloyd Irving in ''[[Tales of Symphonia
* Isaac in ''[[
** Felix was an opponent to Isaac's group in the first game, and [[The Stinger]] for the first game made it fairly clear you'd be playing as Felix in TLA. Neither Isaac's goal nor Felix's has changed, so they're still at odds. Effectively, it's ''the player'' who's gone rogue.
* Caim, the protagonist of ''[[Drakengard]]'', appears about halfway through the sequel as the "One-Eyed Man" responsible for the death of Nowe's adoptive father. [[Anti
* In ''[[
* Subverted in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]]''. At the start of the Plant chapter, [[And Now for Someone Completely Different|Raiden]] is repeatedly told that the leader of the terrorists is Solid Snake. Ten minutes of gameplay and one [[Paper
** If we look at the series' timeline, Naked Snake/Big Boss is one. He's the hero in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater]]'', ''[[Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops|Portable Ops]]'', and ''[[Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker|Peace Walker]]'', and the [[Big Bad]] of ''[[Metal Gear
* In ''[[Devil May Cry]] 4'', Dante is an example, showing up as a villain right out of hell, and making himself a serious enemy to Nero, the new protagonist. They do end up fighting for a similar cause later, especially when it's revealed that {{spoiler|the guy that Dante gunned down, and who got better, is the [[Big Bad]]}}.
* You learn of a possessed and evil character in ''[[Diablo]] II'', called the Dark Wanderer. As it turns out, he's the player character of the first game.<ref>More specifically, the warrior class. The other two classes also turned rogue, including the rogue.</ref>
* Kain, the main character from ''Blood Omen: [[Legacy of Kain]]'', was the [[Big Bad]] of the sequel ''[[Legacy of Kain]]: Soul Reaver''.
* In ''[[Star Wars: Dark Forces
* Clyde from ''[[Vigilante 8]]'' turns heel in the sequel.
* In ''[[Final Fantasy IV:
* Misleading trailers were released to make it seem like this would be Yuri in ''[[Shadow Hearts]] Covenant''. The trailer made it seem like two new characters would be the leads and Yuri only appeared at the end after turning into a monster. When the game came out though, Yuri was the main character and almost all the scenes in the trailer never occurred.
* Richter Belmont was the main character of ''[[Castlevania: Rondo of Blood]]''. Five years later for ''[[Symphony of the Night]]'', Dracula's castle is back, with Richter in charge. {{spoiler|In truth, he was manipulated by the magic of the dark priest Shaft}}.
* Arguably [[Parody|parodied]] in ''[[I Wanna Be the Guy]]'', where past versions of "[[Final Boss|the Guy]]" are player characters from many of the games homaged.
* ''[[Mega Man Zero]]'' sets this up with ''[[Mega Man X]]'' apparently leading the slaughter of an untold number of reploids. It's subverted, [[It Was His Sled|but you knew that.]]
Line 61 ⟶ 59:
* Mario in ''[[Donkey Kong]] Jr.''
* Most main characters in [[Nippon Ichi]] games, especially in ''[[Disgaea]]'', are inevitably back as Bosses and antagonists in later games. Not because they've turned evil, mind you: [[Hostile Show Takeover|They don't take kindly to other people stealing the Main Character spot]].
* In ''[[.hack GU Games|.hack//G.U.]]'', {{spoiler|Kite's avatar from the first games is used as an evil AI.}} Also, {{spoiler|Elk}} shows up as {{spoiler|Endrance}}, who plays the part of a villain for a good portion of the game.
* Ethan Waber in ''[[Phantasy Star Universe]]'': ''[[Expansion Pack|Ambition of the Illuminus]]''. The events that cause him to go rogue are detailed in the [[All There in the Manual|online comic]] ''Shadow of the Arkguard.''
* {{spoiler|Lenneth}} Valkyrie from ''[[Valkyrie Profile]]'' is essentially the main antagonist (from Wylfred's eyes) in ''[[Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume]]'', and can be the final boss (dependent on which ending is viewed.)
* In ''[[Prototype (
* J.C. Denton, the protagonist of ''[[
* This seems to be the trend in the ''[[Necro Vision]]'' series. The protagonist of the prequel ends up becoming the [[Disc One Final Boss]] of the main game, while the protagonist of the main game either becomes the Devil's [[The Dragon|right-hand General]] or (in the hardest to obtain ending) ends up becoming the Lord of Hell himself. In either case it's pretty clear he'd be the [[Big Bad]] if any sequel was ever made. In both cases they turned to the dark side with the intention of preventing a greater evil from occurring.
* The sympathetic and seemingly good-natured protagonist of ''[[Mechwarrior]] 4'' is revealed to have turned into a cruel despot in the expansion pack, and serves as a [[Disc One Final Boss]]. In his case it may have been [[In the Blood]], as he obtained the throne by overthrowing his evil dictator uncle.
* In ''Arcania: [[Gothic]] 4'', the [[Evil Overlord]] [[Big Bad]] is King Rhobar III, aka the Nameless Hero, the protagonist of the previous 3 games. {{spoiler|it turns out he's possessed by a demon lord, though, and gets exorcised in the ending}}.
* This happens quite a lot in the ''[[Contra]]'' series. The most notable are ''[[Contra]]: Shattered Soldier'' and its sequel ''Neo Contra''. In ''Shattered Soldier'' it's revealed that the terrorist leader and [[Disc One Final Boss]] is in fact Lance Bean, Player 2 of the classic Contra series, who as it turns out is a [[Well
** Also happens retroactively in ''Hard Corps: Uprising'', where the main character is a young Colonel Bahamut, who was the [[Big Bad]] of the original ''Contra: Hard Corps''.
* ''[[Tekken]]'' series would have this. Kazuya is the protagonist in the first game, but becomes antagonist in the second game up to the rest of the series. Jin is the protagonist in the third game onwards, and becomes the antagonist in the sixth game.
* In ''[[Ace Combat Zero]]'' the [[True Final Boss]] of the [[Brutal Bonus Level]] is Mobius 1, the protagonist and [[Player Character]] of ''[[Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies]]''. Later games with similar [[Boss Rush]] modes also add Scarface One of ''[[Ace Combat 2]]'' and Blaze from ''[[Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War]]''.
* The appearance of the player character doing this is a critical plot point in ''[[Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown]]''.
* In ''[[Dead Rising 2|Dead Rising 2: Off the Record]]'', {{spoiler|Chuck Greene}} appears as a Psychopath, {{spoiler|having failed to save Katey in this continuity}}. Similarly, {{spoiler|Stacey is the [[Big Bad]] of the game, replacing Sullivan}}.
* {{spoiler|Jill Valentine}} in ''[[Resident Evil 5]]'' as a result of being [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] by Wesker. {{spoiler|She}} appears in ''Marvel vs. Capcom 3''.
* In ''[[Tactics Ogre]]'', there is a [[Gaiden Game]] for the Game Boy Advance called ''Knight of Lodis''. Whatever happened to him? {{spoiler|He becomes a [[Climax Boss]] in ''[[Tactics Ogre]] Let us Cling Together''.}}
== [[Web Original]] ==
* {{spoiler|Agent Washington}} in ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'', who makes the switch between seasons 6 and 8. Though arguably he ends up not a villain but as an [[Anti
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Villains]]
[[Category:
[[Category:
|