Non-POV Protagonist: Difference between revisions

Related tropes (that often accompany this) include [[Supporting Protagonist]], a POV-character who is a protagonist, just not the "main-main" one; and [[First-Person Peripheral Narrator]], a narrator character who isn't a protagonist. In those terms, this trope describes a "main-main" protagonist who isn't a POV-character.

 

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== [[Literature]] ==

* Caddy from ''[[The Sound and the Fury]]'' is the only one of the Compson children without her own chapter.

* Carrot Ironfoundersson from [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Discworld]]'' books. He's an important character, yet we never see what he thinks. Other main characters' POV are frequently presented. There's a theory that this might be due to the fact that he's not exactly as innocent and simple - minded as he appears to be, and Pratchett doesn't want to show it.

* Admiral Thrawn from [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]]. He's an [[Anti-Villain]] antagonist, to be precise, but we have narration from the POV of Imperial characters - except him. Never from his point.

* Happens in ''[[Stargirl]]'' by Jerry Spinelli. Leo talks about his [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl]] friend Stargirl, but she never narrates. Sort of inverted in the sequel, ''Love, Stargirl'', where Stargirl narrates and discusses her relationship with Leo but he never narrates.

* ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics]]'': Delita, despite being the [[Deuteragonist]] and having plenty of screen time, is largely left a mystery as most of his scenes are seemingly seen from the perspective of other people present, most prominently the Princess Ovelia. There are a handful of exceptions, and he does have a few scenes which focus on his personal affairs, but even then very little is revealed about his true self.

 

* [[Higurashi]] has a unique way of letting you see through the character's eyes. You get to see it through the new kid's eyes, the twin sister's, the crazy girl's, etc. But you never get to see Sonozaki Mion's point of view. Or Satoshi's. Or Hanyuu's.

* ''[[Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu]]'' is, as those who read Japanese must have figured out from reading the title, about the secret of a character named Nogizaka Haruka. However, the story isn't told from her P.O.V., but the one of [[Ordinary High School Student]] Ayase Yuuto and is about how his life changed after learning the secret.

 

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