supporting protagonist

C17114

concept

A supporting protagonist is a secondary character who significantly advances the story’s plot and themes while complementing, challenging, or contrasting the main protagonist.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
sidekick	8
supporting protagonist canonical	3
deuteragonist	2

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction

generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"

Input

Class: supporting protagonist

Generated description

A supporting protagonist is a secondary character who significantly advances the story’s plot and themes while complementing, challenging, or contrasting the main protagonist.

Instances (13)

Instance	Via concept surface
Juvenal Urbino	—
Evey Hammond in V for Vendetta surface form: Evey Hammond	deuteragonist
Pat Brady	sidekick
Bert "Sock" Wysocki in Reaper surface form: Bert "Sock" Wysocki	sidekick
Mr. Smee	sidekick
Daxter	sidekick
Delmar O’Donnell	—
Bough	sidekick
Nezuko Kamado	deuteragonist
Jim (The Waco Kid) in Blazing Saddles surface form: Jim (The Waco Kid)	sidekick
Jingles P. Jones	sidekick
Spot the cat	sidekick
Chris Christopherson	—