"Likable protagonist" refers to the main character in a story or movie who is easy to relate to and has qualities that make the audience or readers like and root for them.
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The lead character may also appeal to some gamers more than others who are seeking a more identifiable and
likable protagonist in their adventure gaming.
While a decade old, the title is a gratifying reminder of role - playing's past - filled
with likable protagonists and a consistently comprehensible plotline.
Deliver us from screenplays that
force likable protagonists to twist and bend their personalities to serve the contortions of a ridiculous and formulaic plot.
Uncharted's Nathan Drake is simply one of the
most likable protagonists in the world of videogames, and he's got roguish good looks to go along with it.
The point is that Black puts his heart and soul into the role, and as a result, Eddie Riggs is not only a complete badass, but one of the
more likable protagonists in recent memory.
Zellner himself is an
incredibly likable protagonist that is keen to impress in the latter years of his career and prove his worth as more than just a police officer.
The overtly objectionable elements are tangential, and for the most part it's a pretty good - hearted film, with
a likable protagonist and some entertaining set pieces.
Actor Gilles Lellouche stars as
the likable protagonist pushed to break the law to save his wife.
Miles Teller is really good as Reed Richards, making
him a likable protagonist.
But it doesn't work as a lightweight dramedy about
a likable protagonist who makes a few bad decisions because her life is suddenly more complicated than expected.
Fright Night — which features clever writing,
likable protagonists, and vampires that actually scare us — bombed like the Enola Gay when it was released last August, grossing less than 3 percent of its ostensible rival's take.
Instead, Anderson finds
a likable protagonist in Zero (Tony Revolori, in an impressive film debut), an earnest lobby boy eager to make good in an elegant hotel that appears to thrive despite the war - torn atmosphere.
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- Booklist» [T] he mystery is not the point in Fielding's work: A page - turning ride with
a likable protagonist is, and here, she succeeds admirably.»
The twelfth novel in the Joe DeMarco series, Mike Lawson puts
his likable protagonist on the trail of a different kind of fixer.