The protagonist is a young playground director futilely trying to protect the children he supervises from contracting polio.
And in another twist, the game's female protagonist is mysteriously suffering from amnesia.
Her memorable protagonist is the ghost of a young woman who dies in a hotel dumb waiter at the beginning of the novel.
Mr Blomkamp's protagonist is a fool named Wikus van der Merwe (Sharlto Copley), a senior employee of the multinational security company to whom supervision of District 9 has been outsourced.
But the band's new album, Brighter Than Creation's Dark, begins with "Two Daughters and a Beautiful Wife, " in which the protagonist is in heaven as his friends cry around his deathbed.
And perhaps leaving the reader with suspicions of the protagonist is exactly what McEwan - famed for his forays into the darker side of human nature - set out to do.
Manipulated by a mysterious black-clad man who rescues him from prison and seeks the names of his conspirators, the bewildered young protagonist is driven mad by the chaos and absurdity that engulfs him.
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The most interesting thing about Spec Ops: The Line is that it presents you with a lead protagonist who is the very epitome of the super soldier.
But DmC has a protagonist who is nearly impossible to like, and writing that is basically one long chain of ugliness.
It is always brave to create an unattractive protagonist, and Hannah is not appealing.
Their names and personalities have become part of the pop cultural lexicon, the saucy Samantha, edgy Miranda, and romantic Charlotte, but the glue that holds the group and show together is protagonist and narrator Carrie Bradshaw.
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As a young, black female, my protagonist, Ananiya, is the most unlikely hero for the revolution.
The Eisner book, by contrast, implies that the protagonist's character is the cause of his downfall.
The protagonist in the movie is a member of India's most disenfranchised class--that of the urban slum-dweller.
Art Project (Powered by Google) The internet is the protagonist in multiple and contradictory kinds of stories.
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The protagonist, Michael, is also a doctor, who has joined a small practice in North Carolina after his divorce.
The natural protagonist of the drama is David, who, when Sean gets sick, cares for him with extraordinary patience and tenderness.
The central protagonist of this tale is Jack Frost, a Puckish prankster whose powers appear to be confined to giving children snow days.
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The protagonist of this drama is Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe...
Mr. Zuckerberg is the protagonist and villain of "The Social Network, " a movie that for all of its snappy dialogue and plot twists is nothing more than just "Revenge of the Nerds" in grown-up clothes.
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The protagonist in The Sea is not a simple fellow, however - I assume the simple prose is used to compare the hollow shell that grief has made of Max Morden with the naive beauty of the young boy he once was.
Avery is the new protagonist, and Cooper gives a quiet, serious performance as a straight arrow.
His protagonist, Stephen Coleman, is a middle-level Australian diplomat who also happens to be a spy.
Of course, even in an ensemble piece the focus is on the protagonist and his antagonists.
The "T" is itself a protagonist in Mr. Snow's often lyrical book.
The cute little guy in the picture is iota, the protagonist of the open-paper-world story.
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Raiden himself is a surprisingly fun protagonist.
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The protagonist of the games' fictional universe is Master Chief, a cybernetically enhanced human soldier encased in green armor.
As Rohmer so rapturously proves through the adventures of his quietly rebellious protagonist, the negative of a negative is a positive.
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