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Antagonist
Character of a work actively opposing the protagonist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the literary term. For the pharmacological term, see Receptor antagonist. For other uses, see Antagonist (disambiguation).
An antagonist is a character in a story who is presented as the main enemy and rival of the protagonist.[1]
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