Editing Protagonist (section)

===Villain protagonist===
The protagonist is not always conventionally good.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://public.ebookcentral.proquest.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=1118755 |title=A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory|publisher=John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated|access-date=28 April 2021}}</ref> Contrasting the hero protagonist, a villain protagonist is a protagonist who is a [[villain]], driving the story forward regardless of the evil qualities the main character has. These traits can include being cruel, malicious, and wicked.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dictionary.com/browse/villain |title=Villain|publisher=Dictionary.com|access-date=28 April 2021}}</ref>

Examples include Humbert Humbert in [[Vladimir Nabokov|Vladimir Nabokov's]] ''[[Lolita]]''<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Byford|first1=Andy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CjPNDwAAQBAJ&q=%22villain+protagonist%22&pg=PA137|title=Transnational Russian Studies|last2=Doak|first2=Connor|last3=Hutchings|first3=Stephen|date=2020-01-30|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-1-78962-087-0|language=en}}</ref> and Richard III in the [[Richard III (play)|eponymous play]] by [[William Shakespeare]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NLFPAAAAMAAJ&q=%22villain+protagonist%22&pg=PA376|title=The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge|date=1918|publisher=Encyclopedia Americana Corporation|language=en}}</ref>