Thread:AustinDR/@comment-3513410-20170508152036/@comment-3513410-20170508170536

Grizzhly wrote: Isn't protagonist just the definiton for the main character? Calling it a trope would be an overstatement, in my opinion.

That was the point I was making; "trope" doesn't mean "something found on [Brand X] Wiki", it comes from the Greek tropos "property" and is far older than the internet or anything thereon. Hence terms such as "protagonist" are tropes, whether categorised or not, and will remain so even if the TV Tripe for Idiots Wiki were to disappear tomorrow (here's hoping...).