Board Thread:Clean up Concerns/@comment-30861466-20170726192115/@comment-14660436-20170726195038

Yeah, you pretty much nailed what the antagonistic scale should be, since this is what the majority of other people on this site have used (and really, people need to let go of it already):

- Main/Primary

- Secondary

- Tertiary (this and anything below it is where it starts to get ridiculous)

- Quaternary

- Quinary etc. etc.

And here is what I personally use, and what the antagonistic scale should be:

- Main/Primary

- Secondary

- Major

- Supporting/Recurring

- Minor

And then there's of course things like sole antagonist, which I'm completely fine with.

As of recently in fact, I believe I've gotten rid of every use of quaternary or quinary on the Wiki and once I spot people using it again, I will get rid of it on sight, no questions asked. I hope to do the same with tertiary eventually, but there are so many pages that use tertiary that it would take ages to clean up. As for what you said about "Major antagonists", I think tertiary should be changed either to major or supporting depending on how big of an influence they had on their own individual plots.

Another thing I'm really sick of seeing people use is:

1. True/Hidden antagonist. Not only should it just be kept at a simple "main antagonist", but the use of it starts encouraging people to fill up pages with unnecessary "misinformation campaign" (see LucidPigeon's blog on antagonist fussing via the rules for more info) garbage and I'm just going to remove it every time I see it.

2. Main, later secondary antagonist or vice versa. Seriously people, it's one or the other. Make your minds up and pick one. Again, I will change it to which ever or "one of the two main antagonists" every time I see it.

But yeah, I really think the whole "let's specify antagonists with tertiary or quaternary etc." thing has gone on long enough on this Wiki and needs to stop and be replaced with the alternatives you suggested.