Protagonist vs. Antagonist Brainstorm Writing

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You will write details about six characters; three antagonists, three protagonists.

Begin with one character, a protagonist. Write down their name. Write their current desires and motivations in life. Write down their childhood/backstory. These are the most important pieces.

Now write down their physical description, physical quirks, personality flaws. This is secondary to the motivation and backstory. It’s the icing on the cake, and it’s still important.

Now write that character’s nemesis using the exact same process (desires, backstory, physical ing onionsand personality quirks, etc). Think about why and how they are blocking the protagonist from achieving their goal. Is it malicious? Accidental?

Repeat this with two other sets of characters.

NOTE: You do not have to use all or any of these characters for your video if you don’t want to. It is an exercise to get you thinking about character building. On the other hand, this may trigger some brilliant thought that leads to a wonderful video project. You won’t know unless you put your heart and head into it.






Protagonist #1:
Smitty McGroin:  Pete is a 57 year old man who lives in a storage shed by the rec. center.  Every Tuesday, the city has a board meeting and he shows up thinking he is the president.  He has lived in the same small town of Kickenwing his whole life, and now they face a serious rabbies problem.  He has many good ideas for the town but nobody listens to him because he doesn’t own land and has a lisp.  Smitty’s only goal is to help out his home town.

Antagonist #1:
Johnny Pistachio: Johnny is a respected member of the city board and is the real president.  However, he has terrible ideas and realizes Smitty’s ideas are great.  Not wanting to get replaced by Smitty, he sets out to sabotage him by infesting Smitty’s shed with fruit flies, giving rabbies to the animals in Smitty’s area and putting a “kick me” sign on Smitty’s back at the board meeting.


Protagonist #2:
Hernandez Fiero: 32 year old Fiero has a passion to make videos of himself cooking.  However, his cat keeps getting in the shot and becoming the center of attention in all his videos, ruining his desire to show his viewers his food.  Fiero is the best chef in the world, however no one can learn about this because of his cat, which keeps him from TV shows, owning restaurants, and other things top chefs do.  Why would he not just cook somewhere his cat is not? Because he has cooked in the same kitchen his whole life.

Antagonist #2:
Hernandez Fiero: Even though it may appear his cat is the antagonist in this story, Fiero is in a battle with himself for if he wants to take the risk of leaving his loyalty to his kitchen for making the big time.  At the verge of when he is about to take his talents to the world, his cat burns itself on the stove, and Fiero remembers his original love for cooking with his cat, and decides to stay cooking in his kitchen.


Protagonist: #3:
Oliver the Pirate: Oliver has been raised by pirates his whole life, however he has always been the worst pirate.  His community decides to send him away to sea, and on the last night he overhears the pirates saying they will take over the island of Jiujima in 2 weeks.  Oliver has no idea what this island is, however when they cast him out to see he ends up landing on the island Jiujima.  As he becomes friends with the local people of jiujima, Oliver decides to try and defend his new island of family, despite his troubles as a pirate.  

Antagonist #3:
Captain Richard the Pirate:  Richard has hated Oliver since they were young pirates and is the top dog of pirates.  His family has always led their group of pirates because of how aggressive and racist they are.  When Richard grows up, he is the one who plans to attack the island of Jiujima.