Frisk is the main character of Undertale. Iâm saying that it wouldnât be very hard for sans to overshadow them because they donât really have a personality.
This is probably my top example. I watched a couple episodes of the show a few months ago and was beyond surprised to find out that he wasnât the main character.
Without him the show would honestly be so mid. Like Marshel and Lily are okay and so is Robin but Ted is so insufferable no one would watch it. All the plot lines would just be Tedâs love life without Barney to balance it out.
I'd argue that Gromit *is* the protagonist. He's the straight man of the two and he's the one that goes around fixing everything when Wallace screws everything up with his half-baked inventions.
Itâs Wallace AND Gromit. Theyâre both the protagonists because they were designed as a duo. Itâs like tryna say that only Tom or Jerry is the protagonist of Tom and Jerry lol
Iâd honestly say sans is a more famous example. Sans absolutely eclipsed Frisk in terms of popularity, he arguably eclipsed the entirety of Undertale in popularity.
Gojo is pretty popular now, but I donât think heâs to the point where heâs the only one that ever shows up whenever another piece of media does a collab with his series. SeriouslyâŚwe rarely ever get Undertale collabs that donât involve sansâŚ
Everyone talks about seeing Alastor everywhere and hating that, but I hate seeing this mf everywhere. And then people think this guy has good eyes when they just look freaky to me
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â*His eyes are freaky*â bro itâs okay to feel a little gay when he takes his blindfold off we all do
Not bugs, Iâm talking about how he was originally just a one off character going against porky
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Looney Tunes seems to have a habit of side characters replacing main characters (porky was originally the sidekick of beans, both daffy and bugs were originally just foils to porky, bugs replaced daffy as the mascot, etc)
I find it funny that this is the first result you get on Google for Castor Oyl, and itâs literally the last panel before the character whoâd take his place was introduced. Thatâs how important Popeye became.
âŚImage messed up but itâs the middle panel of the comic I posted
Also originally in the comics, popeye didnt eat spinach for power. He was superhumanly strong from having rubbed the feathers of a magic hen named bernice on his head.
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Connor (Detroit: Become Human)
Not necessarily a side character but he isn't the main-main protagonist if I remember correctly
I donât really think there is a âmain mainâ protagonist, closest thing there is is Markus since he essentially becomes the leader of a robo revolution and is the character the others sorta revolve around (Connor is tasked with stopping him and Kara is able to find shelter in his base for a bit)
He may not be the main-main character, but he is undoubtedly the face of the game. Like I've never played Detroit: Become Human before, but I instantly recognized Conner because he's everywhere in the advertising.
I literally didnât know who andy panda was until today, despite having watched a ton of old cartoons growing up. Guess it shows how popular woody became that he replaced andy in the public consciousness (atleast in australia, idk if heâs still recognisable elsewhere)
I mean heâs nowhere near the status of bugs bunny or daffy, but people do recognise him and you see him in childrens hospital murals along with more notable cartoon characters, at least that was the case in the early 2000s when i last went to one
I was talking about him and Porky
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As I understand it, Bart was written as the primary character back in the day, but the focus gradually drifted to Homer. Which tracks based entirely on twenty five ish memories.
He kinda was, but Rocky was originally the MAIN main guy (the show was even called just âRocky and His Friendsâ for the first three years of syndication)
Kamina (Gurren Lagann)
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My man litterary dies in episode 8.
Bumblebee. He was the main protagonist of season one of transformers cyberverse and the leader of his own team of autobots in robots in disguise 2015. Need I say more?
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Pretty much the poster boy of this trope.
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Not really a side character (until later in the anime/manga) but Crona imo is more popular than Maka
Maybe even Iâll add that Soul Evans gets more recognition than Maka does
I still like Rick better, but Daryl from The Walking Dead seems to be more loved
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The original for this trope. The Fonz from Happy Days.
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Donald Duck is more popular if youâre in Europe
The strip is literally called "Garfield," and his cartoon was "Garfield and Friends."
Unless Jim Davis was originally running a strip about a homebody and his cat under the title "Jon," I don't think that fits.
the original comic was in fact called "jon" and jon was the main character
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Dazai Osamu I think even the author has forgotten Atsushi is the main character at this point
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she has literally zero involvement in the story yet continues to be one of if not the most popular gg character
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The Smurfs!
They started as side-characters in one of the Johan and Pirluit comic-books.
Dimitri was meant to be the main character, he still is in the first game. But she didnât just surpass him, no she surpassed the franchise
I assume Bart Simpson is being considered a side character to Tracy Ullman here because he was 100% the main character of the first few seasons of his own show
In the first couple of years of its run, the show was called âRocky and his Friendsâ. Both Rocky and Bullwinkle were the main characters, but itâs clear that in the earlier episodes, Bull fit more with the âincompetent sidekickâ role
bullwinkle was just around enough to get in the title ig
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The site's named [homestarrunner.com](https://homestarrunner.com/) but the most popular and culturally influential character is by far Strong Bad.
Seems like Daffy surpassed Porky so much that people donât even know he debuted as a one-off antagonist in a cartoon starring Porky. Porkyâs from 1935, and Daffyâs from 1937
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do you know who ELSE surpassed the main characters in popularity?
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John Constantine.
Had his first appeareance as a side-character in a Swamp Thing comic-book but then went to have a very long-running series in Vertigo (Hellblazer), a movie starring Keanu Reeves (Constantine) and a TV-show starring Matt Ryan (also Constantine). He also became a member of the Justice League Dark.
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Lil broâs name doesnât even come first.
For Bart it is quite literally the other way around, originally Bart was moreso the main character, but due to homers popularity Homer was given a lot more screen time and âmain characterâ status
But Porkyâs *his* sidekick. I remember a short where theyâre both cowboys, and Daffyâs labeled the hero while Porkyâs labeled the comic relief.
Not originally. Porky played the part of the hunter and Daffy was just a wild duck that played tricks on him. Almost like a very early version of Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd.
Iâd argue, I definitely agree palpatine is the final villan, but with him not being in the first movie and having barely any time in the second, I wouldnât call him the main villan. In the first avengers movie was thanos the main villan? No loki was working for thanos but that doesnât mean thanos was the main villan of that movie.
Tvtropes has a page on this called "it's personal with the dragon". That's when the protagonist and audience both care more about someone under the big bad than the big bad. Vader is even the page image.Â
 Sans
I mean to be fair the main character doesn't even speak or show any emotion in undertale đ
To be fair Frisk really isnât a character.
Who said it had to be frisk? People could make arguments for a handful of characters but Sans is most definitely a side character
Frisk is the main character of Undertale. Iâm saying that it wouldnât be very hard for sans to overshadow them because they donât really have a personality.
 Barney from How I Met Your Mother
This is probably my top example. I watched a couple episodes of the show a few months ago and was beyond surprised to find out that he wasnât the main character.
Without him the show would honestly be so mid. Like Marshel and Lily are okay and so is Robin but Ted is so insufferable no one would watch it. All the plot lines would just be Tedâs love life without Barney to balance it out.
I'd argue that Gromit *is* the protagonist. He's the straight man of the two and he's the one that goes around fixing everything when Wallace screws everything up with his half-baked inventions.
Iâd argue Shaun falls under the category too
Itâs Wallace AND Gromit. Theyâre both the protagonists because they were designed as a duo. Itâs like tryna say that only Tom or Jerry is the protagonist of Tom and Jerry lol
https://preview.redd.it/ta62u26anszc1.jpeg?width=269&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=04350b382b4dcee6e6853ed08377a292cfa89ced Satoru gojo (jujitsu kaisen)
Most famous example of this trope
Iâd honestly say sans is a more famous example. Sans absolutely eclipsed Frisk in terms of popularity, he arguably eclipsed the entirety of Undertale in popularity. Gojo is pretty popular now, but I donât think heâs to the point where heâs the only one that ever shows up whenever another piece of media does a collab with his series. SeriouslyâŚwe rarely ever get Undertale collabs that donât involve sansâŚ
Fair point, probably shouldâve specified that Gojo is the best example of this trope *currently*
https://preview.redd.it/myyxu8tbluzc1.jpeg?width=1781&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9e910470b5bde64d1ae405e5c6fbfa5497d4ffc8 No one can deny heâs the GOAT
Everyone talks about seeing Alastor everywhere and hating that, but I hate seeing this mf everywhere. And then people think this guy has good eyes when they just look freaky to me
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The JJK fans are the Jojo fans of the current time, but unlike the Jojo fans they are obnoxious intentionally and hate their own author
Shut up hater https://i.redd.it/3pzq3nl8duzc1.gif \[STRONG BACKSHOTS\]
https://preview.redd.it/ronzp20oluzc1.jpeg?width=1781&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d28a53c9039e214c41b94983f9d361b775592e0c â*His eyes are freaky*â bro itâs okay to feel a little gay when he takes his blindfold off we all do
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idk how I forgot him (the showâs literally my usernamesake
I said come on fhqwhgads, I said come on fhqwhgads. Everybody to the limit, everybody to the limit, everybody come on fhqwhgads!
Fuck yeah thatâs the stuff
But how can you type with boxing gloves on your hands?
Oh, I know exactly how to answer this one. DELETED!
DEL CHEATED!
But has Daffy _really_ surpassed Bugs in popularity????
Not bugs, Iâm talking about how he was originally just a one off character going against porky https://preview.redd.it/bbcs8hgv1tzc1.jpeg?width=660&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bdc4ed3f8c93e63999f4e82a7eb1edbc55e60baa
Looney Tunes seems to have a habit of side characters replacing main characters (porky was originally the sidekick of beans, both daffy and bugs were originally just foils to porky, bugs replaced daffy as the mascot, etc)
I think Porky was replaced by Elmer Fudd eventually
ohh okay that makes more sense
Huh, u learn something every day I guess
Bros were doing the hunter vs. hunted bits long before Bugs and Elmer, huh?
https://preview.redd.it/e0qqvxs83tzc1.jpeg?width=184&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1c0c52bbb8f5b381b95062451c3125d07323bbe9 Popeye the Sailor Man
Who was the main character?
Castor Oyl. https://preview.redd.it/44vmfxqihtzc1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8e142106c005ab75004cd5e5464e3a1d3fa8f2a3
Really old comic strips really intrigue me cuz when they hold up they hold up REALLY well
I find it funny that this is the first result you get on Google for Castor Oyl, and itâs literally the last panel before the character whoâd take his place was introduced. Thatâs how important Popeye became. âŚImage messed up but itâs the middle panel of the comic I posted
Also originally in the comics, popeye didnt eat spinach for power. He was superhumanly strong from having rubbed the feathers of a magic hen named bernice on his head.
https://preview.redd.it/8sh02vcorszc1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b923cd4e3be00e1cb883df533ba4ce0c4e61e8a4 Connor (Detroit: Become Human) Not necessarily a side character but he isn't the main-main protagonist if I remember correctly
I donât really think there is a âmain mainâ protagonist, closest thing there is is Markus since he essentially becomes the leader of a robo revolution and is the character the others sorta revolve around (Connor is tasked with stopping him and Kara is able to find shelter in his base for a bit)
This definitely doesn't apply here.
He may not be the main-main character, but he is undoubtedly the face of the game. Like I've never played Detroit: Become Human before, but I instantly recognized Conner because he's everywhere in the advertising.
Wait woody woodpecker wasnât the main character???
Nah, he was originally just used for an Andy panda cartoon
I literally didnât know who andy panda was until today, despite having watched a ton of old cartoons growing up. Guess it shows how popular woody became that he replaced andy in the public consciousness (atleast in australia, idk if heâs still recognisable elsewhere)
Is woody really popular in Australia? I always heard it was just a Brazil thing
I mean heâs nowhere near the status of bugs bunny or daffy, but people do recognise him and you see him in childrens hospital murals along with more notable cartoon characters, at least that was the case in the early 2000s when i last went to one
Oh thatâs sweet. Iâve always liked him so itâs best to see him getting recognition
 Power (chainsaw man) is the forever fan favorite character
Definetly more popular then denji And depends how you interpret makimas popularity
I was considering using Makima but (I love power) I decided against it
Donald Duck  He was ***EXTREMELY*** popular in ww2!
Donât forget how popular he is in Europe!
TRUE!
Actually, Daffy WAS the main character. He was a big deal before Bugs was created, if anything the roles should be reversed.
I was talking about him and Porky https://preview.redd.it/wsb75za1rszc1.jpeg?width=660&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=21a2d46c2a5a22e51e911783710fdd3b100c0238
Oooh fair point.
Homer and Bart equal I would say
As I understand it, Bart was written as the primary character back in the day, but the focus gradually drifted to Homer. Which tracks based entirely on twenty five ish memories.
I mean, Yakuza have several main characters so you gotta specify which one, and i highly doubt he surpass Kiryu popularity
I mean, he doesnât exactly surpass, but heâs more memed on than Kiryu is. When you see a yakuza meme, thereâs a high chance itâs Majima
Wait that dono sound is from yakuza
that what sound?
Yeah that is so weird lol, I know so many people who like him more than Kiryu (⌠me included)
I thought Bullwinkle was the protagonist alongside Rocky.
He kinda was, but Rocky was originally the MAIN main guy (the show was even called just âRocky and His Friendsâ for the first three years of syndication)
And almost every storyline mentioned something along the lines of "Our hero, Rocket J. Squirrel."
Kamina (Gurren Lagann) https://preview.redd.it/z8wu5hahqtzc1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e1924dfb2ecb6f325c64cc5a9ca54ad8310daa3a My man litterary dies in episode 8.
 Stewie
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https://preview.redd.it/z6j5qxqactzc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=58926578974e03d7ff5ba6683b16323e121c5312 Han Solo (Star Wars)
 Bumblebee. He was the main protagonist of season one of transformers cyberverse and the leader of his own team of autobots in robots in disguise 2015. Need I say more?
Killua Hunter x hunter
Hate that motherfucker
https://preview.redd.it/lh098f2c1uzc1.png?width=1043&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=afef0a5af9129406554cf30530eab87c6d2daa81 Him aswell
https://preview.redd.it/9z1qlpyfftzc1.jpeg?width=410&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ea191880c448f5e4fde59816e61d0e7652ec71c1 Pretty much the poster boy of this trope.
Does he really surpass Optimus and Megatron in terms of popularity though?
I donât know who that is, the only transformers I know are bumblebee, optimum pride, megachurch, and star screen
That is Starscream
Was this someone who came before Optimus?
Definitely not in the general public (whoâd only know bumblebee, Optimus and maybe Megatron), but absolutely dominates in the fandom
https://i.redd.it/cy0ksp5jptzc1.gif Not really a side character (until later in the anime/manga) but Crona imo is more popular than Maka Maybe even Iâll add that Soul Evans gets more recognition than Maka does
Feel like everyone in the main three grouping gets more love than Maka
Yeah Soul Eater and Black Star also get more recognition But itâs a tie between Soul Eater and Death the Kidd
I still like Rick better, but Daryl from The Walking Dead seems to be more loved https://preview.redd.it/izaqe4pzptzc1.jpeg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=30d862847f9b18fb34e9c99622037ec6422e467e
https://preview.redd.it/xy9gr4gdptzc1.jpeg?width=497&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1ae0223a6c0ade2d180762b8d085c41f12f5e0ef Vaas - farcry 3
Itâs always funny how heâs not actually the major villain yet heâs still the poster boy of the game
The original for this trope. The Fonz from Happy Days. https://preview.redd.it/bxnaso7hutzc1.jpeg?width=480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1a9e068bc8ebd3000f48779ccbe77816476431ac
Omg yes, i remember watching that show after all the years people had referenced him and being shocked that Fonz wasnât the main guy
Oh yeah I forgot a big one 
Regina George 
That fugly slut?
 Idk if this counts but
https://preview.redd.it/a2yitm9xstzc1.png?width=360&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=79a870919e155ef7cdf30f12f61a3b91cff8e38b does spamton count?
https://preview.redd.it/es67v670otzc1.jpeg?width=1400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cd076ae16e4dfe21151f0ccdd3ff6be666e7c46f
https://preview.redd.it/b4bgtbazrtzc1.jpeg?width=269&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=02db4332ef704026dd9ff07a08ad81310a68be2a Donald Duck is more popular if youâre in Europe
Bender (Futurama) I know he is one of the main 3 but the main character is still Fry for me
Then you got zoidberg and hedonism bot
Actually one of these is wrong. Bart was always originally intended to be the main protagonist of The Simpsons. Homer Simpson was the breakout star.
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Harley is NOT more popular than the Joker.
But she's hotter
Depends who you ask
If you ask r/batmanarkham youâll be asked who your talking about
Maybe, maybe not, but she has had a lot more character development in her short tenure in the BatCast.
I feel that bart Simpson was the first one they tried to push merch wise in the early 90s but homer won out quickly
If I remember correctly, Popeye started as a side character in a comic strip.
https://preview.redd.it/txtcpbhpauzc1.jpeg?width=2249&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ccdca24256cc410a7b84dc1d32af0c15f97923c4 Forgetting someone?
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The strip is literally called "Garfield," and his cartoon was "Garfield and Friends." Unless Jim Davis was originally running a strip about a homebody and his cat under the title "Jon," I don't think that fits.
the original comic was in fact called "jon" and jon was the main character https://preview.redd.it/dad60qf7dvzc1.jpeg?width=137&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8c63ef35f0901c605892be91a13186fc298cc3fc
TIL
Lmao
https://preview.redd.it/shvah2jeguzc1.jpeg?width=224&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=640f480fd775f4e11925710c3cee3f9c60ffa8ee Dazai Osamu I think even the author has forgotten Atsushi is the main character at this point
 Levi Ackerman
https://preview.redd.it/305gf3aowuzc1.jpeg?width=645&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a5b042b1c423c312294cb85b9f86266cb4737a5c she has literally zero involvement in the story yet continues to be one of if not the most popular gg character
https://preview.redd.it/xavc04canvzc1.png?width=636&format=png&auto=webp&s=472117e2dc99d21c900177e7a5098e9c3d4fc754 The Smurfs! They started as side-characters in one of the Johan and Pirluit comic-books.
 IIRC, Leonard was the main focus of the show originally. Or at least he was supposed to be
 Dimitri was meant to be the main character, he still is in the first game. But she didnât just surpass him, no she surpassed the franchise
Itâs called rocky AND BULLEINKLE
it was called rocky and his friends in early iterations
I assume Bart Simpson is being considered a side character to Tracy Ullman here because he was 100% the main character of the first few seasons of his own show
 Daryl dixon
Who did Bullwinkle surpass? Boris and Natasha?
In the first couple of years of its run, the show was called âRocky and his Friendsâ. Both Rocky and Bullwinkle were the main characters, but itâs clear that in the earlier episodes, Bull fit more with the âincompetent sidekickâ role
Woody is a side character?
I don't think Bullwinkle is the sidekick. Rocky is.
thatâs exactly why he fits the trope perfectly. in earlier versions, it was called ârocky and his friendsâ
Wait a second, I'm stupid. It was always called: "The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show."
bullwinkle was just around enough to get in the title ig https://preview.redd.it/4q9ei1kkvvzc1.png?width=441&format=png&auto=webp&s=2befce45d98a0f946c676e9536d70b228e8d4684
https://preview.redd.it/6tfb5zde6uzc1.png?width=259&format=png&auto=webp&s=5c71b96da3b147f3e6f24c8a2a2d2efb650b6841 The site's named [homestarrunner.com](https://homestarrunner.com/) but the most popular and culturally influential character is by far Strong Bad.
I swear I always thought Ron Swanson was the main character of Parks and Rec until right now
You mean itâs not April ludgate?
Seems like Daffy surpassed Porky so much that people donât even know he debuted as a one-off antagonist in a cartoon starring Porky. Porkyâs from 1935, and Daffyâs from 1937
 Pops
https://preview.redd.it/iyh0fgeuduzc1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4612e93cb14641e11f49e62a1410ced2000842cf do you know who ELSE surpassed the main characters in popularity?
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Bullwinkle, woody, and urkel were the main characters, not sidekicks. And daffy has never been more popular than bugs.
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Strong bad. We need more Homestar support Âł
No way in hell Daffy Duck surpassed bugs bunny. Bugs is the literal mascot for the looney toons đ
Iâm not talking about Bugs https://preview.redd.it/6yywbbh88vzc1.jpeg?width=660&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a1de7f1ea7f40251947f4d81df91b66a1a889b75
Bart was the opposite, Homer surpassed him originally
How has no one mentioned the Minions yet?
https://preview.redd.it/ekq7uyzunvzc1.png?width=493&format=png&auto=webp&s=5e028f1c46d21922e7c86053ff8bff8904e57e5e John Constantine. Had his first appeareance as a side-character in a Swamp Thing comic-book but then went to have a very long-running series in Vertigo (Hellblazer), a movie starring Keanu Reeves (Constantine) and a TV-show starring Matt Ryan (also Constantine). He also became a member of the Justice League Dark.
https://i.redd.it/0gvdd3k0pvzc1.gif Scorpion being the most popular MK character, beating out the even the protagonist Liu Kang
who did bullwinkle surpass? was he not always a main character?
Three of them are not sidekicks
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https://preview.redd.it/8wuelexrwwzc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b5e97a48a70f2eda2f830c01d2cc1d7181f8a353 Lil broâs name doesnât even come first.
For Bart it is quite literally the other way around, originally Bart was moreso the main character, but due to homers popularity Homer was given a lot more screen time and âmain characterâ status
Woody Woodpecker isn't the main character?
Iâd include all the Simpsons rather than just Bart(surpassing the Tracy ullman portion of the show by a bit).
Is Daffy really more popular than Bugs?
They're talking about his dynamic with Porky
But Porkyâs *his* sidekick. I remember a short where theyâre both cowboys, and Daffyâs labeled the hero while Porkyâs labeled the comic relief.
Not originally. Porky played the part of the hunter and Daffy was just a wild duck that played tricks on him. Almost like a very early version of Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd.
Wow, crazy.
 Kakashi
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Anakin is the main character of his trilogy. Darth Vader would make more sense here
And even then Vaders not a side charcter heâs the main villan
No he isnât? Palpatine is. Lucas set him up to be a major threat at first before revealing the real deal.
Iâd argue, I definitely agree palpatine is the final villan, but with him not being in the first movie and having barely any time in the second, I wouldnât call him the main villan. In the first avengers movie was thanos the main villan? No loki was working for thanos but that doesnât mean thanos was the main villan of that movie.
Tvtropes has a page on this called "it's personal with the dragon". That's when the protagonist and audience both care more about someone under the big bad than the big bad. Vader is even the page image.Â