Thread:RRabbit42/@comment-5754292-20170914130342/@comment-961279-20170915015838

What you said about the roles reversing is what makes a "fluid" story like WWE difficult to pin down. It's been a long time since I watched any professional wrestling, but I know that roles change over time. The long-term bad guy can suddenly become a good guy if he faces off against someone who's positioned as even more of a bad guy.

Compare that to a book or a movie. There's a definite beginning and end, so it's easier to get an overall picture of who the characters are. If there's a sequel or prequel, then that information is factored in.

With wrestling, you have to wait until a wrestler retires before you can say what they were during their career. Otherwise, it becomes "right now, they're an antagonist" and then next week, they might do a heel turn and become a good guy.

Another thing to keep in mind is that a lot of people who are trying to pin down what kind of antagonist a character is are doing it just to put a label on the character. A lot of them change their minds and contradict themselves, and that's because they're changing things just to change things. They don't have any proof for what they say. It's just "today I've decided to change it to ABC" and tomorrow it will be "today I've decided to change it to XYZ".