Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-36270786-20181012044942/@comment-76.66.170.123-20181021113331

You don't have to be bad or evil to be an antagonist you just have to be an obstacle towards the goals of the protagonist. Some times protagonists can be villainous while antagonists can be heroic (like in Death Note and Invader Zim) or they can even be either both good or both evil (like in Sweeney Todd where both the protagonist and antagonist were villains). Take Finding Nemo for example and its 2 main antagonists Philip Sherman and his neice Darla. True they weren't villains because Philip only took Nemo away because he wanted to give Darla a present and Darla was only going to shake the bag because of how excited she was of getting a new fish but they were antagonists because they were obstacles of Marlon and Nemo's goal of reuniting.