{"id":1397287,"date":"2020-01-17T11:40:04","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T16:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1397287"},"modified":"2020-01-17T11:48:17","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T16:48:17","slug":"5-literary-antagonists-who-were-technically-the-good-guys-if-you-think-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/5-literary-antagonists-who-were-technically-the-good-guys-if-you-think-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Literary Villains Who Were Technically the Good Guys"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/charlizeantagonistmain_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>All fictional characters exist on a sliding scale of hero and villain, except for Umbridge, who&#8217;s just pure evil and the one who taught me how to hate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes, however, you take a step back and realize the resident \u201cbad guy\u201d of the story isn&#8217;t really the bad guy at all. He&#8217;s actually a pretty okay dude; he just so happens to exist in diametric opposition to the guy we&#8217;re supposed to be rooting for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Without further ado, here are 5 so-called bad guys whose only real crime was \u201cnot being the protagonist.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All fictional characters exist on a sliding scale of hero and villain, except for Umbridge, who&#8217;s just pure evil and the one who taught me how to hate. Sometimes, however, you take a step back   <a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"#\"><span class=\"continue-text\">continue reading<\/span><svg class=\"continue-icon\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" alt=\"\">\n    <path fill=\"#007acd\" fill-rule=\"nonzero\" d=\"M13.442 5.558L19.885 12l-6.443 6.442-.884-.884 4.934-4.934L4 12.625v-1.25l13.492-.001-4.934-4.932.884-.884z\"><\/path>\n  <\/svg><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[17672,438,628,524,6190,5790,3329,25017,1764],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397287"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1397287"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1442382,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397287\/revisions\/1442382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1397287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1397287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1397287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}