You can most certainly write stories without a protagonist/antagonist. When Cena called Roman out for a fair one on one match, was Cena really an antagonist? At that level a match, you can make things decidedly neutral with two distinct characters whereas the audience choose its own rooting interest.
I think it's about time to get rid of "Face/Heel" dynamic
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You can most certainly write stories without a protagonist/antagonist. When Cena called Roman out for a fair one on one match, was Cena really an antagonist? At that level a match, you can make things decidedly neutral with two distinct characters whereas the audience choose its own rooting interest.
In the sense that he was the one who challenged Reigns? Yeah, he kinda was. I don't mean pro/antagonist in terms of good/bad, but rather the academic sense of a character (the protagonist) and force that moves against them/creates conflict and change (the antagonist). Cena started the conflict (and thus, the story); Cena is the antagonist.
My point was in that pro wrestling, the pro/antagonist structure usually happens in terms of good/bad because it's the easiest to do that in a genre where most stories are very simple. You're right it doesn't have to always be that way, though.
MenacingMonk
Tranquilo
In today's age, a wrestler has to toss a baby in the river and kick a dog in the nuts to get real heat.
NYChase718
Veteran
the internet fully took over
Everyone's a smark
Like wwe don't even make mainstream news like tyson Austin or Billy Chuck wedding lol. Nobody believes into it anymore at all not even a little bit
And heels winning the belt and crowd chanting "you deserve it" says it all
Everyone's a smark
Like wwe don't even make mainstream news like tyson Austin or Billy Chuck wedding lol. Nobody believes into it anymore at all not even a little bit
And heels winning the belt and crowd chanting "you deserve it" says it all
Kunty McPhuck
Scust Szn has Returned
The face/heel dynamic is needed, it always has, is and will always be needed in pro wrestling, because you always need someone to cheer and do the right thing and you need someone to boo and do the wrong thing, because it is how we are programmed as a society. Whether it is following sports teams, liking or disliking a form of art, food, personal interactions, etc, they all have the same common face/heel issues, they will cause a positive or negative reactions in some form or another. Or have we just become a bunch of enablers and haters for the sake of doing and in fact have blurred the lines of good vs evil, which goes back to Adam & Eve vs Snake, Caveman vs Dinosaur, Cain vs Abel.
Now the Roman Reigns/John Cena issue where theyve been pushed in public as faces but the general consensus is they are booed and should be heels. Children and women alike like Reigns and Cena, while the older male fans do not, which if we think outside of the box and go beyond on wrestling, it isnt too dissimilar to that of Kaep & Trump positions at the moment, who are seen as both the hero and villain, in the public eye depending on who you ask.
Or maybe
did have it right all along and society has become as he put it "The Universe is indifferent"
Now the Roman Reigns/John Cena issue where theyve been pushed in public as faces but the general consensus is they are booed and should be heels. Children and women alike like Reigns and Cena, while the older male fans do not, which if we think outside of the box and go beyond on wrestling, it isnt too dissimilar to that of Kaep & Trump positions at the moment, who are seen as both the hero and villain, in the public eye depending on who you ask.
Kaep is the only true babyface out of the 4, if enquiring minds really wanted to know
Or maybe
did have it right all along and society has become as he put it "The Universe is indifferent"