Thriller - Different Character Types

Aim - To understand different character types in thriller

Protagonist: Goodies - Aren't aware of who's actually alined with them
Antagonist: Baddies


Character Archetypes

Protagonist Types

False Hero: Good Guy then Bad

Handicapped Protagonist - Physcial/Mental

Movie Characters such as this: Leonard/Lenny - Memento
                                             Paul Sheldon - Misery - broken leg

Picaresque Hero - Characters who uses their wits to escape problems

Movie Characters such as this: James Bond, Jason Bourne, Aladdin (not in thriller genre but still)

Unaware Hero - Become involved in a plot by accident

Unreliable Narrator - Tells their story in Point of View but not admit the whole truth or lie, Bias to save face

Antagonist Types

False Villain

Governments - Conspiracy thrillers - Agents

Companies - Conglomerates

Manipulator

Criminals: Murders, assassins, rapists, kidnappers

Handicapped: Deformed - MENTAL!!!!!!

Absent Villains

Supernatural

The Protagonist IS the Antagonist