Deuteragonist - TV Tropes

Deuteragonist. The second guy. No, not the co-protagonist, who shares equal billing with their other co-protagonist. Not the Supporting Protagonist, who is a main character but not the focus of the story. Not the Decoy Protagonist either. This is the second person the show revolves around, a character whose actions drive the plot just as much as those of the protagonist.

The deuteragonist (from Greek: second actor) is the second most important character in the story; the first is, of course, The Protagonist. This person can be either with, or against the protagonist—thus sometimes pulling double duty as a major antagonist or rival to the protagonist; though they are rarely the main "villain" in this sort of scenario, they may be a high ranking minion. If on the same side as the protagonist, they can be a sidekick, lancer, or love interest as long as they are given enough screen time independent of the main protagonist. In case of a Geodesic Cast, the Deuteragonist will be the one who corresponds to the first protagonist.

A third protagonist would be called a "Tritagonist" but that's the limit — anything after that (like a Tetragonist/Tetartagonist) and you're in Ensemble Cast territory.

An important aspect is that we see quite a bit of the story from this character's point of view and that they get a good amount of screen time. Just as important is that there be a clear hierarchy of importance between the protagonist and deuteragonist. If a work is named after a single character, then that second most important character will almost always be a deuteragonist. If a work is named after two characters, though, then they're more likely to be co-protagonists.

Sub Tropes include Supporting Leader. The Sidekick or The Lancer can become a deuteragonist if given enough focus on their own. In a romance story, the Official Couple will usually be the protagonist and deuteragonist. If a character seems like a deuteragonist but doesn't get as much screen time, they're likely the Hero of Another Story. Compare Two Lines, No Waiting, where the plots don't actually intersect.

Dramatica calls this character the Impact Character, while The Hollywood Formula refers to this as the Relationship character.

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Comic Books

Aquaman: Since Aquaman (2011), Mera has served as this to Arthur Curry/Aquaman. While Aquaman is the title character, most of the storylines revolve around him and whenever they're apart he gets the majority of the panel time. However, Mera has gotten plenty of character development of her own, has had her own B-plots separate from Arthur's adventures, and has been the focus of several plotlines.
Batman:
- In Batman: Year One Jim Gordon is the deuteragonist of the story along with Batman. Although as the story is essentially a retelling of Batman's origin with a large amount of focus put on Gordon's first year as a member of the Gotham City Police Department, the two are optional for both positions.
Daredevil: Wilson Fisk/The Kingpin is this to Matt Murdock/Daredevil. Matt is the primary main character, but we've watched Wilson run, lose, and rebuild his empire, seen all the details of his messy personal life, and when he's not a part of Matt's life, it often feels like something is missing.
Captain America: The Falcon and Bucky Barnes take turns in this role to Captain America's protagonist; they've almost always worked with Cap and have been developed just as much as him. Meanwhile, Baron Zemo often takes the role of tritagonist; he's one of Cap's most developed villains and we've seen him face his own conflicts, trials, and triumphs.
Green Lantern: Green Lanterns was launched as a full-fledged two-protagonist title (hence the plural); its stars are DC's two new rookie Green Lantern Corps members from Earth, Simon Baz and Jessica Cruz, who must learn to work as partners to defend the Earth. In the opening "Rage Planet" arc the focus is slightly more on Simon (both his hubris, and dealing with newly-discovered powers), but Jessica Cruz plays the deuteragonist role, with a major arc about overcoming her anxiety issues so that she can serve the way she needs to as a proper Green Lantern - which is a plot point in the climactic battle.
Hawkeye: In Hawkeye (2012), though Clint Barton is undoubtedly the lead of the series, Kate Bishop has nearly as much focus and eventually gets her own solo arc.
Knights of the Old Republic: Zayne Carrick is the protagonist and Jarael is the deuteragonist. Particularly noteworthy is that the comic's arcs come to center as much around Jarael's personal journey as Zayne's, and while the main villains of the first major arc are Zayne's Evil Mentor and Evil Counterpart, the main villains of the second major arc are Jarael's. The third main character, Marn Hierogryph, is by contrast defined mostly by his interactions with Zayne.
G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero: Destro was the villain who wasn't so villainous, who had a code of honor, and who we very often see stories told through his Point-Of-View, so much to the point where we have two views of the evil Cobra organization - first through the eyes of the G.I. Joes, and second through the eyes of Destro, the arms dealer.
Robin: For a large portion of Robin (1993), Stephanie Brown was Tim's deuteragonist as Spoiler, having certain issues focused on her rather than Tim, rescuing Tim on occasion, and having her own separate adventures when not working with him. She briefly became the title character when she became the new Robin only to be unceremoniously killed off not long after.
Ultimate Marvel: Nick Fury for the entire Ultimate Universe. Nick Fury is the linchpin that connects The Ultimates, Ultimate X-Men (2001), Ultimate Spider-Man (2000), and even Ultimate Fantastic Four to an extent. He's the leader of S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Ultimates, widely seen as the most powerful figure in the superhero community, he's also Peter's main mentor figure in the superhero community, and the latter is also his Morality Pet. And yet, he is not the actual protagonist of any given story, nor he had any dedicated comic book.
V for Vendetta: Several characters with their own point of view but the main narratives are on V as The Protagonist, Evey as the Deuteragonist, Eric Finch as the tritagonist, and Adam Susan as the tetragonist.

Comic Strips

In Nancy, Sluggo is the Deuteragonist, with Aunt Fritzi the tritagonist. Or vice-versa, Depending on the Writer. Ironically, Fritzi used to be the star until Nancy took over that role.
Calvin and Hobbes: Hobbes the tiger fills this role, given how many strips and even story arcs either only include him in a minimal role or don't include him at all.

Fan Works

Adventures of a Line Hopper:
- The Doctor is the deuteragonist to Buffy's protagonist in the original Adventures of a Line Hopper season. The season's story is about the development of their relationship and they are the only character to appear in all stories and get the POV consistently, but Buffy typically gets more focus than the Doctor. All the fics in the season follow this protagonist-deuteragonist format except for a few.
  - Riley Finn Doesn't Hate the Doctor puts Riley as its protagonist who observes Buffy and the Doctor's relationship. As usual, Buffy gets more focus than the Doctor, making her the deuteragonist for this fic.
  - Nothing puts Buffy Out of Focus for the first two thirds of the story where Original Character Marianna is the main POV character and the one with the most Character Development while the Doctor is the deuteragonist as a significant part of the section is him enduring the Initiative's torture while trying to figure out Adam's plan. The Buffy-is-protagonist-and-Doctor-is-deuteragonist formula comes back in the final third as Buffy begins to confront the Initiative while Marianna's character arc is completed.
  - The main section of Elizabeth averts this by having no Buffy at all and the remaining Scoobies as an Ensemble Cast trying to figure out what's the deal with Elizabeth and the Doctor. Like Nothing, the usual formula comes back in the coda.
  - Your Nature is the only fic in the season to completely avert this by having Buffy as the sole protagonistic figure whose POV is beling followed (the Doctor is serving as a mysterious antagonist).
- The sequel The Child of Balime is a Spin-Offspring focusing mostly on Fan-Created Offspring Seo, so the deuteragonist role becomes more flexible or sometimes non-existent.
  - Judgment is about Seo working with Ianto to beat the Judge while trying to resolve the bad blood between them, making Ianto the deuteragonist.
  - A Scooby of Her Own is as much about Alison discovering aliens and adjusting to her new life as it is about Seo's investigation of the week.
  - The Most Dangerous Alien You'll Ever Meet has Gwen as the Supporting Protagonist whom we follow as she learns who Seo is while the actual plot is about Seo (deuteragonist), specifically her birthday preparation and plot to use the Rift Manipulator as a way to talk to her late dad.
  - Boyfriendish is A Day in the Limelight for Faith with the Doctor as the deuteragonist as the story is about him putting her on the path of redemption.
  - Season 3 as a whole consists of both Seo's and Buffy's respective Story Arcs. Seo remains the protagonist as there are more time given to her story arc, so Buffy is the deuteragonist for the season.
In All This Sh*t is Twice as Weird, Mahanon and Victoria alternate between this and the protagonist, depending on who the narrative character is at a given moment. Cassandra is arguably the tritagonist.
In Amazing Fantasy, Peter is Izuku's mentor and the other major lens of the story. Much of Izuku's early development can be tied back to Peter, whose actions and presence in Izuku's universe change the course of the story.
The Doctor Who fanfic Being To Timelessness, which depicts how the Tenth Doctor's tenure would've looked if he formed a telepathic bond with Rose and then married her. The Doctor and Rose are the co-protagonists during To Make Much of Time, the section that covers series 2. This is a "series 3 and 4 with Rose" story. In the fics covering those seasons, the Doctor still takes on Martha and Donna as companions respectively, but they are now tritagonists instead of deuteragonists.
- For Time is Still a-Flying, which covers series 3, Martha is the tritagonist. The author had actually considered briefly not having her travel with the Doctor and Rose until she considered that the "Human Nature" two-parter and the Master story arc require a third party in order to work (the former because the Doctor and Rose have been fobbed as they hide from the Family of Blood; the latter being because the Doctor and Rose are imprisoned by the Master, and the Doctor needs Martha to walk the Earth spreading stories of him). The Master also serves as a tetragonist, as the story gives him several interludes showing him plotting behind the scenes in the lead-up to him implementing his plot to enslave the Earth.
- For Forever and Never Apart, the series 4 rewrite, Donna serves as tritagonist, a role she shares with Jenny from "The Doctor's Daughter" onwards due to Team TARDIS staying around longer on Messaline to see her be revived by the Source. Martha functions as a tetragonist during the Sontaran two-parter and "The Doctor's Daughter", while Mickey, Jackie, Pete, and Sarah Jane split that part during the "Stolen Earth" story.
The Black Sheep Dog Series is primarily written from Sirius Black's POV as he struggles with his deep-seated insecurities and eventual growth to be a more responsible adult when he's forced to reunite with his estranged family after his brother defected from the Death Eaters. At the same time, the story gives almost equal importance to his father, Orion, who is forced to move past his ignorance and prejudices in order to protect his sons, while keeping this reunion a secret from the rest of The Clan.
In Candy for Your Thoughts?, the two main characters are Cody and Courtney, with Duncan filling the Deuteragonist/Tritagonist role.
In Child of the Storm, Carol Danvers evolves into this from minor secondary character, particularly by the sequel, when she's got top billing alongside Harry.
Cinders and Ashes: the Chronicles of Kamen Rider Dante has Souta Mizushino taking this spot as Hoshi became the main character, as his ties to Setsuna become just as important to the story (and by extension, Hoshi's character arc) as it was in the anime he came from. The deuteragonist from his show, Meteora, becomes the Big Good as a consequence.
In the Adventure Time fan fiction The Citadel of Truth, Flame Princess replaces Jake as the second most important character that serves as the main Love Interest for Finn while Ferrum replaces PB as the third most important character in this fic.
Comic Book SNAFU: Hawkeye is the protagonist, and leads the A-plot. Aki Izayoi, who leads the B-plot is the deuteragonist, with Batman and Gajeel serving as tritagonists.
In the Sanctuary fic, Concerning Us while Janine is the POV character and the protagonist the story evolves around the main trio, with John as the deuteragonist and James the tritagonist.
In the fanfic Co-op Mode and its companion fic A Bug In The Game, Taylor is this to James' The Protagonist, with Co-Op Mode focusing on James and A Bug In The Game doing the same for Taylor.
In Crimson and Emerald, Hawks and Izuku are both protagonists in the story as the story centers on the two's actions and the effects thereof.
Date A Re:Live:
- Tohka Yatogami is the focal Spirit among Shido's harem, having been in love with him long before she ever became one, and the one who got Shido involved in Ratatoskr's mission to save them. During the second season, however, she and Shido temporarily switch roles where he becomes the deuteragonist while Tohka functions as the protagonist.
- Later on, Reine Murasame takes on the role of tritagonist upon regaining her true form as Mio Takamiya due to how connected she is to the existence of the Spirits.
Extra Life has Izuru Kamakura/Hajime Hinata become this to the human Chiaki Nanami. He's the one who helps Chiaki to recover from her traumatic experience after the events of Danganronpa 3: Despair Arc, and their growing bond serves to help fuel Chiaki's determination to reunite with him and her friends when they have to go their separate ways.
Gory Toons: SpongeBob is the protagonist and Cuddles is the deuteragonist. The tritagonist is Kirby. Depending on the era, the tetragonist is either Eric Cartman (usually in any episode focusing on the main heroes as a group), Pop, Chef Pee Pee (in the first few episodes), Toothy, Stewie Griffin, or Patrick Star. Because of the large roster, however, this is prone to varying just to suit an episode. For example, most episodes that focus on Pop will have either Cub or Clara as the deuteragonist, Cartman keeping his tritagonist spot, but now shared with Kirby, Cuddles, and SpongeBob, and finally, Disco Bear as the tetragonist.
In Graduate Meeting of Mutual Killing, the main character (Akane Ogata) is incapacitated. The story shifts to focus on Yukio Ohmoto and his actions, including internal thoughts and relationship with the rest of the graduates.
History's Strongest Shinobi: Kenichi to Naruto. Although in this case, the story (at first) focuses on Kenichi's Story Arc and how Naruto influences it. It only starts focusing on Naruto as soon as the Myth Arc kicks in, at which point Kenichi's Story Arc gets influenced by Naruto's and vice versa.
Inner Demons has Apple Bloom, who gets the second character billing after Twilight, has a large amount of focus and Character Development, and is ultimately revealed to be the Master of Harmony.
I, Warrior is primarily about Tahiri, but her Evil Counterpart and Foil Keenah carries a significant part of the plot as well.
Manehattan's Lone Guardian is primarily seen from Leviathan's perspective and focuses on her quest to return home. In most cases where she's not involved, though, the narrative focuses on Gray Ghost. Her flaky personality, fierce protectiveness and secretive background drives the plot just as much as Leviathan's goals do.
Given that Naru-Hina Chronicles put a lot of focus on the romance between Naruto and Hinata, the latter is the second most prominent character in it after the former.
The New Adventures of Invader Zim is just as much about Dib as it is about Zim, with Tak as a Tritagonist.
Prehistoric Earth has an interesting variant of this. Whilst Drew is the Protagonist of the series, the role of deuteragonist, tritagonist, and tetratagonist changes depending on season. However, Leon is the series' overall deuteragonist - his role greatly outweighs that of the other characters (aside from Drew, he has been on the most missions), and his overall character arc is given equal attention to Drew's. The results for each season are:
- Phase 1: Leon serves as the Deuteragonist, with the beginnings of his romance with Yolanda and his tensions with Jack being a prominent part of the phase. Jack serves as the Tritagonist of the season, with his tensions with Leon acting as a source of drama for the whole phase, with Kyle and Nikolai serving as the Tetragonists.
- Phase 2: Leon once again serves the role of Deuteragonist and shares this role with Jack. The former has a character arc training the allosaurs and plays a significant role in the finale, whilst the latter takes a significant level in badass, gets a romance arc with Collete, and helps take down Sharptooth. Collete and Linda serve as the Tritagonists, with the former being Jack's love interest and the latter having a bonding arc with Cirrus and playing a prominent role in a high number of subplots. Finally Kyle and Nikolai again serve as the Tetragonists, with each playing a prominent role in subplots.
- Phase 3: Leon once again takes the reigns as the Deuteragonist and shares this position with Alice. The former gets a Romance Arc with Yolanda, and plays an important role in the finale, whilst the latter gets Ship Tease with Will, gets a bonding arc with Raksha, and is among the first to find out about Percival's infiltration of the park. Will and Yolanda serve as the Tritagonists, with the former's feelings for Alice playing a prominent role in the plot, and the latter serving as Leon's love interest and bonding with Sharptooth. Finally we have Cynthia and Sharptooth as Tetragonists, with the former's attempts to find out what Percival and the Novum board are planning playing a prominent role, while the latter gets a bonding arc with Yolanda.
In Sherlockian fanfic, Inspector Lestrade is a fairly popular deuteragonist to Sherlock Holmes or Dr. Watson as The Hero. (Some Scotland Yard-focused fics reverse the position and make Lestrade The Protagonist with Holmes and/or Watson secondary.)
- In A Study in Regret, Holmes is The Protagonist, while Lestrade is The Hero.
- Mortality stars Holmes as The Protagonist, Watson as the deuteragonist and The Hero, and Lestrade as the tritagonist (special mention to Wiggins for being the Hyper-Competent Sidekick/The Lancer). Yes, really.
Obsidian fills this role in the Hunger Games fanfiction Some Semblance of Meaning, to Vale's protagonist. Though it is primarily her story, he is in the spotlight quite a bit and gets a lot of Character Development. He actually becomes the de facto main character after Vale's death.
In Son of the Desert, Edward Elric is the protagonist while his mother Trisha is the deuteragonist. While the story is about how the Elrics' Ishvalan heritage affected their lives in the military, the other half of the story is about Trisha's courtship of Hohenheim and her raising Ed and Al.
Stress Relief: Agent Connecticut to Agent Carolina's protagonist. One would assume that C.T. is the protagonist since she is the one being molested by Agent South. However, most of the focus is on Carolina and her trying to mitigate South's anger issues as the second chapter quickly shows. She doesn't even find out about the molestation until chapter five and she still takes focus within the story.
The Supernatural fic Down to Agincourt trades off between Dean's POV and Castiel's; Dean seems to get slightly more "screen" time, but not by enough that they're anything but dual protagonists.
Three-Point Shot: Shuichi Saihara ends up becoming this to Kaede Akamatsu once she's saved from her canon fate, allowing her to become the protagonist properly instead of the Decoy Protagonist Team Danganronpa intended her to be. The role of Tritagonist is shared between Maki Harukawa and Kokichi Ouma, the former becoming the focal character of some chapters and getting her own character arc, while the latter becomes less antagonistic and slowly throws the killing game off the rails.
In Turnabout Storm, Twilight plays this role to Phoenix's protagonism. Not only does she assist Phoenix and is responsible for his involvement in the events, but is also central to one of the story's major conflicts, and gets a whole episode dedicated to her own side of the investigation via Simultaneous Arcs.
Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail: While the story is all about Chloe's adventures on the Infinity Train in her journey to reinvent herself, her Childhood Friend Goh is the deuteragonist as he must come to terms with how, despite stating he's "friends" with Chloe, he's never cared or actually interacted with her due to his obsession with Mew and new budding friendship with Ash.

Films — Animation

Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper: Princess Anneliese is the protagonist and her pauper Identical Stranger Erika is the deuteragonist. Their storylines run parallel to each other and have equal prominence during the plot; Anneliese's is about her escape from captivity, while Erika's is about her time impersonating the princess.
Beauty and the Beast (1991): Belle is the protagonist and the Beast is the deuteragonist. The story initially focuses on Belle's life and she's the point of view character, but the main plot is about the Beast's Character Development. Gaston, meanwhile, is the tritagonist (and antagonist), having an important part of the story and existing to serve as a contrast to the two characters.
BIONICLE 3 follows Vakama's fall to the dark side and Matau's quest to return him after feeling guilty for pushing him away. For a good chunk of the story, Vakama is both the protagonist and the antagonist to his own teammates. Matau is the first to learn his lesson, understanding the need for unity and the hardships Vakama had to deal with, which helps Vakama regain his senses, allowing him to complete his personal arc and realize it's better to be a selfless leader than a powerful but vindictive and feared tyrant.
Brave: Queen Elinor is the deuteragonist to her daughter Merida's protagonist. The plot revolves around them needing to mend their relationship and find a compromise between their problems, with Merida needing to learn responsibility and Elinor needing to be more open-minded and to let go of her perfectionism.
A Bug's Life:
- Flik may be The Hero, but the story is as much about Atta's Character Development from a Nervous Wreck to The Good Queen (also her defrosting toward Flik, and learning to stand up to Hopper). Her actions also drive the plot as much as Flik's antics: she sends him on the search to find "warrior bugs" (though under false pretenses), is the reason the colony witnesses their "rescue" of Princess Dot, inadvertently gives Flik the "bird" idea, banishes them during the Liar Revealed part leaving the colony in the Darkest Hour, and saves Flik's life twice in the climax, ensuring the movie's Happy Ending.
- Dot is the Tritagonist to Flik's Protagonist and Atta's Deuteragonist. Dot is still a major character whose character development (learning to fly and overcome her fear of Thumper) and friendship with Flik is significant, and whose actions greatly impact the plot. She inadvertently causes Atta and the colony to accept the "warriors" unconditionally, and the "warriors" to stay, when she accidentally puts herself in danger in the gorge, and later she gets Flik and the banished bugs to return to save the queen from getting squished by the grasshoppers.
Coco: Héctor is the deuteragonist to Miguel's protagonist, being most important character in the Land of the Dead as his past and goal bear an important role in Miguel's journey to get home.
Dumbo: Timothy Q. Mouse. He serves as the titular protagonist's best friend and Parental Substitute who defends him from anyone who bullies him for his large ears and attempts to help turn things around for him by making him a star.
Alma Madrigal, the matriarch of Encanto serves as this to Mirabel's protagonist, with her backstory and development being given just as much as her granddaughter, and the movie's premise centering around their conflict with one another.
In Frozen, Anna serves as the main protagonist, but the story is just as much about Elsa coming to terms with and gaining control over her uncontrollable ice powers.
Home (2015): Tip is the second main focus after Oh. While Oh's Character Development into a more compassionate and considerate person helps to form the bulk of the plot, Tip's goal to find her mother and her bond with Oh also get equal focus.
Frollo from The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a rare instance of a character being both this and The Antagonist: he opposes the titular character, Quasimodo, and incites all of the story's problems, but the story is as much about him as it is Quasimodo. In fact, the majority of the subtext - which comments on the dangers of pride, lust, and extremism - come from his own racism and inability to accept responsibility for his actions.
Inside Out:
- Riley Anderson. Word of God considers her and Joy to basically be twin protagonists. Of the emotions, Sadness can qualify as well.
- In the sequel, Anxiety is the second most prominent emotion after Joy, providing the opposite side of the conflict with her intentions to create a new Riley.
Jinu in KPop Demon Hunters serves as the deuteragonist to Rumi's protagonist, having almost as much character focus as the latter as well as being the one who drives the movie's plot.
Kung Fu Panda:
- Kung Fu Panda: Master Shifu, besides Po himself, is given the most screentime and presence, going through his own independent Character Arc and realizing his own faults, after spending many years jaded and angry due to losing his star pupil Tai Lung. He's the one who helps Po see his true potential and, as revealed via flashback, is indirectly responsible for Tai Lung's fall to villainy. He officially retires this role after his Character Arc is finished in the first film, becoming the Big Good for the rest of the franchise.
- Kung Fu Panda 2: Lord Shen serves as both the Big Bad of the film as well as its deuteragonist, being the one behind the movie's central conflict as well as being the key to Po figuring out his past. Behind Po himself Shen is given the most screentime and importance, a good chunk of the film's runtime being dedicated to exploring his character, what started his evil reign, and his complete and total rejection of redemption.
- Kung Fu Panda 3 has Li Shan, Po's dad, the film's plot revolving around the two of them reuniting and Li Shan's journey to becoming a proud father alongside Mr. Ping serving as the main character arc of the film.
- Kung Fu Panda 4 has Zhen as the deuteragonist, with her Character Development being just as vital to the plot as Po's character arc in accepting change and eventually Passing the Torch.
Lilo & Stitch is about how the two title characters, a little Hawaiian girl and a blue alien monster, grow because they suddenly have each other in their ʻohana. That said, the girl that's first-billed is behind the alien in importance, not the other way around.
The Lion King:
- The Lion King (1994): Similarly to the example above, Scar is this as well as the antagonist. While Simba is unequivocally the protagonist, the story is just as about Scar as it is Simba, especially the differences on the leaders they become.
- The Lion King II: Simba's Pride: Simba's daughter Kiara takes the protagonist role while Kovu is the deuteragonist. The plot revolves around them falling in love and finding a way to end the conflict between Pride Lands and the Outsiders. Simba is the tritagonist as he leads the Pride Lands against the movie's Big Bad Zira and the Outsiders while being skeptical of Kovu.
- The Lion King 1 ½: While Timon and Pumbaa are the focus of the movie, it's the former who's the protagonist as his perspective is more focused on and receiving Character Development, making the latter the deuteragonist. Simba is the tritagonist due to the movie taking place during his Coming of Age Story and his presence playing a part in Timon and Pumbaa's growth.
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks: Sunset Shimmer. The former Big Bad of the previous film pulls a Heel–Face Turn at the end, and Rainbow Rocks is her dealing with the implications and fallout of her years of being an Alpha Bitch. While Twilight Sparkle is still The Hero, Sunset's character arc gets only slightly less screen time.
In No Time to Spy: A Loud House Movie, Myrtle takes up this role to play off of Lincoln being the protagonist. There's a good deal of focus on her spy background as she has to deal with coming to terms with how her spy life mixed with life with The Louds can be chaotic, but she still loves them at the end of the day.
Osmosis Jones: Drixenol "Drix" Koldreliff to the titular protagonist, with the film focusing on the two of them slowly becoming partners as they try to put a stop to the threat of Thrax. For the human perspective, Shane serves as the deuteragonist to her father's protagonist, as her strained bond with Frank forms most of the conflict.
The Prince of Egypt: While Moses is the protagonist, the plot follows both him and Ramses. We see the two of them being raised as brothers and best friends at the start of the story, going separate ways as adults, and Rameses going from heroic character to Tragic Villain in the second half of the movie.
In The Road to El Dorado both Miguel and Tulio are the protagonists; Miguel is the one who saves the day while Tulio is the one who gets the girl. The movie was supposed to be a movie where Those Two Guys were the main characters.
Song of the Sea: Saoirse with Ben as the main protagonist. While the latter gets the most focus in the plot with his journey to return to the lighthouse and his Character Development, Saoirse's role as a Selkie is just as important as she needs to find her voice, literally and metaphorically.
Spider-Man: Spider-Verse:
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: Peter B. Parker, a Spider-Man from a different dimension, is the character with the most defined arc in the movie behind Miles Morales, of which the film primarily functions as his Origins Episode.
- The sequel Across the Spider-Verse has Gwen Stacy take over this role from Peter B., as her character arc gets the most focus behind Miles, as she's even the main focus of the prologue and the final scene.
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water: Behind SpongeBob, Plankton's role greatly outweighs that of the other characters, and he even winds up becoming the Big Damn Hero in the end, no strings attached!
Strange Magic: The movie starts out focusing on Marianne with the Bog King as the antagonist, however as the movie goes on the Bog King becomes the second protagonist. This is because the movie is their love story.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie: Princess Peach and Luigi both share the deuteragonist role. The movie is almost as much about Peach as is about Mario due to her being the main opposition and unwilling center of affection for Bowser. While Luigi spends most of the film held prisoner by Bowser, rescuing him is Mario's main priority, as well as being one-half of the titular characters and playing a pivotal role in the climax. Donkey Kong is the tritagonist while Toad is the tetragonist.
Tangled: Flynn Ryder. His character arc of coming to grips with who he is somewhat mirrors Princess Rapunzel's and gives her a world-wearier Deadpan Snarker off of whom she can bounce.
Toy Story:
- In the first film, Woody is the main protagonist and Buzz Lightyear is the deuteragonist. The film is about Woody's journey to accept Buzz's presence as one of Andy Davis' toys after envying him for so long, while on Buzz's side, it's more about himself acknowledging his existence as a toy.
- In the second film, Woody is still the protagonist, but although Buzz has a subplot that has some of Andy's toys rescuing Woody from Al McWhiggin, its more technical deuteragonist is the newcomer Jessie (and thus, making Buzz more of the film's triagonist instead). Woody had complex relations with her after first meeting her, in which she's upset about his decision to leave Al's department, due to her Dark and Troubled Past with her original owner Emily, something that has haunted her for a long time. The film's just as much about Woody's identity as a famous television icon of Woody's Roundup as it is about Jessie's own struggles with her past. If this film also has a tetragonist, then it's likely Rex, who gets the most focus of the toys on Buzz's rescue team besides Buzz himself, has a defined arc of overcoming his cowardice, and a defined goal that he accomplishes by the end of the movie (defeating Zurg).
- In the fourth film, Woody is the protagonist as usual, Bo Peep is the deuteragonist (as Woody's Action Girlfriend who tries to adjust her new life as a "lost toy"), Forky is the tritagonist (has his own story arc that kicks off the plot), and Buzz is the tetragonist (not as prominent as he was in the other films, but the only one of the original toys that wasn't Demoted to Extra).
Transformers One: While Orion is very clearly the protagonist of the film, the plot is more about his Tragic Bromance with the future Megatron/D-16 than it is about stopping Sentinel's false rule, with D-16 having equal focus and attention, even when Orion is absent.
Turning Red is primarily about Mei Lee breaking away from her overbearing mother, Ming, but the finale is almost equally focused on Ming herself overcoming the emotional trauma caused by her troubled relationship with her own mother Wu.
Zootopia: Nick Wilde serves as this to Judy Hopps' protagonist. He is actually somewhat of a secondary protagonist because although he is very important, the story is more about Judy and her growth as a person. To add to this, Judy gets multiple scenes without Nick yet every scene with Nick includes Judy, with a possible exception being his flashback, but he is telling that story to Judy so it still kinda counts.

Films — Live-Action

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Amadeus. While the main narrative is Antonio Salieri's plot to destroy him, Mozart is equally important and prominent. This can also apply to the original play, though Mozart's role is more supporting in that one while he and Salieri are co-leads in the movie.
Annie Hall in Annie Hall, despite being the title character. She is the protagonist's Love Interest.
Doc Brown is this to Marty McFly in the first two Back to the Future films. Marty's father George is the Tritagonist for the first film since his Character Development by growing a spine is central to the plot. Ultimately it's George's decision to stand his ground against Biff and Dixon that ensures that Marty won't be erased from existence. Biff Tannen takes the Tritagonist role in the second film as the person responsible for the Bad Present that Marty and Doc have to undo.
Batman Film Series:
- Vicki Vale in Batman (1989), as the person the audience follows as she tries to learn more about Bruce Wayne/Batman. Jack Napier/The Joker serves the tritagonist role as the highest-billed star (Jack Nicholson was billed first) but has no Character Development after becoming The Joker, merely a lot of focus.
Roy Batty's arc in Blade Runner is given as much emphasis (if not more so) as Deckard's despite being the primary antagonist.
In Double Take, Freddie Tiffany is the obvious Deuteragonist to Daryl Chase's Protagonist, being the titular Double.
In The Fly (1986), Veronica Quaife is this to Doomed Protagonist Seth Brundle to the point that she edges him out in total screentime. Her efforts to keep her editor/ex-lover Stathis out of her blossoming professional and personal relationship with Seth (which she elevates to a romantic one) end up accidentally paving the way for Seth's Tragic Mistake. Once his Slow Transformation begins, her efforts to first convince him that he's not well and later to deal with what he's becoming are given equal emotional and thematic weight with his own character arc by the narrative, especially when she learns she is pregnant with his child and must decide what to do. In the end, as Seth's Protagonist Journey to Villain becomes complete, she is the one who ends the horror and the film by mercy killing him at his request.
Gleahan and the Knaves of Industry: After Gleahan, Penelope has the most impact in the story — and even deals the final blow to Nathaniel's crime empire!
Godzilla movies typically have some main human character who helps move the plot along just as much as Godzilla. Miki Saegusa most commonly plays this role in the Heisei films starting with Godzilla vs. Biollante.
In Godzilla (2014), Ford Brody plays the other role of protagonist while Godzilla is the lead. This is alluded to when Ford faints at the same time Godzilla collapses after defeating the MUTOs.
Thao in the Gran Torino, as the character who develops alongside the protagonist, Walt.
Peeta is this to Katniss' protagonist in The Hunger Games series. Although given what happens to him in "Mockingjay" he probably won't appear all that much in the third movie. Jennifer Lawrence has mentioned in more than on interview how upset she was when she read the script for the third film and saw that she would barely get to work with Platonic Life-Partners Josh Hutcherson in that film.
James Bond: The Bond Girls tend to be this, some more than others: Tatiana Romanova (From Russia With Love), Anya Amasova (The Spy Who Loved Me), Melina Havelock (For Your Eyes Only) and Natalya Simonova (GoldenEye) are introduced before they meet Bond. Natalya Simonova even has a considerable screentime in the first half of the film with her own subplot.
In Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects Hada, the Japanese businessman whose daughter is kidnapped, fills the deuteragonist role to Charles Bronson's protagonist, filling more than a mere support role as he has his own plot arcs, several of the most important scenes in the film to himself, and the plot is driven (and the film given its emotional shading) by his actions and emotional responses, nearly as much as by the protagonist's. The film invests considerable time in his acclimatization to American culture, to his sexual assault on the protagonist's daughter (and his eventual forgiveness), in addition to his main plot reactions to his own daughter's fate.
Furiosa in Mad Max: Fury Road. She's The Hero and causes the plot, but Max has the primary point of view and the most screentime.
The Negotiator: Chris Sabian. It is probably not a coincidence that, like The Protagonist, Danny Roman, he is also a Negotiator.
Rio Lobo: Captain Pierre Cardona, who gets the main romantic subplot, plenty of good action scenes, and about as much development and screen time as John Wayne's character.
Spock in Star Trek (2009) and Star Trek Into Darkness. While Kirk is still the protagonist, McCoy's role in the Power Trio is downplayed in favor of focusing on Kirk and Spock's friendship and growth.
Sonic the Hedgehog (Film Series): Of course, the movies are all about Sonic's journey, however, he does share the spotlight with each individual in each different movie:
- Sonic the Hedgehog with Tom Wachowski, a human police officer from Green Hills, who helps him to go to San Francisco to find his bag of rings and escape the clutches from the evil Dr. Ivo Robotnik.
- Sonic the Hedgehog 2 with Miles "Tails" Prower, an anthropomorphic yellow fox, who joins Sonic's quest to find the Master Emerald before Robotnik and Knuckles the Echidna find it first.
- Sonic the Hedgehog 3 with Shadow the Hedgehog, an anthropomorphic black hedgehog, who teams up with Gerald Robotnik and his grandson to revenge humanity for the loss of his human best friend, Maria.
Star Wars: It's standard for each trilogy to have a Power Trio of the protagonist, deuteragonist, and tritagonist.
- In the original trilogy, Leia is the deuteragonist, with her importance as the second Skywalker twin, and the other new hope for the Galaxy her birth represents at the end of the prequels, and the only one who can fulfill Luke's position should her brother fail. She's also the only character in Episode IV with knowledge of and stake in the main plot from the very beginning, the one who kicks it into motion, and the only main character who interacts with the Big Bad, Tarkin. Han Solo serves as the tritagonist of the original trilogy. However, it should be pointed out that they are all Supporting Protagonists: the main character of both the Original and Prequel trilogies is the man around whom the galaxy spins like a wheel: Anakin Skywalker, The Chosen One.
- The Sequel Trilogy focuses primarily on Rey as the protagonist and heir to the Skywalker legacy, with Kylo Ren as deuteragonist and antagonist. The tritagonist spot is typically taken on by one of the mains from the Original Trilogy: Han Solo in Episode VII, Luke Skywalker in VIII, and Leia Organa in IX.
The Film of the Book for To Kill a Mockingbird has Scout and Jem as the deuteragonists to Atticus' protagonizing role^note but at some point in the film, his deuteragonizing kids acted like the protagonists while an elder Scout played the role of an off-screen Character Narrator.
Edward Cullen from Twilight. He is the main love interest of the heroine and protagonist, Bella. Jacob is the tritagonist.
Wicked: While the film is focused on Elphaba's journey to become the Wicked Witch, G(a)linda gets almost as much focus and acts as the second point of view character, with her Tragic Bromance with Elphaba being a driving force and her even acting as the narrator early on.

Literature

Agent Pendergast:
- Lt. Vincent D'Agosta serves as the one to protagonist Margo Green in The Relic and Reliquary with Pendergast himself as the tritagonist. D'Agosta serves in this role as well for the other novels he appears after Pendergast takes over as the protagonist.
- Additionally, other characters have also served in deuteragonist/tritagonist roles in the books. In The Cabinet of Curiosities Nora Kelly is the deuteragonist, with William Smithback as the tritagonist, in the novel Thunderhead Kelly was the protagonist and Smithback was the deuteragonist, and in Cemetery Dance Kelly is the tritagonist to Pendergast and D'Agosta. In Still Life with Crows Corrie Swanson serves as the deuteragonist with Sheriff Hazen as the tritagonist. In Brimstone Laura Hayward serves as the tritagonist to Pendergast and D'Agosta. Constance Greene acts as the deuteragonist in The Wheel of Darkness. Corrie again serves in the role for White Fire. In Blue Labyrinth Margo returns and now acts as the tritagonist respectively to Pendergast and D'Agosta.
- The "Helen Trilogy" novels begin mixing this up, as despite D'Agosta appearing in all three books he remains Out of Focus. He initially starts out as the deuteragonist like usual in Fever Dream, but halfway through it he is shot, and Laura Hayward serves in the role for the rest of the book. In Cold Vengeance, Judson Esterhazy is the deuteragonist. In Two Graves, Pendergast's son Alban serves as the deuteragonist as his relationship with Pendergast serves as a driving force in the novel, while roughly 3-4 different characters all serve in the tritagonist role.
All Animorphs books are told in first-person and the cast rotates from book to book, with the narrator always being the lead of their own book, but this comes into play a few times.
- Animorphs: The Hork-Bajir Chronicles alternates between the POV of Aldrea and that of Dak. There are also some chapters from the POV of their enemy Esplin, but fewer in total since he's a simpler character without their emotional turmoil, who rarely interacts with them and his thoughts and experiences have only been recorded secondhand.
- In Animorphs: The Prophecy Cassie volunteers to let Aldrea's ixcilla possess her, and the book's perspective flips back and forth though Cassie is more to the fore.
- Each of the Megamorphs books are ensembles with POV from all six kids, but inevitably some are more to the fore and others are Out of Focus in comparison. This is most evident in Animorphs: Back to Before, where Jake is certainly the primary protagonist, with the characters with the second most focus being Tobias and Aximili (and just Aximili, by the halfway point).
Holly Short from the Artemis Fowl series, especially in the first two books before she teams up with Artemis — she acts as a Hero Antagonist in contrast to Artemis's initial role as Villain Protagonist. During this period the story revolves around her almost as much as Artemis and the readers are made to sympathise with her. It is more evident in the Graphic Novels where she serves as the second narrator in the stories.
The Asterisk War: Julis Riessfeld is the second most important character after Ayato Amagiri, normally serving as his combat partner and playing an important part in his motives.
Axtara: While Axtara is the title character and the one through whose third-person limited Point of View we experience things, Princess Mia has almost as big of an impact on the story. In Banking and Finance, she's the main individual who convinces everyone else that Axtara is benevolent and helps Axtara get acclimated to Elnacier. In Magic and Mischief, she and Axtara are subjected to a Forced Transformation that swaps their species, and her own subsequent struggles are detailed almost as much as Axtara's.
Brandon Sanderson typically has two or three point-of-view characters, so this is pretty standard. This is actually shuffled throughout the The Stormlight Archive series as well. Each book shifts focus and has flashbacks relating the backstory of that book's primary character.
- The Way of Kings: Kaladin is the protagonist, Dalinar is the deuteragonist, Shallan and is the tritagonist (Shallan is introduced before Dalinar, but receives a bit less page time).
- Words of Radiance has Shallan take the focus, with Kaladian second and Dalinar third, then Oathbringer has Dalinar as the main focus with Shallan second and Kaladin third.
In Brimstone Angels, Word of God explicitly describes Lorcan (the devil who heroine Farideh made a pact with) as the deuteragonist. Who fills the tritagonist position isn't as explicitly described, but it's probably Farideh's twin sister Havilar.
The eponymous unicorn in Cerberon is a very close second to George, who is the protagonist for most of the story. After George and Margaret are betrothed, and especially once they leave Aeronweyir for America, Cerberon becomes the protagonist, with George taking on a secondary role.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has Charlie Bucket as the protagonist and Willy Wonka as the deuteragonist. While they don't meet until the 1/3 mark of the book and the halfway point of most adaptations, Mr. Wonka's fame and reputation precede him, and it's his actions that set the plot Charlie gets swept into in motion (the sequel makes Mr. Wonka the protagonist and Charlie a Sidekick). The 2013 stage musical adaptation takes this trope further via Adaptation Expansion, portraying both characters as Mr. Imaginations. They're the only characters who warrant solo songs (two apiece, in fact) about their personalities and motivations; all the other songs are crowd numbers or team-ups between two or more characters. And Mr. Wonka sometimes ventures out of his factory disguised as an elderly tramp, whom Charlie meets in the opening scene (on the other hand, the 2005 film adaptation makes Charlie a Supporting Protagonist to Mr. Wonka).
Counselors and Kings has four main characters who fit into this scheme. Matteo is The Hero and The Protagonist, getting the most POV scenes and whose actions tend to drive the plot the most; Tzigone is the Deuteragonist, getting nearly as much development and with a distinct character arc closely tied to the trilogy's main storyline; Kiva is the most direct villain for most of the story and gets nearly as much attention as the heroic portions of the cast, making her the Tritagonist. Andris, the fourth main character, doesn't hold down his own plotline however so much as be defined chiefly by his role in Matteo's and Kiva's stories.
Cradle Series: While Lindon is pretty clearly the main character, the series spends almost as much time on Yerin, the Disciple of the Sword Sage. They push each other to advance and grow stronger, constantly competing and cooperating.
Danielle L. Jensen:
- Malediction Trilogy: Cecile is the protagonist and most of the chapters are written from her PoV but her husband Tristan is equally important to the plot, even though he gets less screen time.
- The Bridge Kingdom Archives: Of the royal couple of Ithicana, Lara is the protagonist, we learn her Backstory and motivations, but once she gets married to Aren, he becomes the deuteragonist, with their stories developing together.
- Dark Shores: Teriana is the protagonist but Marcus also gets his PoV chapters and they both drive the plot together.
- Dark Skies: Lydia and Killian are almost equally important, we know their background and history, and the narration switches between them, although Lydia gets a little more time in the spotlight.
Although most of The Day of the Locust is seen from protagonist Tod Hackett's point of view, Chapters 7 through 12 tell the story of his friend Homer Simpson^note No, not that one. and how he came to Hollywood from Des Moines and met the object of his and Tod's fascination, Faye Greener, and her father Harry. Homer remains an important character throughout the remainder of the book, even as the primary focus shifts back to Tod.
In The Death Gate Cycle, Alfred is the deuteragonist to Haplo's protagonist. Alfred is the second-most-recurring character (thanks to the series' use of multiple worlds and Rotating Arcs, Haplo - and his dog - is the only character to appear in every volume), and he and Haplo follow parallel development arcs.
The Doom novels have Arlene Sanders. Once Fly reunites with her on Deimos, mid-way through the first book, she remains at his side for virtually everything. Together they take on the "demons" on the Martian moons, "hell", the ruins of Earth, and ultimately the enemy homeworld and beyond.
In The Dresden Files: On a series level, Harry Dresden is the POV character and protagonist, and Karrin Murphy is the deuteragonist. That being said on a book-to-book basis the position shifts between a few different people like Thomas Raith, Michael Carpenter, Molly Carpenter and even Butters once.
In Forbidden Fruit, Hope St. Germaine is the deuteragonist to her daughter Glory's protagonist, doubling as both this and the main villain because she stands in the way of Glory's happiness with her Love Interest, Victor Santos. Santos, who has his own subplot about hunting his mother's killer, is the tritagonist. After Hope dies, Santos becomes the deuteragonist.
Full Metal Panic!: Kaname Chidori is this to the series' protagonist Sosuske Sagara. One might even say she's even the main protagonist of Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu.
Annie Bellis in George's Secret Key to the Universe, at least in books 2-5. Her father Eric is arguably the deuteragonist of the first book, taking the role of tritagonist in books 2-5. In the sixth and last book, George and the Ship of Time, Hero is this with Boltzmann Brian and then Atticus being tritagonists
In Heralds of Rhimn, Atevia and Gildhe/Rowan serve as secondary narrators to the trio of protagonists. Atevia narrates chapters that focus on what the Irongardhe is up to, and during the fourth book, she serves as a new lens to view Meparik's actions through. Rowan, meanwhile, offers a secondary perspective on Crislie and the warfront, especially after Crislie falls into depression and spends months living as a wolf instead of a human.
High School D×D: Yuuto Kiba is the second point of view character whenever Issei is unavailable or something happens to him. Meanwhile, Azazel is the Tritagonist as a lot of the events that happen from his point of view are very serious to the overall plot.
Will Parry in the His Dark Materials trilogy shares the spotlight with Lyra when he's introduced in the second book.
The Hunger Games: Peeta Mellark, in the first two books, is the second-most prominent character. In "Mockingjay", he spends the better part of the first third being tortured in the Capitol and the second third being kept away from Katniss because he's been brainwashed into wanting to kill her. He goes back to being the deuteragonist in the last third. Gale takes over in book 3.
In Invisible Werewolf Dracula meets Vampire Mummy Frankenstein, Dracula is the team leader but Adam is more the POV character. Still, as a party member, Adam's The Lancer to Dracula being The Hero.
In Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, the titular characters Gilbert Norrell and Jonathan Strange essentially share the protagonist role, but Stephen Black consistently serves as the deuteragonist, with Lady Charlotte Pole (née Wintertowne) as the tritagonist. Though the latter two don't directly affect Stange and Norrell's story until the end, they both prove crucial to resolving the plot, as Lady Pole's liberation from the service of the Gentleman with Thistledown Hair signals his downfall, while Stephen ultimately defeats him. By the final act, the novel is just as much the story of Stephen and Lady Pole's suffering at the Gentleman's hands as it is the story of Strange and Norrell reintroducing magic to the world.
Fisk, in the Knight and Rogue Series, since he's 'just' the squire while Michael is the knight.
The Locked Tomb: Gideon may be the eponymous, point of view character of Gideon the Ninth, but Harrow's story develops in tandem with hers and is just as important. Tellingly, the book shifts to Harrow's perspective following Gideon's Heroic Suicide near the end, and the second book, Harrow the Ninth, is named after her. But then it turns out that the Second-Person Narration is actually Gideon (still dead, but her soul is partitioned in Harrow's brain) explaining the events of the book to Harrow. So it's merely a flipped deuteragonist situation.
Magical Girl Raising Project: While Snow White is the overall protagonist of the first arc, Ripple is the clear deuteragonist, as her thoughts and struggles get the second most amount of attention after Snow White, and she takes out more villains than any of the other heroes.
In Maiden Crown, Tove is the deuteragonist to Queen Sophie's protagonist by way of having a detailed backstory and getting nearly equal narrative focus. Notably, she is the only other character besides Sophie whose childhood is shown.
Masks of Aygrima: Each book has a different Deuteragonist and Tritagonist
- Masks: Deuteragonist: Keltan, the more prominent of Mara's two love interests. Tritagonist: Katia, Mara's friend in the Magic Mine.
- Shadows: Deuteragonist: Chell, who spends a long time as Mara's only companion in the book. Tritagonist: Guardian Stanik, The Heavy of the book.
- Faces: Deuteragonist: The Lady of Pain and Fire, Mara's mentor. Tritagonist: Keltan, Mara's Love Interest.
In the Mediochre Q Seth Series, Mediochre and Charlotte Johnson tend to bat the roles of Protagonist and Deuteragonist back and forth between them. The positions of tritagonist and tetragonist go to Joseph Carrion and Dhampinella respectively.
Mikael Blomkvist in the Millennium Series. He and Lisbeth Salander are developed quite a bit as separate characters, but once they team up the plot centers around them both.
Murdle's Inspector Irratino, the hint-giver, detective partner, and Love Interest of Deductive Logico. Later books start giving him POV sections of his own, and the plot centers around them both.
The Neapolitan Novels:
- Lila is the deuteragonist to Elena's protagonist. Elena is the narrator and point of view character, but the story is about her friend Lila just as much as Elena, and they are often considered both the protagonists. Only in the third book, Lila is more Out of Focus than usual, as Elena talks about her life in another city.
- Nino is the tritagonist. While each book has a different tritagonist individually (Rino in Book 1, Stefano in Book 2, Pietro in Book 3, and arguably Nino himself in Book 4), Nino is the only one who has a prominent Love Interest role in all the books (except maybe the first) and is definitely the third most important of the series as a whole.
Gawan in Parzival, who is the focus of about a third of the poem.
A Practical Guide to Evil:
- Amadeus, the Black Knight, holds this role for the first three volumes. As Catherine's Evil Mentor, his various schemes to use her as a tool for his ultimate victory are a major part of the plot, and he receives the most POV scenes behind her. This is particularly the case in Volume 3, which repeatedly cuts back to his subplot of warring in the League of Free Cities before he returns to Callow to fight by Catherine's side against Akua.
Yukari from Qualia the Purple is the deuteragonist to Hatou, despite her lack of physical appearances in later chapters due to Yukari dying setting off the main story of the manga, and her repeated deaths in parallel universes.
Milla in The Seventh Tower, to Tal's protagonist. Starting from the second book, her POV is shown and they get about equal focus.
Song at Dawn: Estela and Dragonetz share the spotlight because the story follows the former but the plot is centered on the latter.
Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online: Pitohui serves as the antagonistic variety during Squad Jam 2. The story arc is told from two points of view, from that of Team LF (LLENN and Fukaziroh) and Team PM4 (Pitohui and M). Once all other teams are eradicated, these two teams come into opposition with each other and do battle, including the climactic fight between LLENN and Pitohui.
Kahlan Amnell in the Sword of Truth series, with Richard as the protagonist and Zedd as the tritagonist. In the seventh book, Oba Rahl becomes this.^note In the Chainfire Trilogy, it is uncertain who is what, given the shifting of roles, but the top three are definitely Richard, Kahlan, and Nicci in some order.
13 Reasons Why switches between Hannah Baker, who's narrating a series of tapes, and Clay, the boy who listens to them, responds to them, and confronts the people mentioned in them. And the tapes are Hannah's suicide note to the people who convinced her to kill herself.
The Thrawn Trilogy initially uses the same setup of Luke as the Protagonist, Leia as the Deuteragonist, and Han as the Tritagonist that the original trilogy uses, while adding Mara Jade as the Tetragonist in the first novel. Eventually though it mixes it up a bit by putting Mara in the role of the Deuteragonist to Luke's Protagonist as she goes through the Hero's Journey aspect of the story, going through the most character growth out of the cast and ultimately killing one half of the Big Bad Ensemble. Meanwhile, Leia and Han take on the roles of Tritagonist and Tetragonist.
The Tokyo Demons series has Jo Oda as the deuteragonist to Ayase's protagonist, and they both cover different sides of the same conflict. The series later pushes Kadoyuki into the tritagonist role, as he has just that much backstory involving their main antagonist.
Tolkien's Legendarium:
- In The Hobbit, Thorin is the deuteragonist, while our hobbit Bilbo is the protagonist. The quest is to restore Thorin as King under the Mountain.
- In Tolkien's The Children of Húrin, though Niënor isn't introduced as a major player until about two-thirds of the way through, owing to the approx. ten-year age gap between herself and her brother Túrin (the protagonist), once she does show up, she slips into this role.
In Vampire Academy, Lisa Dragomir's storyline is secondary to Rose Hathaway's and is always seen through Rose's eyes.

Professional Wrestling

In WWE, this performer is usually described as the "1B" to whoever is the top guy's "1A". They're not quite the face of the company, but they're close, and usually acting as The Hero's foil and primary rival, often turning heel if doing the latter. Their storylines, when not interacting with whoever is "1A", also tend to be the most important in the company after their counterpart's, or even the most important if "1A" is ever indisposed for some reason. Occasionally, there's also a third top-tier main-eventer who isn't quite as popular as "1A" or "1B" but is still a major draw and can be slotted at the top of the card at any point if either of the top two draws are unavailable or if the company wants a fresh feud for one of them. This performer is usually called "2A" and can be considered the tritagonist of the era.
- "Macho Man" Randy Savage, who functioned as the top face in the WWF after Hulk Hogan and even briefly teamed up with Hogan as the "Mega Powers" before turning on him over jealousy and the belief that he was lusting after Miss Elizabeth.
- The Rock was the greatest rival of "Stone Cold" Steve Austin during the Attitude Era and the top face in the company after him. While he ultimately achieved more fame and success than Austin, that was only after leaving wrestling and becoming a movie star; in wrestling, he was below Austin, if only by a slight margin.
  - Mick Foley served as the deuteragonist to both Austin and the Rock at different points (arguably making him the tritagonist of the Attitude Era) for a good part of both 1999 and 2000. Early 1999 saw him as the #2 face fighting against a heel Rock while Austin dealt with his nemesis Vince. Afterwards, he maintained a supporting role backing up Austin and whoever else was fighting against the Ministry of Darkness or the Corporation, even operating as de facto leader of a face stable against them called the Union. Later, when the Rock became the #1 face of the company during Austin's leave, Foley operated as his closest ally and fought against Triple H while Rock dealt with Big Show in the leadup to WrestleMania 2000, being forced to retire as part of Rock's motivation to defeat Triple H. Later that year, Foley would return as Commissioner and help Rock fight off attempts from the McMahons to screw him out of the WWE Championship.
- Batista to John Cena during the Ruthless Aggression Era. Since the Brand Extension was in full effect during this time, all this meant is that Batista was made the face of "lesser" brand SmackDown while Cena was made the face of RAW. There was little crossover between them until Batista's last two years with the company, particularly in 2010 when he made a Face–Heel Turn for his final full-time run and feuded with Cena over the WWE Championship.
- CM Punk to John Cena during the PG Era, where Punk functioned as Cena's Anti-Hero counterpart and his greatest rival, holding the WWE Championship for a record 434 days before being dethroned by The Rock. Like Batista, Punk eventually turned heel on Cena, though he turned back to face after he lost the WWE Championship and failed to end the Streak at WrestleMania 29. When he legitimately quit the company after the 2014 Royal Rumble, Daniel Bryan temporarily succeeded him, even winning in the main event of 'Mania that year, before injuries forced him out of action (and eventually led to his temporary retirement in 2016). Randy Orton was also temporarily the deuteragonist to Cena (even being drafted to SmackDown! in 2011 to carry that brand like Batista in the Ruthless Aggression Era), before Punk eclipsed him, eventually settling down as the tritagonist of the PG Era instead.
- Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose served as co-deuteragonists to their fellow Shield teammate Roman Reigns during the Reality Era, though Rollins moreso than Ambrose, with all three acting as the company's top face at various points during this time. Ambrose eventually left the company at the end of the Reality Era to join All Elite Wrestling, leaving Rollins as the remaining deuteragonist to Reigns' protagonist in the New Era, but with the twist that they were both now Villain Protagonists. The New Era also saw Reigns acquire an additional deuteragonist in Drew McIntyre, who acted as his heroic counterpart on RAW and was consistently depicted as the only wrestler on his level during his WWE Championship reign.
- A returning CM Punk and, to a lesser extent, Roman Reigns both serve as deuteragonists to Cody Rhodes' protagonist in the Endeavor/TKO Era, with Punk once more acting as an Anti-Hero counterpart to the more traditionally heroic Rhodes, much like he had to Cena years before. Punk's pursuit of a WrestleMania main event and his fiery, personal feuds with Drew McIntyre and Seth Rollins directly contrasts Cody Rhodes' desire to "finish the story", and later his championship reign and gradual education over what it exactly means to be the top guy in WWE. For further emphasis, Punk is the top face on RAW, while Cody is the top face of SmackDown. Meanwhile, Reigns' slow journey to redemption after the collapse of the Bloodline acts as one of the main overarching stories of both brands, drawn out thanks to his status as a part-timer, and it often intersects with both Punk and Cody's storylines at different points. Rounding out the group is the tritagonist Seth Rollins, who is squarely beneath all three men on the hierarchy but is nonetheless the closest to being considered on their level, who would ascend to the position of top heel of the company in 2025 after WrestleMania 41 and act as a major opposing force to both Punk and Reigns, with the goal of imposing his "vision" on WWE and finally becoming a star on par with, if not surpassing, the aforementioned three.

Theater

Cross Road has the devil Amduscias as main character, and his contracted human, violinist Niccolo Paganini, as deuteragonist.
Frankenstein (2014) has Henri Dupre, Victor Frankenstein's close friend, whose Heroic Sacrifice of confessing to a crime that Victor committed leads to his being guillotined in Victor's place. Victor Frankenstein, of course, isn't just going to let him stay dead, but of course, he Came Back Wrong. The "monster" in Act 2 says he isn't Henri and tells Victor to recognize that, but since he is played by the same actor (long-haired and shirtless), and since the audience sees him through the lens of his relationship with Victor in act 1, Henri and the monster together form one deuteragonist.
Jesus Christ Superstar made this a staple of musicals from the point of its debut in 1970 onwards. The title character is the deuteragonist, with Judas, the protagonist, as a sort of The Watson observing him (and acting for and, of course, against him), despite their being old friends.

Visual Novels

Ace Attorney:
- Miles Edgeworth is the Deuteragonist in the first and second games of the original trilogy. His Character Development and Heel–Face Turn as a person and prosecutor are directly parallel to Phoenix's growth as a person and defense attorney. He may even be the Deuteragonist for the franchise as a whole, considering he plays a minor, but still fairly important, role in the plot of the third game of the trilogy, and even got a pair of spin-off games that feature him as the player character.
- Mia Fey, Phoenix's deceased mentor, is the Deuteragonist of the third game, with her cases taking part in the past and being critical to solving the final case in the present. Godot/Diego Armando is the Tritagonist, as he is the main prosecutor and ultimately the final culprit due to his past with Mia and twisted, yet sympathetic, desire to protect her remaining family. His ties to Mia and his desire to best Phoenix are the next most focus in the story. Finally, Miles Edgeworth can be considered the Tetragonist, as he plays the role of defense attorney in Phoenix's place during the first part of the final case, and this moment is a huge development in his character.
- Phoenix takes on the role of Deuteragonist in Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney. Trucy is the Tritagonist, with her original family being one of the main focus of the game. Although it could be argued that the real tritagonist is Valant Gramarye, Trucy's "uncle" and one of the catalysts of the game's plot with quite the impact.
- Athena is the Deuteragonist in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies. Apollo and Simon Blackquill share the role of the Tritagonist; Apollo's struggles and conflicts are a key part of the final two cases, and Blackquill is not only the main prosecutor but also the reason Athena became an attorney in the first place. Proving his innocence in the murder of her mother and helping him find the truth and the real culprit is what leads to the game's ultimate resolution.
- Kay Faraday is the Deuteragonist of Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth (the Tritagonist is the Interpol detective Shi-Long Lang). In the sequel, Prosecutor's Gambit, that role goes to Eustace Winner (the Tritagonist here being Eddie Fender, Gregory Edgeworth's former assistant).
- Phoenix becomes the Deuteragonist again in Spirit of Justice. He plays an important role in the story, but Apollo has more Character Development and emotional investment in the outcome of the final trials. The final case even has the player, as Apollo, arguing a trial against Phoenix. The tritagonist is Rayfa Padma Khura'in, the princess of the fictional land of Khura'in, the game's setting. Her character arc runs in parallel to Apollo's with him and Phoenix being instrumental to her growth.
Danganronpa:
- Kyoko Kirigiri in Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, to the point where Makoto Naegi might even be considered a Supporting Protagonist. Byakuya is the overall Tritagonist, having more focus than most other characters and being the most influential character in the trials besides Kyoko.
- In Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, Nagito Komaeda is this to Hajime Hinata. He even got his own manga that retells the events of the game from his perspective. At a certain part of the game, you can play as him for a little while. Different from Kirigiri, Komaeda is the Token Evil Teammate, and Hinata's investigative aide is actually Chiaki Nanami. Chiaki herself qualifies as this trope too, as she has roughly even screentime with him compared to Komaeda and is ultimately what pulls him together at the end. Fuyuhiko falls into the tritagonist role as he has the most development out of the survivors and has the most character focus besides those three.
- Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony bounces around with this. In the beginning, Kaede Akamatsu is the protagonist and Shuichi Saihara is the deuteragonist. Then Kaede is executed after a botched attempt to kill the mastermind, Shuichi is promoted to protagonist, and Kaito Momota, Kokichi Oma, and Maki Harukawa take the deuteragonist, tritagonist, and tetragonist slots respectively as in different points in the game, they each help Shuichi with his investigations and they are all directly involved with the murder in the penultimate chapter. After Kaito and Kokichi die in chapter 5, Keebo becomes the deuteragonist for the rest of the game.
In Daughter for Dessert, Amanda takes lots of initiatives that affect the story in big ways.
Kyousuke is the protagonist of The Devil on G-String followed by main heroine Usami Heroine and antagonist Maou. Usami is almost a second protagonist and her introduction to the story starts off the plot with her obsession with both justice and revenge with Kyousuke acting as something of an actor for her. Maou, the tritagonist, is the villain of the story and is a criminal mastermind who killed Usami's mother and has a suspicious connection to Kyousuke. There's even a tetragonist: Azai Gonzou, Kyousuke's badass yakuza father, who is the primary target of Maou's schemes.
In Melody (2019), the story is about the title character's career just as much, if not more than, the protagonist's attempts to get back on his feet.
Nasuverse:
- Fate/stay night's Kirei Kotomine is a pretty obvious villain from the moment he first appears. However, it is not clear until Heavens Feel just how much he has truly shaped the plot of the series. In a more traditional sense, Rin Tohsaka is one of the primary heroines (though not necessarily love interest). She's the only character besides Shirou who gets first-person P.O.V. scenes, and plays a major role in every route of the game (unlike the other villains and supporting characters, Kirei included, whose role may be significantly downplayed).
- Fate/Zero has Kirei playing a more traditional deuteragonist role to Kiritsugu Emiya's protagonist, as the story focuses quite a bit on his development into the man seen in /stay night.
- Fate/Apocrypha: Jeanne d'Arc is the deuteragonist to Sieg's protagonist. Saber of Red/Mordred and her Master Kairi Sisigou are the tritagonists by virtue of being the most developed Master and Servant of the Red Faction and joining Sieg and Jeanne's side to fight the true enemy.
Phantom of Inferno changes it each act, also depending on which routes are taken:
- In Act I, either Ein or Claudia is the deuteragonist while the other is the tritagonist.
- In Act II, either Cal or Claudia is the deuteragonist while the other is the tritagonist.
- In Act III, if the player takes Mio's route she will serve as the deuteragonist while both Ein and Drei share the tritagonist role. If not, then either Ein or Drei serves in the role instead while the other is the tritagonist and Mio is automatically relegated to tetragonist.
In The Pirate's Fate, Morgana. She has the most detailed and emotional backstory of the main cast, has multiple distinct character arcs and emotional ranges across the game, and is responsible for a lot of the most memorable moments in the story directly or indirectly. On top of that, she was (according to Word of God) the most fun to write, and it's telling that the only time she's allowed to decide the ending is the functional Golden Ending of the game. The only thing that stops her from being even more of a protagonist is that she spends some routes permanently dead.
Robotics;Notes has Akiho Senomiya. While Protagonist Kaito keeps her Locked Out of the Loop on the Committee of 300 side of the plot, she not only drives the entire rest of it but by far has the most P.O.V scenes other than Kaito himself.
Houzuki in Sharin no Kuni is Kenichi's mentor figure and guides him along from point to point in the story while forcing Kyousuke to confront his own past and his future. While he's Kenichi's boss, supervisor, and even a father figure of sorts, he's also clearly the antagonist of the story due to his harsh methods and later even becomes the villain. The identity of the tritagonist is much less clear: The main heroine that the story is focused around is Natsumi, but the person who really shaped Kenichi into who he is is his sister Ririko who has been following him around the whole time.
It's hard to say who the true protagonist of Shiny Days is because the story starts from Setsuna's perspective and follows her view throughout, but as time goes on more scenes are devoted to what Makoto is doing, especially as he begins making more choices that can lead to close relationships with people apart from her.
In Umineko: When They Cry, it progressively becomes very clear (especially from EP3) that Beatrice is just as much the main character of the story as Battler is. The entire mystery is about understanding who she is, where she comes from, and what her motivations are. If we add the 1998 part, Ange, who desperately tries to find the truth of what happened on Rokkenjima, would be the tritagonist.
In Yumeutsutsu Re:Master, Kokoro serves as the deuteragonist of the game due to her history with Ai in the past and for being the reason why Ai came to work at Eureka Software. However, this can change depending on the route taken:
- Kokoro stays the deuteragonist in her route.
- Saki is the deuteragonist in her route.
- In Nana's route, Nana is actually the protagonist while Ai becomes the deuteragonist due to the story being told from Nana's point of view.
- Marie is the deuteragonist in her route.
- Honoka is the deuteragonist of Honoka's Episode in Yumeutsutsu Re:After while Banako is the tritagonist.
In the Zero Escape series:
- In Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, Junpei is the protagonist and Akane/June is the deuteragonist. This is subverted in the True Ending, where it's revealed that the positions were reversed the entire time - you have been playing as 12-year old Akane, who is viewing the Second Nonary Game through Junpei's eyes in order to survive the First Nonary Game.
- In the sequel, Virtue's Last Reward, Sigma is the protagonist and Phi is the deuteragonist. In Phi's ending, Junpei Tenmyouji is promoted to tritagonist and his romance subplot with Akane is finally resolved (although not on a happy note).
- The third game, Zero Time Dilemma, is a bit more complicated in this regard. Carlos, Diana, and Q/Sean are the game's protagonists. Sigma is clearly the deuteragonist of D-Team since his relationship with Diana is the centerpiece of D-Team's storyline and Phi has a tendency to end up dead when they do anything important. In Q-Team, Eric eventually becomes the deuteragonist after Mira dies in the timeline leading to the big reveal of Zero's true identity. In C-Team, neither Junpei nor Akane conclusively takes the deuteragonist slot since most of Carlos' major contributions to the plot are done either on his own or together with both of them.

Web Animation

Animator vs. Animation:
- The Second Coming, despite being the mascot of the franchise, ends up serving the role as deuteragonist to the Chosen One's main protagonist in the original web-series, the latter being given more screentime and development overall across the three seasons.
- Of the four Fighting Stick Figures who feature prominently across the main series and its spinoffs, Green more often than not ends up being given the most importance, having his own story arc in the form of the Influencer Arc, is responsible for the development of other key characters such as Purple, who ends up redeeming himself with Green's help, among other things. He's also said to be the best friend of the Second Coming, the main protagonist of the whole franchise, giving him slightly more significance than the other stick figures.
- Victim - Animator vs. Animation 11 features Mitsi, a female stick figure who meets and befriends Victim following his escape from Alan's PC. Behind Victim himself, Mitsi is given the most screentime and prominence, becoming Victim's lover and helping him establish Rocket Corp. Her death is also revealed to be the Inciting Incident for Victim's Despair Event Horizon as well as his Face–Heel Turn.
The Amazing Digital Circus:
- While Pomni is the show's primary protagonist and Audience Surrogate, Jax gets the most individual focus after her, especially towards the show's second half, with his character arc being focused on for multiple episodes, versus the singular day in the limelight episodes other characters receive.
- Besides Pomni and Jax, Ragatha has been given a considerable amount of screentime over the rest of the cast, having multiple episodes bring light to her struggles and building a connection with Pomni, to the point where she could be considered the show's decfacto tritagonist.
In all three of FreezeFlame22's shows, there are characters who serves as a Deuteragonist and Tritagonist.
- In Bowser's Koopalings, while the Koopalings are all collectively the main focus, Larry serves as The Protagonist in most cases. Behind him, Wendy usually has the Deuteragonist role and Ludwig is the Tritagonist.
- In Carl, of the Four-Man Band, Blooper serves as the Deuteragonist and Dry Bones serves as the Tritagonist to Protagonist Carl, with Boo being the Plucky Comic Relief Tetartagonist.
- In Donkey Kong Island, the eponymous Donkey Kong has Diddy Kong as his Deuteragonist, with Dixie Fitzgerald serving as the Tritagonist. That being said, K. Rool will often take over the role as the Tritagonist as well, given his family and The Woobie status play a crucial role in the show.
Helluva Boss: While the show gave its supporting cast A Day in the Limelight episodes, Stolas firmly takes this role during the second season, with his fractured family life and his Will They or Won't They? relationship with protagonist Blitzø gaining more focus.
Nazo Unleashed has Shadow as the deuteragonist as, along with Sonic, he's the main combatant against the Big Bad Nazo. Tails and Knuckles both serve as the tritagonists.
SMG4 gained a deuteragonist in Breakout Character Meggy Spletzer the (former) Inkling not long after her introduction in 2017. Several episodes are told partly or entirely from her perspective, and her years-long character arc eventually led to her being the protagonist of her own miniseries, although she still plays second-fiddle to Mario and the titular SMG4 in the main show.

Webcomics

In Archipelago, Raven. Originally a mook, he makes a Heel–Face Turn and undergoes more Character Development, that is more relevant to the plot, than anyone else, becoming The Lancer and eventually one half of the Official Couple with Credenza.
In Assigned Male, Stephie is the protagonist, while her best friend Ciel is the deuteragonist. The comic centers mainly on Steph but often times focuses on Ciel as well.
In Cassiopeia Quinn, the second main character is Hero Antagonist Madison Vrax — the story revolves around both her and the title character, and is told from both their perspectives.
Kat in Gunnerkrigg Court to protagonist Annie, her best friend and foil. Magic Versus Science is a recurring theme of the story and setting, and is represented in the two characters. Annie, who converses with psychopomps and has connections to the ether and the forest, represents the supernatural. Kat, a Gadgeteer Genius who grew up in the Court, represents technology.
Homestuck:
- According to Word of God, Karkat is the Deuteragonist to Protagonist John, as he takes the role of John's foil when the focus shifts off of the kids and onto the trolls. When the series shifts yet again to a second set of kids, Jane (and later Roxy) becomes the series' Tritagonist. Meenah is the tetragonist of the Openbound arc.
- Before Karkat, Rose was a combination of this and The Lancer to John's Hero. For the first 3 Acts, Rose appears almost as much as John and is the most important in helping him get through the game. Come Act 5, the deuteragonist baton gets passed onto Karkat and later Roxy.
Joseph from Joseph & Yusra. Despite both him and Yusra being main characters, he has no Point of View of the story.
Amber in Matchu. Neither she nor Protagonist Matchu know each other, and the stories revolve around their intertwining lives.
Monsterkind: While Wallace has been the main character for most of the story, relatively recently Kip has taken a role as a deuteragonist.
The Order of the Stick:
- Roy (Hero) is the comic's protagonist, with Haley (Lancer) and Elan (Chick) essentially taking turns as deuteragonist and tritagonist. Generally speaking, Haley is the deuteragonist and Elan is the tritagonist during the Dungeon Crawling Fools, War and PCs, and Don't Split the Party story arcs, while their positions are flipped during the No Cure for the Paladin Blues and Blood Runs in the Family arcs.
- Durkon ascends to deuteragonist role for the entirety of Utterly Dwarfed as the Arc Villain of the book is a vampire formed from his lowest point, Durkon is stuck inside his body forced to relive his own memories, and the vampire goes after Durkon's home for his master's plan.
Most of the comic Parimetra follows Antine, but Adrienne has scenes all to herself, and her story runs parallel to Antine's until they eventually meet.
Faye from Questionable Content. The ostensible protagonist is Marten, especially at first, but the comic's development meant it revolved equally around both of them, before becoming an ensemble cast.
The titular characters of Sandra and Woo serve as protagonist and deuteragonist, respectively. The comic gives roughly equal narrative focus to Sandra's life in the human world and Woo's adventures with his fellow forest animals (and sometimes crisscrosses both together, notably during the story arc where Woo gets kidnapped by predators).
In Scarlet Lady, Chloe/Scarlet Lady is the Villain Protagonist who drives the plot forward and whose actions are the nail that creates the AU, Adrien/Chat Noir is the deuteragonist who foils Chloe and picks up her slack, and Marinette is the tritagonist who remains blissfully unaware of the destiny she was cheated out of even as she continues to chip in against evil and develops into Adrien's Love Interest. Sabrina also acts as the comic's tetragonist throughout the first two "seasons", as she has a prominent character arc developing her from a spineless Beta Bitch to a strong-willed young woman who finally breaks free from Chloe's thumb.
Sunstone: Allison. Her lover/best friend Lisa is the protagonist. Allison gets almost as much attention as Lisa and drives the story too, but Lisa also pulls double-duty as the narrator, which leads to us seeing more of her inner thoughts.
In Grrl Power Sydney is the protagonist and Maxima is the deuteragonist. They have both won the Superpower Lottery and their abilities have a lot of overlap however they have some differences. Sydney's powers come from the orbs tethered to her - otherwise she's not actually a "super", while Maxima's powers are innate. Sydney comes from a civilian background with a knowledge in comic books that makes her Genre Savvy, while Maxima is a veteran of the military. Sydney suffers from severe ADHD and borderline Cloud Cuckoo Lander tendencies while Maxima goes between The Comically Serious and Smug Super. She's also Sydney's Commanding Officer.

Web Original

SuperMarioLogan is an interesting case. Back in the series' earlier days, Mario was consistently The Protagonist, but the exact deuteragonist often changed between eras. It started with Tony being the deuteragonist, but that role was later swapped between Black Yoshi and Shrek. Then, Bowser was slowly played up as the deuteragonist to Mario, only for his son Bowser Junior to overtake the spotlight from both of them. Jeffy entered the picture and quickly takes turns as the primary deuteragonist with Junior, sometimes to the extent of overtaking him and Mario in prominence as well.

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