Let's name & discuss stories in which the title character is not the protagonist.

Sorry, I can’t see it. She is never seen on-screen. She has no lines of dialogue. It’s not enough to be MENTIONED, or the founding fathers are all characters in National Treasure.

Thread nazi!

The term you are looking for is “sick, twisted bastard.”

How about The Name of the Rose?

“The Rose” is a character (depending on how you interpret the title), but she is not the protagonist.

It’s not really clear at all what the title of The Name of the Rose refers to. It could be the peasant girl, it could be the Library, it could be life in general, it could be all of them at once.

I’m not sure I agree. I think that there were two strands to the story in Finding Nemo, and Nemo was the protagonist in his own strand.

Like I said…“depending on how you interpret the title” :slight_smile:

You may well remember the story better than me; I haven’t seen it since it was in theaters, and I was distracted by the murderous rage I was suppressing at the parent who bought his kid to the movie. Yeah, I know, kid’s movie, of course there were kids there. But the little girl was absolutely terrified by the sequence in which Nemo’s mother and siblings were killed (even though it was just implied) and spent the movie crying hysterically and begging to be taken out because she didn’t want to watch it any more, and her father made her stay.

Kim Newman wrote Anno Dracula (and some sequels) where Dracula was not defeated by Van Helsing and the Harkers. Anno Dracula is set several years after the events in Dracula but it’s about people living in vampire-ruled England and their attempts to overthrow Dracula’s regime. Dracula himself is only a minor character who appears briefly.

Is that the one with the naked vampire Queen Victoria and the batmonster Red Baron?

Yes and no.Queen Victoria was in Anno Dracula. But it was Dracula who was naked not her. The Red Baron was in one of Newman’s sequel, The Bloody Red Baron.

Julia. The protagonist is Julia’s friend Lillian Hellman.

Touche. Consider the objection withdrawn… Or maybe I’ll stand by it, just for spite and my own amusement. :smiley:

If you don’t think the last unicorn is the protagonist of The Last Unicorn, who would you propose? At worst, you’ve got an ensemble cast with her as one of the protagonists; she’s by no means a minor character.

Pan is *a *faun, but he is not *the *faun in the film. The American release of the movie was titled *Pan’s Labyrinth *instead of a more direct translation like *The Faun’s Labyrinth *because the studio apparently thought Americans were too stupid to know what the hell a faun is.

Yeah, after posting that I thought that was not a good example. I was thinking Schmendrick, but really, the unicorn is at least as much the protagonist as he is.

The book and movie Shiloh. Shiloh is a dog and the main character is Marty, the boy trying to rescue Shiloh from the mean Judd Travers.

A while ago in another thread someone mentioned the movie serial Custer’s Last Stand. They were confused by the poster, and said that neither guy looks anything like Custer. It was pointed out that Custer is only a minor character in the story.

The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, unless you’re only counting titles that reference the character only.