What makes a good protagonist?

What makes a good protagonist?

A good starting point to be not be a passive beta, although going the opposite way and be a tryhard cunt is a bad thing as well. Being confident but without being an asshole about it helps too.

MC that actually have character development.

Driving the plot forward as opposed to letting it unfold passively
Which is why there is no such thing as a good harem MC since these shows are driven by the violent/genki love interests that orbit them

being female

indeed

There is no rule. These threads only fill with preferences.

Good authors.

A complete failure that masturbates to comatosed qts.

Alternative, the goat badass on all levels that conquers everything and get's qt harems.

The expected answer is personality but the real answer is trauma.

Make him alpha like this guy

This image has always been FUCKING stupid. Of course they have black hair and dark eyes, BECAUSE THEY'RE JAPANESE.

big, hairy, and violently angry 200% of the time

He needed to be in a better show.
We need more protags like him... but more badass like DtB.

it's more about the fact that they're all underage soyboys with the same cuckold haircut than the color of their hair and eyes

>same haircut
Nigga you what
Are you honestly trying to say that the guy from Index has the same haircut as literally anyone else on that page?

I like Oreki, Subaru and Yuuta . Dont bully them pls

They're mostly ordinary Japanese highschool students. What should they look like?

he may be the only one with spiky hair but he still has that retarded middle bang splitting his forehead in half

Having personality traits beyond
>Kind
and
>Never gives up
Is a good start

Having an interesting, distinct personality and/or way of seeing things.

idk their ordinary japanese high school girls buddies get to have blonde/pink/purple/blue hair with cat eyes and shit, why can't the boys have original designs too?

To attract a wider audience?Has to be a blank page and perfectly relatable.An MC with too much background and shit going on about him isn't good because you might not relate to him at all

*proves you wrong*

...

>no tomoya
Shit list desu

Because if it's not a bog-standard black-haired shortish kid nips can't self-insert.

Why the fuck is Oreki on this chart?

That's only for love interests. Medium length brown or black hair with sideswept bangs is the shoujo lead equivalent of OP's picture.

Oreki is the best in this pic, he also get the best kyoanus.

Makes a good protagonist in shonen genre is impossible.

Not being from an anime.

Protagonists need to be able to carry the story on their own.
Even if it's not their story, they still need to take an active role in it.

Be like Rance. A total boss who knows what he wants and gets it when he wants.

This shouldn't have been shounen, though.

All of these

This, too.

Be like pic related

Usually leads into if a shoujo
or they sit around and do nothing like in SOLs

Generally most MCs are trash

If he's not funny he is shit.

wish they would figure it out already

Based.

A personality.