The task of the king as the protagonist of human society was to retain the benevolence of the gods in maintaining order against disorder.
In a medieval RPG setting, it wouldn't make sense if a dark mage summoned a devil, and the king wants the protagonist to go help a farmer with goblin problems (unless if another character was set for the task of killing the dark mage, loses, and the king sent you, for whatever reason you want, and then kills the mage fulfilling a prophecy).
Consider its remarkably forgiving attitude toward its protagonist, Leontes, king of Sicilia, whose anomalous and tragically misguided fit of jealousy causes the deaths of his wife, Hermione, and their young son, Mamillius.
Even for a man with an unusually high zany-cell count, he invariably feels the need to caper around his latest quixotic protagonist-king, tilting the lens at 42° like some half-cut Sancho Panza.
Rylance will play the main protagonist, the Tudor king's adviser Thomas Cromwell, in the six-part adaptation of Wolf Hall for BBC2, which is expected to be broadcast in 2015.
Verdi moved the action from Stockholm to Stettin (now Szczecin, Poland) in the 17th century and changed the protagonist's rank from king to duke.
Franklin W. Dixon, the protagonist of Ted Heller's "Pocket Kings," has the misfortune to share his name with the pseudonymous crew of authors who wrote the Hardy Boys mystery series.
Two non-player characters journey with the protagonists: Trode, the titular cursed king who rules over Trodain but was transformed into a toad-like creature by Dhoulmagus; and Medea, Trode's daughter, who is the same age as the Hero.
In Love, the new Netflix show co-created by Judd Apatow, the king of Hollywood comedy, we see the female protagonist Mickey (played by Gillian Jacobs) deal with old relationships and embark on a new one.
It's a film that has the audacity to feature a black male protagonist, T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman), who's a king to boot.
