Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3121860-20190925044405/@comment-995426-20190925061639

While we wait for Hulk10's response, maybe I can give it some thought.

I might consider Leatherhead (IDW) to be an antivillain, or more specifically an antiantagonist (or just an agonist, as agony is something he's so very good at). But then, in Dangerous Waters (wow, that article is still a red link as of this post), he seems more like an antihero.

But sometimes there can be such a fine line where these things are concerned. Sometimes it's genuinely hard to tell where Old Hob (IDW) stands, as he could be with someone or against someone on a whim.

There's also the consideration that every character is the hero of their own story, and there have been many stories in the IDW continuity alone where the protagonist is an antagonist. Sometimes the question goes beyond who we are supposed to "root for" anyway. It's for these reasons that though we have an antagonists category we deliberately don't have a protagonists category.