I feel a little stupid for even having to bring this up, but then I reminded myself that I explained at the end of Dreams of Mariposa that Marie is a villain protagonist. I was getting sick of protagonist-centered morality, which IMO has only gotten worse in contemporary fiction, but here we are.

Spoilers below, but I mention the series relatively early in all my examples.

Narratives can take place in many mediums – books, video games, movies, tv shows, and sometimes the characters we foll...