Sorry to be so late replying to you. RL got in the way I'm afraid.
That definitely rings true. It is a convenient way to make said character available to whatever the writers want to set the character up for next.
So okay. How about we turn that situation on it's head a bit and say that if that's the ideal situation then what if the main character (i.e. the protaganist) is the one doing the betraying? Although it is not a plot device often used it still happens sometimes.
And yet a lot of times when it does happen we are still meant to sympathise with said character because why else would they be portrayed in every other way as a protaganist rather than defecting to the antagonists side?
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That definitely rings true. It is a convenient way to make said character available to whatever the writers want to set the character up for next.
So okay. How about we turn that situation on it's head a bit and say that if that's the ideal situation then what if the main character (i.e. the protaganist) is the one doing the betraying? Although it is not a plot device often used it still happens sometimes.
And yet a lot of times when it does happen we are still meant to sympathise with said character because why else would they be portrayed in every other way as a protaganist rather than defecting to the antagonists side?