The document describes 10 different genres of stories and provides details about the protagonists and antagonists in sample stories for each genre. For each genre, it gives the first and last names of both the protagonist and antagonist, along with the meaning of their names.

1. What’s in a Name Part 2
1) Science Fiction
Protagonist:
- Bum who accidentally fell into a time machine that sent him 111 years into the
future
- Ex-military general; has a pet dog who helped him in Afghanistan that only has 3
legs now
- First Name: Ian
o Meaning: God is forgiving
- Last Name: Armstrong
o Meaning: strong arm
Antagonist:
- Evil scientist who wants to rule the world
- Thinks he can use the bum as a secret weapon in his plans for domination
- First Name: Ayden
o Meaning: intelligent
- Last Name: Meyer
o Meaning: higher; superior
2) Romance
Protagonist:
- High school guy; animal lover; just wants to be accepted for who he is
- Girl’s parents despise him because he is not a country club member and does not own a
hummer; not rich enough
- First Name: Edgar
o Meaning: protector of the good
- Last Name: Nemes
o Meaning: noble, gentle
Antagonist:
- Girl’s mother; filthy rich; bedazzled with diamonds; love golf clubs and such; only had a daughter
to keep the money in the family and them in gold and diamonds
- Thinks her daughter’s boyfriend is not good enough for her daughter
- First Name: Kallie
o Meaning: the most beautiful
- Last Name: Voclain
o Meaning: the wealthy one
3) Detective/Mystery
Protagonist:
- Descendant of Sherlock Holmes
- “Detective geek” in Hawaii, who’s the opposite of all the sun-loving
people who live there (knows everything there is to know about
mysteries/detectives in general)

2. - First Name: Robert
o Meaning: famed; bright; shining
- Last Name: MacDermott
o Meaning: free from envy
Antagonist:
- Owner of a famous restaurant
- Secretly deals drugs to his customers
- First Name: Clooney
o Meaning: deceitful,
- Last Name: Capello
o Meaning: trick
4) Crime
Protagonist:
- FBI agent ; favorite weapon: bazooka
- Has to find the biggest bank robber of all time
- First Name: Alexia
o Meaning: defender
- Last Name: Seward
o Meaning: protector of victory
Antagonist:
- The biggest bank robber of all time
- Part of the Italian Mafia, uses his extreme breaking in skills to
steal gold bars from the bank.
- First Name: Akio
o Meaning: bright man
- Last Name: Yap
o Meaning: devious, deceitful, bent, shrewd
5) Comedy
Protagonist:
- Clown; pathetic; H2O intolerant
- Gets squirted with water all the time by the mean clown and has allergic reactions
often because of it
- First Name: Bertil
o Meaning: clever, skillful
- Last Name: Blythe
o Meaning: happy, joyous
Antagonist:
- Clown; mean; is mentally handicapped
- Squirts the pathetic clown with water all the time to make him have an
allergic reaction
- First Name: Hachi
o Meaning: wise leaf
- Last Name: Guttuso

3. o Meaning: sad person
6) Fantasy
Protagonist:
- Unicorn; sparkly and colorful; pretends to be docile but is really
actually clever and perceptive
- Uses his magical horn powers to stop the magical bad fairy powers
from taking over the world
- First Name: Ditza
o Meaning: happiness, cheerful, joy
- Last Name: Tawfeek
o Meaning: good fortune
Antagonist:
- Fairy; likes to fantasize she is queen of the world; always coming up with insane
become-queen-quick schemes
- Tries to use its magical powers to knock out all the current rulers and trick everyone
in the world into thinking she is the heir and then she will use her power to make the
world’s people into her personal slaves
- First Name: Rukan
o Meaning: confident
- Last Name: Heidrich
o Meaning: heathen, power
7) Tragedy
Protagonist:
- Eldest brother in a family of 4; has a really fast car and tries to run over his younger
brother because he is jealous of his cuteness; bully at school
- Hits a tree when trying to dispose of his cuter brother and dies
- First Name: Richard
o Meaning: strong power; hardy power
- Last Name: Krall
o Meaning: king
Antagonist:
- Youngest brother; cute
- Knew his brother was going to attempt to kill him and slicked the road with oil so that his
brother’s car would spin out of control and not hit him
- First Name: Damien
o Meaning: to tame
- Last Name: Krall
o Meaning: king
8) Horror
Protagonist:
- Young child; has been tracking the closet monster for years

4. - Is the only one who knows where the “kidnapper” lives (in the closet) goes in
to rescue all the children
- Firs Name: Areli
o Meaning: brave, courageous, heroic
- Last Name: Keen
o Meaning: bold, brave
Antagonist:
- The monster in your closet; huge teeth; glowing eyes
- Steals children in the night
- First Name: Cain
o Meaning: a spear
- Last Name: Heffernan
o Meaning: demon
9) Adventure
Protagonist:
- Great explorer of unexplored lands, inventive in how to carry out his exploration
exploits, famous worldwide
- Is exploring a whole island he just discovered on one of his random cruises
- First Name: Aristokles
o Meaning: most famous
- Last Name: Van der Zee
o Meaning: of the sea
Antagonist:
- “Owner” of the island the explorer thinks is uninhabited, recluse, doesn’t
like sharing anything
- Attempts to get rid of the explorer, for fear of having to share his island
- First Name: Tavaris
o Meaning: descendant of the hermit
- Last Name: Saari
o Meaning: (dweller on) an island
10) Superhero
Protagonist:
- Super smart; knows everything there is to know; makes inventions that help make our
lives easier and lazier
- His latest robot invention goes out of control and has a mind of its own, setting out to
destroy the world; he eventually uses his super intelligence to destroy the robot
- First Name: Aakil
o Meaning: intelligent, smart
- Last Name: Hall
o Meaning: hero
Antagonist:
- Robot created by our superhero that was originally intended to make everyone’s life better but
instead does the opposite

5. - Goes crazy and tries to destroy the world
- First Name: Lysias
o Meaning: destroyer
- Last Name: Gallagher
o Meaning: foreign help
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