I've considered trying my hand at standup over the years. I'm not great at coming up with bits -- I'm usually more funny as a reaction to what's going on around me, not as a sustained set of jokes around a theme -- but I did come up with a bit that I was very proud of called "The Greatest Band Name in the World."

I won't go into the whole bit, but you can basically get the gist. The name of the band:

"My Penis."

Try to discuss that band without saying something awesome. Or rather, to demonstrate the point: Try to discuss My Penis without saying something awesome.

I think my favorite line was the hypothetical interview on VH1 Behind-the-Music:

"When I first started playing with My Penis, it was just me and some friends in my mom's garage, and we had no idea how big it was going to get."

...

And now you're all going to spend the rest of the day thinking of hilarious things to say about My Penis.

YOULL LISTEN TO WHAT WE GIVE YOU AND LIKE IT

You said you wanted things on-topic, torpedoed the topic, and then tried to create an off-topic. The problem is a complete lack of coherency in how exactly you expect the posters to behave.

Why talk about breakfast foods in a thread that is not on that topic, when the whole reason this happened was because you got confused and wanted to keep the thread on its stated topic? Why not just let the thread alone until the next release announcement and the conversation is ready to move to that?

All I'm saying: if you're going to want to get modly and keep threads more or less on-topic -- which I agree with -- the remedy when you make a mistake is not to flail over to the other extreme and drag it completely off-topic.

300 hasn't been released yet, just the discussion thread. For some reason.

Well, you're wrong. And should expect to be summarily kicked down a well.

By that logic, the protagonist of any monster movie is the monster, the protagonist of a murder mystery is the murderer, and the protagonist of 2012 is explosions.

The protagonist is our proxy in the story, the one we follow and experience the story with, and the one who experiences the change that we are supposed to vicariously experience with them. Which means the protagonist is almost always the main character.

One exception I can think of is V for Vendetta -- we have dual protagonists in Evey and the police inspector, but the "main character" is clearly V.

Where there's some nuance in the definition is that the protagonist is not necessarily the hero of the piece -- s/he can sometimes be the villain.