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A bad guy if you are talking about human characters in a story. But if you are talking about muscles, it is the one that acts to oppose the action of the prime mover, or agonist. For example: The biceps and triceps have an agonsit/antagonist relationship. When you flex your elbow (pretend you are Arnold Schwarzenegger and you want to 'bulge you biceps'). When you do that your triceps relaxes to allow the biceps to contract. But, in actuality, both are contracting, only the biceps are getting shorter and the triceps are getting longer. In other words, if you did not have the triceps to control and mitigate the movement of the biceps, you'd end up punching yourself in the face because there was no way to control the biceps shortening and flexing the elbow until you KO'd yourself.
In other words, the agonist, or prime mover is the gas pedal and the antagonist is like the brakes. You need them both to control movement in the body.
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∙ 16y ago
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∙ 13y agoAn antagonist, in medicine, is something that counteracts and/or blocks the function of something else. So an adenosine antagonist is something that blocks the effects of adenosine (like caffeine).
*To block the goal of a protagonist*
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∙ 11y agoto prevent the protagonist from completing its goal
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