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An antagonist is a character opposing the protagonist in literature.

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• Science and medicine
• Arts and entertainment
• Other
• See also

Antagonist may also refer to:

Science and medicine

• Antagonist (muscle), a muscle type
• Receptor antagonist, a class of drugs that bind to but do not trigger a receptor
• Physiological antagonists, a drug that produces an opposite effect (without blocking the same receptor)

Arts and entertainment

• Antagonist A.D., a New Zealand metalcore band
• Antagonist (band), metalcore band from Whittier, California
• Antagonist (album), the debut album of the German Metalcore band Maroon
• The Antagonists (Haggard novel), a 1964 novel by William Haggard
• The Antagonists (Gann novel), a 1971 novel by Ernest K. Gann
• Antagonist, a 2007 book in the Childe Cycle by Gordon R. Dickson and David W. Wixon
• Antagonist, a 2011 album by Neurotech
• The Antagonists (TV series), a 1991 American television series
• Antagonist Tour, a 2025 concert tour by Playboy Carti

Other

• HMS Antagonist

See also

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• Inverse agonist (pharmacology)
• Agonist-Antagonist (pharmacology)
• O Antagonista
• All pages with titles beginning with Antagonist
• All pages with titles containing Antagonist
• Antagonism (disambiguation)
• Agonist (disambiguation)
• Protagonist (disambiguation)
• The Opponent (disambiguation)
• Villain (disambiguation)

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