main character | Idiomator

Meaning: (Internetslang,idiomatic)A person who becomes afocal pointofdiscussionon asocial mediaplatform(particularlyTwitter).2020, Paul Farhi, "How the dusty old op-ed pages became the red-hot outrage-generating machine of 2020",The Washington Post, 28 December 2020 (image caption):With his Jill Biden essay, Joseph Epstein became Twitter’smain characterthis month.2021January 5, Dani Di Placido, “The Ballad Of ‘Bean Dad’ Shows The Cruel, Petty Side Of Twitter”, inForbes:Unless you’re in the business of receiving hate clicks for profit, you never want to be the “main character” of Twitter.2022July 14, Delia Cai, “How Elon Musk Became the Internet’s New Main Character”, inVanity Fair:And while Trump, at least, now faces a reckoning over his most consequential tweets via the January 6 hearings, one final way to understand Elon Musk as our newmain characteris to consider the internet that has incentivized the rise of both men.For more quotations using this term, seeCitations:main character.; Used other than figuratively or idiomatically:seemain,‎character.

Examples:

EN: I should've been the main character in the first place
ES: Debería haber sido el personaje principal en primer lugar
ES: Debería haber sido el personaje principal en primer lugar
EN: Now, then, the main character in this book knew just where to lay his hands onthe various experts to do the jobs he wanted.
ES: El personaje principal de este libro sabía a quién recurrir entre los varios expertos para hacer el trabajo que quería.
EN: So he's the main character in this story?
ES: El verdadero protagonista de todo esto, ¿es su jefe? Exacto.
EN: The final one, where the main character falls under a train.
ES: Sí, la última escena, en la estación. El protagonista se tira al tren.
EN: The main events take place inside the main character's mind.
ES: Los hechos de mayor importancia ocurren en el interior del protagonista.
EN: It was right at the end of the film, when the main character - was driving the son of one of the other crooks home.
ES: Fue justo al final de la película, cuando el actor principal llevaba al hijo de unos de los otros criminales a casa.
EN: The main character is a guy just like me.
ES: El protagonista es un tipo como yo.
ES: El personaje principal es un tipo como yo.
EN: Neither tract, reportage nor rhetoric, this film is a real film, an elaborate, composed, rhythmic work which shows the main character's obsessions and contradictions:
ES: "Ni libelo, ni reportaje, ni ejercicio, ni retórica, "una auténtica película, una obra elaborada, bien compuesta. "Nos hace sentir con fuerza las obsesiones...
EN: You, as the main character of this beastly spectacle... literally shook me.
ES: Pero algo me pasó a mí.
EN: So I'm the main character, the last victim of the series?
ES: O sea que yo soy Pedrito Puercoespín... ¿Eso quiere decir que soy la última víctima de la serie?
EN: The main character in an old film:
ES: El protagonista de una vieja película:
EN: A movie with a queer main character it's an affront to italian people.
ES: Un film con un protagonista maricón, es un insulto al público italiano.
EN: Especially if the main character is a faggot.
ES: Especialmente si el protagonista es maricón. ¿Entendido?
EN: I liked a lot of it. I don't like the main character though.
ES: Hay muchas cosas que me gustan.
EN: You're the main character. You're sort of like South America's Hamlet.
ES: - Es el Hamlet de Sudamérica, ¿eh?

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