Talk:Double Diamond/@comment-5837525-20150415153906/@comment-7345250-20150415180039

If he's grey, it's not the same grey as Lightning Dust unless you're just referring to the warning at the top of that particular article. Double Diamond may have been a pawn (and not even a bewitched one like Lyra in ACW), but he was still Starlight's eyes and ears while Twilight and co. were in town.

I think the real issue is whether or not the act of monitoring our heroes makes him an antagonist at all, since he has minimal contact with anyone but Starlight. He's almost an accessory to the primary antagonist of the episode.

According to the category page, "An antagonist is a character who is in opposition to a lead character. Some are not necessarily villains as their motives are not necessarily harmful. A character that acts as an antagonist at least once may be permanently kept inside this category." Therefore, the real question is whether furtively observing our heroes is tantamount to opposing them. A fair argument can be made for both yes and no. How exactly do we define "opposition to a lead character"?