What is the exact name for the renegade perpetually pissed rival yet not main villain to the MC archetype?
Like Vegeta or Bakugo from Boku no Hero.
I figured if someone could name it it'd be you guys.
There is no name, why the fuck would it have a name. Just call them Vegeta ripoffs.
Sasuke rip-offs
>>156586609
No, sasuke sulks
>>156586463
Tsundere.
>>156586463
The rival
>>156586463
>>156586646
If you make that distinction then there isn't that many, most edgy rival characters are aloof instead of perpetually angry.
>>156587170
Viral was aloof _and_ perpetually angry.
>>156586463
Considering how Vegeta is pretty much the go-to example for that archetype just because of how popular he and Dragonball are, I think it's safe to just call them the Vegetas of their series.
Like how characters that are trying to usurp power from the Big Bad can be called Starscreams; the name, while not a meaning by itself, carries a connotation based on its namesake's character.
Anti-hero or a foil character
>>156586463
The spurned or closeted romantic interest.
Probably dude tsundere I guess.