User blog comment:Nonyy/Is hisoka a villan or an antagonistic?/@comment-48285-20121120235316

I don't think that Hisoka is a Villain, per say. He's more of an atagonist. Think of him as your rival from the Pokémon games. Not a villain, but an atagonist. The difference between the two is that an atagonist is somebody who fights against the protagonist, while a villain is "a cruelly malicious person who is involved in or devoted to wickedness or crime; scoundrel; or a character in a play, novel, or the like, who constitutes an important evil agency in the plot". (quote from Wikipedia, quoting Random House Unabridged Dictionary) So, while Hisoka may have some malicious intent at times, especially when he gets "excited", I don't really see him as a villain. I see him as an opposing force to the protagonist, an antagonist.