Austin's main struggle in Mean Boys is definitely Man vs Self. More precisely, Man vs Anxiety. The other characters' conflicts are all Man vs Self too, now that I think about it; I guess it's a staple of coming-of-age stories.
(Also, I just really like that this type of conflict lets you have the characters screw up until they hit rock bottom and then pull themselves out of the mess they made, with or without the power of friendship or love.)
Oof, a little disappointed that there isn't any Man vs. Machine on here. I love evil technology. Course', I'm not writing that, so I guess that's my own fault, isn't it!
A reality that doesn't give this Heroine a harem to play with.
Currently the villain has not been introduced yet, so as for now: man vs self, somewhat literally in my case. Or you could say: friends vs self
I selected Man vs. Society.
The laws and traditions of society has caused him to have to also experience Man vs. Self, Man vs. Fate/Gods, Man vs. Tech/Machine, and Man vs. Unknown/Extraterrestrial.
Without the laws and traditions of society he wouldn't be facing anything. The laws and traditions of society are telling him that he is wrong and needs to improve. This is not the same as just wanting to improve naturally.
Man vs Self. There's technically others, but can't even begin to be accomplished before overcoming the first.
It's still too early in the comic to really read much into the themes, but I'd say that the story as I've written it swings between Man vs Man and Man vs Self. There's plenty of people that my main characters are forced to face off against; but ultimately the reason they fight at all is to escape their own shitty lives. Fanboy has spent his entire life as a dork and 'loser'; he finally sees a chance to live out his hero/power fantasy and quickly risks losing himself to his own narrative. Meanwhile McCrow has always been a man of action, but his violent and impulsive actions have left him scorned and feared by everyone he's ever cared about; with his every instinct apparently being wrong he starts viewing the accident that gave him his powers as his one chance to prove he's not the monster that his sons believe him to be.
My main character is fighting against a secret order of dark mages (or Shades) who call themselves the Order of the Black Lotus.
I am not so sure. Sure Jade has some Man vs Self elements with her character for she gets a degree of anxiety concerning the opinions of others about her and her sexuality. But I chose Man vs Society considering the general public aren't exactly tolerable with other attractions that isn't heterosexual and that stops her from being who she is, also making her "come out of the closet" multiple times in her life with little to no success of acceptance.
For Nachos Con Carne, I picked "man vs. society" (even though I have more than one main character). Generally, my comic is about a group of kids going up against what society expects of them—social stereotypes, expectations from parents and authority figures, and a system that claims to know what's best for them and refusing to be argued with.
I took man vs self but my stories rarely comes down to one of these. I like to make complex stories and have several layers on top of each other. Depending on how deeply you read my stories, you can find and discuss all the layers.
For example, In Primalcraft: Scourge of the wolf, one of main characters Blake is being targeted by someone unknown, who cast a curse on a wolf to kill him. Man vs Unknown. The unknown is influence by something Blake had done in the past. That incident is in turned caused by a traumatic experience for Blake, man vs Society. And Blake handle it by running away. He never felt like he stopped running. Man vs Self. So, in this book we have a physical enemy, a past one, a dark past, and himself, in the form of fear.
Okay, guess i'll be that guy and say that to some it's a matter of what the characters are fighting FOR, not against.
That's not the case with me though. My project is still a work in progress - a jumble of thumbnail sketches that sometimes serve to intimidate more than inspire :^)
But i take my time, since the central theme of it is putting the surgical scalpel to the psychological viscera and instead, taking a look at WHY those ultraviolent lunatics decided to start beating the crap out of eachother in the city streets. Requires some brain racking and a nuanced approach to pull off without devolving into pretentious moralizing or getting too caught up in the characters themselves and turning it into an empathy-yanking sob-story.
The main Angel characters in my novel’s main enemy is literally God.
However the main human characters in the manga is demons, but the main demon characters ? God.
