Ramses has been brought back to life and has to relearn the society and it's ways. He's been thrust into a complicated and unfamiliar world. He knows nothing except who he loves and that he's willing to go to any measures to protect her, even if it means breaking a few laws along the way. Much like the famous Batman.
Batman is your typical hero. Undercover and hidden from sight in the plainest of ways. He must struggle to help his friend eventhough she loves another. He devotes himself to 'his city' working tirelessly to rid the city of his enemies.
He ignores the world and its laws to save Gotham City over and over again until the citizens begin to revere him as a villian. This is like when Ramses begs Julie to allow him to kill Henry because Henry killed her father and tried to kill her. The two characters blatent disregard for rules is striking and yet justified because they're willing to commit these crimes in the name of justice, in the name of the law. It's an internal struggle between good and evil over something simple as a girl or a city. Something that drives them and resembles a 'life source' of sorts. At a point in both the book and movie, the two characters are subjugated as the villian and the very essense of their love pulses against them and they must struggle to react without creating a disaster in and upon themselves.
It may be argued that each character chooses a bad way to 'save' what they love, considering Batman actually fails and Julie pretty much leaves Ramses and believes him to be insane, but they made these choices out of love and out of love they rise from the ashes to push forewards and pursue their dreams and that's what makes a true protagonist in my eyes.
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