agon

agon - noun - a struggle or contest; conflict; especially between the protagonist and antagonist in a literary work.

For example, D'Artagnan's man of Meung, the Count Rochfort, a cardinalist, who seems always to be just one step of the hero. I'm speaking, of course, of the conflict, not the characters.

risible

risible – adj - Causing or capable of causing laughter; laughable; ludicrous.

"Fool me once, shame on - shame on you - fool me - eh - can't get fooled again!" -

Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1800