Don't antagonist and villain mean the same thing? He's going against those two after all (In the Credits you can see that Shiro has been beating him twice on the first and third slide)
If that's the case then I just made a mess by making Mach the main antagonist of 90% of my Bomberman fics by trying to do nothing but try to kill Shirobom
Ehh... not necessarily. The antagonist simply refers to the force (may it be a person, thing, or organization) that's against the protagonist(s). Although villains are usually antagonists, antagonists aren't always villains.
There's actually a pretty good example on Wikipedia that says that sometimes in fiction, the protagonist is actually the "villain" character, as the story is told form his/her point of view while the "hero" in this case would be viewed as the antagonist.
So while in most cases villains are antagonists, it's not really correct to say that antagonists and villains are one and the same thing.
EDIT: Regarding DarkFire's example, I'm not sure that alone would technically make Magus an "antagonist." I'd say Magus is more of an "antihero" then an "antagonist." But Magus is a bit of a complex character, so it's really kind of hard for me to classify him as a character.
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