Worthy Opponent
Just as you want your protagonist to have a worthy goal, you want him or her to have a worthy opponent. A common problem for many filmmakers is that they portray opponents as one- dimensional; if their hero is good, the opponent must be bad.
In fact, the most memorable opponent is often not the opposite of the hero, but a complement to him or her.
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