An unfortunate condition where a person in real life has characteristics not unlike the ones a protagonist in a wish-fulfillment story would have. The symptoms of someone with Protagonitis are as follows: has a dark traumatic past, has a secret power that nobody knows about, is given some special power or talent, has a ridiculous amount of luck, and is extremely attractive to many members of the opposite sex for no apparent reason.
"If anyone you know has Protagonitis, please seekhelp in the form of a doctor or an editor."
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)