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I saw a sentence on instagram: "make yourself protagonist". Shouldn't it be "make yourself be a protagonist"?

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    "Make oneself something" is idiomatic. "Make smbd be" is unusual, even if correct grammatically. A missing article before "protagonist" can be either "headlinese" or the use of the noun "protagonist" as an attribute.
    – Victor Bazarov
    Commented Oct 6, 2015 at 19:42

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Without context, it's difficult to know for sure.

I suspect it should be "make yourself a protagonist" or perhaps "make yourself into a protagonist". An alternative would be "Be a protagonist".

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