Climax

Recharge over!  Usually this is courtesy of introspection or a good talk from a close friend or mentor. By the end of which the protagonist decides he is not going down easily. The villain is going to get the fight of his life. He she makes a plan that we’re all crossing our fingers will succeed to crash or find the villain.

The villain isn’t going down smiling either and has a back up plan ready when he is confronted putting the protagonist in some kind of danger. There is a god awful fight that could go either way. In this phase of plot structure you need to create the kind of suspense that will push your character to the edge.

Inability to overcome this issue will lead to some sort of deep loss. Loss of freedom, life, family, mind, fortune or even career will probably cause a deep scar on your character. At the end, the protagonist gets to give the knockout punch after successfully extricating himself/herself from the crisis. For tragedies however, the climax will mean a defeat for the protagonist along with the expected loss and return to a kind of uneasy normality for the antagonist.

The climax will often appear at the end of the story.