The term "character arc" is used to describe characters that are eventually unable to overcome opposing forces, but only after obtaining skills, knowledge, resources or friends.
 Since the change is often substantive and leading from one personality trait to a diametrically opposite trait (for example, from greed to benevolence), the geometric term arc is often used to describe the sweeping change
=== Third act ===During the third act, including the climax, "falling action" and resolution (denouement), the narrative arc is completed although the character arc typically is not

