Research in a screenplay yields tremendous results on character development in terms of getting audiences to care for one’s story. Character are the traits specific to one’s identity. The protagonist, antagonist, and side characters are major character archetypes that each play a role in a story. Protagonists are characters with an objective who experience the largest development in a story. Antagonists directly oppose themselves to be against the protagonist and their objective. Side characters are figures that either help or hurt the protagonist’s objective progress. Characters that have a personality they want the world to see them as (mask) and a personality reserved for themselves (true self) are multilayered. Audiences understand multilayered characters better because multilayered characters behave like real people. Explaining enough for the audience to understand yet still leaving gaps for imagination is crucial to character development in terms of the amount of research needed. “Cow Tools” by Gary Larson follows this formula of introducing a world but leaves its interpretation open. Research’s effect on character development makes characters audiences understand and love. Thus, encouraging them to care for one’s story.