The protagonist, the Monkey King is very arrogant at the beginning of the story. The Monkey King thinks he knows everything and that makes him very unlikeable. Even though he knows a lot about kung-fu he thinks he's better than anyone else. The main idea he struggles with is being a monkey. Even if he is rule of all the monkeys he wants to be a god.
The Monkey King hears about a party that the gods and goddesses are have and crashes it. The gods and goddesses turn out to be even more stuck up than the Monkey King. Which makes them that antagonists. They act arrogant towards the Monkey King and don't allow him in the party just because he is a monkey. So to prove to them that he is more than a monkey he beats them all up.
After beating
The Monkey King hears about a party that the gods and goddesses are have and crashes it. The gods and goddesses turn out to be even more stuck up than the Monkey King. Which makes them that antagonists. They act arrogant towards the Monkey King and don't allow him in the party just because he is a monkey. So to prove to them that he is more than a monkey he beats them all up.
After beating