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A bank employee whose job it is to receive deposits from customers, and to facilitate withdrawals. Generally, they are found behind a counter, often with some sort of fence or window to help protect them from direct assault, and often wearing the same [[Hat Shop|translucent green cap]] that accountants and card sharks wear. For many bank customers, this is the only employee they will see on a regular basis.
 
In the [[Situation Comedy]], the [['''Bank Teller]]''' is generally an [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]], who makes the simplest transaction into an exercise in negotiation, resulting in long lines. Often punctuated by closing the window just as the protagonist finally gets to the front of the line.
 
In more dramatic fiction, such as [[The Western]], the bank teller's primary function is appearing in a [[Bank Robbery]] plotline. They will be threatened by the robbers, sometimes killed, and may be taken hostage. (Especially if young, female and at least moderately attractive.)
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In the 21st Century, the use of automatic teller machines, credit cards and Internet banking have made the bank teller less visible, but no less important to a bank's image.
 
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== Film ==
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== Live Action Television ==
* ''[[The Twilight Zone (TV)|The Twilight Zone]]'' TOS episode "Time Enough at Last". A bank teller is the sole survivor of a nuclear attack.
* In an episode of ''[[Medium]]'', a somewhat frumpy bank teller who is courted by a bank robber in order to get inside info on her bank, figures out the scam, turns the tables on the gang and steals their cash.
 
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[[Category:Western Characters]]
[[Category:Bank Teller]]
[[Category:TropeBank and Financial Tropes]]