Category:Stock Characters: Difference between revisions

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A [[Stock Character]] is a character who is instantly recognizable to us from other stories; the gruff grandpa, the snooty cheerleader, the bratty younger sibling. You can sum up their role in the story in a sentence or less and people will know exactly what you're talking about. Such characters are frequently [[Flat Character|one-dimensional in nature]]. [[Tropes Are Not Bad|Sometimes that's okay]]. Sometimes that opens the door to [[Playing With Tropes]] as well. Sometimes two or more character types get combined as well.

A stock character can be an [[Archetype]], an example of [[Characters As Device]], or just very recognizable ([[Mary Sue]]).

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See also=

* [[Always Female]]

* [[Always Male]]

* [[Cops and Detectives]]

* [[Elders]]

* [[Heroes]]

* [[Hired Guns]]

* [[Western Characters]]

* [[Loser Archetype]]

* [[Love Interests]]

* [[Mentors]]

**[[Schoolteachers]]

* [[Normal People]]

* [[Occupation Tropes]]

* [[:Category:Index of Pupils and Proteges|Index of Pupils and Proteges]]

* [[Seekers]]

* [[Seers]]

* [[Stock British Characters]]

* [[Stock Japanese Characters]]

* [[The Stoic]]

* [[The Trickster]]

** [[Con Man]]

* [[Villains]]

* [[Youngsters]]

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[[Category:Narrative Tropes]]