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This is a summary of the Hero archetypes from ''The Complete Writer's Guide to Heroes & Heroines: Sixteen Master Archetypes'' (see the footnote on the index page, ''[[Heroes and Heroines]]''). You can also find the Heroine archetypes on [[Romance Genre Heroines]].
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** An example of how these archetypes can be combined to create <s>[[Captain Planet]]</s> complex characters.
** Note well that this can be a positive character despite the character flaws.
* '''The Best Friend:''' JD from ''[[Scrubs]]'', Lennier from ''[[Babylon 5]]''.
* '''The Charmer:''' Hawkeye Pierce from ''[[
* '''The Lost Soul:''' Angel from ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''.
** Seamus Harper of [[Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda]] is a combination of Lost Soul and Professor, with a little bit of Best Friend.
** Bothari in [[Vorkosigan Saga]]
* '''The Swashbuckler:''' Book gives (of course) [[Indiana Jones]] - and Zorro.
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** Mr Morden in [[Babylon 5]]
* '''The Traitor:''' [[The Bible|Judas]]?
** [[Julius Caesar (theatre)|Brutus]] exemplifies this trope nicely
** [[Harry Potter|Peter Pettigrew?]]
* '''The Outcast:'''
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* A romantic hero's subordinates have women. When the heroine becomes romantic with the hero, she becomes boss of the women whose men the hero is boss of. More generally - to a woman, a man (even a romantic hero) is a cypher. The real focus is on other women and the relationships between the heroine and them.
* A romantic hero has shiny shoes. Particularly in historical romances. he might be stranded on a desert island or in a remote windswept Scottish castle, but his shoes are always immaculately buffed. God knows by whom. More generally, a romantic hero is a snappy
* Before romance, the clothes. Before anything romantic ("Romantic" means "sexual")
* A romantic hero has a woman in his past. Specifically, a woman whose place the heroine can occupy. The heroine almost never has to carve out a place of her own, because a romantic hero always has an emotional vacancy. He may be a widower, he may have been hurt in some way by a woman who is no longer around, he may have cared for a female relative who slowly died of tuberculosis. The heroine always has to battle - sometimes even literally - this woman. The climax of a romantic novel is when the hero somehow - in some manner - says "I love you more than I ever loved her".
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