Category:Stock Characters

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 one-dimensional in nature. 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).

Subcategories

This category has the following 22 subcategories, out of 22 total.

A

Always Female (9 C, 334 P)
Always Male (3 C, 236 P)

C

Con Man (10 P)
Cops and Detectives (74 P)

E

Elders (68 P, 1 F)

M

Mentors (1 C, 50 P, 1 F)

N

Normal People (30 P)

O

Occupation Tropes (10 C, 45 P)

S

Schoolteachers (21 P)
Seekers (1 C, 24 P)
Sidekick (1 C, 15 P, 1 F)
Stock British Characters (10 P)
Stock Japanese Characters (57 P)

T

Tomboy (38 P, 2 F)

U

Usually Female (1 C, 106 P)

V

Villains (3 C, 613 P)

W

Western Characters (74 P)

Y

Youngsters (2 C, 183 P, 2 F)

Pages in category "Stock Characters"

The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 205 total.

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Media in category "Stock Characters"

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