This category collects stock characters and similar stereotypes.

Definition: A stock character is a fictional character that relies heavily on cultural types or stereotypes for its personality, manner of speech, and other characteristics. Stock characters are instantly recognizable to members of a given culture. Because of this, a frequent device of both comedy and parody is to wildly exaggerate the expected mannerisms of stock characters.

(The United States courts have determined that copyright protection can not be extended to the characteristics of stock characters in a story, whether it be a book, play, or film).

Fictional characters | Mythological archetypes | Narratology | Stereotypes

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