List of Stock Characters

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A stock character is a dramatic or literary character representing a type in a conventional manner and
recurring in many works.[1] The following list labels some of these archetypes and stereotypes,
providing distinctive examples.
Character
Type
Description
Examples
A
Absentminded
professor
An absent-minded scientific
genius[2]
Professor Calculus, Julius Kelp, Emmett Brown
Action hero
A film hero protagonist with

unrealistic physical resistance and
fighting capabilities
John McClane; John Rambo, Casey Ryback
Alien invaders
Extraterrestrials who mount an

invasion against Earth[2]
War of the Worlds, Body Snatchers, Independence

Day
Angry white
male
A person typically known as having

a traditional conservative
viewpoint, especially in the context
William Foster in Falling Down, Walt Kowalski,
of U.S. politics, characterized by
Archie Bunker
opposition to racial quotas, political
correctness, affirmative action, and
other liberal policies
Anti-hero
A cowardly, antisocial or honorless

Tony Montana, Faust, Falstaff
protagonist
Archimime
A jester in Ancient Rome who

imitated manners, gestures and
speech of living and deceased
famous people.
B
Bad boy
A roguish macho
Charlie Harper, Johnny Strabler, Jim Stark in

Rebel Without A Cause
Battle-axe
A domineering, brash and brazen

woman
Carrie Nation, Xena, Agnes Skinner
Bimbo
A dumb, pretty girl
Karen Smith (Mean Girls)
Black brute
An inherently violent black man
Jules Winnfield, John Shaft; Gus in Birth of a

Nation
Blackface
A black person played by a white

person
Tropic Thunder, Birth of a Nation, Soul Man
Black knight
Evil fighter antagonist
Darth Vader, Mordred, Nazgl
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Blind seer
Blonde
stereotype
Blind or blinded fortune teller or

prophet
Tiresias, Muir in Snow White and the Huntsman,

Mother Abagail in Stephen King's The Stand
A pretty, but stupid blonde
Blonde and Blonder, White Chicks
Boy next door Average and nice guy
George Gibbs in Our Town
Breeches role
A role in which an actress appears

in male clothing
Shakespeare in Love
Bug-eyed
monster
Staple evil alien;[2]
Formics
Byronic hero
A proud, moody and cynical man,

yet capable of deep and strong
affection
Childe Harold, Eugene Onegin, Rochester

C
Cat lady
Old woman overly concerned with

Arabella Figg, Crazy Cat Lady
her cats
character inspired by Conan the

Conanesque[3] Barbarian
Claw the Unconquered, Thongor of Lemuria
Contender
A competitive underdog
Rocky Balboa, Terry Maloy
Crone
Malicious old woman, often occult

Elli, Baba Yaga, Wicked Witch of the West
or witch-like
D
Damsel in
distress
A noble Lady in need of rescue,

traditionally from dragons
Princess Peach, Princess Buttercup, Princess and

dragon
Dark Lady
A dark, malicious or doomed

woman
Lady Macbeth, Agatha Trunchbull, Annie Wilkes
Holmesian
detective
A private or police detective who

solves crimes by using logical
deduction
Sherlock Holmes, Columbo, Hercule Poirot
Hardboiled
detective
A gruff, tough and streetwise, but

generally honest detective
Sam Spade, John Hartigan, Philip Marlowe

E
Elderly
martial arts
master
A wise, powerful man teaching his

Keisuke Miyagi, Snake in the Eagle's Shadow, Pai
powerful craft to a young student.
Mei
Often needs to be avenged
Lincoln Powell in The Demolished Man by Alfred
Bester[4] Akira
human[2]
Esper
A telepathic
Essex girl
A promiscuous and stupid female

(originally from Essex)
Amy Childs
Everyman
An ordinary individual
Everyman
Evil clown
An evil and chaotic clown
Pennywise, The Joker

F
Fall guy
A scapegoat
Farmer's
A desirable and naive young

woman. She is also described as
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daughter
being an "open-air type" and

"public-spirited".[5][6]
Femme fatale
A beautiful, but mischievous and

traitorous woman
Feral child
A child who has lived from a young

Atalanta, Mowgli, Tarzan
age without human contact
Final girl
A "last girl standing" in a horror

film
Laurie Strode, Sally Hardesty, Lila Crane
Fop
A foolish man overly concerned

with his appearance and clothes
Max Downing
Ruth Wonderly, Xenia Onatopp, Poison Ivy
G
Gentle giant
A physically imposing but kindhearted character.
Gentleman
thief
A sophisticated and well-mannered

Arsne Lupin, A.J. Raffles, Simon Templar
thief
Geek
A generally not athletic fan of

super heroes, science fiction and
fantasy, especially of Video
Games, Comic Books, Films and
Roleplaying Games.
Roy Trenneman, Sheldon Cooper, Steve Smith
Girl next door
An average girl with a wholesome

conduct
Winnie Cooper, Betty Cooper
Grande dame
French for "great lady". A

flamboyant woman, prone to
extravagant and eccentric fashion.
Usually a stereotype of an elderly
high society socialite.[7][8][9][10]
Constance in Gosford Park, Princess Dragomiroff

in Murder on the Orient Express; Clara Cluck in
the Disney cartoons; Lady Bracknell in The
Importance of Being Earnest
Rubeus Hagrid, John Coffey, Fezzik, Hodor
H
Hag
A wizened old woman, often a

malicious witch
witch in Hansel and Gretel, Baba Yaga
Harlequin
A clown or professional fool
Till Eulenspiegel
Hawksian
woman
A tough-talking woman, originally

To Have and Have Not (film)
in a film by Howard Hawks
Hero
A powerful and morally integer

protagonist, often on a quest[2]
Herr Pastor
An authoritarian pastor in an Ethnic

German congregation
Luke Skywalker, John Carter of Mars, Neo (The

Matrix), Harry Potter
Nancy (Oliver Twist), Fantine, Inara Serra,

Hooker with a A prostitute with heart and intrinsic
Ophelia in Trading Places, Belle Watling of Gone
heart of gold morality
with the Wind
Hotshot
A reckless character known for

taking risks.
Martin Riggs, Pete Mitchell (Top Gun)

I
Ingenue
A young woman who is

endearingly innocent and
wholesome
Ophelia, Cosette, Snow White
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Jewish lawyer A Jewish lawyer that is clever,
stereotype
greedy, exploitative and dishonest
Maurice Levy (The Wire), David Kleinfeld in

Carlito's Way Philip Stuckey in Pretty Woman
A nagging, overprotective,
Jewish mother
controlling, smothering, and
stereotype
overbearing mother or wife
Kyle's Mom, Mrs. Wolowitz.
Jock (athlete)
A male athlete, often muscular, but

Tommy Ross, Luke Ward
not very smart
Jester
A prankster or fool, originally one

employed by a king (court jester)
JewishAmerican
princess
stereotype
Materialistic and selfish Jewish girl

with a pampered or wealthy
Fran Fine, Princess Vespa in Spaceballs
background
Puck
K
Killbot
Knight-errant
Usually large, menacing machines

created to perpetrate murder
Sentinel (comics), Terminator, RoboCop
A noble Knight on a Quest
Galahad, Sir Gawain, Solomon Kane

L
Legacy Hero
A hero who inherits or adopts the

name and attributes of an already or The Phantom, Green Lantern, Robin (comics)
previously existing hero
Lipstick
lesbian
Lesbian and bisexual women who

exhibit extremely feminine gender
attributes
Little Green
Men
Little humanoid extraterrestrials

with green skin and antennae on
The Great Gazoo; Martians in Martians, Go
[11]
their heads; known familiarly in Home.
science fiction fandom as LGM
Loathly lady
A woman who appears to be

hideous, often cursed
Lone
Vigilante
Loner who becomes a vigilante for Charles Bronson's Death Wish Movies, Dirty
Justice
Harry, The Outlaw Josey Wales
Lovers
Main characters who deeply and

truly fall romantically in love,
Romeo & Juliet
despite the blocking effect of other
Tony and Maria (West Side Story)
characters. Often moonstruck, starButtercup & Westley in The Princess Bride
crossed lovers that are strongly
fraternizing with the enemy.
The L Word
The Wife of Bath's Tale
M
Mad scientist
An insane or highly eccentric

scientist, often villainous or
amoral.[2][12]
Magical
Negro
A black man with special insight or The Defiant Ones, Bagger Vance, John Coffey in
mystical powers coming to the aid Green Mile, Max Perrello, God in Bruce
of the white protagonist
Almighty, The Shining
Dr. Frankenstein, Dr. Moreau, Rotwang, Emmett

Brown, Girl Genius, Walter Bishop
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Aunt Jemima, Mammy in Gone with the Wind,

Aibileen Clark, Minny Jackson and Constantine
Jefferson in The Help, Aunt Chloe in Uncle Tom's
Cabin, Aunt Lou in season three of Deadwood TV
series, Ma Soupswill in Grabbed by the Ghoulies,
Louise in Forrest Gump, Delilah in Big Jake,
Calpurnia in To Kill a Mockingbird, Mammy Two
Shoes in the Tom and Jerry series, Matilda
"Tillie" Binks in Guess Who's Coming To Dinner
Mammy
archetype
A rotund, homely, and matronly

black woman
Manic Pixie
Dream Girl
Usually static characters who have

eccentric personality quirks and are Garden State, (500) Days of Summer
unabashedly girlish
Marianismo
A female Hispanic American folk

character celebrating feminine
virtues like purity and moral
strength
Martian[2][11]
Dwellers on Mars. Often prone to

invade earth.
Mary Sue
A youthful but one-dimensional

character with overly idealized and
Wesley Crusher, Bella Swan
hackneyed mannerisms, often
considered a stand-in for the author
Miles
Gloriosus
A boastful soldier from the comic

theatre of ancient Rome
Volstagg
Monster[2]
A generic feral antagonist
Godzilla, Frankenstein's monster, King Kong
Mother's boy
Private Frank Pike, Howard Wolowitz in The Big

A man who is excessively attached
Bang Theory, Eddie Kaspbrak in Stephen King's
to his mother
It
Barsoom, H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds,

Mars Attacks Ice Warriors.
Nerd
A socially-impaired, obsessive, or
overly-intellectual person. Often
Martin Prince, Maurice Moss, Lisa Simpson,
interested in doing well in school
Sheldon Cooper and Leonard Hofstadter in The
(academically and in terms of
Big Bang Theory.
behavior) as well as reading books.
Nice Jewish
A studious, gentle and sensitive
boy stereotype Jewish boy.
Joel Glicker
An idealized indigene or otherwise

Noble savage wild outsider with noble
Chingachgook, Tarzan, Winnetou
characteristics.
O
Outlaw (stock A romanticized, often charismatic
character)
or social bandit.
Occult
detective
Robin Hood, Billy the Kid, Man with No Name,

Josey Wales in The Outlaw Josey Wales
Traditional detective who

John Constantine, Hellboy
investigates supernatural mysteries.
P
Paladin
A holy knight, a paragon of virtue

and goodness.
Huma Dragonbane, Sturm Brightblade, Knights of

the Round Table
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Pantomime
dame
A pantomime portrayal of female

characters by male actors in drag.
Widow Twankey
Pet Negro
A beloved black person that a

particular white person often
pampers and parades as a special
and distinct from other black
people.[13]
Arnold Jackson, "Big Mike" (The Blind Side),

"Stephen" in "Django Unchained"
Petrushka
A Russian kind of jester.
Princesse
lointaine
A romantic love interest and

beloved sweetheart and girlfriend
for a Knight-errant.
Professor
A common generic name for

fictional characters who fill the role Emmett Brown, The Professor (Gilligan's Island),
of doctors, scientists, or mad
Sherman Klump
scientists.
Dulcinea.
R
Rake
A man habituated to immoral

conduct.
Francis Charteris (rake), Lord Byron, Gully Foyle

(The Stars My Destination).
Redshirt
An expendable character who dies

soon after being introduced; this
refers to characters from the
original Star Trek television series,
often from the security or
Star Trek.
engineering departments of the
starship, who wore the red variation
of the Starfleet uniform and whose
purpose in the narrative was to
serve as cannon fodder
A person who doesn't seek

adventure or the opportunity to do
good, and often doubts his or her
Bilbo Baggins, Frodo Baggins, Han Solo from the
Reluctant hero abilities to rise to heroism.
Star Wars series, Neo from The Matrix.
However, circumstances inevitably
result in the character's becoming a
true hero.
S
School diva
Blair Waldorf from the Gossip Girl TV and novel

A well-liked or worshipped female series, Regina George in Mean Girls, each
student, who sees herself as an
Heather in Heathers, Angela Hayes in American
alpha female.
Beauty
Secret identity
An alias a character may take so

that he or she may act in secrecy.
Senex iratus
A father figure and comic

archetype who belongs to the
alazon or impostor group in theater, Pantalone in Commedia dell'arte; Frank Costanza
manifesting himself through his
(Seinfeld)
rages and threats, his obsessions
and his gullibility.
Superman's alias Clark Kent, Spider-Man's alias

Peter Parker, and Batman's alias Bruce Wayne.
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Shoulder
angel
A small angel representing

conscience, in contrast to the
shoulder devil representing
temptation
Jiminy Cricket
Shrew
A woman given to violent,

scolding, particularly nagging
treatment
Sidekick
A plucky but generally subordinate Robin, Dr. Watson, Sancho Panza, Ron Weasley,
close companion of the protagonist Little John
Sinnekins
Pairs of devilish characters who

exert their perfidious influence on
the main character
Soubrette
A character who is vain and girlish,

mischievous, lighthearted,
Susanna
coquettish and gossipy
A young woman of the American

Southern belle
Old South's upper class
Kate (The Taming of the Shrew) Lois (Malcolm

in the Middle)
Flotsam and Jetsam, Hotep and Huy in The Prince

of Egypt
Blanche Dubois, Scarlett O'Hara, Blanche

Maxwell in Mandingo (film), Lara Lee CandieFitzwilly in Django Unchained, Mistress Epps in
12 Years A Slave
Space Nazis
Nazi-like antagonists in science

fiction works
Space pirate
Pirates in outer space who travel by

Captain Harlock Sabalom Glitz
spacecraft
Spear carrier
A minor character who appears in

several scenes, but mostly in the
background
Spinster
An older, childless woman who has

Miss Havisham
never been married
Spoiled child
A child who exhibits behavioral

problems from overindulgence by
his or her parents
Veruca Salt, Veronica Lodge, Dudley Dursley
Strawman
A symbol for people regarded as

lacking needed qualities
Old Major and Benjamin in Animal Farm
Stupid
superior
A superior who misuses his or her

power - with or without an own
agenda - and therefore endangers
subordinates
Admiral Marcus (Star Trek Into Darkness),

Dwayne T. Robinson in Die Hard
Superhero
An unrealistically powerful hero

Superman, Spider-Man, Batman, Avengers, X[2]
dedicated to protecting the public Men, Green Lantern
bermensch[2]
A (often only seemingly) perfect

human being, esp. the DC Comics
character Superman
Superman, Captain America, X-Men
Supersoldier
A soldier who operates beyond

human limits or abilities
Captain America; Soldier (1998 American film),

Master Chief (Halo)
Supervillain
Antithesis to the Superhero
Lex Luthor, The Joker, Dr. Doom
Swamp
Humanoid creatures similar to fish

Heap (comics), Man-Thing, Sludge (comics),
or resembling living piles of swamp
Patterns of Force, Iron Sky
Momo (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
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monster
mire
Swamp Thing
A joyful, noisy and boastful

Swashbuckler renaissance era swordsman or
pirate
El Aguila, Captain Jack Sparrow, The Crimson

Pirate, Dread Pirate Roberts, Zorro
T
Bomba, the Jungle Boy, Cave Girl, George of the
Jungle, Jann of the Jungle, Jo-Jo, Congo King,
Jungle King Tar-chan, Jungle Twins, Ka-Zar
(pulp series), Ka-Zar (comics), Kona, Korak,
Kulafu, Leela, Mowgli, Nyoka the Jungle Girl,
Princess Pantha, Rima, Rulah, Shanna the SheDevil, Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, Thun'da,
Zago, Zembla
Tarzanesque
protagonist[14] A character raised in the wilds,
or
often by animals, akin to Tarzan
[15]
Tarzanide
Tomboy
A girl with boyish and/or manly

behavior.
Arya Stark, Juno MacGuff, George (Famous Five)
A character who is in constant

Tortured artist torment due to frustrations with art Brian Topp
and other people.
Town bully
A bully oppressing meeker

residents of a town.
Biff Tannen, Nelson Muntz, Henry Bowers in It

(1990 film)
Town drunk
A male in a small town who is

drunk more often than sober.
Barney Gumble, Haymitch Abernathy, Otis

Campbell
Tragic antihero
An anti-hero who (merely

accidentally than intentionally)
destroys his own happiness, and
therefore often turns back to
fighting the evil
Elric of Melnibon, Mr. Gold / Rumplestiltskin in

Once Upon a Time, Anakin Skywalker, Severus
Snape
Tragic hero
A hero with a major flaw that leads

to his or her eventual death and
Sigurd, Boromir, Orpheus, Donnie Darko
downfall.
A mulatto who is sad or suicidal

Judy Kovacs in the episode Are You Now or Have
Tragic mulatto because he or she fails to fit in with You Ever Been in the television series Angel,
white or black people
Eliza, Cassy, and Emmeline in Uncle Tom's Cabin
Travesti
Portrayal of a character in an opera,

play, or ballet by a performer of the Edna Turnblad
opposite sex
Treasure
guardian
A character who guards a valued

treasure
Tycoon
A person who wields considerable

Montgomery Burns, Scrooge McDuck, Ebeneezer
economic power, often acting at the
Scrooge, Henry F. Potter
expense of the less fortunate
Frodo Baggins
V
Valley girl
Affluent women or teenagers

characterized by speaking Valspeak Gretchen Wieners in Mean Girls, Hillary Banks
and a vapid materialism
Vice
An allegorical evil part in medieval

morality plays.
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Village idiot
Villain[2]
A person known locally for

ignorance or stupidity. Often turns
out to be very brave and good, and Neville Longbottom
sometimes, underestimated (see
Wise fool)
Snidely Whiplash, Fu Manchu, The Master,
Tempus in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of
Superman, Lord Voldemort, Palpatine, Professor
Moriarty
An evil character in a story
W
A priest or ordained minister who
shows clear signs of moral
Whisky priest
weakness, while at the same time
teaching a higher standard
Father Callahan, Elmer Gantry, Thoros of Myr
Whiteface
A performance in which a black

person wears theatrical makeup to
make themselves look like a white
character
White Chicks, Watermelon Man, Miles Pope in

True Identity, Bosola in The Duchess of Malfi,
The Blacks (play)
White hunter
White big-game hunters in Africa
Allan Quatermain
Wise fool
A fool with an attribute of wisdom
Shakespearean fool, such as in King Lear,

Staczyk, Luna Lovegood
Wise old man
An elderly character who provides

wisdom to the protagonist.
Obi-Wan Kenobi, Albus Dumbledore, Yoda,

Gandalf, Mickey Goldmill, Keisuke Miyagi
Y
Yokel
An unsophisticated country person Rose Nylund, Cletus Spuckler
Youxia
A Chinese type of the Knight-errant Li Mu-Bai, Fong Sai-yuk

Z
Zombie[2]
Animated corpses prone to eating

humans and thus spreading their
Dawn of the Dead, The Walking Dead, 28 Days
condition. Often caused by Voodoo Later, Inferi
practices or viral agents.
See also
Commedia dell'arte
Stereotype
List of stock characters in military fiction
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Professor Calculus, Julius Kelp, Emmett Brown

A film hero protagonist with

John McClane; John Rambo, Casey Ryback

Extraterrestrials who mount an

War of the Worlds, Body Snatchers, Independence

A person typically known as having

A cowardly, antisocial or honorless

A jester in Ancient Rome who

Charlie Harper, Johnny Strabler, Jim Stark in

A domineering, brash and brazen

Carrie Nation, Xena, Agnes Skinner

A dumb, pretty girl

Karen Smith (Mean Girls)

An inherently violent black man

Jules Winnfield, John Shaft; Gus in Birth of a

A black person played by a white

Tropic Thunder, Birth of a Nation, Soul Man

Evil fighter antagonist

Darth Vader, Mordred, Nazgl

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Blind or blinded fortune teller or

Tiresias, Muir in Snow White and the Huntsman,

A pretty, but stupid blonde

Blonde and Blonder, White Chicks

Boy next door Average and nice guy

George Gibbs in Our Town

A role in which an actress appears

Staple evil alien;[2]

A proud, moody and cynical man,

Childe Harold, Eugene Onegin, Rochester

Old woman overly concerned with

character inspired by Conan the

Claw the Unconquered, Thongor of Lemuria

Rocky Balboa, Terry Maloy

Malicious old woman, often occult

A noble Lady in need of rescue,

Princess Peach, Princess Buttercup, Princess and

A dark, malicious or doomed

Lady Macbeth, Agatha Trunchbull, Annie Wilkes

A private or police detective who

Sherlock Holmes, Columbo, Hercule Poirot

A gruff, tough and streetwise, but

Sam Spade, John Hartigan, Philip Marlowe

A wise, powerful man teaching his

A promiscuous and stupid female

An evil and chaotic clown

Pennywise, The Joker

A desirable and naive young

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being an "open-air type" and

A beautiful, but mischievous and

A child who has lived from a young

A "last girl standing" in a horror

Laurie Strode, Sally Hardesty, Lila Crane

A foolish man overly concerned

Ruth Wonderly, Xenia Onatopp, Poison Ivy

A physically imposing but kindhearted character.

A sophisticated and well-mannered

A generally not athletic fan of

Roy Trenneman, Sheldon Cooper, Steve Smith