List of stock characters
Unlike the ingénue character, who grows emotionally and more worldly-wise through the story eventually fulfilling a heroine role, typically a bimbo does not and remains ultimately inconsequential, even if the pointlessness of her life is pointed out to her.
Falstaff has appeared in other works, including: The French polymath playwright Pierre Beaumarchais created the comic character of Figaro who plays the role of a barber who has become a cunning, scheming, insubordinate gentleman's valet across a satirical tilogy of plays — Le Barbier de Séville of 1772, Le Mariage de Figaro of 1778, and L'Autre Tartuffe ou La Mère coupable (The Guilty Mother) of 1792.
Beaumarchais, may have created the Figaro character as an author surrogate for The Barber of Seville, as the playwright served time in jail for insubordination to the nobility.
Beaumarchais's character appears in four opera adaptations of his plays: Now, typically an eccentric or non-mainstream person who is an expert or enthusiast or boffin obsessed with an unusual hobby or intellectual pursuit, with a general pejorative meaning of a "peculiar person, especially one who is perceived to be overly intellectual, unfashionable, boring, or socially awkward".
[52] They are often shown using mystical powers of fortune telling, and they may be associated with "sinister occult and criminal tendencies"[53] and with "thievery and cunning",[54] Romani women have been portrayed as provocative, sexually available, gaudy, exotic and mysterious.
From 1945 through the 1960s, Hollywood depicted Japanese men as a "pint-sized man wearing black-framed spectacles, with protuberant incisors", like the "klutzy photographer "Yunioshi" in Breakfast at Tiffany's.
By the 1970s and 1980s, Japanese people started being portrayed as a "fusion of tradition and high tech", with the historical references being to ninja and samurai, which are both "part of the 'mysterious East'" (e.g. Gung Ho[64] (1986)).
A handsome, courageous fairy tale stock character who comes to the rescue of a damsel in distress and must engage in a quest to liberate her from an evil spell.
[90] A wayward adult child who has become estranged from their family and gone into exile, where they squander their inheritance on a debauched lifestyle, while their older sibling works hard in their career.
The family had hoped the young brother would become a successful in Cairo, but he ended up jailed after a building collapsed; in The Magician King by Lev Grossman, Dean Fogg greets the former student Quentin when he comes back to the magical school by saying "the prodigal has returned."
"[92] Characters appearing in short stories by US sports writer and author Damon Runyon, which depict Prohibition era underworld New Yorkers from Brooklyn or Midtown Manhattan.
"Runyonesque" refers to the type of situations and dialog that Runyon depicted,[94] populated by gamblers, bookies, boxers, hustlers, actors, and gangsters, few of whom go by "square" names, preferring creative nicknames.
My Darling Clementine, Helen Crump Taylor, Miss Turlock A similar term for elderly-aged women is known as "Sexy grandma" or "GILF".
Modern media depictions of the reanimation of the dead often do not involve magic but rather science fictional methods such as carriers, fungi, radiation, mental diseases, vectors, pathogens, parasites, scientific accidents, etc.
