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Archetypal Characters & Literary Stereotypes

 * Angry Black Woman
 * Antihero
 * Bad boy (archetype)
 * Battle-axe (woman)
 * Big Bad Wolf
 * Black knight
 * Bug-eyed monster
 * Byronic hero
 * Christ figure
 * Contender (stock character)
 * Crone
 * Damsel in distress
 * Dark Lady (character)
 * Dark Lord (fiction)
 * Death (personification)
 * Donor (fairy tale)
 * Dragon Lady
 * Eiron
 * Elderly martial arts master
 * Enchanted forest
 * Everyman
 * Evil clown
 * Evil twin
 * Fairy godmother
 * Fairy tale
 * Fairytale fantasy
 * Fall guy
 * False hero
 * Farmer's daughter (character)
 * Father figure
 * Femme fatale
 * Feral child
 * Final girl
 * Foil (literature)
 * Folk hero
 * Fool (stock character)
 * Geek girl
 * Gentleman detective
 * Gentleman thief
 * Gilles (stock character)
 * Girl next door
 * Good and evil
 * Hag
 * Happy ending
 * Hawksian woman
 * Henchman
 * Hero
 * Hooker with a heart of gold
 * Hotshot (stock character)
 * Imaginary friend
 * Ingenue (stock character)
 * Ingénue (stock character)
 * Jack (hero)
 * Jock (stereotype)
 * Jungle girl (stock character)
 * Knight-errant
 * Legacy hero
 * Legend
 * Legendary creature
 * Legendary progenitor
 * Loathly lady
 * Lovable rogue
 * Lovers (stock characters)
 * Mad scientist
 * Magical Negro
 * Mammy archetype
 * Manic Pixie Dream Girl
 * Mary Sue
 * Masque
 * Master of Animals
 * Melodrama
 * Mephistopheles
 * Mole people
 * Monster
 * Mother's boy
 * Motif (narrative)
 * Nerd
 * Noble savage
 * Outlaw (stock character)
 * Pantomime
 * Pantomime dame
 * Plot device
 * Prince Charming
 * Princess and dragon
 * Princesse lointaine
 * Principal boy
 * Professor (stock character)
 * Protagonist
 * Quest
 * Rake (character)
 * Redshirt (character)
 * Reluctant hero
 * Romantic hero
 * Scream queen
 * Seventh son of a seventh son
 * Shrew (stock character)
 * Sidekick
 * Simpleton (stock character)
 * Sinnekins
 * Soubrette
 * Southern belle
 * Space Nazis
 * Spear carrier
 * Stereotypes of animals
 * Stock character
 * Strong female character
 * Superhero
 * Supervillain
 * Swashbuckler
 * Tall tale
 * Termagant
 * Tomboy
 * Tortured artist
 * Town drunk
 * Traditional story
 * Tragic hero
 * Tragic mulatto
 * Trickster
 * Tricky slave
 * Trope (literature)
 * Ugly sisters
 * Unrequited love
 * Vice (character)
 * Village idiot
 * Villain
 * Virago
 * Whisky priest
 * Wicked fairy godmother
 * Wise fool
 * Wise old man
 * Wise Old Man and Wise Old Woman
 * Women warriors in literature and culture
 * Wounded healer
 * Yokel
 * Youngest son