Stock character
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A stock character, also known as a character archetype, is a type of character in a narrative whom audiences recognize across many narratives or as part of a storytelling tradition or convention. Ther
Stock characters play an important role in fiction, including in fairy tales, which use stock characters such as the damsel in distress and Prince Charming (pictured is Sleeping Beauty).
Tom Wilson as a stock character of a policeman, in Charlie Chaplin's 1921 film The Kid
Femme fatale
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A femme fatale, sometimes called a maneater, Mata Hari, or vamp, is a stock character: a mysterious, beautiful, and seductive woman whose charms ensnare her lovers, often leading them into compromisin
Stock character
…feminists have argued, female stock characters are only stereotypes (child/woman, whore, bitch, wife, mother, secretary or girl Friday, career women, vamp, etc.)." Ulrike Roesler and Jayandra Soni analyze "not only with female stock characters in the sense of typical roles in the dramas, but also with…
The divine femme fatale of Hindu lore, The goddess Mohini is described to have enchanted gods, demons and sages alike.
Salome in a 1906 painting by Franz von Stuck
Actress Theda Bara, in the 1915 film A Fool There Was
Femme fatale Phyllis Dietrichson, played by Barbara Stanwyck, in the classic film noir Double Indemnity