stock character

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Iago, one of Shakespeare’s greatest villains, is an updated version of this stock character.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2026

It’s a balance she strikes most astutely on “Good Wife,” on which she’s torn between thinking that title role is a worthy goal and seeing it as a tragic stock character.

From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2021

Jharrel Jerome does what he can to add some shading to Smush, to make this stock character his own.

From Salon • Sep. 16, 2020

Besson’s filmography mirrors the descent of this stock character so precisely, it could well all be his fault.

From The Guardian • Aug. 19, 2019

That Gracieuse et Percinet is of an essentially "stock" character is not in the least against it, for so it ought to be: and the "stock" company that plays its parts plays them well.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by Saintsbury, George