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Mama, as the stern but loving matriarch, is a stock character, and Sissy is written unsympathetically and almost exclusively speaks in the tenor of a whine.

From New York Times • May 24, 2023

Because Neeson is so adept at rendering this stock character, he doesn’t always work very hard at it.

From Washington Post • Apr. 27, 2022

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

As the selling point here is the show’s take on autism, however, Sam is a somewhat newer, increasingly popular stock character — the high-functioning Aspie.

From Salon • Aug. 7, 2017

And what is most comic of all is to become a category oneself into which others will fall, as into a ready-made frame; it is to crystallise into a stock character.

From Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Brereton, Cloudesley Shovell Henry