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
The actress even injects new life into a sci-fi stock character — the alien whose connection to emotion is theoretical.
From New York Times • Nov. 25, 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
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
