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If we go along with the story at all, it’s thanks to Fanning, who resists the temptation of softening the edges of her stock character — a guilt-ridden young woman who hides behind a detached facade because “you wouldn’t like me if you knew the real me” — while also making the standoffish Mina worth caring for.

Introducing another stock character: the Rich American.

It lingers in the familiar stock character of the cringeworthy geek like Sheldon Cooper on The Big Bang Theory, and in biographer Walter Issacson’s descriptions of entrepreneur Elon Musk—who claimed to be on the spectrum on Saturday Night Live—as “hardwired” against empathy.

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.

Likewise, underneath your CMO’s gendered moniker is a stock character we’ve seen throughout history in various guises: an arrogant, delusional, hypercritical bully, devoid of self-awareness or empathy, using a bombastic personality to either charm followers or bludgeon dissenters.