SOPHS Journal #1: The Stock Character
POST BEFORE FRIDAY MORNING, February 6.A stock character is a character type, often a stereotyped character, used repeatedly in genre fiction (like horror, sci-fi, moral tales) and of course, movies and television shows that like to use these character types. Examples include the mad scientist, the blond airhead, the femme fatale (sure, look it up if you don't know what this means), the rags-to-riches hero, and the conniving villain.
In The Devil and Tom Walker, Tom Walker exemplifies the stock character known as The Miser, one who would value money over everything. You should know the Greek tale of King Midas, a miser who learned, as many do, that wealth isn't everything. Go to this link to read the Midas tale. Tom Walker's wife is the stock shrew, the nagging wife who browbeats her husband.
You've read enough (and seen enough TV and movies) to recognize stock characters, so tell me ...who is your favorite "stock" character?
Define the stock character type you choose and then give me some details about your specific character that proves that he or she is, indeed, "stock." Of course, tell me why you enjoy your character. Choose a character from books, movies, short stories, and television shows. As always, respond with a minimum of 250 words.
I've provided an example for you, namely Ebenezer Scrooge.
Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly misanthrope (he's a miser--all about money--and he's a misanthrope--a "hater of mankind") in the Charles Dickens' classic, A Christmas Carol. His love of money and disdain for Christmas characterizes the original Scrooge. Note that the wordscrooge to denote characters like him is now regularly used in our vernacular. Scrooge overworks and underpays his loyal employee, Mr. Bob Cratchit. Cratchit, a good and holy family man, has bills to pay and a crippled son (Tiny Tim) to take care of, but he faces his trying responsibilities with Christian fortitude. He even refuses to admit to his poor family that Mr. Scrooge is a bad man. You might say that Cratchit is a stock character himself, the "poor but happy" fatherly figure whose diligence and Christian piety keep his family in food and clothes.
Back to Mr. Scrooge, who grudgingly allows poor Bob to stay home on Christmas Day, but orders him to arrive earlier the next. He greets holiday well wishers, like his kind nephew, with a "Bah, humbug" that of course, is now universally recognized as the reply of the Christmas Scrooge. Suddenly, however, his world is turned inside-out when he is visited by the ghost of Jacob Marley, his former business partner and a scrooge like himself. The forlorn ghost, who now does penance by walking the earth in heavy chains, money boxes, and keys, warns Scrooge to mend his ways, lest he suffer the same fate.
Scrooge is shaken, but falls asleep. During the rest of the well-known story, he is visited by three Christmas ghosts. He then undergoes a miraculous change. The new Christmas-loving Scrooge sends a huge turkey to the Cratchit home, raises Bob's salary, and becomes a surrogate grandfather to Tiny Tim.
This Christmas tale is a story of faith, redemption, and the goodness that lies within us all. These qualities were once buried in Ebenezer Scrooge, but were unearthed in the joyful end of the novel.
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The femme fatale stock character is usually a young, seductive woman who flaunts her beauty and confidence to attract men and trap them into doing her bidding. She does not care about the well-being of her tools so long as they can survive to be of good use towards her goal. The character Yuno Gasai from the anime Mirai Nikki is a great example of the femme fatale stock character because she deceives the male protagonist Yuki by luring him with the security of her love into his ultimate demise. The plot of Mirai Nikki revolves around a survival game in which both Yuno and Yuki are involved, and the reward for the last-man standing is to become the new god of the world. In the first episode of the series, Yuki is walking home from school in the city while a police chase is out for a serial murderer. He notices that a suspicious girl - Yuno - is following him from a distance, and as he escapes into a random building she corners him and greets him with a kiss. Being one of the other twelve players, she explains to Yuki the rules of the death game, putting herself in a powerful position over him because of her knowledge and giving him the desire to ally with her. Yuno’s voice is very light and loving, which makes her appear to Yuki as an innocent schoolgirl, and Yuki finds her attractive although I can’t say that I’m very fond of pink-haired anime girls.
As the couple starts to depend on each other and fight the other players, they bond and Yuki cherishes the companionship that Yuno has made with him. However, Yuno gradually convinces Yuki that she is the only one that he needs and pits him against his friends and family. She lies to Yuki and says that once they kill all the other players and herself, Yuki can become the new god and bring all the people he has killed back to life. My favorite scene in Mirai Nikki is when Yuno and Yuki are chasing the final living player who is being protected by four of Yuki’s friends. One of his friends named Akise stays behind and has a knife fight with Yuno while Yuki pursues the other three and the final player. Yuno pretends to commit suicide while Akise has her in a chokehold and Akise goes on to stop Yuki. Meanwhile, Yuki threatens to shoot his friends if they keep intervening, but they try to explain to him that Yuno has been using him to become god and that she plans to kill him too. When Akise catches up to the rest of the group, Yuno calls Yuki on his cellphone and screams that Akise tried to kill her and his friends will kill him. She then hears Yuki’s first gunshot, hangs up the phone, and laughs hysterically to herself. Yuki proceeds to kill all of his friends and the final player, leaving just himself and Yuno in the game.
On their last day together, Yuno reveals her true goal and tries to kill Yuki in order to end the game. Yuki is very hurt because he had become enveloped in Yuno’s ruse and thought that their companionship was something real. In the end, Yuno commits suicide and leaves Yuki to become god and spend eternity in loneliness and regret. Although Yuno had done everything to ruin Yuki’s life and benefit herself, Yuki’s infinite years are spent missing her fake love that felt so real.
If I were to pick my favorite character that could be considered a stock character, I would have to choose Lisa Zemo from Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide. Her character, for the first two seasons at least, is one of the geek girl in school. Lisa is not very popular, a nerd, and continuously has a horrible cold. The cold results in her having to use nasal spray quite often, sometimes while she it speaking, which is always followed by a loud snort after spraying. Her constant snorting makes her somewhat unattractive to most of the popular kids in school, making her more of a geek. Also, her choice of clothing is not something that a seventh grader would usually wear, as she is often seen wearing bright colored tights, ugly dresses, and strange hair styles. Lisa Zemo is my favorite stock character not only for her geek persona in the first two seasons of the show, but also for the transformation that she undergoes in her appearance during the second season. The first time we see the new her is when she comes to school one day and taps the back of one of the main characters of the show, Simon Nelson "Cookie" Cook. Cookie is stunned at her new appearance and his jaw drops; Lisa says that her mom had gotten new medications for her allergies, as well as hypoallergenic clothes and contacts, on top of a new haircut. This change spawns Cookie's, as well as most of the nerd guys in school, to want to be Lisa's boyfriend. She makes a return as her sickly, geek self in a later episode when she runs out of medication and hypoallergenic clothes one day, coincidentally the same day that Cookie was to have an in-school date with her. Because of her automatic recognizability and character development of the course of the show, I would say that Lisa Zemo is my favorite stock character.
In a typical high school movie, there are many stock characters such as dumb blondes, geeks, and jocks. One stock character that really stands out to me is Troy Bolton in High School Musical. High School Musical is the typical high school cliche where two people who have very different interests come together and meet in the middle. It is about trying something new and not being afraid to show who you are.
Troy Bolton is the star basketball player at East High School and the most popular guy on campus. During winter break he goes on vacation and on New Year's Eve he discovers a part of him, a hidden talent that he did not know he had. He is forced to sing karaoke with a girl and is surprised to see that he is just as good on stage as he is on the basketball court. The girl, Gabriella Montez, with whom he sings with also catches his attention. Coincidentally, Gabriella transfers to Troy's school for the following semester. When school begins Troy thinks that no one will ever know about him singing on New Years. When Troy sees Gabriella in school he immediately tells her that he wants to keep his newly found talent a secret, saying its not really his thing. Gabriella agrees, saying that singing is not her thing either. The two go their separate ways, Troy focusing on basketball and Gabriella focusing on her school work. Everything was normal until Troy finds Gabriella trying out for the spring musical. Troy surprises himself, as well as Gabriella, when he tries out too. Troy and Gabriella then have to keep their secret hidden from their friends and family. Troy and Gabriella have to make a decision between "sticking to the status-quo" or doing what makes them happy.
Underneath the basketball jersey, all the popularity, and being an ordinary high school jock, Troy is part of a different world. And although he struggles with the fact the being a part of the drama club may not be considered "cool," he overcomes his fear of disappointment among his friends because he realizes that they cannot control what he does. Troy discovers that anybody can be anybody they want to be.
The underdog stock character is typically someone who has a very small chance of achieving their goal and a high chance of being defeated. Underdogs in movies and television shows typically come out on top, but this is not the case in the original "Rocky" movie. Rocky Balboa wants to become the best boxer in the world and trains with his coach Mickey Goldmill who teaches him how to become a good fighter. Rocky slowly starts getting better in his training with Mickey and then goes on to fight the heavyweight champion Apollo Creed. Rocky knocks Apollo to the ground in the first round, and from then on the fight seems to stay even between the two. In the fourteenth round, Rocky gets knocked down, but gets up at the last second to continue the match. Rocky's injuries are so bad that they have to cut his eye to reduce the swelling so that he can see Apollo. Rocky makes it through all fifteen rounds but the judges have a split decision in favor of Apollo, which allows him to retain his title. Rocky was not expected to make it through much of the fight, so he won by proving himself as a tough boxer. In the sequels to the movie, Rocky beats Apollo and also wins against other fighters, sometimes as an underdog and sometimes as the champion. Rocky Balboa is my favorite underdog stock character because of his hard work and determination to never quit no matter what kind of situation he is in.
A stock character is a stereotypical character whose personality is easily recognized by the audience. Some examples of types of stock characters include the nerd, the femme fatale, the evil villain, and the action hero. One stock character from a fiction movie that really sticks out to me is Regina George from Mean Girls. As the title states, Regina is the "mean girl" stock character. She is pretty, rich, popular, not so intelligent, and is the leader of her clique at school called the "Plastics." Every student in the school is intimidated by her because she is very mean to everyone, and because she is the most popular girl in school. She wears the nicest clothes, drives the best car, and has the biggest house. Regina always throws parties, and it's a huge deal if you're invited to one of them. Some people might not like this character or even the movie as whole because it is so cliché, but I think it is interesting how the maker of the movie portrays Regina. Her "mean girl" qualities are described about five minutes into the movie, and the movie maker probably did this so the audience would easily recognize what type of character she is. This way, the movie maker did not have to use time in the movie to develop the character, and he could start the plot of the story right away. In the movie, Regina George lies to her so-called best friends and makes them look bad, makes a book with mean descriptions of all the kids at her school who she doesn't like, disrespects her mother, and flaunts her beauty, her clothes, her house, and her car. This movie is so popular with teenagers because most can relate to high school stereotypes and mean girls at their school.
Rocky Balboa is an underdog in the beloved Philly classic movie, Rocky. Rocky is a poor, struggling boxer who lives in Philadelphia and is just trying to make it in this world. One day, the boxing champ at the time, Apollo Creed, offers to set up a fight with a struggling boxer. He sells the fight as a chance for a nobody to become a somebody. Rocky is chosen because of his good nickname, "The Italian Stallion," which will help sell the fight. Rocky believes that he could actually win the fight when nobody else does. Despite all odds Rocky trains harder than anyone has ever trained before in order to get ready for the fight. Rocky does not start off the fight very well and is getting brutally beat up by Apollo Creed. As the fight continues though Rocky begins to throw some really hard punches and is almost able to knock out Apollo Creed. The fight comes down to a decision and Rocky loses, but everybody in the crowd and who was watching believes that Rocky should've won. Rocky is now an iconic sports figure for the city of Philadelphia because he reminds struggling Philadelphians that if you work hard enough and keep moving forward you can and will pursue your goals. I like Rocky because I always cheer for the underdog whether it's in a movie or the NCAA Basketball Tournament. Also, Rocky is very motivational and as a teenager who plays sports, I am always looking for a little extra motivation wherever I can find it. In fact, before my 10 year old baseball all-star games we would watch Rocky to remind us that even when your down, your never out. As Rocky says, "It ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward; how much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done!"
Although there are many great stock characters in today's television shows and movies, I would say that my favorite character would have to be London Tipton from "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody." London is a typical spoiled rich kid. She is s a hotel heiress who gets whatever she wants. (This is an allusion to Paris Hilton.) Her parents are divorced. Her mom is completely out of the picture, and her dad is never around and makes up for it by buying London whatever she wants. She lives in one of her father's hotels and is looked after by the manager, Mr. Moseby. She has no clue of what an average person's life is like. She appears to have no talents as is shown in one episode when her father has to buy her a role in the school play because her singing and acting is so bad. She never works for anything, is gullible, barely attends school, and loves high-end fashion and her little Pomeranian. London is stupid and narcissistic, which is common for a spoiled brat character. However, I like London's character because although she can be ditzy and shallow, she often ends up doing the right thing when it's important which is a nice twist on the stock character. She shows smarts in some of her devious plans to get what she wants, and also proves to be truly loyal to her friends, putting her ego aside to help them out. London's character is very funny and adds a lot to the TV show. Without her character, I do not think the show would have been as big of a success.
There are many different stock character types, but I decided upon the nerd. The nerd is someone who is very studious and is a perfectionist in general. For most nerds, getting a bad grade might as well be the end of the world. The particular nerd I have in mind is a member of the famous Breakfast Club. His name: Brian Johnson, his classification: the brain. This character was played by Anthony Michael Hall in the 1985 film, The Breakfast Club. Brian was a stereotypical nerd and anything short of straight “A’s” was unacceptable. Unfortunately, as life would have it, he failed a project in shop class. This led Brian to look to the “only” option, suicide. He brought a flare gun into school and it went off in his locker. This was the reason Brian was in detention that Saturday. Throughout the detention session he is ridiculed and joked about by the others because his life seems perfect. He is also a stock nerd because he is scrawny and does not have very good social skills. Like most nerds would, in the beginning he tried to get everyone to be quiet and follow the rules. Everyone hates and ignores that type of kid when he does things like that. At the end of the movie, Brian is the one who ends up doing the assignment for the entire group. In it he wrote about how they really discovered who they were, “a brain… and an athlete… and a basket case… a princess… and a criminal…” I chose Brian Johnson because I like his character and I felt that I could identify with him. The Breakfast Club is a great movie filled with many stock characters; I would recommend it to anyone.
One stock character that is many stories, movies, songs, etc is a handsome, yet arrogant man. Some examples of these types of characters are people like the two princes from Into the Woods, Malfoy and his goons Crabbe and Doyle from Harry Potter, and Biff from Back to the Future. Out of all these hilarious characters, my favorite arrogant character is Gaston from Beauty and the Beast. Gaston is the handsome, muscular, and popular guy in the town that Belle lives in and he is also the antagonist of the story. He is full of himself and believes that because Belle is pretty, that she and he would make the perfect couple. Belle, however, does not believe that. No matter how charming he is with Belle, she always rejects him or turns him down and he can't understand why. It is understandable that he would be confused because his entire life, girls have drooled over him, and Belle is the most beautiful woman in the town, yet she refuses to marry him. She is educated and judges by a persons inside, not his looks, and although Gaston is handsome she does not return the love that he gives her. When Belle falls in love with the Beast, who is ugly and frightening, he is so enraged he tries to murder the Beast. This goes to show just how arrogant Gaston was. Even though Gaston is shallow, self absorbed, and arrogant, he is still an interesting character and is very attractive.
The stock character "gentle giant" is used often in both older literature, and newer literature. I believe that this type of character is perfectly modeled by Hagrid in the Harry Potter books. He is half giant, but compared to everyone else he is gigantic. He is tall, strong, and imposing, but he really cares for he students and others at Hogwarts. He saw the good in creatures when others only saw the bad. He cared for many of these strange creatures such as a dragon and I gigantic spider, and loved them as much as another would love a dog or a cat. He took his brother under his care when he had no where else to turn even though it would be hard and he could get fired for it. He went out of his way to be kind to students, especially Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, and Ron Weasley, even when other students were not nice to him in return. Hagrid put his life on the line for his friends and his companions without a second thought and this is why he is one of my favorite characters. His compassion and kindness are masked by his large and rough appearance, and doesn't let how others perceive him determine who he is on the inside.
The Goldbergs is an ABC comedy about the everyday life of a Jewish-American family living in the 1980s. My favorite character, the mother, Beverly, exemplifies the "Jewish mother" stock character in many ways. This woman has the qualities of being a loud, highly-talkative, nagging, smothering, overbearing, and overprotective mother and wife. She constantly gets involved in her children's lives and does a good job of sending them on guilt trips for actions which may have caused her to suffer. Beverly's three kids tend to refer to her as a "smother," because of how insanely overwhelming she can be. She likes to eavesdrop through the heating vent into her daughter's bedroom. She visits her youngest son's grade school frequently because she wants to speak her mind about any issues which she finds concerning. One time, she began developing a second school play because her son didn't make the leading role in the first one. She loves to make scrapbooks of her children's lives and even has a hoard in the garage consisting of almost everything they have ever made (whether it's a drawing, painting, macaroni necklace, etc.). She has even gotten involved in her sons' love lives. Once, she decided to chaperone her son's dance, which upset him because he was planning to ask a girl he liked to dance with him; he knew that she would interfere. She even set her other son up with a date that was basically a teenage version of herself. The kids will try to avoid her smothering by doing things behind her back, but it usually backfires, resulting in her becoming saddened and disappointed. Eventually, after feeling the guilt she inflicts on them (sometimes by using the phrase, "I have failed as a mother"), they feel remorse and are able to patch things up with her. An example of this would be when her youngest son made a mixtape for a love interest, but when Beverly discovered it, she thought it was for her. Lying, he said that it was, but she soon found out he didn't tell the truth and was then disheartened. Still, they were able to resolve the issue, after she realized that she was in the wrong. Overall, the Jewish mother is my favorite type of stock character. The manner with which she acts sometimes makes her appear humorous, crazy, or loving. Since she is such a multifaceted character, it helps make the story enjoyable.
A stock character that is both seen often in pop culture, and so happens to be the topic of this entry, is the anti-hero. The anti-hero is a protagonist of a story, movie, or TV show, who exhibits unheroic qualities, like cowardice, antisocial inclinations, or an honorless or malicious personality. The shown House of Cards has a protagonist that fits this description, and he is my favorite stock character to date. Frank Underwood is the lead character in this political drama. His anti-hero stature is prominent throughout the series. The show revolves around his use of bribes, corrupt bargains, and even crime to ascend the political ladder in the Capitol Building. His unforgiving attitude is scary and cold, but is strongly effective in his goal of achieving power. Underwood weaves through current events, making enemies and alienating allies, and uses his ruthless determination to get what he wants. The fact that he is the only character we stand behind, makes him the anti-hero. In a way, the show makes us root for him because he is the only one left to root for. The show puts you in direct contact with his thoughts, and causes you to throw him your support even though he is committing wrongs. I particularly identify with his determination to be remembered and to achieve success. Now our individual ideas of success, are opposites (especially the path to get there), but Underwood is a hard-worker like me. His anti-hero quality resides in his bad-natured path to his final goals. Frank Underwood can hardly be called a hero, not in the slightest. But an anti-hero is a category that he fills comfortably.
A stock character is a literary archetype that represents a 'type' of character that reoccurs in books, movies, or any other type of work. My favorite type of stock character has to be the village idiot. That one person who seems to always say and do the wrong thing at the wrong time. That one character who is known for just their ignorance and stupidity. My favorite village idiot has to be Neville Longbottom from the Harry Potter series. When we are first introduced to Neville he is described as a "short and plump" boy. He is portrayed as a disorganized, clumsy, bumbling, and a rather mediocre student. Neville is also said to absolutely fear the school's potions teacher, Severus Snape, and is often made fun of by both the students at the wizarding school and Snape. It isn't until the fourth book of the series that we finally see the studious side of Neville as he helps the protagonist of the book win a portion of a wizarding tournament with magic herbs. In the fifth book Neville joins a student-run rebel army that tried to put an end to the corrupt doings of the wizarding ministry. During his time with the army Neville's wizarding abilities improve greatly and he is even seen as a big asset to the other students within the infantry. In the seventh, and final book of the series, while the three main characters were off dilly-dallying and collecting the things needed to defeat the stories main antagonist, Neville re-formed the student army and becomes the leader of it. When the last battle of the series breaks out Neville is there, fighting alongside our stories' heroes and becomes one of them himself. In the epilogue it is explained that years after that last battle Neville went back to the wizarding school and our village idiots becomes the schools' favorite the Herbology Professor.
In every book, movie, show, or tale, there is bound to be at least one or more stock characters. A stock character is a stereotypical character in the works of art (books, movies, poems, shows, plays, etc.). For example, in Star Wars alone, there is the wise old man, Yoda; the hero, Luke Skywalker; and the villain, Darth Vader, among others. In the TV show The Bing Bang Theory, there are a slew of stock characters including Sheldon, Leonard, Howard, and Raj who are all the nerd stock character. In the movie White Chicks, they are representing the dumb blonde stock character, an in the movie He's Just Not That Into You, Gigi and Alex are a strong example of the friends turning into lovers stock character. There are too many stock characters to even count, but my favorite stock character is Sue from The Middle. Sue is an example of the forgotten middle child stock character. She has an older brother, Axl, who is fairly popular and is good at sports despite is low academic achievements. Her younger brother, Brick, is socially challenged but extremely smart. With so much attention going to her brothers, Sue, who works very hard at whatever she does even though she rarely gets accepted or even recognized for her work but still keeps a positive attitude, is often forgotten. Once in this television series, the family got so wrapped up in everyone else's hectic schedules that they all forgot about Sue's birthday, however, when they finally remembered well after hey had al been asleep for a while, Sue was overjoyed, despite being the forgotten middle child.
My absolute favorite type of stock character is a Geek, which can be defines as someone who is generally not athletic, a fan of super heroes, science fiction and fantasy, especially of Video Games, Comic Books, Films and Roleplaying Games. With Sheldon Cooper’s booming popularity on television he would be the obvious choice, but instead I have chosen Steve Smith, from the animated television show, American Dad. Steve is a high school student in Langley Falls, Virginia, he doesn’t play on any sports teams or like to participate in gym class along with his three best friends Snot, Toshi, and Barry. Steve spends most of his free time playing video games or discussing the latest comic books iterations with his previously mentioned friends. Also fitting with the Geek stock example Steve wears glasses and is as good as blind without them. Another common theme with Geeks is that they don’t have many friends and can never seem to hold down a girlfriend for very long. Steve also seems to be resistant to being whipped into shape and being made athletic, as Steve’s father, Stan Smith, is a CIA agent and is in tip top condition and attempts to do the same to his son. Steve’s love of science-fiction is a little complicated. Years ago Stan, Steve’s father, was stationed in Area 51, one day aliens broke loose and set the laboratory aflame. Stan was sent in as an attempt to quell the riot, he eventually found an English speaking alien, Roger. Stan was going to kill Roger, but was struck by falling debris and Roger saved him. Later Stan wakes up with Roger by his side an is going to turn him in, but Roger points out that he “owes him one” and instead of turning him in he allows Roger to live with him and his family, I believe that Steve loves sci-fi because he knows that aliens are real.
Stock characters are based off of stereotypes and hackneyed caricatures. Writers often exaggerate these characters or capitalize on the fact that most people understand who they are meant to be. Melodramas especially relied on stock characters, usually consisting of the same set of cliched characters. Most popular in melodramas are the innocent young maiden, her older relative, the hero, the villain and the dark lady. One particular melodrama that I think really captures the essence and even to a degree parodies the regular stock characters is The Wild Flowering of Chastity. The plot isn't really all that important because the characters in this short play are exaggerated to the point that they almost make fun of their stereotypes. From the names to the actions these characters are great examples of stock characters. The protagonist is Chastity Wildflower; a young, naive, chaste and innocent girl. She lives with her elderly Aunt Absinthe who is frequently found with a bottle in hand and somewhat easily manipulated. The villain in this melodrama is the nefarious Desmond Darkacre; a fast talking, tall, dark stranger with bad intentions and a quick wit( and a notably ridiculous laugh but that's not important). Terrence Truelung is Chastity's white knight and true love who is determined to prove his undying devotion to her. His role is that of the errant-knight who is somewhat lacking in brains but makes up for it in brawn and heart. Chastity has two sisters who left for the big city. Violet Nightshade who went to the city and became a "woman of the night" and returns to stir up trouble between Chastity and Terrance represents sin and temptation. Very femme fatale. Lastly there is Melody Bopeep, the fallen woman. Melody was once like Chastity until she left home and eventually fell from grace. Obviously these characters are a bit over the top but they are part of a satirical melodrama so it works wonderfully.
A tragedy stricken hero is a type of stock character that experiences a loss or tragedy that leads them to help or save another character. Zac Efron is an actor who plays the role of various stock characters in multiple movies. Zac Efron plays a tragedy stricken hero in The Lucky One, 17 Again, and in Charlie St.Cloud. In The Lucky One, a Efron plays a veteran whose entire platoon is killed. Efron's character Logan merely escapes the disaster when he steps aside to pick up a picture of a woman addressed to a man named Ace. Once returning from deployment, Logan set out on a journey to find the woman whose picture he believes spared his life. Once he finds this woman, he becomes close with her and her son. Efron's character is a tragedy stricken hero because his journey and loss results in him saving the life of the woman whose picture saved him's son. In 17 Again, Zac Efron's character Mike is going through a divorce with his wife while also being issued the silent treatment by his two high school children. Mike is sent back to the same high school as his children as a seventeen year old. While in high school, (for the second time) Mike becomes more aware of the daily struggles of his children and begins to give them tips on how to stand up for themselves. Although Efron's character is experiencing a struggle himself, he utilizes this time to strengthen the bond he has with his children and to help the socially and morally. Zac Efron's most significant role as this stock character is played in my personal favorite of his movies, Charlie St.Cloud. Efron acts as the main character of Charlie St.Cloud. Once Charlie graduates from high school, he makes a pact to his younger brother Sammy that he would practice his pitching with him everyday at sunset until he went away to college. Unfortunately, Sammy's life is cut short in a car accident. Charlie is also killed in this automobile accident, but he is revived by a paramedic who believes, "there is no such thing as a lost cause." Charlie works at the cemetery where his high school best friend and younger brother are both buried. One day when he is doing his morning duties, Charlie runs into a girl from his graduating class that is now a competitive sailor. One day when his friend takes her boat for a test sail, she ends up missing. Charlie sets out to sea to search for her. When Charlie is on the water he finally realizes his destiny, the reason why he was brought back to life after the accident. Charlie finds her and saves her life by keeping her warm with his body heat. In each of these movies, Zac Efron's character is either suffering or has experienced a tremendous loss, but despite these losses he ends up saving another character's life rather than wallowing in his own pity.
A stock character is a character who who exhibits a certain trait that is very obvious from the beginning. One stock character type is a nerd. A nerd is someone who is overly intelligent and often socially-impaired. A nerd usually wants to to good in school and enjoys doing work. They often love to read and love movies such as Star Wars and Star Trek. Nerds often aren't good at sports and aren't very social, except with they're other 'nerd' friends. Nerds often love technology or science and often get a job in one of those fields. Sometimes, they have so much intellect that they often lack common sense. An example of a nerd stock character is Sheldon Cooper from The big Bang Theory. Sheldon Cooper is a theoretical physicist. His job alone shows the nerd stock character. He has an extremely high IQ of 187 and was a child prodigy, but he has almost no social skills. Despite his extreme intelligence, he lacks common sense He has a very small understanding in humor, irony, and sarcasm, and he has difficulty recognizing it. He originally claimed to have a master's degree and two doctoral degrees, but this list has increased. Sheldon has a vast knowledge in many subjects such as physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, cosmology, algebra, calculus, differential equations, vector calculus, computers, electronics, engineering, history, geography, linguistics, football and various languages like Finnish, Spanish, French, Mandarin Chinese, Persian, Arabic, and Klingon from Star Trek. He also shows great talent in music. He knows how to play the piano, recorder and theremin and having perfect pitch.Sheldon Cooper, having extensive intellect but a lack of social skills, is a perfect example of a nerd stock character type.
The stock character I choose is a conniving villain. This characters in stories, even though they are evil, I find them interesting. The word conniving means given to or involved in conspiring to do something immoral, illegal, or harmful. A conniving villain often does immoral, illegal, and harmful. Though they do these not so pleasant things these characters always have a clever way of doing things which is what I find most interesting about them. One stock characters who is a conniving villain is Voldemort from the Harry Potter series. Voldemort is the dark lord he has so much evil power that some wizards event call him "he who shall not be named." At first he is not an actually physically present and is just talked but. But by the forth book he becomes a character. He is a very powerful evil wizard who used evil spells the to bad things. He is a conniving villain because he breaks every moral law within human standards and legal law with in the wizard world. He is a very clever villain because he did one of the most unthought of and interesting thing. Since he is so evil that has almost no heart and evil soul. Wishing magic of course he split his souls into seven spreads pieces which were called horcruxes. He hid, them most in objects but one in his pet and one even in Harry. He did this because he wanted to be immortal. This is such and evil but yet clever because In order for him to die all the objects the pieces of his souls were placed in would have to be destroyed. This would include Harry himself being destroyed and he would have to die too. At the end of the series all the horcruxes were destroyed even they one in Harry. The soul of Voldemort within him was able to be destroyed and Harry was still able to live.
My favorite stock character is Karen Smith from Mean Girls. She is the stereotypical dumb blonde. Stock characters are easy to pick out for the audience; some of which include geeks and jocks. Karen is known around the school for being completely clueless. Whether she is trying to use her boobs to tell if it's already raining or hooking up with her cousin. There are some screws missing. Even when another character tried to cheer her up by saying she wasn't stupid, even she admitted she was. She then went on to try to fit her whole fist in her mouth, talk about talent. Stock characters are typically stereotypes. If they tried to make the red haired girl the dumb bimbo it would be less believeable. Since Karen was a blonde she followed the stereotype, thus making it more believe able. Being a blonde too I thought it was comical to see some of the stuff she did because I could see myself doing the same thing. It's nice to take a step back and be able to laugh at yourself. She said the same throughout the story always just going with the flow. What I loved about Karen was that even though she wasn't the smartest she's had the biggest heart. She wanted everyone to be as happy as her. Raising the question is being oblivious really bliss? When I grow up I don't want to be like Karen, but I would like to be as happy and care free as her.
A stock character is a character in movies or novels representing a type of person in a stereotypical manner. These types of characters are very memorable by the people experiencing the story because of their distinctive, stereotypical ways. One type of stock character that sticks out to me is the absent-minded professor.
In the trilogy of movies from "Back to the Future," Doc. Emmett Brown is one of the so-called absent-minded professors. Throughout the movies the audience experiences all of the different inventions by him, especially his famous time machine. In the first movie, Doc. invents a time machine out of a DeLorean to travel back in time and into the future. He is so invested in this time machine that while testing it in the mall parking lot a group of men come and start shooting at him. Luckily while Marty was in the past he warned the past Doc about it so he did not die! Due to the fact that he is so engrossed in his work and is sometimes so absent-minded, people in Hill Valley refer them as strange, eccentric, and even insane. Throughout the trilogy, Doc. is only shown with having a couple friends (Marty, Jennifer, and Clara) another aspect of being so time consumed with his projects and does not have enough time to have a social life or even friends his own age. However, being an absent-minded professor can be beneficial at times. For example in the third movie when Doc. and Marty are stranded in 1885, Doc. knows just how to get back to the future without the fuel usually used.
My favorite stock character that I have chosen is Chuck Bass from the hit television series Gossip Girl. Chuck Bass is the typical bad boy heartthrob that every teenage girl falls for. Yet, just as Tom in The Devil and Tom Walker, Chuck Bass is the multi-billionaire, conniving villain that blackmails everyone he knows in order to reach his own success and wealth. He even blackmails the one he loves the most in order to get what he wants. In an entire season, Chuck makes it his personal goal to get the girl he wants, even though she doesn't want him. This girl is Blair Waldorf. The more he tries to win her over, the farther she strays from him. Of course, in typical Chuck Bass fashion, Chuck decides to blackmail her. In the complicated process, he eventually gets her friends to go against her, so that she is lonely and vulnerable. This resulted in her running back to Chuck. In another episode, the infamous power couple, Chuck Bass and Blair Waldorf, decide to "take down," or blackmail, Georgina Sparks in order to help out their close friend and get revenge. In this way, Chuck hurts people in the worst way possible in order to gain his own satisfaction. One last example of Chuck Bass's conniving behavior just may have been his worst mistake. Chuck Bass, owning a hotel in NYC, was about to lose the hotel to his spiteful brother. Just like Chuck Bass, his brother was very conniving, too. He told Chuck he could have his hotel back if he could have Blair Waldorf, the love of Chuck's life. Chuck, desperate to be wealthy and successful, traded Blair for the hotel, making the worst mistake of his life. He realized he made a horrible mistake and did everything he could to win back Blair, eventually being successful. This shows exactly how much of a stock character Chuck is. He seems despicable from these examples, but his handsome looks and desirable relationship with Blair make every teenage girl fall in love with Chuck. He is definitely my favorite stock character.
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The blonde airhead, also known as "the dumb blonde," is seen in countless, movies, shows, and books. A blonde is often characterized as a popular pretty girl with nothing on her mind but how she looks and how popular she is. The blonde airhead never does well in school and has no common sense to go along with it. Her mind is always somewhere else and never knows what's going on. The phrase "blondes have more fun" also goes along with this. The idea is that they spend their time doing stupid things and having fun doing things other people would find crazy. I like this character because most of the time, they are completely care free. They don't waste life stressing over school and work but rather enjoy the short time they have on earth. Typically they are not mean to anyone, they are to stupid to be. They are always funny, likable, and truly happy. A famous blonde airhead is Karen from "Mean Girls." She is blonde, beautiful, and completely clueless. No matter what she smiles and goes with the flow, her life is carefree and happy. She loves deeply and because of her stupidity is very innocent and kind. In life jokes are made when you do something stupid saying, you should change your hair color for brunettes or typical for blondes. This stereo type will always exist and whether it's good or bad is an opinion for us each to make.
Throughout many types of storytelling, whether it be TV, theater, literature, movies or video games, there are always characters to be shown. In order for a story to be captivating, authors usually use fun characters that will grab your attention but because there are only so many good ideas, many of these characters fall under stock categories. Maybe you have the underdog, the nerd, the miser, the idiot, the side kick, there’s many types of stock characters. While each one works, my favorite has to be the character who is relegated to comic relief. Usually this character would also fall under the side kick category. I like to think of myself as someone who enjoys laughing and someone with a good sense of humor, and I am drawn to people who are the same way. It’s for that reason, that when there is a character who exists to lighten the mood or add fun to a story, I tend to like that character. Characters such as Krillen from Dragon Ball, Maya Fey from Ace Attorney, or even Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet. Each one of them, while serving their own purpose in the stories of their respective works of art, usually have a joke or something witty to say when you see them, something to make you laugh or smile amidst all the seriousness or tension that the story may offer. Krillen is a good example. In Dragon Ball, Krillen is the best friend of the protagonist Goku. That means that Krillen tends to be always present for any major events that may occur. However, Krillen is far weaker than Goku and as a result, in a fight he tends to be insignificant (except for moral support). Instead he stands at the ready to offer a joke or do something funny or take the audience’s minds off of what is actually occurring. While Krillen is a great example, I think the perfect example of comic relief is Maya Fey. In all the books I’ve read and TV shows that I have watched, and any story that has held a place in my heart, Maya Fey is perhaps my favorite character in anything. In the Ace Attorney games, Phoenix Wright is tutored by a lawyer named Mia Fey. Mia is brutally murdered in the second case of the first Ace Attorney game, leaving her sister Maya, the prime suspect. When no one else can take her case, because of the real killer blackmailing every other lawyer, Phoenix decides to take her case. Phoenix finds the truth and complicates the real killer, with the help of Maya, who through her love for both Mia and Phoenix is able to contact Mia even after death. Mia leaves her law firm to Maya who gives it to Phoenix leaving them as co-workers. Not only that but now that they own the law offices and the apartment that came with it, Phoenix and Maya live together making them really close, to the level of best friends. Maya works as Phoenix’s assistant and almost as your guide through the game in a way. Maya is best described as a bright and jumpy person, she’s always quick to try and cheer everyone up and she always has something fun to say. For example, Phoenix points out a step ladder, however Maya calls it a ladder, Phoenix goes to correct her and she tells him that he’s reading too much into things, and Phoenix just kind of responds “Uhm… Okay?” and thinks that she must be crazy. It’s this type of thing that she does when a situation is tense. Just a light joke or quip to lighten the mood, partnered with her happy go lucky attitude. Providing comic relief when you need it most. It’s for that reason that I feel a comic relief character is the best type of stock character.
The stock character I chose is the Blonde Airhead. The blonde airhead stock character would genrally be described as a popular girl (sometimes guy) character who lacks a lot of intelligence and gets by on his or her looks. A character that fits the role of this stock character very well is Karen Smith from Mean Girls. Mean girls is a movie about a group of popular, rich girls who take in a girl who has been homeschooled all her life an transform her personality and image to be just like theirs. Mean girls has a lot of stock characters within it and Karen Smith represents the blonde airhead chracter very well because the only reason she is the "the plastics" is because of her looks. Throughout the movie, she continues to show her lack of intelligence and shows that it is easy for people to only be accepted because of the way they look. The "blonde airhead" tends to be a very funny and enjoyable character because they have a sense of innocnece to them (even though Karen Smith is a popular girl). Throughout Mean Girls, Karen will add an emptyheaded comment which lightens the mood of any situation, without her realizing of course. Karen Smith is a character that I enjoy a lot because she is very carefree and ditzy and doesn't really pay attention to what other people think of her. I enjoy how Karen is able to turn any scene into a funny scene by just saying one thing.
I never noticed before how often stock characters appear in entertainment and literature, but when now that I am thinking about it, I can come up with many fictional people that would fit a specific stereotype. One of the stock characters that I find most memorable is the "over-protective mother" character. Mrs. Benson from iCarly portrays this role very well. Her son Freddy can be somewhat geeky and works the camera for the web show he has with his friends Carly and Sam. Mrs. Benson often embarrasses him in front of them. For example during one episode, she insisted that he only use spoons to eat because forks are too dangerous and sharp. Also Freddy is not allowed to wear open-toed shoes because she has the fear that he will trip and fall down. However, this is not the worst of it. Mrs. Benson has also taken things to a greater extreme before. She devised a plan with Carly to convince Freddy and Sam to break up when they started to date in later episodes because she believed Sam was not good enough for her son, based solely on the fact that she used to tease and hurt him. In one of the earlier episodes of the show, Mrs. Benson helped the doorman Lubert to recover from when a prank that had him hospitalized. As her nature of a over-protective mother, her instincts were to spend more time with the doorman instead of her son because he was not hurt. Lubert was. Things did go back to normal and as always with the episodes Mrs. Benson is in, she brings attention to Freddy in some way, usually negative as her remarks cause him to be picked on more. It is often said that it is the thought that counts, and if that is true, Mrs. Benson really does care for her son. She just has a strict and over-powering way of showing it.
A stock character is a character who has a predictable personality that is common and easily recognizable. I chose Oogway from the Movie Kung Fu Panda. Oogway is a representation of a wise and old stock character. In the movie, he is know as the creator of Kung Fu and the previous senior master of the Jade Palace. He was known as the greatest Kung Fu warrior in history and was respected by all the people of China. He was known for his wisdom, knowledge, and experience. He taught Kung Fu to Shifu. Shifu later taught the Furious Five, who were five masters of Kung Fu that protected the Valley of Peace. In his early years, Oogway created the legend of a "Dragon Warrior," whom was thought to learn the secret of Kung Fu and be greater than Oogway, after they read the Dragon Scroll. Oogway heard of the news that Tai Lung, who was an evil Kung Fu master, was coming back to the Valley of Peace for revenge on Oogway for not choosing him as the Dragon Warrior. He decided to choose the Dragon Warrior after hearing this, and chooses Po. Po had fallen in front of Oogway when he was choosing from the Furious Five. Shifu and the Furious Five believed that he had made a mistake, but he denied it, saying that the universe was never wrong. Po soon started to train with them and was told that he would never be the Dragon Warrior. In the end, he discovers that the true secret to becoming a Kung Fu master was to believe in oneself, and that this power was only found within. Po defeats Tai Lung in the end and proves that Oogway was right in choosing him as the Dragon Warrior after all. They all doubted Oogway's choice, with it ending up that he truly is the wisest person in China.
"Rudy, Rudy, Rudy", comes from the famous movie "Rudy", where a boy named Rudy is portrayed as a contender which is a competitive underdog. An underdog is someone who is not as good at things as others and is expected to lose. In Rudy, Rudy's dream is to attend and play football at the University of Notre Dame. His family and others don't believe he can get in and play football but that doesn't stop Rudy. At first Rudy doesn't get into Notre Dame but works hard at Holy Cross and gets in as a sophomore. To fulfill his absolute goal, Rudy tries out for the football team. No one thinks Rudy has the potential to make the football team. At tryouts Rudy is always gets beat by everyone because of his size and lack of talent. But to Rudy heart is more important and that is what he had. After countless hours of struggle, Rudy finally makes the team and now wants to suit up for a game. Since Rudy is now on the team he is probably the worst player which makes him the underdog. The season is at the end and Rudy still has not suited up for one game, but his teammates persuade Coach Dan Devine to let him suit up. In the game everyone starts chanting Rudy and Dan Devine finally puts him in. Rudy doesn't just get in the game but he makes the final tackle. I enjoy this character because he relates to me in a lot ways. The thing I really like about Rudy is that he never gave up throughout his career and was always chasing his dreams. Rudy is kinda like me, I am the usually the underdog in sports, but I have high dreams to accomplish such as going to Notre Dame. If I had to pick my role model and motivator it would be Rudy Ruettiger.
Stock characters can be found in almost every work of fiction. One of my favorite types of stock character would be the comic relief characters. They bring some comedy into the film that can help break up serious scenes or themes. My favorite character for comic relief is Mushu the dragon from Disney's "Mulan." Mushu is a small dragon who brings comedy with him everywhere, whether it be a simple line or a long explanation with actions. He joins up with Mulan, a girl who plans to join the war in place of her father, and accompanies her on her journey. She dresses like a man because women were not allowed to join the war, and Mushu helps keep her secret. He has a sidekick named Cri-Kee, a cricket who helps add to Mushu's humorous actions. When Mulan accidentally insults him, he exclaims, "Dishonor. Dishonor on you, dishonor on your cow!" Later on in the movie, he takes care of Mulan while she trains for the war. He includes short lines of intended humor throughout his conversations with her. As she leaves one day, he remarks to Cri-Kee, "My little baby off to destroy people." In another scene, Mulan's cover is almost blown as she bathes. To save her, Mushu bites the men underwater who are also bathing, giving her time to escape. Mushu exits the water and begins vigorously brushing his teeth, disgusted by biting the men. As they leave, more men run to the pond to bathe. Mushu remarks that he will not bite another man for her as he squeezes the toothpaste directly into his mouth rather than on the brush. Throughout the movie, he keeps up with his comic relief that helps break apart the serious scenes. Mushu is my favorite character in the movie "Mulan," and he is a great example of a comic relief character.
The stock character is a device used in stories. A stock character is defined as a exaggerated personification of a familiar stereotype. They create a familiar and recognizable character without sacrificing time from the story for character development. This allows the readers to instantly recognize the character's personality and helps us focus on the events of the story.
A common stock character is wise and thuaghtful leader. An good example of this type of sage is Professor X from the X men comics. This charecter leads a group of super heroes called the X-men. Unlike his agressive pupils, the professor does not use physical streangth to achieve his ends. Instead, he'll methodically defeat his enemies using thoutful tactics and brain power. He'll sometimes impart wisdom on his super hero students and he aclways is teaching.
Almost every fictional story has stock characters of some sort, such as, the damsel in distress, underdog, action hero, and my favorite, the mastermind villain. One of my favorite villains in film is the Joker from the Dark Knight. The classic evil mastermind is a stock character that always tries to come up with a perfect plan to steal money, kill people, or take down the hero. In the movie The Dark Knight, the Joker is trying to kill Batman or expose who he really is. In the very beginning of the movies, the Joker displays his mastermind abilities by robbing a bank. When setting up this robbery, he secretly told each of his henchmen to kill one another like it was a part of the plan. In the end, the Joker kills the last man alive and takes all of the money for himself. Later, the Joker gets another plan to draw out Batman by giving two ferries a detonator, one to blow up another. One ferry is filled with normal people and the other is filled with prison guards and criminals. If one doesn't blow up the other, then they both blow up. When the police try and take down the Joker's men watching the ferries, when it is revealed that the Joker's men put their masks on hostages to trick the police. In the end, Batman is able to find the joker and disable the bombs attacked to the ferries. I always like the joker because of his erratic behavior and crazy schemes.
A stock character is a character who has a predictable personality that is common and easily recognizable. The blonde airhead, also known as "the dumb blonde," is seen in countless, movies, shows, and books. A blonde is often characterized as a popular, pretty girl or guy with nothing on his/her mind but how he/she looks and how popular he/she is. The blonde airhead never does well in school and has no common sense. Their mind is always somewhere else and they never know what's going on. The phrase "blondes have more fun" also goes along with this. The idea is that they spend their time doing stupid things and having fun doing things other people would find crazy. Typically they are not mean to anyone, they are too stupid to be. They are always funny, likable, and truly happy. A character that fits the role of this stock character very well is Karen Smith from Mean Girls. She is only popular because of her looks and she never understands what is happening. Sometimes she even blurts out random ideas because she was daydreaming. She's always happy with her head in the clouds and only sees the good in every situation. Karen Smith is the epitome of the blonde airhead with no clue what is going on.
Even though comic book heroes are born with or earned superhuman abilities, sometimes the super-villains they fight are too much for just one person. This is where the stock character 'side-kick' comes in to help. Side-kicks are usually younger than the heroes that they fight alongside with, and they are usually regarded as less intelligent or subordinate to them. examples of side-kicks are people like Dr. Watson to Sherlock Holmes, Tonto to the Lone Ranger, and Chewbacca to Han Solo, but out of all of the different sidekicks, Robin the Boy Wonder, Batman's sidekick is my favorite. There are a variety of different characters that become Robin, Dick Grayson, Burt Ward, and in one universe, Damian Wayne, the son of Bruce Wayne takes on the responsibility to fight alongside his father. In most of the Batman series, Robin is a young man that is studying under Bruce Wayne's care and assists Batman in his fight against crime. Even though Robin also left Batman to become his own lone hero, Nightwing, and is also the leader of the Teen Titans, he is most predominately known as Batman's side-kick. I think Robin's most heroic moment was in the movie "Batman and Robin"(1997) when he defeats Poison Ivy who infatuated Batman with a poison kiss that made him instantly fall in love with her. When he is unable to knock Batman out of this state, he must fight Poison Ivy alone and he defeats her, negating the effect she has on Batman
The stock character that I chose is Karen Smith from Mean Girls. Karen is a "dumb blonde" type of stock character. She stays the same throughout the movie and does not, at any point, gain knowledge of any kind. There are many "dumb blondes" in movie that I have seen. I like her for many reasons. Mean Girls is a very humorous movie and she contributes to the plot and the humor very well. She is also a stereotypical dumb blonde. Since she is a stereotype, she does not change. I also like her because she is a kind person because she does not really understand when people are being mean to her. Also, because she is so dumb, she is very innocent and gets very surprised when people are mean to her.
I'm doing my blog on the stock character of the mad scientist. My example is the man who made Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein. He was definitely a mad scientist. Now, most of these characters have dark and mysterious back stories. They often do their experiments for the better of mankind. Victor however, was trying to be a godlike being. He created his monster out of arrogance. A young man, Victor was interested in science and chemistry and the relationship between life and death. During college, Victor was obsessed with the idea of creating life out of inanimate objects. He wanted to be glorified by what he created. His obsession began to drive Victor insane. His obsession drove him crazy. When he finally created his monster, instead of being loved, he was attacked by his monster. Victor wants to cheat death and he becomes consumed by his ego. He wanted to be a human god. After recreating a monster out of various parts of corpses, he becomes repulsed by his creatures ugliness. He falls into a deep depression and shuns his creation. Victor believes that beliefs are the same as rules and therefore lives by them. During his early life, Victor lost the love of his mother and therefore believed he could have some control over the fate of people's lives. Victor summed up all of his academic accomplishes into finding the formula o create life. This perfectly exemplified the stock character of a mad scientist.
In the book, Faking 19, M is the basic popular, rich princess. This is my favorite stock character because they are usually extremely obnoxious making them comical. M is all about image. She puts up a fake facade of perfection because to her reputation and how people see her are very important. She is a complete princess who will find a way to obtain everything she wants even if it hurts her best friend, Alex, who is the main character of the story. As the story progresses, Alex realizes that M was wrong and that popularity is not everything. M has more trouble realizing this and she uses her popularity and money to “win” the heart of a guy, Trevor. However, Trevor sees through her phoniness and dumps her. In the end, Alex realizes that M may never change completely, but that does not mean alex cannot change. She stays friends with M, but keeps her distance from the trouble M creates for herself as a result distancing herself from M. M starts to realize it is wrong to deceive people. However, she refuses to change her behavior because reputation is still the most important thing to her. M is an example of a popular, rich princess, which is a common stock character. She is easy to recognize in a novel because she has many specific traits related to her that only work for her character. M has most if not all of these traits. She is rich, popular, a princess, and has the facade of perfection put up to the world. Usually this stock character is played by a female, but there are examples of men playing this character.
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