Category:Stock Characters

A Stock Character is a character who is instantly recognizable to us from other stories; the gruff grandpa, the snooty cheerleader, the bratty younger sibling. You can sum up their role in the story in a sentence or less and people will know exactly what you're talking about. Such characters are frequently one-dimensional in nature. Sometimes that's okay. Sometimes that opens the door to Playing With Tropes as well. Sometimes two or more character types get combined as well.

A stock character can be an Archetype, an example of Characters As Device, or just very recognizable (Mary Sue).

See also=
 * Always Female
 * Always Male
 * Cops and Detectives
 * Elders
 * Heroes
 * Hired Guns
 * Western Characters
 * Loser Archetype
 * Love Interests
 * Mentors
 * Schoolteachers
 * Normal People
 * Occupation Tropes
 * Index of Pupils and Protoges
 * Seekers
 * Seers
 * Stock British Characters
 * Stock Japanese Characters
 * The Stoic
 * The Trickster
 * Con Man
 * Villains
 * Youngsters