
Absent Father / Mother | Absent-minded Professor |
Adventurous Child | Aloof Boss |
Amateur Detective | Angry Loner |
Annoying Neighbor | Anthropomorphic Animals |
Anti-Hero | Audience Surrogate |
Author Surrogate | Authority Figure |
Awkward Nerd | Backstabbing Friend |
Bad Boss | Bad Boy |
Beautiful Loner | Big Wheel at the Cracker Factory |
Black Knight | Black Widow |
Blind Seer | Boy / Girl Next Door |
Career Criminal | Caregiver |
Chooser of the Chosen One | Chosen One |
Class Clown | Clumsy Hero |
Con Artist | Concept Personification |
Crazy Cat Lady | Crooked Cop |
Damsel in Distress | Dark Lord |
Dilettante | Disaffected Detective |
Don Juan | Drill Sergeant |
Dumb Jock | Dumb Muscle |
Egomaniac | Enchantress |
Everyman | Evil Matriarch |
Evil Twin | Fairy Godmother |
Fall Guy | Fallen Angel |
Father Figure | Femme Fatale |
Ferryman | Gentle Giant |
Gentleman Thief | Girl / Boy Genius |
God / Goddess | Good King / Queen |
Good Samaritan | Gossiping Servant |
Grande Dame | Grandstander Bully |
Great Imposter | Guardian Angel |
Hardboiled Gangster | Hardboiled Private Investigator |
Henchman / Thug | High Chair Tyrant |
Hillbilly | Hopeless Romantic |
Incompetent Gangster | Ingenue |
Intelligent / Deep Loner | Jester / Harlequin |
Kindhearted Princess | Last Man |
Liberator | Likable / Redeemable Villain |
Logical Leader / Captain / Professor | Logical Nerd |
Lone Hero | Loose Cannon |
Lovable Rogue | Loyal Friend / Partner |
Loyal Servant | Loyal Skeptic |
Machiavellian Villain | Mad Scientist |
Magician | Maiden |
Mama's Boy | Man Alone |
Manic Pixie Dream Girl | Mary Sue / Gary Stu |
Mean Popular Girl | Mother Figure |
Nefarious King / Queen | Nemesis |
Noble Savage | Old Wise One |
Oppressed Princess | Out-of-Towner |
Outcast | Outlaw |
Overinvolved Mother / Father | Peacemaker |
Personification of Joy | Personification of Mother Earth |
Personification of National Character (e.g. The American) | Personification of Old Age / Youth |
Personification of Peace | Personification of Sadness / Despair |
Personification of War / Destruction | Precocious Child |
Preppy | Prince Charming |
Prodigal Son | Rebel Without a Cause |
Rebellious Teen | Redneck |
Reluctant Hero | Reluctant Monster |
Reluctant Private Investigator | Rightful Heir / Ruler |
Robin Hood | Ronin |
Scorned Goddess | Scribe |
Scrooge | Seeker |
Shadow Leader | Shallow Rich Girl |
Shape-shifter | Sibling Rivalry (e.g. The More Successful Brother / Sister) |
Side Kick | Sleazy Politician / Lawyer / Businessperson |
Slow Burn | Social Climber |
Soubrette | Star-Crossed Lover |
Starving / Tortured Artist | Straight Man |
Strong Silent Type | Succubus / Incubus |
Superfluous Man | Superhero / Tortured Superhero |
Superhero Alter Ego | Supervillain / Villain |
Swashbuckler | The Addict |
The Advocate | The Alchemist |
The Beggar | The Brilliant Detective |
The Builder | The Conspiracy Theorist |
The Creator | The Crone |
The Crusader | The Curmudgeon |
The Cursed & Unlucky | The Diplomat |
The Eccentric Foreigner | The Environmentalist |
The Eternally Young | The Foil |
The Gigolo | The Giver |
The Glutton | The Gourmet |
The Healer | The Imposter |
The Improbable Survivor | The Innocent |
The Likable Troublemaker | The Lucky |
The Martyr | The Muse |
The Mystic | The Narcissist |
The Nice Guy | The Nonconformist |
The Novice | The Orphan |
The Perfectionist | The Pessimist |
The Philosopher | The Pilgrim |
The Pioneer | The Psychopath |
The Reformer | The Ruthless |
The Saboteur | The Sage |
The Savant | The Scapegoat |
The Shrew | The Sloth |
The Sociopath | The Stickler |
The Storyteller | The Therapist |
The Trickster | The Usurper |
The Vagabond | The Victim |
The Vigilante | The Weakling |
The Workaholic | Tomboy |
Town Fool / Village Idiot / Town Drunk | Tragic Hero |
Trickster | Troubled Vet |
True Believer | Tsundere |
Turncoat | Ubermensch |
Underdog Contender | Underling |
Unseen Character | Useful Idiot |
Voice of Reason | Wannabe Hero |
Weakling Prince | Whisky Priest |
Wicked Stepmother | Wingman |
Wise Fool | Witch / Warlock |
Yokel | Yuppie |
Overview: Archetypes | ||
Type | ||
Definition | An abstract person type that is used in literature to develop characters and social sciences to model behavior. | |
Flavors | Personality ArchetypeCharacter Archetype | |
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