stock character

The stock character is gone, but the name lives on.

Either way, he seems more a stock character than a real person.

A stock character, perhaps, and yet eventually someone did save him.

The stock characters work well enough in the context of the story.

Especially when the "art" is so often limited by its stock characters.

It seems that no matter where they worked the same stock characters appeared.

The "town drunk" is a stock character in Western popular culture.

Variations of the usual stock characters are all in place.

To be able to use a more diverse set of characters, he developed what is called a stock character.

It is also a stock character in comedy, often a lawyer or professor.

It was here that "Clown" came into use as the given name of a stock character.

Space pirates are a type of stock characters from science fiction.

The stock character of the Jewish lawyer appears frequently in popular culture.

This sort of comedy always had the same people in the stories ("stock characters").

Stereotypes are common in various cultural media, where they take the form of dramatic stock characters.

Or had we once been stock characters to her?

They are more likely to be called stock characters.

Ask students to suggest examples of similar stock characters from other texts.

A ninja is a stock character in Japanese and international popular culture.

Who ever said athletes were any better than other human beings or even the stock characters in television movies?

They're the same stock characters we've seen for years.

Played by young men of good family, the stock characters included:

Like many of the stock characters, the setting derives from those models.

It makes me sound like a stock character in a cheap melodrama.

The rake is another stock character associated with heavy drinking.