stock character

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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.

From Washington Post

Contois said that based on the trailer, the mini-movie seems self-aware of traditional gender stereotypes, such as the trope of the “sexy male chef,” a stock character that has emerged in pop culture since the mid-90s era of swashbuckling gods of the kitchen.

From Washington Post

But Barnes, Bianco, Villanueva and others actually recall a stock character from a different genre, one they have updated for modern times.

From Los Angeles Times

First, I got to be a stock character in a Puccini opera, one of those impoverished artists all but bursting into song in a great city’s underside.

From New York Times

It may be worth sticking around, however, for the show’s star, Iina Kuustonen, who makes the stock character of the local cop — coping with a deadbeat ex, a special-needs daughter, sexist co-workers and the big-footing of Finland’s version of the F.B.I. — entirely believable and appealing.

From New York Times