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The actress even injects new life into a sci-fi stock character — the alien whose connection to emotion is theoretical.

From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2022

Because Neeson is so adept at rendering this stock character, he doesn’t always work very hard at it.

From Washington Post • Apr. 27, 2022

“He’s also very funny. It could have been a stock character but the writers were smart enough to craft a character that could show all the colors that Glynn has.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 21, 2020

Besson’s filmography mirrors the descent of this stock character so precisely, it could well all be his fault.

From The Guardian • Aug. 19, 2019

But that was evidently a convenient quotation of a stock character in controversy, just as πάντα δι᾽ αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο was even more commonly.

From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Burgon, John William