character archetypes
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archetypes
How many wheels?
How many legs?
Whowears this?
Are these answers always true?
Archetype
an original model; a prototype.
Carl Jung
Sigmund Freud
(in Jungian psychology) a primitive mental image inherited from man's earliest ancestors, and supposed to be present in the collective unconscious.
recurrent symbol or motif in literature, art, etc
In which game are there 72,084 different outcomes after two moves each?
What moves can each one do?
What are some common, recurring types of characters?
Archetypal characters
What do the following characters have in
common?
The old man wizard
Old
Wise
Often male
Larger world
Removed so the hero must
act alone
Can I teach this boy/girl?
Other old man wizards?
Hero
young
brave
handsome
naive
Can I slay the dragon?
Can you think of other heroes?
Name five female heroes
How is this hero different?
The dark hero
dark
dangerous
dark past
action
Will I do the right thing?
Who else is a dark hero?
There is nothing dark about this next archetype
sidekick
funny
loyal
Needs saving
Spot the sidekick
Can you think of other sidekicks?
Which type?
Love interest
young
female
attractive
Needs saving
Let’s find another archetype
The child
innocent
Needs protecting
Mostly actual
children
And another
She is a witch, but that’s not her real character
Mother
Nurturing
Caring
Selfless
Beautiful but rarely sexual
This is a witch of a different colour
Witch
Old
Ugly
Tricky
Female
Destructive
Sometimes the step mother
Can be magical, or not
What do these men do?
TheDestroyer
Verbal
Older
Strong
Evil
What defines these characters?
The Trickster or Deceiver
Mischievous
Underhanded
Double agent
Let’s go archetype spotting
Now let’s look for all the archetypes in
these stories
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Mix and match
Even simple hybrids give you a total of
121 possible characters
Hero/old-man wizard
Love-interest/destroyer
Innocent/destroyer
Here endeth the lesson
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