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Stock Character Cliches
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Stock Character Cliches
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Change:Green Skinned Space Babe Haunted HeroHenchmanHerald Heroic ScientistHigh School Rejects Hippie ChickGranola Girl Honest ThiefHooker With A Heart Of GoldHorny Scientist Hot Librarian Hot Scientist Ill-Fated LoversImpeded Messenger Implacable Man Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain IngénueInspector JavertInspirationally Disadvantaged Intellectual Animal Invisible Guardian Angel
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Change:(aka the AEAIFCSSCSS) (AEAIFCSSCSS)(c) Guy Hoyle, 2006Similar to "That Last #@!% Cliche" table from the Risus Companion (p. 7), the cliches on this table can, with some
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Stock Character Cliches
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Change:(c) Guy Hoyle, 2006Similar to "That Last #@!% Cliche" table from the Risus Companion (p. 7), the cliches on this table can, with some adjustments, be
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Stock Character Cliches
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Change:Trickster MentorTroubled But Cute TwinsTyranical BossTyrannical FatherVigilanteVillainous Crossdresser Wacky GuyWacky neighborWaif ProphetWarningWarrior Poet Well Intentioned Extremist Western Terrorists Whiz KidWicked Step-MorWicked WitchEvil WizardWomanizerWorthy Opponent WunderkindEnfant TerribleYellow Peril Yuppie CoupleZen SurvivorCredit must
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Change:Whiz KidWicked Step-MorWicked WitchEvil WizardWomanizerWorthy Opponent WunderkindEnfant TerribleYellow Peril Yuppie CoupleZen Survivor Credit must be given to the Stock Characters article at Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_character ) and the TV Tropes website ( http://tvtropes.org ), from which most of these cliches were drawn.
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Characters and Cliches
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Aug 2 2006, 2:39 PM EDT |
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Characters and Cliches
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Characters and Cliches
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Aug 2 2006, 2:38 PM EDT |
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Change: A nigh-universal list of cliches, suitable for use in a variety of genres. cliches Comedy, ToonsPure silly stuff. Examples: Bugs Bunny, Roadrunner, Pinky & The Brain, PeeWee's Big Adventurecharacters | clichés CastawaysGilligan's Island inspired characters and clichés. characters | clichés Cthulhu/HorrorScary stuff. characters | clichés Cyberpunk
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Stock Character Cliches
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Aug 2 2006, 2:33 PM EDT |
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Stock Character Cliches
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Aug 2 2006, 2:31 PM EDT |
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Change:Similar to "That Last #@!% Cliche" table from the Risus Companion (p. 7), the cliches on this table can, with some adjustments, be used for virtually any genre and any campaign. When you're having trouble thinking up useful cliches for your character, take a look at this list! Absent-Minded Professor
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Stock Character Cliches
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Pulp Clichés
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Change: Know all about ghosts, set up cameras to catch ghosts on film, disprove fake ghosts, get rid of real ghosts Occult ScholarDetective Know weird phenomena,Chasing remember strange names,ghosts, findfinding ancient incantation Bookshop owner Obtain obscure titles,tomes, dust shelves, know where any book inputting the
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Change:Having several Ph. D.s, being built like an Olympic athlete Masked Crusaders Solving unusual crimes or unraveling bizarre mysteries, Masked Crusaders are the predecessors of the superhero. Though usually possessed of
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Change: having a sense of honor, negotiating honestly, allowing wounded hero to escape again to fight another day Yellow Peril being inscrutible, spouting mystic wisdom, using mystic powers Weird Stories Tales of strange monsters, eerie settings, nightmares, hauntings,and the occult.
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Pulp Clichés
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Change: ranting about how the world is nothing but grave mold and maggots, plotting the destruction of mankind Red Scare spreading Communism, forming evil unions Evil In A Bottle trying to escape from the bottle, wreaking evil genie havoc, being put back in a bottle Implacable Stalker apparently dying,
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Change:Not a Pulp genre unto themselves, villains can be found in almost any other sub-genre (though Evil youGenius plotting don’telaborately, findtorturing veryfiendishly, manyrevealing Orientalplans Mysticsprematurely, inescaping Westerns). secretly Bloodthirsty Fiend wield axe/knife/noose, surprise victim, hide wielding fromaxes, pursuers,laughing insanelymaniacally
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Pulp Clichés
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Jul 18 2006, 7:03 AM EDT |
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Change:Impenetrable jungles, deep caverns, and distant polar reaches are often crawling with representatives of unknown or long-extinct cultures. Often, you will find prehistoric animals such as dinosaurs have survived against all odds. (Thanks for many of these to Aaron Allston's "Lands of Mystery" game. Unfrozen Caveman reminiscing about
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Anachromerica: The Lay of the Land
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Change:Nicolito T. Tesla,Loveless, the so-called "Mayor of Tiny Town", conducts terrifying experiments with electricity, magnetism, and gravity. Some say he is building an entire Western town
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