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a saying, image, or idea which has been used so much that it sounds terribly uncreative. The word “cliché” was originally French for the sound of a printing plate, which prints the same thing over and over.

Cliches can be more than just overused sayings (such as "drive me crazy" or "every cloud has a silver lining.") They can also include characters whose personalities are commonly seen throughout literature or television/movies.

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Look at this list of stock characters and choose a character cliche to investigate. What was the origin of the cliche? Find an example of this character in modern pop culture (either a tv show, movie, or book) that is not on that chart. NOTE: Some of these cliches may not be kind; in fact, some may be offensive and not socially acceptable by today's standards. The fact that these negative stereotypes appear in literature does, however, say something about the time period (however morally good or bad it may be now.) Be aware of this as you go through your list.

Suggestion: work backwards. Think of your favorite TV shows, movies, and books, and the characters you enjoy watching. Look at the list and see if anything matches up to that character.

Add your example here. Briefly describe your character trope and give your modern example, explaining how the modern character connects.  If you have a clip of the behavior, go ahead and include that as well.

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Petrarchan Lover:
- often pines, sulks, and writes love poems to an unattainable woman
- idealizes the woman without ever having had a relationship with her
- in love with the idea of love
- if the Petrarchan lover ends up having a relationship with the woman, he fails at being a Petrarchan lover because by becoming attainable, the woman becomes "impure"

Modern example: Ross Gellar in FRIENDS
Ross' history is that of a Petrarchan lover before he begins his relationship with Rachel. In his younger years, he deified Rachel but never talked to her and, during the first season of the show, he would get upset with Rachel for dating other men while also never bothering to make a move.

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The cliche I chose was the socially awkward boy, in society a lot of the time the boy that is very socially awkward ends up being very smart. This character can not always express his ideas clearly, but usually, when the ideas come out they are brilliant. They usually look a little weird, and at first, put people on edge, but their ideas can save lives. Which leads me to the character I chose, Shaun Murphy from The Good Doctor. On the show, he has some form of autism and is very socially awkward. Many people do not understand how to handle him at first because he cannot communicate very well. However, once other doctors gave him a chance it is clear that he is brilliant. Throughout the show, he is not very good at how he tells the patient their medical issue because in his mind he takes out the emotional part and just wants to solve the problem. On the show, he has been in multiple situations where he is a huge asset to the team of doctors and because of his disability can visual things such as the inside of a body easily to properly solve the solution in methods that save patients lives.

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The Village Idiot stock character is a character that comes off as stupid, but is actually wise deep down. The Village idiot is underestimated by those around because everyone thinks they are just stupid. This describes the character Dwight, from the show The Office. Dwight is often made fun and teased by Jim, but he is actually a smart businessman, seeing as he was the top salesman in all of Dunder Mifflin. The village idiot is a character that goes back to 1907, in George Bernard Shaw’s play Major Barbara.

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The cliche I have choose was the dream girl. The dream girl means that this character is perfect in every way, she is pretty, popular and most of the times the wealthiest. This character is hiding behind her true identity. Usually it has to do with the family issues, the character is neglected at home. Or this character has problems with social media, like someone is either bullying them or stalking them. For an example, on Pretty Little Liars, Alison, the main character was considered absolutely perfect. “Every boy want to be with her and every girl wanted to be her.”(Quote from when they first introduced her.) But know knew that Alison was being stalked by an anonymous figure.

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The cliche I chose was the nerd. According to Wikipedia a nerd is described as, “A socially-impaired, obsessive, or overly-intellectual person, often interested in doing well in school (academically and in terms of behavior) as well as reading books." In society nowadays, a nerd is viewed as and considered to be characterized as a very shy, intelligent, quiet person who's obsessed with school and books and who is socially awkward or lacking some social aspects. The character I chose to represent this cliche was Steve Urkel from Family Matters. Steve was always viewed as weird and someone you wouldn't want to hang out with. During Family Matters, Steve was always viewed as weird no matter what he did. Nerds are always viewed as weird or strange or not among the normal group of people much like Steve Urkel was in Family Matters.

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The cliche that I chose was the nerd. The nerd is described by Wikipedia as “A socially-impaired, obsessive, or overly-intellectual person, often interested in doing well in school (academically and in terms of behavior) as well as reading books”. A modern day example of this cliche is Sheldon Cooper from the Big Bang Theory. In fact, the main characters in this show are all ‘nerd’ cliches, and the series focuses on showing the depth of this type of character. Sheldon is a genius, who other than his immediate group of close friends, finds difficulty in connecting with others. He has extensive, seemingly infinite amounts of knowledge in many intellectual fields, but lacks skill in some social aspects. He does not like to break rules; in fact he often panics or acts irrationally when someone does. He also has great difficulty in admitting that he is wrong, or that someone knows more than himself. The nerd is a relatively new cliche, in fact Dr. Seuss coined the word in his book "If I Ran the Zoo" in 1950.

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The cliche that I chose was the jock. Often, many shows and books portray the jock as someone who lacks complete intelligence. Jocks are commonly defined as a group of people who focus their lives on sports and their social life. A modern day example of this cliche is Archie from the TV show Riverdale. Archie begins the television story being portrayed as a seemingly dumb kid with little knowledge or passion for anything except sports, working out, and partying. As the show progresses, you can see that there are more traits to each human being, jock or not, that may be hidden by the idea of a cliche or stereotype pinned on their back. Archie has extensive knowledge in activities such as football and basketball, which gave him the cliche of being a jock.

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The cliche that I chose was the "Mother's boy". This cliche is used to depict a man who has an extreme and abnormal attachment to his mother at an unfitting age. The characters that depict this cliche are ones that lack the traits that accompany their age, such as independence and self-reliance. The character of Howard Wolowitz on The Big Bang Theory is a perfect example of this cliche because he exhibits all of the traits that accompany it. Howard lives with his mother and is shown to be completely reliant on her alone even though he is past the age where this is viewed as socially acceptable. In agreement with Howard's character portrayal, the characters that fit this cliche are often teased and labeled as weak due to their fixation with their mother.

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The cliche that I chose was the "Every man". The Wikipedia page defined this character as "an ordinary individual. in the TV show "The Office" Toby Flenderson is a very boring individual who rarely really impacts anything. "you are a waste of life and you should give up" says Michael Scott. Michael, like allot of the rest of the characters in this show don't enjoy or care about Toby's existence at all. Unlike most "every men" Toby's boring and ordinary personality is actually used to enhance the hilariousness of the show. In most cases "everymen" would be characters that you might not even remember in a story.

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The cliche I am writing about it the village idiot. The village idiot is described as a person known locally for ignorance or stupidity; this character often turns out to be very brave and good, and sometimes, underestimated. The village idiot was treated as an acceptable form of disabled individual compatible with then-prevailing normative conceptions of social order. A modern example of this is George from Grey’s Anatomy. At first, George seems clueless and makes careless mistakes in surgery. He always seemed to mess up, and get off on the wrong foot with attendings, and people of higher authority. He is a little socially awkward, and doesn’t say the most intelligent things. However, later on in the show, he sacrifices his life and jumps in front of a bus to save a woman he didn’t even know.

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The stock/cliche character I chose is the girl/boy next door characters. These types of characters are usually ordinary or average.These characters aren't considered anything related to nerds or populars, but are instead considered "the regulars." My modern day example is Jonathan and Nancy from Stranger Things. They are both the average type of person but both go through something big. Jonathan is an average nice guy and Nancy is an ordinary girl, both with a good life. These cliche characters sometimes go through something extraordinary or big that will usually cause conflict or start the story. These characters are either the protagonists or the side characters.

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The cliche character I chose is the "fall guy." This is the scape goat. In the show, The Office, often Dwight K. Schrute. When Michael, the regional manager of Dunder Mifflin comes up with a bad idea, as he usually does, he blames it on his fall guy, Dwight. When Michael came up with the "golden ticket idea," when a customer receives a golden ticket in their shipping order, they receive 10% off of their order, it totally backfired. A huge client received all 5 golden tickets. Corporate was upset and could have fired Michael but he threw the idea on Dwight and they claimed Dwight came up with the idea. Although he was not the one to come up with the bad idea, he took the fall for it and all of the blame was on Dwight.He did this because he did not want Michael to get in trouble.

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The cliche character I chose was ´Space Nazis´. These types of characters are intergalactic antagonists who act in a very Nazi-like manner (i.e. totalitarianistic, highly militarized, carry out genocides or other types of mass killings). This is believed to have originated in pre-WWII days, when American novelist Edgar Rice Burroughs lampooned the Nazis with his fictional, Venus-based political faction called the Zanis in his novel ´Carson of Venus´.
My modern day example is the Galactic Empire in the original Star Wars trilogy (A New Hope to Return of the Jedi). The Galactic Empire are Space Nazis because they do several Nazi-like things throughout the films, including commiting mass genocides, having a dictator masquerading as a just leader, are highly industrialized/militaristic, and are on the whole just evil guys.

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The cliche that I chose was the mad scientist. I chose this because of the way that he reacts with kids and during their wild experiments. He would say statements to the kids like " Amazing, wonderful" He woukd also make the kids do amazing things that they have not done before

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The cliche character that I have chosen is the "girl next door" stereotype, which is a character that is typically described as  "normal" or just "ordinary" and are commonly seen as kind, caring, unassuming, innocent, etc. They are usually a main character or secondary character that gets along with another person in the story; and they are typically portrayed as the "childhood friend" or someone that the protagonist(s) are comfortable with. A modern day example of this character that relies on this cliche is Betty Cooper, a sophomore in high school and one of the main characters in CW's show Riverdale. She is known to be the "kind one" in her group, and does things that are moral and just. Betty is shown throughout the episodes to be caring towards others -especially those in her group- and is what someone may describe as "typical" (since she has a "nuclear" family, is on the cheer squad, etc.). She is shown to be ethical in her decisions and is constantly shown to be very empathetic towards others; like her friend Veronica or her boyfriend Jughead. Even in the show, Betty is described as "the girl next door" by the narrator, which certainly emphasizes that she plays into this stereotype.

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The cliche found throughout literature I chose was the Village Idiot, which, according to Wikipedia, is “A person known locally for ignorance or stupidity; this character often turns out to be very brave and good, and sometimes, underestimated.” An example in of this cliche/archetype in today’s world is Kevin Malone, an employee at the Dunder Mifflin Paper Company of Scranton Pennsylvania, which is led by the self proclaimed “Best Boss in the World”, Michael Scott on the television show The Office. Kevin, one of three accountants along with Oscar Martinez and Angela Martin, is known throughout the office has being stubborn, immature, incompetent, and as having a peculiar sense of humor, largely due to his disregard for personal boundaries. Despite all of these seemingly negative qualities, Kevin is truly at heart a kind, likeable, ingenious, and creative. The audience receives very little glimpses of his ingenuity and during the short Kevin Cooks Stuff in the Office, finds a way to bend office rules, saying “rules say I can't bring beer into the office, but they don't say anything about making beer in the office." He did graduate from college with an associate's degree, so he obviously is not a complete moron. In the end, Kevin Malone is a goofy accountant and always the one to crack a joke. He may be viewed throughout the office as their immature, lazy, ignorant, comedic, stubborn, and dull colleague, but really is just a nice guy with a unique and humorous outlook on life. The origins of the village idiot can be traced back to the Byzantine Era, where it was used as a derogatory term for the mentally disabled or crazy.

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The Cliched character that I chose was the swashbuckler. the swashbuckler is portrayed usually as a noisy and boastful pirate or a swordsman. An example of this type of cliched character is captain Jack Sparrow, from the movie franchise pirates of the Caribbean. He is an infamous pirate who was wanted throughout the Caribbean. However, he meets more than one stock character stereotype. He can also be described as the town drunk because he is also drunk on Rum half of the time to which his drunken humor can be attributed. Finally, he can be described as the Village idiot, because he is far from intelligent, but he still has an element of cleverness that helps him to get out of sticky situations in which he is underestimated by his captors. He is also brave and pulls all sorts of crazy stunts to get out of those situations.

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The cliche character I chose is the "angry black woman"(also called the "sapphire stereotype). The angry black woman is a fairly popular trope used often in popular culture. The assumption or stereotype is that all african american women are sassy, brazen, and ill mannered with a short temper. The stereotype most likely was derived from female slaves. The "sapphire stereotype", from which the angry black woman was derived, was the cliche that female slaves were dominant and masculine. As radio and television became increasingly popular and widespread in the 1930's the stereotype was included in some shows. One of the first media outlets to express this cliche was a 1930's radio show "Amos n' Andy". An example of the "angry black woman" trope in modern popular culture would be Helen Dubois the theatre manager from Drake and Josh. With her intimidating demeanor and loud voice she is a good example of this stereotype.

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The cliche character I chose to reflect on is the big dumb person. This stereotype is actually very popular, appearing in all sorts of mediums. It originated through big, tough, sometimes masculine people gaining notoriety in the early 20th century for focusing on their gains over education. Patrick Star from “SpongeBob Squarepants” is a perfect example of a big dumb stereotype. He has a deep voice and a small brain, just like most dumb stereotypes in film and television.

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The cliche that I chose was "hotshot" which by wikipedia is defined as "a reckless character known for taking risks". This stereotype would typically be the type of person who performs actions without thinking beforehand and who just does whatever they think is right for them, almost selfishly. I can relate this cliche to the character Michael Scott from "The Office". Michael is a very outgoing and crazy character who is the boss of his branch of the paper company Dunder Mifflin. Michael is constantly making insane decisions here and there for his workers anf for the company. He "takes risks" with almost everything he does. Some examples would be when he simulated prison for all of his workers, "breaking his foot" by burning it on a grill, or when he practically ruins Phyllis's wedding. He is just one of the many examples of the cliche "Hotshot".