List Of Stereotypical Characters In The World Of Drama

• In Western films, the villain typically wore black clothes, with a waxed moustache, whilst the hero dressed in white;
• The jolly Texan who wears a cowboy hat everywhere, even with a suit or a tuxedo;
• The sophisticated, well mannered, Latin womanizer;
• The lazy, cowardly, servile and/or uneducated Mexican, African American, Polynesian, etc;
• The overweight Polynesian;
• The short-tempered, portly wrestler;
• The "hard-boiled" or tough detective wearing a raincoat, hat and smoking a cigarette;
• The aging absent-minded professor, a schlemiel (sometimes speaking incoherently);
• The wealthy miser living a poor life to save money;
• The ditzy, busty blonde woman ("brain-dead blonde");
• All teenage girls being the Valley girl
• Also: The attractive, blonde teenage cheerleader
• Also: The popular, mean-spirited teenage girl who all the geeks want
• The cool black guy teaching the nerdy white guy how to be cool
• Other stereotype: White people can't dance
• The dowdy librarian (who becomes instantly attractive when she takes her glasses off);
• The nerdy scientist (with black wiry-framed glasses, black bowtie, white coat, speaking in technobabble)
• The peg-legged pirate with an eye patch, cutlass, and parrot, who's obsessed with finding a buried treasure and forces prisoners to walk the plank;
• The flying superhero with a cape;
• The overweight, doughnut-eating cop;
• The picky chef with his toque and piquant French accent;
• The effeminate homosexual male who works as an interior decorator;
• The man-hating butch lesbian who sees male chauvinism everywhere;
• The peaceful, nature-loving Indian who always speaks in cryptic riddles;
• The stoic, elderly Chinaman who quotes Confucius;
• The inebriated Irishman;
• The tight-fisted Scot;
• The Blond Haired "Busty" Scandinavian Woman;
• The Small Eskimo in Heavy Snow Outfit;
• The mad scientist with a messy hairdo and a lab coat;
• The exaggeratedly masculine Australian, often called Bruce;
• The wise and otherworldly African-American or Native American who communicates in exaggeratedly philosophical conundra;
• The demure, subservient Asian woman.
• The Asian/Eastern mystic;
• The greedy Jew with a hooked nose; (often as accountant, banker, loanshark, political puppetmaster, etc.)
• The Muslim terrorist or thief leader wearing a turban and a long beard;
• The Mormon man with his many wives;
• The green pointy-eared alien invader in a flying saucer that plans to destroy Earth;
• The uneducated hick (American) Southerner, a white trash redneck, playing the banjo in a rocking chair on the porch next to a rifle and with a big Confederate flag hanging in back of him;
• The U.S. Serviceman who is prone to engaging in domestic violence;
• The Frenchman with striped shirt, beret and holding a baguette under his arm or onions - see Onion Johnnie;
• The Frenchman who never or rarely bathes;
• The fat German wearing a green pair of lederhosen, a bowtie, and a jaunty hat with a feather, carrying a beer stein in one hand and a frankfurter in the other (or possibly an accordion), who may also yodel;
• The smart, hardworking, quiet Asian American - see Model minority;
• The fat American sitting at McDonald's with a Big Mac;
• The Italian chef with a large moustache;
• The hook-nosed witch in a black dress and pointy hat, riding a broom, sometimes green-skinned and wearing striped stockings;
• The fast talking Indian Math genius who has a degree from an Indian Institute of Technology
• The rich, snobbish Englishman/woman, smoking a pipe or drinking tea, with a butler.
• The very pale-skinned man (not necessarily affected with albinism, though this is sometimes the case) who dresses entirely in white - example: Cain and Abel from The Matrix Reloaded
• The Comic relief.

See also

• Stereotype

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