The 12 Character Archetypes
Firstly, what is a character archetype? A character archetype is a set of unique traits that categorizes a character into a certain group. These unique traits are identified by the audience when watching a film or reading a book and that allows them to understand or predict what the character could be like. Within the archetype spectrum there are 12 broad archetypes of which every book character, film character, TV character etc.. could fall under.