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