- Action hero
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For the album by Little Nobody, see Action Hero (album).
An action hero is a character, usually a protagonist, in an action-adventure novel, film, television show,[1] or game.
Lists
- List of female action heroes
References
- ^ Shimpach, Shawn (2010.) "Television in Transition: The Life and Afterlife of the Narrative Action Hero." Wiley-Blackwell. Accessed September 2011.
Further reading
- Osgerby, Bill, Anna Gough-Yates, and Marianne Wells. Action TV : Tough-Guys, Smooth Operators and Foxy Chicks. London: Routledge, 2001.
- Tasker, Yvonne. Action and Adventure Cinema. New York: Routledge, 2004.
Stock characters and character archetypes Heroes Antiheroes - Byronic hero
- Bad boy
- Gentleman thief
- Lovable rogue
- Reluctant hero
Villains Miscellaneous - Absent-minded professor
- Archimime
- Archmage
- Artist-scientist
- Bible thumper
- Bimbo
- Black knight
- Blonde stereotype
- Cannon fodder
- Caveman
- Damsel in distress
- Dark Lady
- Donor
- Elderly martial arts master
- Fairy godmother
- Farmer's daughter
- Girl next door
- Grande dame
- Grotesque
- Gunfighter
- Hag
- Handmaiden
- Hawksian woman
- Hooker with a heart of gold
- Hotshot
- Ingenue
- Jewish lawyer
- Jewish mother
- Jewish-American princess
- Jock
- Jungle Girl
- Killbot
- Knight-errant
- Legacy Hero
- Loathly lady
- Lovers
- Magical girlfriend
- Magical Negro
- Mammy archetype
- Manic Pixie Dream Girl
- Mary Sue
- Miles Gloriosus
- Miser
- Mistress
- Nerd
- Nice guy
- Nice Jewish boy
- Noble savage
- Petrushka
- Princess and dragon
- Princesse lointaine
- Rake
- Redshirt
- Romantic interest
- Stage Irish
- Superfluous man
- Town drunk
- Tsundere
- Unseen character
- Yokel
- Youxia
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- Stereotypes
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