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Character Type: Description: Examples: Zanni: Servant characters in commedia dell'arte. Zanni was of two distinct types: one is an astute, cunning servant and the other is a silly, stupid servant. They were called First Zanni and Second Zanni. Mezzetino and Brighella are examples of the First Zanni; Arlecchino and Pulcinella are examples of the ...
Brother Sam (Mos Def/Yasiin Bey), a character who appears in five episodes of the sixth season of Dexter (2011) [40] Cinna, Rue and Thresh in Hunger Games (2012) [ 41 ] The janitor ( Jordan Peele ) and the copier repair man ( Keegan-Michael Key ) in the "Magic Negro Fight" sketch on Key & Peele (2012) [ 42 ]
A single theory can go viral overnight, pulling in new audiences and keeping a movie or TV show relevant for years after its release. #10 House Dies In The Season 8 Finale And Wilson Begins ...
The Magical Negro is a trope in cinema, television, and literature: the character is typically, but not always, "in some way outwardly or inwardly disabled, either by discrimination, disability or social constraint". The Negro is often a janitor or prisoner. [7] The character often has no past but simply appears one day to help the white ...
The white savior is a cinematic trope in which a white central character rescues non-white (often less prominent) characters from unfortunate circumstances. [1] This recurs in an array of genres in American cinema, wherein a white protagonist is portrayed as a messianic figure who often gains some insight or introspection in the course of rescuing non-white characters (or occasionally non ...
A sophisticated example of this occurs in the theory of monstrous moonshine: the j-invariant is the graded dimension of an infinite-dimensional graded representation of the Monster group, and replacing the dimension with the character gives the McKay–Thompson series for each element of the Monster group.
This list is for characters in fictional works who exemplify the qualities of an antihero—a protagonist or supporting character whose characteristics include the following: imperfections that separate them from typically heroic characters (such as selfishness, cynicism, ignorance, and bigotry); [1]
Disposition theory has multiple applications in many areas of entertainment. Its most basic premise is that entertainment users attach an emotion to various characters within a narrative, but this has been expanded to comedy, drama, tragedy, violence, and sport (Raney, 2006a). Although some theorist argue that the similar theories used to ...