The Female Character Flowchart looks at “the one- and two-dimensional female characters we see over and over again in modern fiction.”
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H/T to Royce McDaniels for the link.
Mitch Miller, drawing upon years of “men are simple/women are complicated” media memes, responded:
Wow! That’s a lot of female characters, considering that there’s only five male characters:
The Good Guy
The Bad Guy
The Good Bad Guy
The Bad Good Guy
and
The Sidekick
You forgot the guy in the red uniform who gets killed as soon as he beams down to the planet.
Comment by Da Wife — October 13, 2010 @ 12:24
He’s never allowed to become a character. He gets maybe one or two lines of dialogue, if you count “Aaaaaaaaargh!” as the second one.
Comment by Nicholas — October 13, 2010 @ 14:08