Quotulatiousness

October 12, 2010

Female characters in modern fiction

Filed under: Books, Humour, Media — Tags: , , — Nicholas @ 13:13

The Female Character Flowchart looks at “the one- and two-dimensional female characters we see over and over again in modern fiction.”


Click image to see full size flowchart

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

2 Comments

  1. 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

  2. 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

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