In films, television shows, video games and advertisements, certain character archetypes are commonly depicted in stereotypical ways. Male characters are often shown as violent, drunk, overly masculine or patriotic. Female characters face objectification and are depicted as weaker or in supporting roles to male heroes. Popular and "jock" characters bully outsiders who are interested in books, computers or gaming. Racial stereotypes also persist in certain genres. Advertisements frequently use sex appeal to sell products to both genders. Overall, many works continue to rely on simplistic stereotypes rather than developing nuanced characters.

1. From the film The Sandlot
From the film Mean Girls

2. In films like Zombieland and games like
Red Neck Rampage the typical
Hilly/Redneck character is shown to be
violent, drunk, overly patriotic and not
very smart .
From Zombieland
From Zombieland

3. The character Long Duck
Dong in Sixteen Candles was
shown to not able to speak
full sentences of English, he
is always quite rude and
This is a GIF from Family Guy

4. In films like Scarface, The Godfather and Gangster Squad
and games like LA Noir there are a lot of mobsters who
show extreme violence, bent cops and can be extremely
territorial especially between the Italians and the
Russians in New York. They are often in the bootlegging
or drug dealing business because it was against the law
to sell drugs and alcohol.
From Scarface
From L.A. Noir
From the Godfather
Advertising poster for Gangster Squad
This Meme is from the
Godfather

5. This shows the point in Gotham where Bruce Wayne chose to
learn to fight.
Oliver Queen and Barry Allen help save their city, their
parent/s are dead with Oliver Queen both are dead.
Bruce Wayne is there when his
parents get murdered, he learns to
fight to protect his city and then turns
into the male superhero Batman.
This picture is a promotional; advert
from Gotham

6. Agent Carter and Jessica Jones both has a secret identity either
with abilities or with connections. Peggy has to prove herself
constantly to all of the men at her work. Agent Carter and
Supergirl are seen as lower in their working hierarchy and
belong to well-known male superheroes, Supergirl with
Superman and Agent carter and Captain America.These are clips form Agent Carter
A clip from the up and coming
Jessica Jones
This is a
picture from
Catwoman in
a Batman
comic.

7. Lara Croft: Tomb
Raider, the
traditional action
packed English
rich girl who will
do anything for a
bit of action and
some booby traps
to come across.
Tina was the daughter of a major world-wrestler, her
mother died when she was younger. Tina is a world-
wrestler and is pictured throughout the gamer Dead or
Alive and the live-action film often sporting a bikini of some
kind .
From Resident Evil: Retribution Resident Evil: Retribution
shows the main character
Alice to be a gun slinging
female action hero and this
film franchise originally
sprouted from a video game
series that has over 20
games. It also has a comic
book series published by
Wildstorm comics.
TV shows like Buffy the vampire
Slayer is based around a female
action hero who falls in love with
the enemy, permanently fighting
and has true super strength and
knows martial arts.

8. In the typical racing crew film there is :
• Humour throughout
• Built around a family unit mainly Latina or Japanese in origin
• Built around money and honour
• Jaw dropping stunts
• Started out as a game then developed into a film like with
Need for Speed.
Films like the Fast and Furious franchise, Need for Speed
and Talladega Nights have small parts of humour, the car
chases always seem to have major stunts. Money or family
seems to be the reason for their plotlines. Need for speed
started out as
This is a race scene
from Need for Speed
A jesting scene from Fast and Furious 6
From Talladega Nights
The Nissan Skyline in the Fast and
Furious franchise

9. In games like Batman Arkham
Knight you have Oracle, in Cell
Damage you have Flemming and in
films like Napoleon Dynamite you
have the traditional Geek or Nerd
who is around high school age, is
often bullied by the popular people
and is obsessed with books and
computers and highly gifted in
coding and hacking.
A GIF from Napoleon Dynamite
The character Flemming from
Cell Damage
This is Oracle from
Arkham Knight

10. In the great Gatsby Daisy is shown to
endure her relationship with her husband
and suffer his notorious affairs. Compared
to Lynx adverts where women are
objectified and over sexualised to sell
object to men or for men to buy a product
not just for themselves. Also in Music
videos women are shown wearing little and
good for anything in many rap videos.
From The Great Gatsby
This is a freeze frame from Country Grammar -
Nelly
Zooey Deschanel’s The Banana splitsville
video

11. In adverts now and in the past
men are shown sexualised and
very masculine and in TV
shows they are shown not to
be good at relationships and
not good at sharing feelings.
In Old Spice adverts men are
always sexualised because it
make women want to buy it
for their man as well as men
may want to look like that as
well so their first step is
buying that cologne or health
product.
From Mad Men

12. The film ‘Dude, where's my car?’ it
shows the very definition of the
Dude character, they drink a lot,
have many girlfriends.
Shaggy from Scooby Doo, Logan Echolls from
Veronica Mars and the Dude from The Big
Lebowski all show to be the dudes of the
film. Womaniser, stupid and heavy drinkers.
The Dude from The Big Lebowski
Logan Ecchols from Veronica
Mars
From Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters unleashed

13. From Iron Man
From Dead or
Alive
From Kim Possible