it seems to me a bit of an oversimplification though
would that mean that all fiction is the same? any story, since it is based more or less on the same characters, has the same value?
within stereotypes there are thousands of variations, some so successful that they have become the new stereotypes
the hero has been joined by the anti-hero, the female characters are no longer those of the 80s, the nerds from losers and that's it, they have become geeks, fascinated in their own way, and sometimes they are the undisputed protagonists.
If belonging to a certain role/stereotype already tells you 80% of the character there is something wrong, because it becomes a story that you have already read.
how many BADIk characters escape their stereotype? few, very few, almost none (Nick for example)
but it is not a problem, it's okay, just accept it
No, it means fiction is different. You can take Dostoievsky for example, the psicological novel. Raskolnikov its not a stereotype, its a human being. The topic of that novel it's not russian society, its the way human mentality face against their moral sistem. If you want the fight of a man beetween good and evil. As such he is a complex character who doubts, face dilemas, we can track his thoughts.
On the other side you have a similar topic in the hands of Victor Hugo in Les Miserebles. Yet Victor Hugo is concerned with how society deal with that problem, and not how the individuals does. As such characters are just representation of social groupand social moods, or even way of thoughts. That's why Javert kill himself after the hero pardon him. Couse he is a sterotype of the forces of order in humanity to the point he can't even survive contact with a different way of thinking.
You see? Same topic, two completely different novels.
Hero, anti-hero, etc... are archetypes. They are universal and are writen deep inside the general humanity psycology. For example, the hero archetype its fundamental to build our sense of moral, since he is a representation of moral virtues.
Well but for being a sterotype he doesnt tell you everything about the character. Since the character is not an individual but a representation of a social group you can present your views on that group, and crack some jokes out of it. Since representation of groups it's also a complex topic you can work on that for ages. Just think on the Iliad and the Simpsons. Both sterotype low social class, yet both do completely different things with them, since both belong to different eras.
I don't think every character in Badik is a sterotype. Take Maya, she is a feminist but she doesn't share the traits of all her feminist classmates. At some point she is presented as the opossite. Take Chad. He is a jock, yet he is completely different from the rest, he has his own goals, his own agenda, his fears and his own moral dilema.
