Assemble! - Horror Victim Archetypes - The Fool

Welcome to Assemble!

Here, we'll look at several different characters across multiple series to see who would form a perfect team for a certain genre. From fighting game rosters to RPG adventuring parties, different types of characters tend to show up frequently. What we'll do here is look at those archetypes to see what character is the best fit for that slot, and in the end, we’ll have the best team for the job. These articles will also be shorter entries, compared to some of the more long-form articles here, focusing on one or two characters at a time.

When talking about horror, the villains, monsters, and killers are often the first things that come to people’s minds. The people they hunt are often an afterthought, but these characters show that not all survivors are that easy to kill. The right group with the right people can make things very difficult for the killer. Here, we’ll be looking at that can represent different archetypes of horror movie characters, to build a strong squad of survivors.

THE FOOL

Often considered the comic relief character, The Fool is the one providing most of the movie’s jokes, and as a result, most of its levity. Often portrayed as a stoner or a prankster, this character likes playing around and goofing off more than anything else and other characters in the group they’re in often have to reign them in and try to get them to take things seriously. In fact, this character getting killed off is often an indicator that the jokes are dead too and the movie will be serious from here on out. For this character, we’ll need an enduring character who remains a source of cheer and laughs and manages to survive all the horrors that they face.

Our pick for The Fool is…

Shaggy Rogers from Scooby-Doo

This character may not be as well-versed in fighting or action as some of our previous entries, and he may not have faced off against actual but this teen detective fits the Fool role like a glove. Part of the mystery-solving group Mystery Inc., Shaggy (along with his dog Scooby-Doo) is known for two things, his appetite and his cowardice, and several jokes are made towards both. Shaggy is known for making crazy food combinations to chow down on and coming up with crazy set-ups to try to confuse the monster chasing him long enough to make a good getaway. Despite his goofiness, he still manages to contribute to the group in solving mysteries and, when on his own with Scooby, they’ve even had some adventures on their own.

For being an enduring (and endearing) example of this character type, we now add Shaggy Rogers to the roster.

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Assemble! - Horror Victim Archetypes - The Scholar

 

Welcome to Assemble!

Here, we'll look at several different characters across multiple series to see who would form a perfect team for a certain genre. From fighting game rosters to RPG adventuring parties, different types of characters tend to show up frequently. What we'll do here is look at those archetypes to see what character is the best fit for that slot, and in the end, we’ll have the best team for the job. These articles will also be shorter entries, compared to some of the more long-form articles here, focusing on one or two characters at a time.

 

 

 

When talking about horror, the villains, monsters, and killers are often the first things that come to people’s minds. The people they hunt are often an afterthought, but these characters show that not all survivors are that easy to kill. The right group with the right people can make things very difficult for the killer. Here, we’ll be looking at that can represent different archetypes of horror movie characters, to build a strong squad of survivors.

THE SCHOLAR

From one end of the high school hierarchy to the other. The Scholar is a clearly geeky or nerdy kid who is shown as intelligent, but with difficulties talking to others, and as a result, is often outcast by all except other nerds. Basically, book-smart, but not street-smart. Frequent characteristics include glasses, squeaky voices, clothing with overly formal touches (like bowties or suspenders) or nerdy references, asthma, a love for comic books and/or video games, and a knack for science, technology, and tinkering. That last one in particular can come in handy when fixing or inventing equipment to combat whatever threat the group is facing. Though they still find themselves a victim more often than not.

Our pick for The Scholar is…

Zack Fowler from Monster Madness

One of the four survivors of the monster invasion from the video game Monster Madness: Battle for Suburbia, Zack shows several characteristics of a stereotypical nerd. From the glasses and squeaky voice to the scientific know-how and love of science fiction, he fits the stereotype in a lot of ways. However, he manages to keep up with the rest of the group in fighting their way through the horde of different monsters to try to figure out how to stop it all. And there are many monsters they have to fight. Vampires, werewolves, zombies, living dolls, swamp monsters, demons; just about anything you can think of is something Zack and company has had to face. While the four of them use a variety of different weapons to fight, they are created and maintained by a handy biker named Larry Tools, though there are some hints that Zack may be able to fashion similar weaponry on his own.

For overcoming the odds to survive a dire situation, we now add Zack Fowler to the roster.

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Assemble! - Horror Victim Archetypes - The Athlete

Welcome to Assemble!

Here, we'll look at several different characters across multiple series to see who would form a perfect team for a certain genre. From fighting game rosters to RPG adventuring parties, different types of characters tend to show up frequently. What we'll do here is look at those archetypes to see what character is the best fit for that slot, and in the end, we’ll have the best team for the job. These articles will also be shorter entries, compared to some of the more long-form articles here, focusing on one or two characters at a time.

When talking about horror, the villains, monsters, and killers are often the first things that come to people’s minds. The people they hunt are often an afterthought, but these characters show that not all survivors are that easy to kill. The right group with the right people can make things very difficult for the killer. Here, we’ll be looking at that can represent different archetypes of horror movie characters, to build a strong squad of survivors.

THE ATHLETE 

The Athlete is known for two things, being a jock and being a jerk. As the name implies, they are physically fit and actively participate in some kind of sport, often being the star player for a school sports team if they are a teenager. However, with that athletic prowess, and the popularity that seems to come with it, also comes a lack of empathy for those less popular. They are often a bully toward lesser students, especially nerdy kids, and are often so infuriating to watch them continue to push people around that it becomes satisfying to see a killer cut them down to size, figuratively and literally. Like with the Beauty, we’ll choose a character that survives to the end of the story and develops as a character, but otherwise still fits this mold.

Our pick for The Athlete is…

Steve Harrington from Stranger Things

Steve Harrington is a basketball player for Hawkins High School in Hawkins, Indiana and boyfriend of Nancy Wheeler. He starts the series off as a jerk jock, bullying characters like Jonathan Byers and extending that treatment to Nancy when he thinks she is cheating on him with Jonathan. But after some time, he begins to have a change of heart, which is solidified towards the end of the show’s first season, when he helps Nancy and Jonathan fight off the Demogorgon, the monster threatening the people of the town from the otherworldly plane, the Upside Down. Since then, he has become a supporting figure for the main protagonists, even becoming sort of a big brother figure to one of them.

For learning how to survive in a dangerous and horrific situation and growing as a person beyond her original, off-putting personality, we now add Steve Harrington to our roster.

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