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* ''Film/GameOfDeath'': The characters in the pagoda are this in the original version. One could ask if they spend all of their lives n the pagoda waiting for some challenger, however, they represent the formalized system of martial arts that Bruce Lee wanted to proove wrong. They are all beaten with some ease, however Kareem-Abdul Jabbar has an unknown fighting style that represents the highest level of martial arts.
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* ''Film/GameOfDeath'': The characters in the pagoda are this in the original version. One could ask if they spend all of their lives n in the pagoda waiting for some challenger, however, they represent the formalized system of martial arts that Bruce Lee wanted to proove prove wrong. They are all beaten with some ease, however Kareem-Abdul Jabbar has an unknown fighting style that represents the highest level of martial arts.
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* ''Film/GameOfDeath'': The characters in the pagoda are this in the original version. One could ask if they spend all of their lives n the pagoda waiting for some challenger, however, they represent the formalized system of martial arts that Bruce Lee wanted to proove wrong. They are all beaten with some ease, however Kareem-Abdul Jabbar has an unknown fighting style that represents the highest level of martial arts.
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* In ''Webcomic/KoanOfTheDay'', every single one of the characters is allegorical.
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* {{Franchise/Godzilla}} himself started in ''Film/{{Gojira}}'' as an allegorical character representing the atomic bomb itself and the destruction it caused. His footsteps were even deliberately made to sound like explosions.
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* NoliMeTangere ''Literature/NoliMeTangere'' and ElFilibusterismo ''Literature/ElFilibusterismo'' has characters portraying the status of ThePhilippines and its people during its colonial era.
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* Bruno in ''TheBoyInTheStripedPyjamas'' is meant to represent a naive Germany unaware of the actions of Nazis.
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A form of CharactersAsDevice. Compare CharactersAsDevice and ArchetypalCharacter.
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While some fictional characters are only meant to represent themselves, others are meant to represent something larger than themselves in order to make a point. The author uses this character to represent X, whether X is "Women", "Christians", "Atheism", "Illegal Aliens", "The Bush Administration", or even "You". It's the difference between "Oh, Bob just tripped over the cat again; he is such an idiot" vs. "Bob just tripped over the cat again; men are such idiots."
Sometimes characters are created to be this. Other times, an existing character is (either temporarily or not) drafted into the role by being written as the voice/face/advocate of (topic) for an episode. This can even happen [[FanWork outside of the official canon]]; in fact, the more this is used outside of the original work, the stronger the case may be for the character being an effective symbol of X.
Please note that the character in question may be a perfectly well-rounded and very much individualized character, but he is so closely linked to a certain concept, that he is often used allegorically as a way of talking about that concept. (E.g., Superman and Idealism)
If ''all'' of the characters in the work are written this way, then you might just have a full-blown {{Allegory}} on your hands.
When no extra meaning is intended and only exists in the mind of your English teacher, then you have EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory (Although adherents to DeathOfTheAuthor would point out that just because the allegory wasn't intended doesn't mean it isn't there).
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*AudienceSurrogate - This Character is You
**ThisLoserIsYou
*AnthropomorphicPersonification - This Character is an Abstract Concept
*ThreeFacesOfAdam - This Character is a phase of life that men go through
*ThreeFacesOfEve - This Character is an aspect of womanhood
*TheWarOnStraw - This Character is All Members of an Ideology the Author Disagrees with
!Other examples
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*CaptainAmerica - This Character is the USA
*WonderWoman - This Character is Women / Feminism
* {{Superman}} - This Character is the pinnacle of mankind's ideals
* TheJoker - This Character is ChaoticEvil / Madness
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* {{Godzilla}} himself started as an allegorical character representing the atomic bomb itself and the destruction it caused. His footsteps were even deliberately made to sound like explosions.
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* Bruno in ''TheBoyInTheStripedPyjamas'' is meant to represent a naive Germany unaware of the actions of Nazis.
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*''StarTrek''[='s=] FreudianTrio:
** [[TheKirk Kirk]]: Leadership
** [[TheSpock Spock]]: Logic
** [[TheMcCoy McCoy]]: Emotion
Sometimes characters are created to be this. Other times, an existing character is (either temporarily or not) drafted into the role by being written as the voice/face/advocate of (topic) for an episode. This can even happen [[FanWork outside of the official canon]]; in fact, the more this is used outside of the original work, the stronger the case may be for the character being an effective symbol of X.
Please note that the character in question may be a perfectly well-rounded and very much individualized character, but he is so closely linked to a certain concept, that he is often used allegorically as a way of talking about that concept. (E.g., Superman and Idealism)
If ''all'' of the characters in the work are written this way, then you might just have a full-blown {{Allegory}} on your hands.
When no extra meaning is intended and only exists in the mind of your English teacher, then you have EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory (Although adherents to DeathOfTheAuthor would point out that just because the allegory wasn't intended doesn't mean it isn't there).
Compare CharactersAsDevice and ArchetypalCharacter.
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!Subtropes
*AudienceSurrogate - This Character is You
**ThisLoserIsYou
*AnthropomorphicPersonification - This Character is an Abstract Concept
*ThreeFacesOfAdam - This Character is a phase of life that men go through
*ThreeFacesOfEve - This Character is an aspect of womanhood
*TheWarOnStraw - This Character is All Members of an Ideology the Author Disagrees with
!Other examples
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*WonderWoman - This Character is Women / Feminism
* {{Superman}} - This Character is the pinnacle of mankind's ideals
* TheJoker - This Character is ChaoticEvil / Madness
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* {{Godzilla}} himself started as an allegorical character representing the atomic bomb itself and the destruction it caused. His footsteps were even deliberately made to sound like explosions.
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* Bruno in ''TheBoyInTheStripedPyjamas'' is meant to represent a naive Germany unaware of the actions of Nazis.
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*''StarTrek''[='s=] FreudianTrio:
** [[TheKirk Kirk]]: Leadership
** [[TheSpock Spock]]: Logic
** [[TheMcCoy McCoy]]: Emotion
