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WarJay77
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#5: Oct 15th 2019 at 6:25:18 PM
You could play typical antagonist characters like the Alpha Bitch, Jerk Jock, Mean Boss, and/or Sadistic Teacher as being actual sociopaths.
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So this is a follow-up to a thread I made about playing sitcom tropes for horror. I had planned to write a short story about a world that runs on sitcom conventions and cliches, specifically Comedic Sociopathy, and how scary that kind of world would be. I soon realized that this premise has more potential than I originally thought and I'm thinking of expanding on the story and fleshing things out to be a deconstruction of the sitcom genre.
I want this sitcom world to be a hybrid of as many sitcom genres and types I can, like KidComs, adult animated sitcoms, DomComs, and so on. The big thing I want to do now is to develop my cast so that my characters represent common sitcom archetypes. I'm wondering what are some sitcom archetypes I should include? I might make some of my cast expies of characters from other sitcoms, though I want these characters to deconstruct general trends in sitcoms, instead of just a single character.
Edited by SharkToast on Oct 13th 2019 at 6:10:13 AM