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DAN004
Since: Aug, 2010
2013-11-11 16:27:26
Like, how some authors make a similar (or at least the same archetype) character in each of their works?
Maybe Signature Style covers it.
Edited by DAN004 MAX POWER KILL JEEEEEEEEWWWWW
SuperTroper
Since: Aug, 2009

Do we have a trope for pet character archetypes specific to writers? Like with Tim Burton and his pale-skinned, misunderstood loners played by Johnny Depp, or Mike Leigh and his aspirational lower-middle class housewives? It doesn't necessarily have to be a character audiences are meant to sympathise with or direct author surrogate.