From the wise-cracking sidekick to the wily trickster, the just-out-of-reach love interest to the grizzled mentor, archetypal characters ... who stands between the hero and their goals (at least ...

Tatsuki Fujimoto used this creatively to its fullest by introducing not merely a different kind of protagonist but an outright rejection of the traditional "hero" archetype. When it comes to ...

But he also talked about a host of other kinds of people, and aspects of people and the natural world, that could be archetypes, from the Child, the Mother, and the Wise Old Man, to the Hero ...

This is why, when penning the original Star Wars trilogy, George Lucas turned to Joseph Campbell, author of The Hero With a Thousand Faces, to help him understand the archetypal narrative structure ...