[UA] Archetype ve. Stereotype (was The Masterless Man...)

[Cassady Toles]

  The way I see it, the archetype (in modern day, at least) would be
embodied by people who believe in one set of ideals, but then find that the
organization that is supposed to embody those ideals is full of corruption
and doesn't really follow those ideals, leading to him fighting that
organziation while following its ethical system.  The outlaws who take out
crooked cops, and the like.
  
  I'm not certain how that fits with your interpretations, but that was how
I imagined it (drawn largely from fictional sources, albeit).
  
I recall an old thread that talked about drawing archetype stuff from
fictional sources. That isn't really an archetype, that's a stereotype.  A
person who started doing that to tap into the masterless man could probably
go somewhere, and would get serious recognition:  How many TV stations would
kill for a story about a real-life superhero?

But I don't think that conflict exists yet.

Does that make sense?  Does it seem reasonable?

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