What are some examples of stock characters in theatre?

Hi, I'm wondering what type of stock character I am. What are different types of stock characters? I know about ingenue and soubrette, but are there any others? And any examples of them from popular musical theatre would be great. Thank you!|||You should really research commedia del'arte characters which kind of form a basis for most theatre. Even looking at a Shakespeare play - all the same types of characters are around today. For example you could say there's the lover, the fool, the menace, the naive, the hero, the elder, the loyal, the traitor... Most theatre/film have the same characters in one form or another. It's a good experiment to spot them. George Lucas studied all ancient myths, legends and stories when constructing his characters for the first Star Wars movies. You can see you have the naive (Skywalker), the elder (Kenobi), the meance (Vader), the fool (C3PO), the loyal (Chewbacca), the traitor (Han - but he changes his mind at the end, quite a common theme), the lover (both Leia and Luke), and on the list goes... It seems that such broad characteristics are part of Human existence and therefore part of our art also.