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In this week’s show, Taylor responds to an email she received about character archetypes and any advise she has for how best to study them. As is often the case, Taylor responds at length on the importance of writing characters as real people which leads to a discussion of stock characters in fiction.
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I think you guys are mixing up genre conventions/tropes with archetypes. Archetypes are more generic such as hero, mentor, ally, etc. Joseph Campbell outlined these and other archetypes in his book, “The Hero’s Journey”, based on his study of different cultures’ great literature. He found consistent character traits and distilled them into archetypes.