Archetype and Image

Archetype

Archetype noun - Something belonging to an earlier time from which something else was later developed.

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Image and archetype are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Image" instead a noun "Archetype".

Nearby Words: archetypal, archetypical

Image noun - A visible representation of something abstract (as a quality).

Usage example: a general who became for many the very image of the stoic warrior

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Archetype and image are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Archetype" instead a noun "Image".

Nearby Words: imaged, imaging, imagery

old	old archetype	old image
good	good archetype	good image
particular	particular archetype	particular image
typical	typical archetype	typical image
Other adjectives: usual, common, perfect, complete, certain, standard, original, true, single, popular, actual, entire, tough, cool, bad, main, cute, new, heroic, traditional, classic, different, stereotypical.

Robert Garcia is the earliest known example of the trope in fighting games, being the original sharp dressed character archetype and even provides the page image for the Action Fashionista trope.

Source: Cultured Badass
This is one of the Dark Stalker's abilities in the Unknown Armies RPG - fittingly, of course, as the Dark Stalker archetype represents the pop-cultural image of a serial killer.

Source: Offscreen Teleportation
Demonization: To Platonists the Demiurge was a perfect image of the supreme good and the archetype of all existing things.

Source: Useful Notes / Gnosticism

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