An archetype is a concept found in areas relating to behavior, modern psychological theory, and literary analysis.

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Archetype may also refer to:

• Archetype (information science), a formal reusable model of a domain concept
• Archetype (video game), a 2010 first-person shooter video game
• Archetype (textual criticism), a text that originates a textual tradition
• Archetype (linguistics) [d] is a linguistic unit reconstructed by the historical comparative method
• Archetypes (podcast), a podcast by Meghan, Duchess of Sussex

• Archetype (Fear Factory album), 2004
• "Archetype" (Fear Factory song), 2004
• Archetype (Tonedeff album), 2005
• Archetype (Susumu Hirasawa album)
• "Archetype", a song on the EP Enter Suicidal Angels by Dark Tranquility
• Archetypes, the alternative title of the album White Light/White Heat, 1968, used briefly for a reissue in 1974

• Stock character, a stereotypical person whom audiences readily recognize from frequent recurrences

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