You can rarely find a perso who has not at least been sterotyped once or twice. People on the street see me as some punk guy, I guess, cause I have spiked hair. People who know me put me into the wimpy scientist slot. Other people refer to me as a nerd.
People tend to put traits together much to easily. A cliche is just that. The combining of a trait and what they look like or what they do.
If I see a girl in line at a club with a bunch of friends with her, looking pretentious, I will most likely, unconciously, label her a snob and remeber not to find her and talk to her if I see her in real life. It fits the same way into gaming. Do you expect to find a short and stubby human soldier with balding hair and arotund waist, who is set aside and quiet? The whole point, I guess, of a cliched character, is that they add a level of predictability to the game. Also a level, somewhat, of static characters. Charatcers who you can rely on and memorize the traits and abilities of, without to much difficulty, compared to if the soldier turned out not to be able to run or dodge and be completely useless in combat.
Same thing with all the rest. If you want to break a lock, you wont want to breing out the heavy warrioir, youll want to bring out the street kid, casue she probably knows what shes doing, and does it back.
Anyways, what other traits can Mission(the street punk) really have. If they grew up on the streets, they can really only have to personalities, from some experience. The nice kid who tries to make it better for everyone involved and the other personality who just wants to survive. Either way, they have to be tough, or they wouldnt survive, and the certainly wouldnt be much use in the game if they were breaking a lock and suddenly there comes balster fire, they give up and run, they would not be as useful, would they?
But to some level I guess, they do overdo the stereotypes. I highly doubt that that warrior really only wants to fight. I guess we expect them to be deeper than the stereotype. It takes a certain type of person to be a soldier, but they have to have quirks, so they dont TOTALLY fall into the stereotype. Is the man friendly or aggressive. Did he become a soldier to kill or save people? In any case, no matter what you really do, there will most likely always be some sort of stereotype. You can just ask that it wont be too obvious.
