everyman
Sign in to savethumb|right|Actor Gary Cooper served as an idealized everyman during the "[[golden age of Hollywood", appearing as the protagonist in movies such as 1952's High Noon.]]
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thumb|right|Actor Gary Cooper served as an idealized everyman during the "[[golden age of Hollywood", appearing as the protagonist in movies such as 1952's High Noon.]]
The everyman is a stock character of fiction. An ordinary and humble character, the everyman is generally a protagonist whose benign conduct fosters the audience's identification with them.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “everyman” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.