The Gingerbread man
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Archetype- The gingerbread man fits the Unbalanced hero archetype
he is heroic, but is fatally flawed in the fact that he is a cookie
it also fits the initiates archetype, but instead of training to initiate his rise, it was being baked...since he is a cookie
He could be considered to fit the journey archetype in the sense that he runs