Being the perfect or most typical example of its kind; serving as an original model.
From archetype + '-ical' suffix. Extended form of archetypic used more commonly in modern English to emphasize the exemplary or representative quality.
The archetypical superhero origin story involves an ordinary person getting extraordinary powers, and this pattern repeats so often that it almost feels like the universe wrote the instruction manual!
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