Fictional characters can be trapped into acting out the roles invented by media.

Evidence

Hunted and haunted, she turns into the personification of violated femininity—a vengeful version of the Black Widow persona she has previously burlesqued in her act. In the violent denouement, a shaven-headed Doll shoots dead her tormentor Cody in the pole-dancing club where she used to work, before being gunned down by the detective who has been trying to save her. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 357

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: The Doll’s trajectory from objectified performer to vengeful ‘murdering madwoman’ could pair with the ‘On Sacrifice’ piece’s discussion of how social scripts force individuals into sacrificial roles.
• XREF: connects to: Media act as a genetic code mutating the real into the hyperreal. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 112; State actors manufacture folk devils that the media then amplify as secondary definers