It's an interesting topic not because people in general would be in a position to do any great gestures of evil, or the power/time/resources to take actions of great influence, but what the archetypes mean in everyday life.
None of us is likely to have a pawn to manipulate to do our bidding, or a great scheme that reaps anything of value, or any of the others but what we can do and what is expected of us to do in our fairly mundane lives is affect the people around us.
Friends, family and significant other are the basics to this
How do you get what you want from these people is another way to ask the question?
Do you pit your sister against your brother so their fighting makes you look like the better child to your parents?
That would be of the manipulator archetype
Do you tell your girlfriend about one of her friends you don't like hit on you when she was drunk at a party, so she hates her and you no longer have to see the friend you don't like?
That's being a schemer, actually I find both of those archetypes borrow from each other in most cases.
and so on
Out of all the options even though they cover much of the ill intentions people can have for their actions. I have a hard time with the dark knight. In many ways to is much more relative than any of the other options.
Without a doubt there are many things to me that seem evil or bad that to someone else maybe be perfectly fine. Is my view so important or grand that I should take actions to remove the option from everyone else's options... Where is the line of the dark knight is very blurred so I can't really say where I stand on it at this time.
For myself, in my life I have unfortunately been the schemer and manipulator... I never picked up the "this is wrong" part of getting what you want til much later in life, and I am dreadfully good at pitting people against each other when in the mindset. Though I prefer not to be.
The hardest things to figure out since putting old habits behind me is figuring out if I taking this course of action because the goal is something I want, or because I think it's the overall best thing to do. Taking selfishness out of the equation is proving to be very difficult thing to do, but a worthwhile goal... sometimes.
