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ORIGINAL: Archer

Warrior does not have to mean fighting for anything specificly, you can fight for whatever cause in whatever way and still be a warrior. The mentor who fights for the minds of the young against the influences of a bad neighborhood is being a warrior. The activist for any cause is a warrior.

A Magician means more that you know and use the technology and specialized knowledge than anything nessisarily "magical" So the the guy from "Geek Squad" with all the special knowledge of how these things work is accessing the Magician, at the same time the Plumber, the Machinist, the Welder, The Salesman, they all work their "Magic" and weild their special knowledge. Most Magician aspects are seen in the workforce world of men.

Lover is more about connection to the universe and other people than specifily "Love" although that kind of "Love falls into it as well. The dreamer, the artist the poet fall heavily into the "Lover" archetype.

The King is about bringing order to your world, it doesn't matter how big your kingdom is you may be king of a very small kingdom. (A man's Home is his Castle) refers to the idea of each man having a bit of a King in him.

And it's not to say that we have to stick to one in fact it's more about the fact that all men have some level and some aspect of each.

In fact Jung speaks about having a ballance of each is the goal. Enough King to order the universe of your home/ family.
Enough Warrior to fight for the things you belive to be "right", to suffer the hardships and through discipline overcome the "evil". Enough Magician to build  your knowledge and create inside your kingdom comfort.
Enough Lover that you feel the connection to the world and other people (social and spiritual connection).

I think the idea of King in your own home should clarify that you have King.
From your own discription Cop is that not a warrior? fighting for justice?
Magician likely you have specialized knowledge in many areas of life predominantly work field I would guess, but also hobbies, Hell even maybe some SM skill sets?
Lover, can be anything from the cuckold to the Dom Juan (extream shaddow forms), from the artist to the afficionado, anything involving connection to other people and to the spiritual tends to fall into the Lover. odds are you have some aspect of that as well.

To be a definative archetype it should be as close to a universal aspect of the human condition as possible.
You can have good kings and bad kings, good warriors and fanatics, people who use their special power/knowledge to benifit mankind or keep their secret knowledges for themselves, People who are so connected to the spiritual that they can't function in normal society and those who use the connectiuon for evil intent.

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ORIGINAL: Archer

Just as way of giving you reason to rexamine yourself, (something I love to do to people)
Things in your profile that indicate aspects I listed.

King: Dominant, LOL what Dominant can exist without a connection to the inner King/ Queen? LOL
Magician: Woodworking expert What expert does not have specialized knowledge that would be almost magical to someone without the knowledge.
Lover: Wicca (spiritual matters are the relm of the Lover) Tai Chi, All the arts that you have listed as a appreciation for. The fact that you have someone listed as "Your Love" as well as the erotic arts you have listed, these are about connection with your "Love".

BTW if you look there is a book title of the same archetypes I listed earlier that gives a much better understanding of what each of the archetypes for men listed are etc. Much better researched than my little bit here.
The Book is King Warrior Magician Lover (Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine) Available from Amazon.

I have it in my personal collection and list it as suggested reading for people looking at starting their journey as a Dominant, or even those who've been around awhile and want another perspective to look at things from.

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ORIGINAL: HerLord

Mybe I missed something essential... But you only list 4 primary archetypes. While I will not go into ALL of the archetypes, I think it worth mentioning that there are many left off the list.

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ORIGINAL: Archer

So the view of the Hero archetype for both male and female children growing up is pretty universal. All those cartoons and TV shows tend to be about the "hero" the child growing into adulthood who goes through the ordeals and as a result the child "dies" and re emerges as an adult. Cartoons of modern times tend to minimize the tranformance and make it some Magical transformation from average to heroic. Dangerous ground to tread considering the realities of life.
minimizing the idea of challange and growth and maximizing the role of magic powers. Lacking Magic powers how does a child grow into a hero? They are left to question this idea. Rather than being taught that a hero grows up and takes on mighty challanges and sticks to it until they overcome the opposition. (or insert the value you want to make universal)

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ORIGINAL: Archer

I think the error so far in this post is to identify specific people as the archetypes. (Master Fire being the notable exception).
It's not the specific character but the role they hold.
For men a quick listing of 4 of the Primary archtypes would be King, Warrior, Magician, Lover.
It is also important to note the presence of the shadow forms of the archetypes, as well as the mature vs the child manifestations.
examples being The warrior has both the coward and the sadist (pathological as opposed to SM type) as it's shaddows.
The King has the precious/devine child as well as the highchair tyrant as it's immature archetypes.

So the view of the Hero archetype for both male and female children growing up is pretty universal. All those cartoons and TV shows tend to be about the "hero" the child growing into adulthood who goes through the ordeals and as a result the child "dies" and re emerges as an adult. Cartoons of modern times tend to minimize the tranformance and make it some Magical transformation from average to heroic. Dangerous ground to tread considering the realities of life.
minimizing the idea of challange and growth and maximizing the role of magic powers. Lacking Magic powers how does a child grow into a hero? They are left to question this idea. Rather than being taught that a hero grows up and takes on mighty challanges and sticks to it until they overcome the opposition. (or insert the value you want to make universal)