There's a commonality between all these characters

What is the commonality? The similarity? What is the name for characters like these?

In case anyone doesn't know them

All of them are overrated actors?

characters

I would say the similarity is that all three were ordinary working citizens who channelled their anger and frustrations with their lives and society to create an alter-ego who brought them their rise and downfall.

I would say they are Byronic Heroes because they are anti-heroes whose dark, mysterious passion fuels their drama in life, and they are all very romanticized characters because the audience views them as cool and likeable despite their darkness, as their frustrations are mirrored in the lives of the average citizen.

they all have at least 2 things in common

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"Office worker everyman stuck in dead-end job who snaps".

See also:

Wanted
Office Space
The Amazing Misadventures of Dubsguy
Brazil

The word you're looking for is "Faggots"

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