"innocent character" is correct and usable in written English
You could use it to describe a character in a book or movie who is not involved in any wrongdoing or misbehavior. For example, "In the novel, Jack is an innocent character who is not aware of the schemes unfolding around him."
The challenge for Gardner, this honest, innocent character — I think that can resonate for young people".
Actually, it turns out that here irony is part of what keeps the innocent character from growing up, from acting, from doing anything.
Gabriel emerges in "The Dead" as perhaps the most innocent character in the entire collection of stories, while also the best educated and the most self-conscious.
LIKE most fiction writers, Reynolds Price isn't above reaching down and burdening some innocent character with a name loaded with symbolic freight.
But he has qualities we could all aspire to obtaining; he is not deceitful or misleading and is in fact a very truthful and innocent character.
He uses what I'll call the Apparent Doofus Technique, whereby an author invents a seemingly innocent character who will become illuminated in the course of the action and come to Greater Moral Understanding.
Still, Coward maintains the duality of knowing and innocent characters.
Mr. Feehery insisted that "many seemingly innocent characters had a role in killing campaign reform".
This means the parents of Ra'nell and Gem, the two most innocent characters from the first series, are considering leaving the city.
The young, hard-partying and almost innocent characters in "An Early History of Fire," the new play that opened on Monday night at the Acorn Theater, may seem like amateurs in the dark arts of self-immolation, especially compared with other tortured characters conceived by their creator, David Rabe.
In films such as Paid (1930), the legal system turns innocent characters into criminals.
