Cliche war

[Scarlett_156]

My cliche is bigger and much more maximal than yours. That means that my cliche can kick your cliche's butt all around the ring.

(Example: Oh my dear sweet Lady Jane Grey, thy hindquarters are more than enough for my mirror.)

yours in Chaos, Scarlett

[Scarlett_156]

Ok, I'm small enough to reply to my own topic:

A hesitant and yet spunky young hero/heroine braves great odds to save his or her own true love/family/pet. xoxo

[Shadow Dragon]

A kid is born with mystical powers and is the only one that can save up from some evil mastermind/demon/wizard/etc.

[Scarlett_156]

Oh! Oh! And I guess you think you're so great!

Two lovers meet and yet their instant of recognition is torn apart by some sort of... ocurrence. xoxo

[Dcoin]

The timer on the nuclear device ticks down to 1, THEN the MC cuts the yellow wire to 'turn it off'.

Ohhh just let it go off already and lets see what happens!!

[Scarlett_156]

I think we might already know what "happens", Mr. Bond! ;)

[tehuti88]

I have a teenager sucked into a fantasy world. I've been told that's pretty cliche, though I do hope I put enough interesting twists on it to make it...well, interesting.

[Shadow Dragon]

In honor of Tehuti, I'll go with this one. A person gets sucked into some fantasy world and learns they were destined to be the hero of that land.

[Nilfiry]

Prophecies.... Need i say anymore?

[Wreybies]

No, no, worse yet...

There is a prophecy, but at the 11th hour all realize that the prophecy has been misread and that the savior is actually the demon and the true savior is the potato pealing, scruffy haired scally-wag from the kitchen who has had a rough time of it at the hands of the overbearing and overstrict head-of-the-house-help, but who has been secretly nurtured by the plump and jolly head cook who is usually sassy and quick tongued and takes little lip from the overbearing and overstrict head-of-the-house-help.

[Scarlett_156]

A beautiful, spunky, vivacious--yet virginal--young heroine is so forcefully seduced by the raffish, experienced, devil-may-care male protagonist that it seems like a rape. And of course she likes it, and falls in love with him.

[BatCountry]

someone that just saved the world and is offered something valuable such as their master's sword or valuable says: "No, no, i'm not worthy enough"

just take the d*** thing already!

[Scarlett_156]

^^^ ROTFLMAO!!

A technical type says: "Oh, don't worry! Nothing could possibly go wrong!" (and then something goes wrong).

[Moira]

A woman says in the mits of a horrible day, "Nothing worse could happen." And it begins to rain.

(Going off of the above.)

~*~Moira~*~

[CommonGoods]

Baha, that is nothing!

The old man with the cane turns out to know all about your magical powers/the magical land inside the closet/the prophecies/the ring/the sword!

[Moira]

The shy girl falls hopelessly in love with the loner boy.

Also...

The best friends really should be more then just friends.

~*~Moira~*~

[Scarlett_156]

The best friends really should be more then just friends.


And yet somehow... (at least on camera)... they never are....

The jaded and world-weary policeman checks his gun before confronting some sort of threat.

[Nilfiry]

I'll tell you a big cliche, idealistic/moralistic heroes. Has anyone noticed how alot of plot material comes from the hero(es) being too nice and forgiving?

[Fire of a Rose]

Girl has unattainable crush who she's madly in love with an loses track of the world around her. Then, by some miracle, she gets her crush.

[Acglaphotis]

I'll tell you a big cliche, idealistic/moralistic heroes. Has anyone noticed how alot of plot material comes from the hero(es) being too nice and forgiving?
Oh, god, I hate that.

[Emerald]

Turns out it was all just a dream...

[Scarlett_156]

I'll tell you a big cliche, idealistic/moralistic heroes. Has anyone noticed how alot of plot material comes from the hero(es) being too nice and forgiving?

Yes, indeedily doodley doo! And yet it wouldn't be a cliche if it wasn't all too true! (rhyming my ass off here)

.... and then I woke up!!! and it was all just a dream........

(is that a sort of modern-day "deux ex machina" sort of scene..?)

The loving, nurturing, forgiving grandma type fumbles in her purse....

[Moira]

Sisters who are quarreling.

~*~Moira~*~

[Shadow Dragon]

How about this one, the main female of the story usually accomplishes nothing other than getting captured or slowing the hero down, even if we were told that she is very strong but never shows it.

[Moira]

The woman proves herself to a man who thinks for some reason she is incredibly weak. For instance, GI Jane. Lol.

[CommonGoods]

The good guy turns out to be the bad guy!

[Scarlett_156]

A sensitive, winsome child lives with its alcoholic and abusive parent in a ramshackle trailer. Then something bad happens.

[Moira]

the hero prevails!

[Scarlett_156]

A really curmudgeonly person gets made a fool out of by some cute kids.

[Fire of a Rose]

...went back in time...saved the day...fell in love...returned to future...

OR

An exact replica of a school...except for the fact that only about 0.0000000000000000001% of writers seem to depict the language (AKA cussing) found in ALL schools. Take it from a student. You might be surprised. It's almost more prominent at religious schools. But no one says as much.

OR

Hero passes unscathed through the ultimate disaster.

[Emerald]

The future turns out to be rather bleak.

[Scarlett_156]

... and then everyone dies! (a dog is left at the end to reflect on the ironic fate of mankind)

[Wreybies]

This cliche refers to titles.

Notice that everything is The Chronicles of Blah Blah Blah or The Blah Blah Blah Chronicles as of late?

I could do with fewer stories/series making use of that word....

[Nilfiry]

Good versus Evil. How many cliched things can beat the cliche-ness of this cliche?
We need more Neutral vs. Neutral.

[Wreybies]

Good versus Evil. How many cliched things can beat the cliche-ness of this cliche?
We need more Neutral vs. Neutral.

I want Apple vs. Banana ! :D

[Scarlett_156]

The writer tries really hard to think of something to write. Then he gives up, and goes and posts on an internet discussion forum.

Or, conversely: The young person agonizes over telling his/her parents that he/she is really an astronaut/homosexual/lion tamer/coconut farmer.... and that's all he/she does for the entire "story".

[Moira]

Man falls for girl, surprise... Girls falls back. They live happily ever after. Awe. Lol.

[Emerald]

He IS your father!

[Moira]

Ha ha ha!

Vampires have fangs, and can't go out into the sunlight.

Humans are weak, unless dipped into radio active waste. (Lol.)

[Triggerhippie]

The MC and friend are hiding in a dusty area from a dinosaur/man in suit/evil Chinese man with a limp and the friend sneezes.....Oh crap.

[Nilfiry]

Humans are weak, unless dipped into radio active waste. (Lol.)

Hey, that reminds me of The Toxic Avenger.

Well, one trite thing I hate is that the MC of many fantasies are either smart or strong, but never both.

[soujiroseta]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

when something bad happens.

[Triggerhippie]

When someone the MC loves dies and they just know, they feel it because they're connected.

I hate that >.>

[soujiroseta]

bad guy monologues after/during/before the final battle with the MC at the end of the story, telling everyone the location of the bomb/the girl/million dollars in cash.

[Shadow Dragon]

The bad guy and good guy being former best friends and/or relatives. Or even worse, the bad guy being the good guy's former hero.

[Triggerhippie]

The apprentice surpasses the teacher but fails to protect the teacher and so the teacher dies.

[Emerald]

Aliens are evil, more intelligent and want to kill us all.

[CommonGoods]

Orcs are evil, less inteligent and want to kill us all.

[Xeno]

Tom Cruise.

[Moira]

Brad Pitt

[Wreybies]

Angelina Jolips, I mean, Jolie. Sorry. :D

[Forkfoot]

Hey, that reminds me of The Toxic Avenger.

Well, one trite thing I hate is that the MC of many fantasies are either smart or strong, but never both.

Or neither. I'd like to an action/adventure story where the MC was neither.

[Triggerhippie]

Or neither. I'd like to an action/adventure story where the MC was neither.

I'd like one where the MC wasn't a nerd that becomes the hero, or a cool guy that is the hero. I want a bumbling cool guy.

Like National treasure, give me a book with Nicholas Cage's character type as MC.

Anyways...

Girl lives boring life until a stranger comes along and sweeps her off her feet.

[Xeno]

Everything to do with Aliens is Green or Purple.

[Triggerhippie]

All aliens are bad and want to invade earth.

[Ti Odio E Ti Amo]

Or at least they try obliterate it.

[Triggerhippie]

'Try' being the operative word, because Will Smith saves the day with a snappy one liner.

[CommonGoods]

Stuff happens!

(The ultimate cliche... where are all the 300 page books in which nothing happens!0

[Ti Odio E Ti Amo]

When a poor guy in the beginning becomes a rich guy at the end.

[CommonGoods]

A rich guy becomes poor t the end, but that's ok, because he has found true love.

[Ti Odio E Ti Amo]

When an ordinary person finds out they have super powers!

[Triggerhippie]

But they find their powers alienate them from normal life and it makes them an outcast.

[soujiroseta]

racer, runner or random sports hero gets a sudden burst of Nitrous oxide before going on to win the race or game.

[Triggerhippie]

Semi-attractive teen falls for very-attractive teen and ends up chasing her until she falls for him.

[soujiroseta]

...after realizing what a mistake dude A makes he crahes the girl's wedding and they ride happily into the sunset leaving Dude B at the altar.

[Triggerhippie]

Or dude B is actually the good guy and the story of him getting left for dude A gets him sympathy from a great girl and they live happily ever after.

[soujiroseta]

bad guy monologue at the end of the movie giving the location of the bomb/girl/president

[Triggerhippie]

Good guy saving or disarming said bomb/girl/president with just 1 second on the clock or till the place explodes.

[soujiroseta]

scared girl in horror movie is chased by serial killer and runs UPSTAIRS instead of out the house.

[Triggerhippie]

And once she gets upstairs she finds that the killer is already upstairs for some unexplained reason.

[soujiroseta]

After fleeing a monster, you will want to call for help from a public phone within ten feet of where you last saw the monster.

[Jade]

Whilst making the call, she turns and sees the bad guy on the other side of the glass, staring at her. She screams and the prolonged sound echoes down the line to the nearby police station where the young, handsome rogue deputy/love interest is left calling her name.

Meanwhile she decides against the nearby shopping centre and decides that the spooky forest is her best chance of survival. She blunders into the trees.

[soujiroseta]

the hero is invulnerable if he takes off his shirt

[Moira]

It's a scary story, thus everyone must die.

[jonijo1993]

It's a horror flick, and therefore the monster is the only one to survive to the sequel.

[sophie.]

The main character in a thriller can NEVER ever die. (because without them, the story dies too.)

Although they are really just your average Joe (honest!) they miraculously can scale buildings, save lives, understand nuclear physics in a hearbeat, and empathise with anyone less fortunate/magnificent (hang on, they're an Average Joe!) as they undoubtably are.

Another one -
'character thinks she is hideous. "Why, oh WHYYY aren't I gorgeous like all the other girls???" Halfway through, every male within 20 metres can't drag their eyes away.'

Or the obvious, 'girl-meets-boy-at-school. They so totally hate each other to pieces. After 200 pages of hating each other, they are together.'

[jonijo1993]

The most amazingly hot and popular guy falls for the ONE GIRL who isn't totally in love with him. Of course, she does fall madly in love with him in the end, and all the other girls get jealous.

[sophie.]

In an alternative world (preferably involving lots of mythical creatures and characters with 'exotic' names), a young man/woman finds a prophecy.
Their magical world is in trouble from a tyrant king/invasion and they are the only ones who can save it. On the way (quest) they find a few faithful companions and a beautiful princess/handsome herd boy to fall in love with.
Against impossible odds, they triumph and live happily ever after. Until the sequel....

[Moira]

Girl falls for vampire, vampire doesn't want to hurt girl, they're together for eternity. (It's so popular now. Lol.)

[lilix morgan]

Girl is drop dead gorgeous, totally unobtainable. Guy thinks she's amazingly hot, and pursues her. After some little fights, lack of witty conversations, and intensive scenes involving little to no chemistry, they fall for each other and live happily ever after.

[sophie.]

Girl falls for vampire, vampire doesn't want to hurt girl, they're together for eternity. (It's so popular now. Lol.)

Haha...you forgot 'girl cannot function without vampire to hold her hand..in fact she practically kills herself through her own spasticness, which is supposed to be cute'

[LordKyleOfEarth]

Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love, but doesn't want to tell gril. Girl is oblivious. Badguy kidnaps/harms girl. Boy rescues her, and she realizes that she DOES love him.

[Xeno]

Chuck Norris. Roundhouse kicking something.

[jonijo1993]

Girl pretendsto be boy for whatever reason. While in disguise, meets and falls in in love with totally hot guy. Hot guy meanwhile thinks that "he" is just a friend. Meanwhile, his crush may fall in love with disguised girl. All is revealed, awkward moment follows, hot guy realizes he was in love with the girl in disguise the entire time. *phew*

[Moira]

Girl pretendsto be boy for whatever reason. While in disguise, meets and falls in in love with totally hot guy. Hot guy meanwhile thinks that "he" is just a friend. Meanwhile, his crush may fall in love with disguised girl. All is revealed, awkward moment follows, hot guy realizes he was in love with the girl in disguise the entire time. *phew*

The *phew* at the end cracked me up! Lol.

The alphebet always ends with Z and starts with A. So predictable.

[lilix morgan]

Chuck Norris. Roundhouse kicking something.

Very true, and also very hilarious.

Vampires are just evil, soulless monster who just want to be good and live with humans.

[themotions]

A dashing young man arrives at a beach out of breath where he approaches a girl sitting on a dune staring off into the sunset, "I thought I'd find you here" he whispers into her ear. She turns around and with a teary smile hugs her soul mate. Cue "linger" by the cranberries as they attempt a passionate kiss that looks more like a struggle to eat each others faces.:p

[Neha]

There was a king, he had a queen. Both of them died, and thats the The End-come back for more friends.

[lilix morgan]

Princess is captured, held against her will by an evildoer. At the end either...

A: Princess falls for her capturer, seeing that he's just got some issues, that's all.

or.

B: Prince from the lands no-one knows of comes and saves her, they're instantly in love, marry, and live happily ever after.

[Chaoslogic]

After discovering an ancient sword in the forest one day, my beloved peasent village is set on fire by an archrival military general who just happened to be passing by.

I travel to the nearest town of Nearhill with my wise best friend, where I rescue Princess Locket from the clutches of the Baron Goldmine; she was trapped in a secret stone lair at the end of a dark hallway behind the center bookshelf in the office of the town's mansion. Baron Goldmine was not your typical greedy goldmine baron; he had "not been quite himself" for a while and had been spending "a lot of time alone in the study". When we found them, Baron Goldmine was about to sacrifice her to a demon god. Instead of finishing the ritual, he transforms into a monster. We kill Goldmine and leave promptly without questioning our morals or stealing his estate. Killing people is okay so long as they are deformed and not beautiful; but stealing is murder and so is taking advantage of vulnerable, beautiful vixens.

The Princess reveals that the ancient sword is actually the fearsome Sword of Plot Advancement and that its latent power is equal to +1 over everything else. Out of a scale between one and ten, its an eleven (hundred). She is also a princess from a forgotten royal lineage of ancients that once ruled the world; the sword is a holy heirloom of the royal family that was used by the royal guardians to render love and justice in the name of the moon for peaceful peace.

The Princess urges them to travel to the nearby fortified City of Four Corners, where the guards practice a no questions asked policy and are there to let in dangerous travellers but keep out the easily-defeatable monsters. Along the way, they meet a shady travelling merchant who just happens to be going in the same direction they are.

There, they speak to the Old Sage of Wise Ages, where they learn that the lock-shaped pendant of Princess Locket is the key to unlocking the destiny of the planet. To activate it, they need to requisition four colored jewels of power conveniently hidden in four obvious trial zones. It makes perfect sense!

Except that the Evil Empire of Evil has learned of the details and plans to stop them. Emperor Nameless wastes no time summoning his four elemental generals whom are quick to quarrel amongst themselves. Instead of sending them all out at once, he sends the weakest and least capable to test them.

The three amigos plus the suspicious travelling merchent pick up an annoying mascot along the way to the Earth Cave. When they reach it, they discover that the cave is nothing more than a straight passageway to a mystical chamber containing the crystal. When they run down the hallway, they fall through a small, square trapdoor into a cavernous maze of puzzles, pitfalls, and traps. Narrowly escaping death with many bruises, they enter the chamber to find the Earth General waiting for them. There's no time to ponder how he got there before them or why he's in perfect health. All the heroes know is that the army of zombie-ninja-pirates he just summoned out of thin air must be destroyed -- with knuckles; a rusty, awkward claymore; and a ribbon whip -- while the suspicious travelling merchant cowers in a corner with his stockpile of ammunition, potions, and longswords. The Earth General watches from a distance, knowing his invincible army cannot be defeated. It is. Somehow. Then he does what any other sensible Earth General in his place would do: he transforms into a pile of crap and gets set on fire by the most powerful fire spell in the Princess' magical prism power arsenal. Forget the match.

...should I continue?

[sophie.]

^Um that's FINE :D you'll strain something!

- Neha - that made me laugh 'come back for more, friends!'


'Did gets kidnapped. Kid bonds with kidnappers, who aren't so bad after all. Out of the goodness of their lovely evil hearts they set her free back to her soulmate who had been hopelessly lurking about trying to save her (and failing for some unexplained reason...oh maybe it's because the girl is like a cardbord cut out with a pretty face...?)'

'Girl meets boy. Love love love. But no - their evil parents/friends/circumstances keep them apart!! TRAGEDY! After 400 pages of moping and misunderstandings, the grand reunion. Yaaay. Happy ever after.'
(retch)

[Chaoslogic]

You didn't read it, did you, Sophie.

MY BEAUTIFUL PEASENT VILLAGE. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! (Happens in almost every RPG).

I facepalm everytime I come across that (in games).

[sophie.]

I did! It's just too true!

'plucky peasant girl takes cronies with her to save the world, encountering unspeakable evil on the way, yet escaping unscatherd. somehow.'

[Chaoslogic]

Writing this just makes me want to write an actual story from scratch. LOL. I started a continuation, but couldn't bother to continue. XD

[Moira]

face palm?

[Chaoslogic]

Yes, facepalm (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FacePalm).

[Lostro]

earth is invaded by insanely advanced aliens. Aliens set up oppressive totalitarian regime. Humans manage to rebel using mind-bogglingly primitive weapons or means. (conventional weapons or exploiting a stupid alien weakness) Humans win and all the aliens are destroyed.

or

earth is invaded by insanely advanced aliens. Aliens judge humanity. Aliens are about to blow everything to kingdom come but at the last moment change their minds because of some "noble" characteristic exhibited by the main characters. The aliens leave like nothing happened. Earth becomes a utopia because humanity learned its lesson.

[Moira]

Yes, facepalm (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FacePalm).

Pa ha ha! Avatar is mentioned in the examples! I LOVE AVATAR. That made my day. Lol. :D :D :D

[lynneandlynn]

Boy goes to school. Boy hates phonies. Turns out to be a phony himself.

[Moira]

Young naive girl becomes quite intelligent by the end of the story.

[Lil Miss Me]

Can we say Mary Sue anyone?

[Xeno]

Two spaceships are battling each other in a nebula/asteroid field, one of them (the good guys) hopelessly outmatched by the other (the bad guys). The bad guys have super special awesome superweapon that takes five minutes to charge up and has ONE FATAL FLAW that ONLY the good guys can hope to exploit. Exploiting this BLOWS UP THE WHOLE SHIP.

'cause this is how military design works, isn't it?