Cliches that you hate with a passion.

[Vault101]

"We can't kill him, then we're no better than they are!"

"So I'll let him go to prison, where he'll escape and kill thousands, and then the cycle continues my having a guiltfree conscience > hundreds dying".

The obligatory love interest.

I would like to see a movie in which the lead guy and lead girl are just good friends.

Irobot

I mean they start out bickering and just having very different veiws at the start, but they dont hook up amazingly

 

[Canadamus Prime]

The cynical naysayer in zombie movies who does his level best to undermine the efforts of whoever's leading the survivors.

And usually that douche is one of the ones who ends up surviving too, assuming anyone survives.

 

[GamerKT]

I hate how every time a person is about to die, they have just enough life to say something to the protagonist and die in his/her arms. Seriously, it's been done to death.

(Do you see what I did there?)

 

[Taddy]

"If you/we kill him/her, you'll/we'll be no better than him!" Bullshit, last time i checked i didn't use kids as slave labor. And where the hell was that statement when we killed those several thousand mooks? Seriously, we just mowed them down like they weren't even human and now you're telling me we can't kill the guy responsible for this entire thing!? Bullshit, killing this one guy will not make me like him, i won't suddenly start raping and pillaging villages and go kidnapping important people while holding the Cosmic Keystone that keeps everything together in the world hostage.

 

[KingOfGreyfell]

I hate that everyone I know seems to think metal is an evil multi-headed monster who rapes orphans.

 

[Vault101]

You know in techno music, that one drumroll everyone uses? The one that speeds up like crazy? I am so tired of that cliche and it usually takes me out of my mood for techno.

I really like electronic music

but yeah I agree...and generally I cant stand that stuff that just sounds so bland and repetitive, like you would hear in a club or slothing store (techno? not sure about genres)

 

[userwhoquitthesite]

That whole samurai quick draw sword thing. Never understood it, never liked it. So terribly, inefficient.

as a plot device or a fighting technique?

It's incredibly effective in the late samurai period, when they had no actual battles to fight and had to justify their social standing with that whole "warrior-poet man of honor" nonsense.

so a duel is just "which one of us can pull our pointy sticks and put it through soft, unprotective cloth first?"

of course, it only makes sense in that circumstance, so having it in a big battle scene is silly, and happens far too often.

the sword is the holy weapon, why not a bloodly axe, mace, frail, spear, greathammer, or something other then a sword, really why the sword get so much loving its annoying...

Because the sword is a more all-purpose weapon, and it was carried into battle by the crusaders. Also, I think you meant "flail" instead of frail.



I hate the "magic key" insanity plots. I really like it when they find one and it only CALMS DOWN the amount of crazy the person has, then they go right back to doing fuck-all, only for the protagonists dismayed and unhelped

 

[Vault101]

I hate how every time a person is about to die, they have just enough life to say something to the protagonist and die in his/her arms. Seriously, it's been done to death.

(Do you see what I did there?)

I supose its a little nicer than

"*gasp* gggaa...gurrraaagghhhh *gasp*..aaaaagghhhh..*GASP*..blaaaghh"

 

[Ragnarok185]

"It's quiet. A little TOO quiet.?

>_>

*bullet flies past*
"now suddenly it's too loud... I liked it better when it was quiet"

"And it will taste of PURE EVIIIIIIL! Which taste like Red Bull, which is disgusting!"

"TASTE OBLIVION!!!! MUHAHAHAHAHAHA"

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

Also "Science is Evil"

This. It is like people don't want their standard of living improved. Curing diseases? More efficient technology? Where do you think this comes from? The art community?

 

[Link XL1]

im surprised no one's said good vs evil or light vs darkness, yet. Alan Wake is the most recent offender with harry potter right behind him. i mean my god its so annoying to assume that light = good and darkness is EVIL!!

hell, even just the normal good vs evil is annoying as hell. anytime a character legitly says "we must fight the forces of evil" or something like that im just like 'gawd! shut up!'

 

[TheDrunkNinja]

The church being evil. The priest is a gay pedo, and it's always a man. Christians being racist, sexist, narrow-minded people that will kill you on the spot. Same goes for Muslims being terrorist. British guy is usually the bad guy. Atheists are smarter then everyone. Black people being Gs, white people are the uncool evil losers. Big strong dude gets the sexy girl.

Let's see... Yep, you pretty much named every shitty cliche ever. I seriously got nothing on this guy.

Thread=won

 

[Jak23]

The church being evil. The priest is a gay pedo, and it's always a man. Christians being racist, sexist, narrow-minded people that will kill you on the spot. Same goes for Muslims being terrorist. British guy is usually the bad guy. Atheists are smarter then everyone. Black people being Gs, white people are the uncool evil losers. Big strong dude gets the sexy girl.

Thank you, just thank you...

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

British accents being somewhat related to being bad guys! And also, when they are used, not really sounding british at all!

 

[Callate]

We're being picked off one by one. I wonder if the killer is the handsome guy? Or the sexy girl? Or the redshirt douchebag? It couldn't be the nice guy, or the nerdy guy with stringbeans for arms...

Oh my gosh, it's the nice guy or the nerdy guy with stringbeans for arms! Despite having been utterly unthreatened by him up to this point, we must now act petrified...

Guys, it's the same guy. Rush him and beat the ever-loving stuffing outta him.

 

[DkLnBr]

Tears bringing back the dead. im fine with most cliches, but that one gets an EXTRA loud groan...

 

[Quantum Star]

All Tall people (including me) MUST play basketball. There is no exception.

Ughhh, this thing right here. All the time I get comments about how tall I am. First time meeting someone? Yup. From second family that know full well that I am? Yup. Even my own freaking family that I live with? Yup. And hell, basketball happens to be one of my least favorite sports, even if I wasn't so tall. I wish I could lose a few inches, but that isn't possible at all, so I'm stuck being 6'3, which is pretty much taller than everyone else in my grade and everyone that I know. Being tall is overrated. Fuck being tall.

 

[Purkki]

In every detective story the detective hears or looks at something totally irrelevant to the plot and gets the idea of who killed the victim, when and how.
"That's a nice pigeon there eating some bread. *gasp* THE KILLER WAS THE BIRD LADY!"

Also, this injured pose.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYfwTBOYPgc (0:50 ->)

 

[Soods]

The suspicious guy betrays you. I DID NOT SEE THAT ONE COMING :OOO

 

[Vault101]

Quite simply, this thread is a list of things they do in all sorts fictional stories, from games to books to movies, that irritate you when repeated. Example:

Quote from Yahtzee: "why is it that after any sort of apocalypse, people rush to strap severed animal heads to pots and pans? I mean how hard would it be to loot your local walmart or mall for clothes".

See where this is going?

Nevermind that. Why does EVERY post apocalyptic setting have to be so BROWN, I mean seriously, the bandits survive (despite nobody liking them or wanting to trade with them, there is more bandits than non-criminals) and yet no PLANTS survive the great offscreen war.

Would it kill devs to not make the entire world a fucking desert for once?!

to be fair the situation in Fallout is caused by Nuclear bombs..so I imaging radiation might kill off alot of living stuff (mabye?)

or if you look at Mad Max which heavly influenced "post-apocaliptic" as we know it today its set in outback Australia...which is very brown as it is (or red)

OR often the reason for a post-apocaliptic situation might be that we the humans have somhow destroyed the environment...soooo that would be the reason for browness