Cliches that you hate with a passion.

[Atmos Duality]

Movies:

-Divorced/Single Parents sub-plot (doubly so if it's similar to "The Parent Trap")
-Obligatory sex scene in nearly any given movie genre (especially action). Unless the sex is furthering the plot (and it usually isn't), there's no need to wildly swing/change the tone of your movie for some shitty softcore smut scene.
-"Fish Out of Water Comedies" (for a recent example, see the movie "Smurfs")

Video Games:

-Children Save the World
It's a Japanese Culture thing, I know (enjoying your childhood/prime, but it really comes across as more of a Lost Boys Complex) since it appears dominantly in jrpgs. However, there is always something stupid or asinine about a 15 year old Master Martial Artist. And the only default character development ALWAYS follows the usual shlock "Coming of age" story. Actually, if not that, there is always one worse...

-Amnesia-as-a-Plot
It's not much of a mystery anymore when you've seen this plot done to death.


Unified:
-THE POWER OF LOVE/HEART ("Carebears Shit")
I fucking hate this cliche'. Actually, I'm not if I know anyone who actually likes it.
It's some sort of lingering demon from the Romantic-era that just won't. Fucking. DIE.
Love/emotion as a secondary motivator or plot arc is fine; there are great stories that do this, but to outright use the "Power of Love" itself to overcome any sort of obstacle, in the absence of everything else, is fucking retarded.

If you want to completely kill my interest in something, just drop the Love Conquers All cliche' into it.

 

[DevilWithaHalo]

A lot of good ones on here, so I'll try not to repeat them...

* Fat/ugly guy with skinny/hot chick, on every single damn TV show
* Human ingenuity constantly overcoming some overwhelming obstacle (you really think humans are that bright?)
* Every primary female character is attractive (only side kicks can be mildly not as hot, but still cute)
* Death not being permanent (certainly not something you should be teaching children!)

This one has a few... The great guy who just wants to find to love will...
...not realize that his best friend who's a girl was there all along
...constantly find various women with massive character defects
...have his heart ripped out by seemingly wonderful women
...only find his true love once he fixes himself, his outlook and his entire life, OR, will only have everything magically fixed for him when he finds his true love

*EVERYTHING* from the 'Sword of Truth' series. If I'm wrong on the name, I don't care. The show was pretty to watch and that was it's only redeeming quality.

*In any fantasy romance, the woman will never be the monster.

Enough for now!

 

[ObsidianJones_v1legacy]

Oh, why not. I'll throw my hat in.

-Closing the Distance when you have a gun and the other person is unarmed:

Hi. Welcome to the fantastic world of tomorrow! Where you can kill someone from great distances without ever coming up close. It is all thanks to a wonderful piece of engineering called 'a gun'. Why, you don't even need to be in the same room, as the weapon fires a 'projectile' at great speeds! Faster than any human can ever go!

Wait. You don't have to get close to them. Seriously. It'll work from even the door way. No.. Just stay away. That guy is Special Forces and you're a mook hired by a crime boss. Seriously, he's not faster than the bullet, but he's damn sure faster than you. No. really, stay back. He's..

Ok, that new thing in you? that's the bullet I was talking about. With your last seconds on earth, see how he's killing your friends and he's not getting anywhere near them? Yes, that's what you were supposed to do.

-Being a strong, independent woman means you're at best manly, or at worst a raging *****

Writers. Say it with me now: "Being an ass is not in direct proportion with how powerful you are as a person". It's particularly egregious for women because writers are still stuck with 50's mentalities, and they do not know what a strong woman is supposed to be like. All they can do is equate it with a dude in a woman's body.

-Heroes played by Khary Payton [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khary_Payton]

Cyborg, Manny, Aqualad... The writers seem to HATE this dude.

In Teen Titans, even though he should have had faster reflexes than most of the team, it seemed to be his job to rush in, scream magnificently, then get decked out in every instance. He's supposed to be the GENIUS of the group, and he doesn't know how to do anything but rush in and get hit. He was pretty much there to seem powerful, get owned, thereby making Robin look cooler for winning

Manny from Ben10... just... you probably seen.

Aqualad is a little better. He is the most level headed, and probably respected. But in the short time Young Justice has been on (I'm in America, I'm aware Canada has seen more than we have so this might have changed); He lost his girl, he had the girl team mates dismiss him, he had Miss Martian basically leave him to die to save the NIGH INVINCIBLE TEAM MATE because she found Superboy cuter, Never convincingly won a fight, and Has Shades of Cyborg in terms of fighting (but Fair's fair, most of the team are getting their butts handed to them).

Writers... is it because he's normally voicing the black characters, or do you just not like Khary?

-I'm weird! I'm Kooky! Everyone come to my way of thinking

This is a plague on our society. The thin, wide eyed girl traipsing around the world, not trying to fit in, making fun of those who don't get what she sees and what she does, and eventually having the world see things her way... and all's better.

She's not a person. She's a walking Mass Hysteria epicenter.

Look. The message is great. Be your own person. But when the message is taught to our young people by a person who will NEVER advance beyond a Starbucks Barista (Let's be honest, Starbucks wouldn't put up with that mess either), it gets muddled.

The commercial/trailer ends with something hitting the screen

Is that supposed to be scary? Am I supposed to get pumped up? A creature or person knows how to do something I've been doing since I was born. What? Is it supposed to be bad ass?

 

[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!!

I'm going to have to contend your Harry Potter comment I'm afraid.

[/quote]

i was mainly talking about the 5th movie where everyone is just flying around at the end as either white or black ghostly things

 

[F-I-D-O]

The entirety of Jane Eyre. That is a HORRID book. It's all about Jane whining, and running from her problems, and not problems (her school job), and the decision between the "edgy" bachelor with (literal) skeletons in his closet, or the "controlled" missionary, it's obvious who she picks (the "edgy" guy). When she actually stands up for herself in the school, it's suprising because she doesn't do that for the entire book. And no, being old does not excuse it. Frankenstein holds up. Huckleberry Finn holds up, as does Mice and Men. Old bad writing does not excuse the fact that it is bad writing.
Oh, and "Your/main character's trainer is a bad guy!" or the "You've/Main character has been manipulated the whole time!"

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.

Yeah, and this

 

[vidirg]

almost at the end of the film, the main guy dies, everybody cries and then he magically comes to life or isn't really dead or something and he defeats the bad guy.

 

[Ieyke]

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

Not at all.
It's called Iaijutsu.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iaijutsu

 

[lkasdjbfniloaenblkavslajsviubjklasb]

I hate how people say us nerdy/geeky people will never get good dates.

 

[Kvaedi]

When the villain (or even good guy) places his gun on his enemy's head. I feel like raging at the screen, yelling, "NO THAT'S NOT HOW THIS WORKS!" It's a gun, not a knife. You can kill your enemy just as well when you are out of his reach as you possibly could with your gun in his face, inviting retaliation. That's the one thing you should know about a gun, you never, EVER, get close to the person you are pointing it at.

 

[IamLEAM1983]

My personal peeve is that in movies, being disabled is almost uniformly represented as a severe form of mental retardation. Guys in wheelchairs don't count, as the sight of a wheelchair on the silver screen usually means that the person seated in it is only temporarily disabled.

I know Avatar got some guff for the weaksauce character concepts, for instance, and I applaud anyone who's perceptive enough to recognize that. Yes, Sam Worthington sucked balls. However, I still like the movie if only for the fact that Sully is accurately portrayed as a disabled individual. Sure, he's got zero lower-body strength when not driving his avatar, but you can see that he's resourceful, independent, and that there's a fair bit of upper-body compensation going on.

See, Hollywood? That's a smart cripple. Not everyone needs to have spastic hand positions and to talk in moans and groans. Another good example would be Lieutenant Dan, from Forrest Gump. Yes, Sinise's legs were removed using GGI, but credit needs to be given to his performance.

 

[Okamipsychonaut]

I have two. when someone cocks a pump action shotgun before the major action even if said action was coming a mile off.
It is also annoying that whenever a knife is pulled from a leather sheath...it makes a metallic SHING sound.

 

[Batou667]

A guy and a girl trip on or around each other and somehow ends up with one directly over the other facing each other, and the male has 1, or both of his hands on her breasts, or his face. The girl then proceeds to overreact and slap him or beat him senselessly.

A bit like..... this?

 

[DeltaEdge]

A guy and a girl trip on or around each other and somehow ends up with one directly over the other facing each other, and the male has 1, or both of his hands on her breasts, or his face. The girl then proceeds to overreact and slap him or beat him senselessly.

A bit like..... this?

That is exactly what I mean. BTW all the people on that train are a bunch of sadistic dicks.

 

[Sectan]

The obligatory shocking moment in the Modern Warfare games. In MW1 it was used well I thought. The whole "We'd rather all die than leave someone behind." MW2's was kind of important to the plot, but let's ignore ALL OF THE SECURITY FOOTAGE OF MAKAROV(I think that's how it's spelled) SHOOTING UP THE CIVILIANS AND JUST FOCUS ON THE ONE CIA AGENT. In MW3 I swear every mission had some sort of "Nooooo" *Slomo* *Heavy Breathing* *Looks at Hands* "Get up we need to move. GET UP GET UP!" And the whole chemical attack was just added to give it that sense of controversy. "Oh Jebus they killed a kid in a game!"

 

[JoCharlie266]

"It's more evil because it happened to a child!"

Ugh, yes. It annoys me that you can't kill kids in games becuase they're so special.

 

[feebstalicious93]

i hate the word epic if that counts. everything today is epic, so nothing is epic.

 

[BathorysGraveland]

Gah, the obligatory tough female character who somehow kicks arse and has this over-acted 'bad ass' attitude that appears quite often in Hollywood movies but occasionally rears her ugly head in video games too. Can't stand 'em.

 

[SAMAS]

"It's more evil because it happened to a child!"

Ugh, yes. It annoys me that you can't kill kids in games becuase they're so special.

I'm going to side with Yahtzee (for once) and ask: "Why the hell does this bother people?" Is killing six-year-olds really that important to your enjoyment of the game?

 

[oZode]

Anything that has to do with prophecies.

I hate prophecies for some reason, stuff like pre determined fate always annoys me. It annoyed me when I read the odyssey, and it annoys me with modern movies today.

Like if the hero if prophesied to kill the bad guy, it ruins the suspense to me. In fact, I would for once like to see a movie where the prophecy is false about the hero beating the bad guy.

 

[Durgiun]

Two characters bumping into each other and falling in wuv because of it. Not, you know, starting with idle chatter, meeting with each other on a more regular basis, have longer and deeper conversations, creating a bond and then figuring out that there's something more between them than just bare-bones friendship.

Honestly, you'd think those stories were written by socially inpet basement dwell... Never mind.