What is your most hated cliche?

[anthony87]

The Tolkien/Wow-ish fantasy setting is getting so old. I mean I'm pretty nerdy so I can tolerate but it's used waaay too much.

Only YOU can save the world and defeat the evilness.It's not my MOST hated but it certainly does tick me off. Granted it does work in some cases.

Red barrels = explosion (Who am I kidding, I love that cliché)

My most hated would probably be a horror movie in which all the people who get killed are overly-sexually-active teenagers who spend a couple of days in a secluded area where there is little to no contact to anyone else. Looking at you Friday the 13th, and to a lesser extent Nightmare on Elm Street. I still love those movies though

Oh this mostly applies to the Friday the 13th reboot...remake? Reimagining? Sequel kind of? Fuck it. There was so many tits in that movie it basically became boring to see them. Nightmare barely does this.

Yeah but the slutty one at the start of that had fantastic tits ^_^.

Oh, double post.....meh.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

When girls seems to be hiding watermeleons in their tits.

And, of course, the good guys always win.

 

[DasAShinyGolash]

People complaining on popular games because they are popular.

That gets my vote. It pisses me off to no end.

Ditto for popular music. I'm not saying that it doesn't suck I'm just saying have a better reasing for hating it other than it's popular.

This especially happens on the escapist, i don't know why.

 

[Alkestes]

Any and all anime that star a main character who is "a normal high school boy/girl" but then they meet some strange boy/girl from another world/that has strange powers and their life changes forever.

I'm not saying all anime like that are bad, some are really good, and one of them is my current favourite (Kateikyoushi Hitman Reborn!), but it doesn't stop me sighing with disappointment when I read it in a description of an anime.

 

[anthony87]

People complaining on popular games because they are popular.

That gets my vote. It pisses me off to no end.

Ditto for popular music. I'm not saying that it doesn't suck I'm just saying have a better reasing for hating it other than it's popular.

This especially happens on the escapist, i don't know why.

Because we're all snobs. Obviously ^_^

 

[prinxess]

Invisible walls and crates... v-v'

 

[El Zoof]

I hate cliches like the plague.

Okay, okay, it's the noble hero. "You may have caused wars, killed hundreds of people, molested my house and burned down my wife... but since you're about to fall off a cliff, let me offer you my hand."

 

[Darth Pope]

Probably the perception among younger and middle aged individuals that any one who wears any sort of clothing a little different from the norm, or anyone who listens to any vaguely metalish music is labeled as "goth" or "emo".

 

[mattman734]

similar to cliff hanger endings, but all video games stories seem to revolve around setting up the game as a franchise instead of story on its own with meaningful twists and conclusions.
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Although of course they have to do it that way to make money but its a nice dream.

 

[Callisto49]

Humanoid, bipedal alien races. The odds of an intelligent, independent species evolving on a completely separate planet and still having features recognizable as being common to Earthlings are astronomically slim. (pardon the pun)

Oh, and I know this was mentioned before, but the whole "good guys win, bad guys lose" thing gets old very fast.

 

[e2density]

That some people consider Halo and FPS, and not a training version for when kids graduate to HARD games.

 

[Uber Evil]

All aliens having colourful ships and using energy weapons. I'd like to see some sci-fi aliens with wicked ballistic technology, missiles and big boxy gunmetal grey battleships.

Well... The Crysis aliens use ice projectiles, or pretty much heat energy since it can also freeze you.

 

[DasAShinyGolash]

I hate cliches like the plague.

Okay, okay, it's the noble hero. "You may have caused wars, killed hundreds of people, molested my house and burned down my wife... but since you're about to fall off a cliff, let me offer you my hand."

molested your house and burned down your wife?

 

[I Max95]

i offer the following paraphrased quote
the hero has just won against the bad guy and has a gun up to his head
"villian:go ahead do it but then you will be just like me
hero: no ill never be like you
hero then walks away but the villian gets up and trys to shoot and gets a bullet between the eyes
or gets enevitable killed by something or someone else

i hate this because its over fucking used (chronicles of narnia 2, uncharted 2, harry potter 5 but missing the part where the bad person dies since its harry potter, also star wars, batman begins, Dark Knight, assassins creed ETC)

 

[ZombieGenesis]

Dragons- they have a cliche texture that can never be scrubbed away.
Which I hate more than anything else because I'm under commission to write something with dragons in it, based in an asian setting no less, and making them un-cliche is the equal to scrubbing Twilight from vampires.

 

[Ericb]

- Everything was peaceful until the vilain arrived.

- Everything is peaceful again once the villain dies.

- Only you can help us.

- American white male hero saving the day. God forbid the day being saved by an half-black, half-asian taiwanese gay woman.

- Prince Charming.

- Damsel in Distress.

- Comic relief in an action flick/game.

- The fact that almost ALL animated features are CGI has become a cliche itself.

- Movie trailers. They must all be made by the same individual nowadays.

Sorry, couldn't pick just one.

I hate cliches like the plague.

Okay, okay, it's the noble hero. "You may have caused wars, killed hundreds of people, molested my house and burned down my wife... but since you're about to fall off a cliff, let me offer you my hand."

molested your house and burned down your wife?

Burning down the wife is horrible, but picturing the men molesting the house is damn funny.

 

[Nex-Falx]

People complaining on popular games because they are popular.

You're in the winner's circle AND you're quotable! ... WELL DONE!

 

[El Zoof]

I hate cliches like the plague.

Okay, okay, it's the noble hero. "You may have caused wars, killed hundreds of people, molested my house and burned down my wife... but since you're about to fall off a cliff, let me offer you my hand."

molested your house and burned down your wife?

Sorry, sorry, I got that wrong. Burned down my wife, *then* molested my house. Silly of me, I know.

That other one, too - "I'm nothing like you." "Excuse me? I killed, like, 3 people in this movie. You've killed, what, 27, and I'm the bad guy?" *BLAM* "28."

 

[Misterian]

the fact designers sometimes give characters delibratly give no background infomation at all, I don't care if it's so that viewers can fill-in the blank for themselves, that's nothing more than lazy character design.