Our elders have foretold of a (insert protagonist's gender here) from (insert protagonist's origin here) who is (insert protagonist's defining trait here) and will save us by defeating (insert antagonist here).
Prophecy; it doesn't get any lazier than prophecy.
The only cliche posted in this thread sofar. Congratulations.
overabundant abuse of time travel
Deus ex machina. It takes a skilled writer with a creative mind to pull it off without seeming contrived. Precious few are able to manage it; not that it stops the rest from trying.
While encountering an obvious zombie.
"Sir, are you okay?" Asks the man.
[Groan]
The man looks back to his friends. "Guys he needs help!" He leans forward, to allow the obvious zombie to eat the s*** out of his neck area.
I'm not sure that counts, but I really wish they'd stop.
Any lack of genre-savvy is painful to watch, you can have characters freak out over the zombie/werewolf/vampire attack and not have them turn into complete morons who have to get everything explained to them, as well as how to take these monsters out?
Another thing I always hate in a vampire film is one of the commonly trotted out bits of advice for how to slay them, that they have to "cut off the head and stick a stake through the heart" or in a pinch, "set them on fire". Y'know, because decapitating something, stabbing it in the heart and setting it on fire only kills vampires and not just about everything else, when you stop and think about it?
Convoluted circumstances under which the protagonist must make the ultimate sacrifice, because bittersweet=deep.
This got to be the one that annoy me the most.. so sick of it
Villain Plot Armour, which is a bigger sin than Hero Plot Armour.
I'm looking at you, Kai Leng. 
Guest_TrillClinton_*
Villain Plot Armour, which is a bigger sin than Hero Plot Armour.
I'm looking at you, Kai Leng.
"no, now it gets fun"
Guest_simfamUP_*
"You're our only hope, protagonist!"
Errr...
"No, I must die because...reasons!"
Err...
*insert dramatic pause and cheesy one liner here*
Err...
"It was my plan all along! *insert long stupid-ass no-way-in-hell-he-did-all-that plan*"
Guest_mikeucrazy_*
Thy Classic -*Everyone lives on happy ever after*..uh no, someone failed or was beaten and they are not happy with the results and people die.so their friends/family are not that happy either.
i remember how many people wanted that for me3 and if shepard got that, i would have been dorked off aka butthurt
Wrong
Sorry. Never played it.
But DA2 seems different and unique in not a good way.
I think you've aged enough and watched and played stuff more than enough if you find everything cliche...
IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO REACH SALVATION BY LEAVING THIS WORLD. I CAN ASSISTS YOU IN THIS!
Zombie one Cknarf mentioned reminded other two really annoying things I wish people would stop using. But I doubt these counts as plot cliches but they're just too annoying not to mention.
1. When something large enough to crush a person is falling the character just stands there and stares at it until it either crushes them or someone saves them.
2. When a character is being chased they trip and get killed or if they're being chased by a car they just keep running straight ahead.
When 2 characters who have bickered constantly or mostly expressed dislike towards each other suddenly fall in love at the end, always feels forced
-"humanity is the worst, that´s why I built this bomb/deathlaser/sharkcanon"-
Synthetic/Artificial character that - suddenly! - discovers to have a soul/emotions/own intelligence.
Asimov told us this stuff ages ago, dear screenwriters!
Guest_simfamUP_*
^^^
Loved the story in iRobot where this was somehow "occurring"
But wasn't.
Asimov is a genius because presents complex ideas in the most simplest terms.
Even the Laws of Robotics are, in essence, so damn simple that it's easy to oversee their brilliance.
Guest_Sienna_*
To defeat the evil superboss, our Protagonist needs [X item], which has been mysteriously lost for centuries....... Funnily enough - out of sheer coincidence - said item just happens to be the locket/ rusty sword/ book/ [insert other nondescript everyday item which is gathering dust somewhere] inherited to you by your great-granduncle twice removed when you were but a small child.....
I totally didn't see that coming. Like, totally!!! >.<
Guest_AugmentedAssassin_*
No plot-twists bother me at all, It just has to fit the story it's implemented into.
I'm ending human suffering...by destroying the world!
Guest_Sienna_*
No plot-twists bother me at all, It just has to fit the story it's implemented into.
While I agree to some extent, having always the same plot twists makes story-telling rather stale....... I know the analogy isn't accurate, but it's kinda like the recurring action scenes we get to see in every other film nowadays: collapsing bridges the hero JUST manages to jump off - the hero dangling from the window ledge of a burning building BY ONE HAND only to be saved in the last second - the cave collapsing around the hero, who miraculously doesn't get hit by a rock....... we've seen it a MILLION times, yet scenes like this get used over and over again (like we don't know what's going to happen..... we are literally left GIDDY WITH ANTICIPATION!!!! xD)
Guest_AugmentedAssassin_*
While I agree to some extent, having always the same plot twists makes story-telling rather stale....... I know the analogy isn't accurate, but it's kinda like the recurring action scenes we get to see in every other film nowadays: collapsing bridges the hero JUST manages to jump off - the hero dangling from the window ledge of a burning building BY ONE HAND only to be saved in the last second - the cave collapsing around the hero, who miraculously doesn't get hit by a rock....... we've seen it a MILLION times, yet scenes like this get used over and over again (like we don't know what's going to happen..... we are literally left GIDDY WITH ANTICIPATION!!!! xD)
I totally agree. It can sometimes annoy me as well.
Daddy issues
People losing control of their minds
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