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You are watching something like ''[[Starship Troopers (film)|Starship Troopers]] 2: Hero of the Federation'' and it strikes you that you have heard every single line of this somewhere else. Every trope is presented without [[Subverted Trope|irony]] or [[Lampshade Hanging|acknowledgment]]. ''All'' the situations and setups are clipped out of another story and pasted in as-is.
You are in a '''Cliché Storm'''. Do not worry. The pain will soon pass. A bug will soon scrag the [[Ensign Newbie|inept Lieutenant]]. Security will soon come to the perimeter. [[You Shall Not Pass|The line will soon be held]]. It will be over, soon.
Remember, this is [[Tropes Are Not Bad|not always a bad thing]]
See also [[A Space Marine Is You]], a specific form of a Cliché Storm; see also [[Deconstructor Fleet]], for works that tear through dozens of tropes en route from Cliché Storm to originality. Compare [[Medieval European Fantasy]], a common setting in some Cliché Storms. Compare [[Strictly Formula]], [[Reconstruction]]. Compare and contrast [[Troperiffic]], which is a more fun version of this trope, although the lines between the two are blurry and kind of subjective.
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* ''[[Resident Evil]]: Apocalypse'' contains so many cliches from every zombie, sci-fi and buddy action film in the past ten years before release that it is near impossible to find something original in the film.
* ''[[Alpha and Omega]]''. Entire movie in a nutshell: Male falls in love with female. Male realizes he can't be with female because their love is forbidden due to them being different. Male and female get captured, wake up in a new location, and have to find their way home. Then throw in a bunch of kiddie humor during their adventure. Male and female finally arrive home, but the female dies. Oh wait, she didn't actually die. Male and female, despite their differences, fall in love, and live happily ever after. The end.
* [[Roger Ebert]]'s review of ''[[Stargate (film)|Stargate]]'' was basically [https://web.archive.org/web/20130311122751/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=
* The trailer for the new Steven Soderbergh actioner ''[[Haywire]]'' (starring MMA hottie Gina Carano) promises a cliché storm the likes of which even God has never seen, despite a terrific supporting cast including Michael Fassbender, Ewan McGregor, Antonio Banderas and Michael Douglas.
* ''National Lampoon's Senior Trip'' is the bad/lazy version of this as the entire [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits|class]] is just one big checklist of student cliches from the [[High School Hustler]] leader to [[The Stoner]] sidekick(s) to the [[Schoolgirl Lesbians]] with special emphasis on [[Big Fun|Miosky,]] who's trying everything in his power to be the next John Belushi, plus [[Politically Incorrect Hero|"date a blonde Jap."]] The ''only'' saving graces to this film is Matt Frewer as their [[Badly-Battered Babysitter|teacher,]] [[Lilo and Stitch|Kevin]] [[The Kids in The Hall|McDonald]] playing an [[Ax Crazy]] Star Trek fan out to kill them and [[Tara Strong|Carla]] [[Catch Phrase|asking guys if they "want to screw."]]
* ''[[Christian Mingle]]''. E. Reid Ross of ''[[Cracked.com]]'' wrote in [http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/4-reasons-new-christian-mingle-movie-will-be-hilarious/ 4 Reasons the New Christian Mingle Movie Will Be Hilarious] that the trailer of this film "May Have Set the All-Time Record for Cliches".
* ''[[The Scarecrow (2000 film)|The Scarecrow]]'' by Richard Rich has been criticized for being too similar to a [[Disney]] movie, namely ''[[Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)|Beauty and the Beast]]''. [[Tropes Are Not Bad|It's far from being horrible, though]] - the animation is surprisingly good, and the main villain Grisham is just different enough from Gaston to stand out ([[Large Ham|though no less hammy]]).
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* [[Defied Trope|Defied]] by ''[[Codex Alera]]''. Yes, it is a story about a [[Farm Boy]] who becomes a sword-wielding badass, learns the magic system, gets a hot girlfriend, saves the world from an [[Exclusively Evil]] nonhuman menace, and is {{spoiler|secretly the incredibly magically powerful heir to the throne}}. But it ''isn't.'' Perhaps this is due to the [[Cool vs. Awesome]]. Or the unique magic system. Or the fact that all the races have been replaced by completely different and awesome things. Or that the main character is the [[Defied Trope]] of the [[Marty Stu]]. Or maybe because it was written by [[Jim Butcher]].
* ''[[In The Hall Of The Dragon King]]'' by Stephen Lawhead fits this to a T. Peasant boy who becomes heir to the throne? Check. Old, wise mentor figure? Check. [[Supporting Leader]]? Check. Completely evil, slightly insane villain who wants to take over the world? Check. [[Evil Prince]]? Check. Liberal use of both the [[Idiot Ball]] and [[Villain Ball]]? Check. Despite all that, [[Tropes Are Not Bad|it's still a rather well written book]].
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* A ton of
* Everything in ''[[Sonichu]]'' that doesn't [[All There in the Manual|fail to make any sense unless the author explains it]] has been seen before in so many other, better works.
* Parodied on ''Hiro'' with [http://drunkduck.com/hiro/index.php?p=414050 Lo, the Cliche King]{{Dead link}}.
* Done deliberately and for laughs in Jango's [[Evil Gloating]] [http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0276.html here] in ''[[Darths and Droids]]''.
* The GM's story in ''[[DM of the Rings]]''.
* ''[[Mitadake Saga]]'', like the original game, glorifies itself on Anime tropes quite often.
* ''[[The Black Blood Alliance]]''
* Done in-story in ''[[The Noob]]'' with the MMORPG ''ClicheQuest''
* [http://www.gocomics.com/pibgorn/2003/10/02/ In universe] for ''[[Pibgorn]]''.
* An in-universe example was done by [[Real Life Comics]] during a dimension-hopping adventure where they wound up in a world where "everything is a ''[[Sliders]]'' cliche!". Naturally, this involved their dimension-traveling device fizzling out, a doomsday scenario, joining and fighting a rag-tag resistance group led by a double of someone they knew, getting involved with and solving the world's problems and a last second escape. Well, '''almost''' all their problems.
{{quote|'''Alt Dave''': That's great, but what about the '''''huge freaking asteroid''''' about to hit the planet?!
'''Tony''': Sorry, pal! You're on your own! }}
* Catch a Mad in ''[[Narbonic]]'' not spouting off every ''[[Mad Scientist]]'' cliche ever and you will find a Mad letting the side down. If you can't rant for at least an hour about
== Web Original ==
* Judging by what can be gathered about ''[[Satina (Wants a Glass of Water)]]'' after watching its first official episode (''Bring Your Demon to Work Day''), said show is absolutely ''made'' out of [[Sitcom|sitcom]] cliches.
** However, said show uses its utter cliched-ness as a humorous contrast to the fact that it is about [[Improbable Species Compatibility|a human and a demon taking care of their human/demon hybrid baby]], so it more-or-less works.
== Western Animation ==
* The animated ''[[The King and I]]'' was one big fat cliché from start to finish.
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* ''[[My Life Me]]'' is this to [[Anime]] tropes '''and''' [[Slice of Life]] tropes.
* ''[[Johnny Test]]''
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* The first season of ''[[Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi]]''. This was removed in the second season.
* Do ''not'' be fooled by the insect-populated [[Scavenger World]] that ''[[The Buzz on Maggie]]'' takes place in; it is about as cliched and stereotypical as animated sitcoms get.
* While ''[[Courage the Cowardly Dog]]'' might not be an actual [[Cliche Storm]], it certainly is one ''hell'' of a [[Troperiffic|Trope Storm]].
== Other ==
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