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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]]; many a Cliché Storm is also a [[Guilty Pleasures|guilty pleasure]], or even, dare we say it, [[Troperiffic|exactly what the audience wants in the first place]]. You can see from some examples that people often ''intentionally'' create as big a Cliché storm as possible... nd then start having fun with all of the Clichés. Oftentimes, they may not start around deconstructing or playing with the cliches as so much play it for laughs. It's very common in an [[Affectionate Parody]].
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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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* [[Rob Liefeld|Rob Liefeld's]] infamous ''Youngblood'' featured a team whose only [[Badass Normal|non-powered member]] was also its leader, several Wolverine [[Captain Ersatz|rip-offs]] including a [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]], characters layered in [[Too Many Belts|pouches]] and [[Shoulders of Doom|shoulderpads]], [[Dark Age of Supernames|names]] like "Darcangel" and "Badrock," gun-toting [[Nineties Anti-Hero|anti-heroes]] with religious-sounding names (the hot new character when the book debuted was Marvel's gun-toting antihero Bishop -- Youngblood gives us Chapel, Cross, and Prophet), and buxom women in [[Stripperiffic|skimpy outfits]]. And they had "Home" and [[West Coast Team|"Away"]] teams.
* The ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' and ''[[Angel]]'' comics, which continue the story after both series end, reuse a good number of the best one-liners and comebacks from the TV episodes. They're meant to invoke familiarity, but the problem is that they end up doing them way too often. After the nth [[Meaningful Echo]], you start to wonder if the writers can come up with any new witty dialogue.
* Well Spoken Sonic Lightning Flash briefly notes that "they thought of everything! No cliche left unturned!" when he sees his team's new headquarters in ''Final Crisis Aftermath: DANCE''. The series itself doesn't exemplify the trope, however, nor does the team.
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== Film ==
* ''[[Avatar]]'' and ''[[Titanic]]'' are here to show us that [[Tropes Are Tools|this is not a bad thing]]. ''Avatar'' is even ''self-aware'' of its cliches (Calling the [[Mineral MacGuffin]] "[[Unobtanium]]") and even Cameron has said "It's just ''[[Dances with Wolves]]'' [[Recycled in Space|In Space]]". Despite playing all their tropes and cliches ''to the T'', they became very high-grossing films, [[Just Here for Godzilla|even despite how many people only saw it to see the pretty technical aspects]] and [[Scenery Porn]].
* The movie ''[[Rio]]'' is a compilation of pretty much every trope common to kids movies in the 2000s, especially [[Dreamworks Animation|Dreamworks]] movies. See page for a list.
* Self-aware in ''[[A Few Good Men]]'', where Tom Cruise's character has a throwaway conversation with the local newsstand vendor involving each of them trying to wryly out-cliche the other.
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* The complete filmography of Roland Emmerich, [[Michael Bay]], and Stephen Sommers, but [[Tropes Are Not Bad|that's not to say they aren't entertaining]].
** Sommers in particular [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] the hell out of this. In his commentary for ''[[The Mummy Trilogy|The Mummy Returns]]'', he notes that if you have a jungle full of ruins, you ''have'' to have shrunken heads.
** He also claims that movie rules require a pointed gun to make sufficient rattling noises - about the level created by a large garbage bag full of cans is a good starting point.
* ''[[Deathlands]]'': A cocktail of every sci-fi movie you've ever seen, thrown together on a budget equal to the price of a bus ticket.
* Ryuhei Kitamura isn't a terrifically subtle director, to say the least. He is, however, terrifically entertaining, which might explain why he was picked to direct ''[[Godzilla]]: Final Wars''.
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* Cheap [[Sylvester Stallone]] vehicle ''[[Xtreme Kool Letterz|D-TOX]]''. Stallone plays a cop who, after punching a [[Cymbal-Banging Monkey]], finds out his wife has been killed by his nemesis. He develops a drink problem and is sent to a remote, snowy rehab place. People get killed off one by one. And who's doing the killing? Why, the {{spoiler|[[Evil Brit]]}} of course! As you'd expect from a film populated by alcoholics, you get an [[Anvilicious]] message:
{{quote|"Booze may be a slow-burner, but it's still suicide."}}
* Subverted in almost every possible way throughout ''[[Inglourious Basterds]]'', a film in which almost everything you expect in a World War II action film turns out exactly the opposite of what you'd expect.
** Unlike ''[[Saving Private Ryan]]''... aside from the Normandy Beach scene, which broke some serious new ground in that genre.
* Limit of Love: ''[[Umizaru]]''. Up until the last 10 minutes, you can easily predict not only every single "unexpected twist" but every single line the characters are about to say. Of course even if we count that last moment where {{spoiler|the ship sinks with the protagonist still on board}}, the ending is still pretty much the same. Just goes to prove it, you can only make so many movies about a sinking ship.
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* This trope is parodied in [[Trailers Always Lie|the trailer]] for ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters]]''.
* ''[[When Time Ran Out]]''. Of course, it's notable that most of the Cliches used ''in'' that movie were the ones Irwin Allen himself have been credited with creating. (It's eerily similar to the 1972 film adaptation of ''[[The Poseidon Adventure]]'', complete with an elderly woman fleeing for an escape dying of a heart attack and the majority of the people who stayed behind [[Kill'Em All|dying]].)
* ''[[Daylight]]''; it's pretty much every disaster movie since 1972.
* The portions we hear of the speech the Federation President gives at Khitomer in ''[[Star Trek VI]]'' are basically a political/diplomatic speech cliché storm.
* ''[[The Expendables]]''. But that's precisely the point.
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* ''[[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 [http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19941028/REVIEWS/410280308/1023 one long checklist of the cliches involved.]
* 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".
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* ''[[Maximum Ride]]''. So what if you've never read it? In some form, you already have.
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' is notorious for being mistaken as a [[Cliché Storm]] by everyone who watched the movies without knowing that it's the [[Trope Maker]] for almost every fantasy trope, and is furthermore credited with other tropes which do not appear in it at all.
* Nicely [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] and then subverted in the [[Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms]] series by [[Mercedes Lackey]]. Here, the "cliche storm" is almost literal: a metaphysical force called The Tradition which gathers around significant events and people, directing magical energy to flow in [[Archetype|archetypal]] directions and following certain tropes that have been set down through folklore and that consequently reinforce themselves by inspiring even ''more'' folklore! Characters throughout the series find themselves guided by, opposed by, and sometimes rebelling against The Tradition -- a witty metaphor for the writing process itself!
* ''[[Jim Springman and the Realm of Glory]]'' has a [[Show Within a Show|book within a book]] that purports to be about 'A unique fantasy world of hope and fear, good and evil, beauty and barbarity', where 'A teenager armed only with a magic sword and a stout heart takes up this impossible quest'. The (fictional) book is filled with cliches.
* ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'': [[Mary Sue|Awkward, clumsy girl]] moves to new school and is instantly adored by all? ''Check''. New girl falling in love with the [[Relationship Sue|hottest (cough) guy in school]]? ''Check''. Hot boy falls in love with new girl? ''Check''. Girl is so in luv she will do anything for her twu wuv? ''Check''. And that's just the beginning...
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{{quote|'''Piper:''' "I'm being stalked by psycho killers and I hide in the shower?"}}
* ''[[Perfect Disaster]]''. A short [[Mockumentary]]-styled [[Documentary]] series that focuses on horrible natural disasters -- ice storm, fire storm, but the most notable is the cliché storm. While the narrator and various experts explain the science behind the phenomenons (sometimes in cut-away scenes), each episode tells a fictional story about how the citizens and the local government of a given town/city would react to them. The set-up of these stories borrows everything from clichéd disaster movies -- mediocre (but decent enough for a TV series) effects, overused character archetypes and interactions, even the ''camera angles'' can be guessed if you are savvy enough. While this may undermine the intended realism for some viewers, [[Tropes Are Not Bad|others enjoy the heck out of it]].
* In the season 3 finale of ''[[Leverage]]'', the team writes a speech for a politician that is intentionally made up of nothing but political speech cliches. The public eats it up.
** Granted, it was a small country with a one-party democracy, so the public wasn't yet disillusioned with political cliches, and the team took advantage.
* ''[[T. J. Hooker]]'' is very guilty of being this for cop shows. Every storyline, you've seen before. All of the character types and stereotypes are here. The villians tend to have no characterization, largely being [[Complete Monster|inhumane monsters]]. The show is such a [[Cliché Storm]], that you might think you're watching a parody of cop shows rather than the real deal.
* ''[[Gilmore Girls]]'' has an episode when Rory is moving into her college dorm and another student has lost a bet between him and his girlfriend and must only speak in cliches. A cliche storm follows.
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** Toto are pretty similar; about half their songs follow the formula of 'I love you very much <insert female name as title of song>.' It got so bad, they named one song (admittedly a good one) ''99''. On their second album.
* Nearly anything written by Diane Warren, including Céline Dion's "Because You Loved Me". Count how many times she used the phrase "in this moment" in [[Aerosmith]]'s "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing".
* Almost eveything ever released by Ronnie James Dio... although, to be honest, rocking like [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RR1mGsUvYI this] when you're around 70 is still pretty damned awesome.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7baAX6a6pM "He has songs of/ Wildebeests and angels/ He has soared/ on the wings of a deeee-mon!!!..."]
* The entire discography of [[Kiss]]... who are still kind awesome in a guilty-pleasure sort of way.
* The lyrics Cosmos' ([[Dark Reprise|and Chaos']]) themes in ''[[Dissidia Final Fantasy]]'' might as well have been a long list of cliched fantasy phrases run through a computer algorithm and edited by a non-native English Speaker. [[Tropes Are Not Bad|The songs are still catchy]], though they owe far more to the [[Crowning Music of Awesome|kickass score]] and excellent performance than the written content.
* [[Michael Jackson]] could fall into this.
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* ''[[Starcraft II]]'', particularly its trailer. You've heard every line before, and that's a guarantee.
** The ''Wings of Liberty'' campaign itself isn't much better. The characters are, at best, paper-thin stereotypes -- even Raynor himself doesn't have much depth -- and the plot has all the moral complexity of a fairy tale.
** This is exacerbated by the fact that not only is it a cliche storm on its own, its plot is the exact same cliche storm you saw in the previous Blizzard RTS. [[Play the Game Skip the Story|Not that people noticed]].
* ''[[Skies of Arcadia]]''. This may have been part of its charm; damn near everyone that played the game loved it. The cliché storm came at a time where every other RPG in a five year radius -- [[Follow the Leader|following the lead]] of ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' -- had gone to such great lengths to avoid clichés (largely by becoming [[Darker and Edgier]] and [[Faux Symbolism|stiflingly pretentious]]) that a [[Reconstruction|return to overused tropes]] had [[Inverted Trope|somehow become a breath of fresh air]]. One thing that makes ''[[Skies of Arcadia]]'' work in spite of this trope is that it combines the various clichés in genuinely new and previously un-attempted ways.
** ''[[Grandia (video game)|Grandia]]'', a much earlier RPG, may well have beaten ''[[Skies of Arcadia]]'' to the decision to stop trailing after ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]''... though really, in ''Grandia'''s case it feels more like the writer just wanted to have fun rather than having a specific intention of being different. The hero's a mischievous young lad, who runs away from home chasing the legacy of his dead father to become an adventurer, carrying his [[Orphan's Plot Trinket]] (the Spirit Stone), fights the evil empire... and it is awesome in very much the same way as [[Skies of Arcadia]]'s lack of fear for the use of cliché lead it to be.
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* ''[[Beyond the Beyond]]'', one of Camelot Software's first non-''[[Shining Force]]'' RPGs.
* ''[[Star Ocean: Till the End of Time]]'' should have had a counter that clicked every time they recycled a cliché from ''[[Star Trek]], [[Final Fantasy]],'' and every other console RPG. Maria even [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] it during one in-town dialogue.
** Bonus points go to the twist that {{spoiler|the world of ''Star Ocean'' is a Video game -- even the 4D beings who play it probably thought "This game really ''is'' pretty cliche isn't it?"}}
* ''[[Grandia II]]'', ''[[Luminous Arc]]'', and ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'' are, like, ''the'' threesome of cliché storms, being built around identical framing devices and having largely the same plot twists.
* ''[[Legend of Dragoon]]''. When it first came out, many fans couldn't stop comparing it to ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]''. [[Follow the Leader|There is a good reason for this]]. It didn't help that the few "original" elements were downplayed. One of the "big revelations" ({{spoiler|one of the members of your group has been mass murdering anybody that comes in contact with The [[Reincarnation|Reincarnated]] [[The Chosen One|Chosen One]] for hundreds of years}}) was just flat out ignored immediately afterwards without even so much as a chiding.
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* ''[[Forty Winks]]'' for the [[PlayStation]].
* ''[[Dragon Age]]''. Granted, the game ''does'' have quite a few original things, but when one looks at the setting...with few exceptions...it's practically every Tolkienian-inspired [[Medieval Fantasy]] plus a few things, minus a few things. Forest-dwelling elves who are big on Archery and hunting? Check. Subterranean Mountain-dwelling dwarves with a fondness for alcohol and crafting? Check. Mage towers? Check. Humans who speak with British accents? Check. Obvious influence from the British Isles or Western Europe? Check. Mages wound up destroying the world and creating Darkspawn? Check. Dwarven warriors? Check. [[Fantastic Racism]]? ...eh, mark it but not fully played out. [[Real Is Brown|Green and brown-stained landscapes?]] Check. Evil dragons that are just giant animals in terms of intelligence? Check. Last in the line of kings? Check.
** The game's even ''self-aware''! The human origin story is ''loaded'' with Cliches...yet during the story, when you kill giant rats, your character can say "Giant rats? That's like the start of every bad bard-song I've ever heard!"
* Dr Nefarious from ''[[Ratchet and Clank]]'' is practically built out of this trope. [[Played for Laughs]] of course.
* Try this ''[[Quake 4|Quake IV]]'' drinking game. Take a shot for any [[Space Marines]] cliche lifted from ''Aliens'', ''Warhammer 40,000'', Vietnam War movies like ''[[Apocalypse Now]]'', and previous Id Software shooters. Only those [[Made of Iron]] will still be conscious by the beginning of the third level. Seriously, the trope page for [[A Space Marine Is You]] reads like the design document for the game.
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* ''[[Disaster: Day of Crisis]]'' plays every single [[Disaster Movie]]-Cliche known to mankind painfully straight. And somehow, it [[Narm Charm|still works.]]
* ''[[Guild Wars]]'' is particularly guilty of this, [[Play the Game Skip the Story|though it doesn't get much attention. ]]The storyline in all four campaigns is pretty cliched itself, but if you listen to the dialog you'd think you were listening to a dictionary of cliche things to say. From the motivational speeches you quite often get ("We are the light that will shatter the coming darkness"), to the supposedly dramatic twists in the storyline ("But something tells me if they see for themselves what the White Mantle really do with the Chosen, they'll have a change of heart about their masters"), it's about as bad as I've seen it get.
** Although there are some subversions. (Varesh Ossa is actually [[The Dragon]] rather than a pawn of Abaddon, despite being Chosen, it's heavily implied literally ''any'' of the Chosen could have done what the player character does, the player character [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|unintentionally screw over Elona in time for Guild Wars 2]]) Nightfall in particular has the most [[Cliché Storm]] story out of all of them...despite the subversions.
* [[The Feeble Files]] is kinda cross between genuine cliché storm and parody of it.
* [http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/495903 Super PSTW Action RPG] is this for video game RPGs.
* ''[[Red Dead Redemption]]'' is full of this. This is most likely because EVERYTHING that happens in the game is a tribute to old [[Spaghetti Western]] movies.
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* ''[[Baten Kaitos]]: Eternat Wings and the Lost Ocean''. You have Kalas, a teenage orphaned [[Anti-Hero]] out to avenge his family who was killed by [[The Empire]]. He meets up with Xelha, a [[Mysterious Waif]] who is trying to stop said empire from acquiring the five [[Artifact of Doom|End Magnus]]. About a third the game is like that, then it turns out that ''[[Playing the Player|nothing is as it seems]]''.
* The ''[[Fire Emblem]]'' series is split between [[Cliché Storm]] games and games which avert it: games one, two, three, six, eight, eleven and twelve fall under this (one and six being pretty much identical in how they do it!), whereas four, five, seven, nine and ten don't. (Worth noting that eleven and twelve are remakes)
** To be fair, ''[[Fire Emblem Akaneia]]'' wasn't [[Seinfeld Is Unfunny|as cliche in their day as they seem now]] - consider Akaneia helped establish the genre it's a part of; compare ''[[Fire Emblem]] 6'' and ''8'', which were about a decade and a half after Akaenia.
** Fire Emblem 9 was, backstory and setting aside, pretty much this to Fire Emblem games. However, it's interesting to note that about half way through the game, they start playing with the Fire Emblem tropes, such as having the princess instead of being a plot figure don armour and become full out playable. Fire Emblem 10 meanwhile goes into full-on [[Deconstructor Fleet]].
** ''[[Fire Emblem: Awakening]]'' was actually ''mistaken'' as one, on basis of having the main character being a blue-haired sword-wielding prince. However, it quickly begins to subvert this/
* ''[[Diablo]]'' intentionally does this as part of the charm. Then again though, at this point (By Diablo 3), Blizzard probably knows that [[Play the Game Skip the Story|they could somehow bring Chaucer back from the dead and have him write the plot, and 95% of their players still won't pay attention to it.]]
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* The character of [[Evil Sorcerer|the Archmage]] on ''[[Gargoyles]]'' was a deliberate [[Cliché Storm]] -- indeed, his primary weakness is [[Bond Villain Stupidity|his love affair with villain cliches]], which prevents him from utilizing his godlike magical power to the fullest possible extent.
* The [[LEGO]] [[Hero Factory]] mini-series, also called "''Rise of the Rookies''". A great cast with some big names and CGI models with over-detailed textures a good story do not make. It relied so much on recycled formulas and rolled so well on clichés, that it neglected to explain the very driving force behind its plot: {{spoiler|Just ''what'' did Von Nebula want revenge for? Nobody has done ''anything'' to him.}} Heck, the first episode included a scene during which the characters tell us just how awesome the main hero is, and that he ''will'' end up saving the day. Just in case you feared that the series would have something interesting and unexpected in stall for him (and surprise, surprise, his whole character development was also wrapped up in the same episode).
** Arguably, its p-redecessor ''[[Bionicle]]'' started out this way, playing all the tropes very, very straight in the first few years, [[Tropes Are Not Bad|although still managing to be enjoyable]]. It's only in the later years that it became more subversive and ascended to [[Troperiffic]]. There's still a chance for HF to do the same.
* ''[[Atomic Betty]]''. [[Action Girl|Betty]], a secret space cadet, balances [[Wake Up, Go to School, Save the World|protecting the galaxy from evil with being a teenager]]. Together with her [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits|goofy sidekicks]] (a [[The Ditz|ditzy alien]] and [[Deadpan Snarker]] [[Ridiculously Human Robot|robot]]), Betty fights to stop the evil "[[Harmless Villain|genius]]", [[Evil Overlord|Maximus I.Q.]] ([[Cats Are Mean|a catlike alien]]) and his ([[Visual Pun|literally]]) [[The Starscream|two-faced]] [[The Dragon|sidekick]] [[Servile Snarker|Minimus P.U.]] There is absolutely NOTHING original about this show. [[Crowning Music of Awesome|Aside from her kickass theme song, of course]].
* ''[[Cars]]'' is this for [[Pixar]] movies. It's easy to imagine a little counter in the corner dinging whenever you see a Pixar cliche. Stranger in a community or group? Check. Brooding moment from a side character? Check. Wacky sidekick who forms a comedic duo with the main character? Check. Said group full of wacky members with their own quirks? Check. All of the development threatens to go downhill when something happens to separate or alienate the stranger? Check.
** ''[[Brave]]'' also seems to be heading down this road considering it stars [[Everything's Better with Princesses|a rebellious princess]] and has glaring similarities to previous films such as ''[[Tangled]]'' and ''[[How to Train Your Dragon (animation)|How to Train Your Dragon]]''. This is probably intentional due to the fact that John Lassater has said that since all of the heads of Pixar are male, they have an easier time writing male characters and they just went with a familiar formula when they started writing a story with a female lead, but this ''is'' Pixar so this might be a case of [[Tropes Are Not Bad]], or just plain [[Troperrific]].
* ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' is a cliche storm for the superhero genre. [[Ordinary High School Student]] in a [[Freak Lab Accident]] becomes a [[Half-Human Hybrid]] and must now [[Wake Up, Go to School, Save the World]] and maintain his [[Secret Identity]] while dealing with [[Hero with Bad Publicity|bad publicity]]. To help him are his [[Two Guys and a Girl|best friends]] as he fights a variety of villains with [[Pun|Puns]], most notably a [[Magnificent Bastard]] [[Villain with Good Publicity|With Good Publicity]] who eventually makes [[Cloning Blues|clones]] [[Opposite Sex Clone|with varying]] [[Clone Degeneration|levels of success]]. And, oh yeah, he [[Dating Catwoman|dates a ghost hunter]] for a while. This show is ''full'' of cliches, but usually makes it all work somehow.
** Probably because the show had a heavy emphasis on comedy; the writing made it clear that they knew it was all cliched, so at times it could come off as an [[Affectionate Parody]] of the superhero genre.
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''; the basic plot is one you've heard before. The world is in danger, there is a single [[Chosen One]] who has to defeat the legion of evil despite his young age, and he only has a year to do it! But like other cliche storms, like ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'', by giving characters good back-stories and depth and creating a fleshed out world, [[Tropes Are Not Bad|it still works]].
* ''[[Detention]]'' - however, the characters (What little we saw of them) were memorable enough it's listed as [[Too Good to Last]].
* ''[[Fish Hooks]]''
* The 2010 reboot of ''[[Pound Puppies]]''. Even its fans admit it's one.
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* ''[[Johnny Test]]''
* ''[[Thundercats 2011|ThunderCats (2011)]]'' trots out well-worn clichés by the dozen, but uses the pretext of its planet-wide [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]] and [[Schizo-Tech]] to play [[Genre Roulette]] with those it employs. Stock plots from [[High Fantasy]], [[Wooden Ships and Iron Men]], [[Space Opera]] and [[Western]] all get their turns at bat, often while mashed up with two to three other genres.
* The first season of ''[[Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi]]''. This was removed in the second season.
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