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== Literature ==
* [[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 [[
* ''[[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]].
* The ''[[Inheritance Cycle]]'' often comes across as this. One of main reasons [[The Film of the Book|the movie]] was worse was that it took anything vaguely original from the book and replaced it with [[Narm|Narmful]] clichés. For example, in the movie, Saphira goes from being a small dragon hatchling to a fully-grown dragon in a matter of moments. How? She flies up into some stormy clouds. The book actually has her physically growing, over the course of a few months, without the use of magic clouds.
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* The charity single "Just Stand Up!" Justified in that the song was written so that sales could go to the cause (''Just Stand Up For Cancer'') and for inspirational purposes, and therefore wasn't intended to be original.
* Every line of Cascada's "Every Time We Touch." You know, we could just place the last nail in the coffin and admit that the weather forecast for every pop music station is 100% chance of Cliche Storm. Forever.
* The story of the Mannheim Steamroller album and TV special ''The Christmas Angel: A Family Story'' seems built from a list of Christmas fantasy cliches: [[The Nutcracker (theatre)|living toys]] (including a teddy bear, a [[Frosty the Snowman|snowman]], and a [[Babes in Toyland|toy soldier]]); a [[How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (novel)|monster who hates the holiday]], wrecks the town square and steals the eponymous angel from the top of its Christmas tree to ruin everything (because it represents the spirit of the holiday); a trip by the heroine and toys to the icy north to confront him; and a happy ending wherein the villain is reformed by the power of goodness.
* [[Celine Dion]]'s albums are a veritable clichefest. Her first seven albums (not counting her Christmas Album) feature no fewer than 27 songs with the word love in the title. That's about 1/5th of the songs she recorded. She outdid herself on "The Colour of My Love" where half of the songs (and the title of the album) feature the word love.
** 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.
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* ''[[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.
* Done intentionally in ''[[Fable (video game)|Fable I]]'', which essentially was a [[
* ''[[Live a Live]]'' is like this for most of the game, with chapters made up of incredibly cliched characters and plots. Then you unlock another chapter that starts like this but turns into an exceptionally brutal [[Deconstruction]].
* ''[[Just Cause (video game)|Just Cause 2]]'' falls into the category, most likely as a stylistic choice. Having the good guys really wrestle between helping the average Panauan and serving the Agency? Resolving the [[Excuse Plot|"plot"]] with something more sensible than the vile oppressive evil ''slimy toad'' of a dictator pulling a nuclear threat along an international struggle over a huge oil field that was totally there all along? Come on now, it'd just distract you from the ridiculous car chases and the [[Impressive Pyrotechnics|80's style]] [[Made of Explodium|gasoline explosions.]]
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