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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 (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' and ''[[Angel (TV)|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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** Actually, as Joss Whedon points out, the Operative is kind of right. While the Alliance is antagonistic to the main characters, said characters are thieves and smugglers. The Alliance is presented as actually being largely beneficial and benevolent. Granted, how much of this comes across in the film itself is debatable, since time for these subtleties is somewhat limited. As for Mal as 'the plucky hero' - even in the series Mal is far from the hero archetype, and for the film Whedon pushed him even further towards the darker, non-heroic side so he could undergo some sort of arc of development during the film.
* In a [[So Bad It's Good]] way, both ''Darktown Strutters'' and ''Order of the Black Eagle''. These movies aren't related at all, they just fit together when run matinee style due to using exactly half of all available tropes ever created prior to the 80s. The combination effect induces what can only be described as an effect similar to a caffeine rush without the coffee.
* 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.
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* ''[[Red Steel]]'' is one of the most shameless examples of a [[Cliché Storm]] ever seen.
* ''[[Wet]]''
* The first 10 hours or so of nearly every single ''[[Tales Series|Tales]]'' game. Then it hits you that the game [[Your Princess Is in Another Castle|is supposed to end now but]] [[Disc One Final Dungeon|you're still on Disc 1]]. Cue [[Wham! Episode]]. And therein lies ''why'' they have a fanbase. The ''[[Tales Series]]'' series are great at [[Deconstructed Trope|deconstruction]] and [[Subverted Trope|subversion]], so, for fans of the series, part of the fun is waiting to see just how many cliches they are going to utterly demolish by turning them on their heads, or exposing the downright nasty sides of them. (Sadly, most people only seem to play the first two hours and then say "The plot is a [[Cliché Storm]]." The entire ''series'' is built on a big [[Cliché Storm]].)
* ''[[Last Scenario (Video Game)|Last Scenario]]'' works sort of like the ''[[Tales Series]]'' in this respect. A [[Mysterious Informant]] shows up to tell the [[Farm Boy]] that he is [[Heroic Lineage|the descendant of a legendary hero]] and must help [[Good Republic, Evil Empire|fight the Empire]] to gain strength for the inevitable [[Sealed Evil in A Can|awakening of the demons]]. He goes off to fulfill his destiny, overjoyed to be saving the world. By the end of the game, he's found out that {{spoiler|a) he isn't related to Alexander, b) the demons [[WrittenbytheWritten By the Winners|aren't]], and c) Zawu was an agent for the Kingdom, whose up-and-coming [[Magnificent Bastard|General Castor]] was [[Playing Both Sides]]}}. Even {{spoiler|''the intro text scroll''}} was a lie.
* The [[Play Station 2]] game ''[[Shining Tears]]''.
* ''[[Sands of Destruction (Video Game)|Sands of Destruction]]''. The first 50 minutes of the game are pretty unique -- the female lead doesn't want to save the world as most RPG heroes want, but rather destroy it. By the next town she's already saving people and leaning towards the cliche-ism. More clichéd characters appear and more clichéd events happened, culminating in a finale that has more or less every finale cliché in the book, including [[Luke, I Am Your Father]], [[Power of Friendship]], [[Power of Love]], [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good]] so on so forth.
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* ''[[My Life Me (Animation)|My Life Me]]'' is this to [[Anime]] tropes '''and''' [[Slice of Life]] tropes.
* ''[[Johnny Test (Animation)|Johnny Test]]''
* ''[[Thundercats 2011 (Western Animation)|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 (Animation)|Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi]]''. This was removed in the second season.
 
 
== Other ==
* Subverted so much in online text-based RP games that it's almost starting to come full-circle. Everyone seems so terrified of making their character a [[Mary Sue]] that they're going to ridiculous heights to make their characters/plots blandly average... even in genres and settings where everyone having some measure of the fantastic is not only forgivable, but ''preferred''. These often end up producing [[Anti -Sue|Anti Sues]] that still [[Suetiful All Along|dominate the spotlight unfairly]] in spite of the total ''lack'' of anything noteworthy of them.
** This is ''especially'' prevalent mostly due to the misuse of the [[Mary Sue]] accusation -- it has evolved from something that was reserved for genuinely annoying characters to simply [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Like|complaining about characters you don't like]], with several "Mary Sue tests" including stuff that ''really'' isn't Sueish...just stuff the author of the test dislikes and wants to get rid of by calling it one of the [[Common Mary Sue Traits]].
* The fourth installment of ''[[Bunnykill]]'' is chock full of various anime cliches, including over the top violence, super modes, ninja jutsu, and {{spoiler|the [[Disposable Woman]]}}. [[Word of God]] states this was intentional.
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