Name some of the most overused, over relied on comic clitches that you wish would die and never come back....which leads us to one of the biggest clitches:
Characters dying and returning: It's used by nearly every single marvel and D.C character ever made. It's been so overused that deaths don't even mean anything anymore.
Characters believing they are about to be shot by an uneasy ally, but finds out the ally was aiming for the baddie creeping up behind the hero.
When two heroes meet each other for the first time, fight, stalemate and then make up and team up against a common enemy.
Clones. No explanation required.
When a hero becomes mind controlled and attacks their teammates.
I have a variation: Baddie makes an entrance which paints him as invincible, later attacks hero, gets uber pwned by hero leaving you thinking "What the hell?".
Another:
Hero loses first fight, learns, destroys baddie in the second fight.
Another:
Hero loses most of the fight, digs deep down to find that inner strength that allows him to quadruple pwn baddie leaving you thinking: "Why didn't you do that in the beginning?" -Looks at Naruto- Yeah, I'm talking about you, ****er.
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Last edited by long pig on Jul 29th, 2007 at 05:58 AM
Genius. Everyone in Marvel or DC is a f*cking genius at one thing or another. Do the writers even ACKNOWLEDGE how difficult it is to be a genius ? It isn't just understanding a concept .
It invovles MASTERING said concept and perhaps even improving upon it several times over. Not to mention the sheer frequency these Geniuses pop up....
The stoic, I'm an emotionless cold figure who is detached from the team but subconsciously is looking for comfort and reassurance through the team, that replaces a deep urge for family and acceptance.
Gender: Male Location: Why, in my pants of course!
Other cliches include team loners, science-gone-haywire for origin stories (most prominent in Spiderman), retroactive continuity, and characters seemingly dying, but actually escaping (eg. explosions, buildings falling down, falling off a cliff). I mean, think about it. In most cases, the characters couldn't possibly have the time or the means to escape, yet they do. Everytime. But the most tried cliche of all is Wolverine, the immortal, indestructible-by-any-means, constantly changing origin, can-kill-anyone-because-he-has-claws, savage uncontrolled experiment secret agent samurai omnipotent anti-hero\superhero.
i can think of something inappropriate, yet catchy, as a definition for "clitch." it makes "clitch" into something of an abbreviation.
the deus ex machina's the oldest known cliche, be it "inner strength miraculously turning the tide of the battle," a character from outside the situation [sentry, for one] appearing quickly and decisively ending the battle, a random insight which aids the hero, etcetera.
Fights which start out in stalemates, but then one of the combatants gets more powerful, then the other gets more powerful, then the first gets even more powerful, then the other gets more powerful again and so on and so on.
A cliche that has been used in nearly every Japanese manga ever!
Well, by the end of the 1980's, his X-Men writing was becoming a parody of his own style. He doesn't have it anymore.
How about the villan who captures the hero, just to explain his master plan before killing said hero, who uses the time to escape capture and grab victory??
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Peak humans.
Almost every hero/villain that doesn't have super powers is a peak human. Even guys that used to be fat and slow in time turn into peak humans.(Ock for example)
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