forum Cliches and tropes

Started March 03, 2018 by Jenna colon

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I’m writing short short on cliches and tropes. I want to get a variety of which ones there are.

Well, in some shows,when two people fight, one person seems like they're gonna win, but the other person beatsthem at the very end by some BS logic.

Some include

• romance always starting with people hating each other and then they 'fall for each other'
• everyone is white
• all the males are very tall, muscular, tanned skin, arrogant and usually confident
• all the females have attractive, curvy bodies or are super slim. They all have 'long blond hair'.
• 'strong female characters' always end up with a male love interest that they get very dependent on.
• good vs. evil ALWAYS
• all the main couples are always straight
• any sex scenes
• males are always taller than females
• "our hero embarks on a quest to find the lost object/person/thingy that will save our world."
• dragon riders
• 'bad boy' type characters
• fantasy is always medival
• everyone is 15-20 years old
• Everyone always ends up with a love interest or wants one. Nobody is asexual. Must always be a romance sub plot.
• he "ran his hands through his hair/shrugged/rolled his eyes/stuttered/blushed" <– too much of this stuff
• prophesies
• LOVE TRIANGLES
• unnecessary death OR everyone survives everything
• 'rags to riches' stories
• possessive males are not as hated as they should be
• person who dies turns out to be alive

Read any book. It will most likely have at least 3 of these
Hope this was useful!

Wars always start with the two opposing sides charging at each other with little to no strategy. After the main character with little rank or title gives a long inspirational speech of course.

Vampires in books are supposed to be all super strong, but the biggest feat that most of them do is lift humans up. I don't like the Twilight books too much, but those are the ones that have the best ACTUAL feats, not like in Ann Rice where they're stated (although Ann Rice's speed feats are awesome, and their vampires are more powerful overall), and all that Jazz.

But actual vampires are just slowly rotting, frail, old guys. They are weak and can’t stand the sun in the original mythology, but Twilight makes them sparkly, super fast, strong, buff guys.

Well, yes, they were old rotting guys, who caught fire when in sunlight, but they were superhumanly strong, and they could shape shift into a variety of animals, which vary by the region, plus they could usually only be dispatched in certain ways again, which varied by the region, they were basically just shape shifting zombies that were afraid to chew.