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* VideoGame.BlueDragon: ''Blue Dragon'' started out as a 2006 RolePlayingGame for the UsefulNotes/Xbox360, developed by several of the people behind the ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' series and the artwork of the ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'' franchise. It's basically Creator/AkiraToriyama, Hironobu Sakaguchi, and Creator/NobuoUematsu's[[note]]called the Square Dream Team by fans, as they previously collaborated on VideoGame/ChronoTrigger[[/note]] attempt at a ClicheStorm, after seeing how cliche {{RPG}}s had become.

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* VideoGame.BlueDragon: ''Blue Dragon'' started out as a 2006 RolePlayingGame for the UsefulNotes/Xbox360, Platform/Xbox360, developed by several of the people behind the ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' series and the artwork of the ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'' franchise. It's basically Creator/AkiraToriyama, Hironobu Sakaguchi, and Creator/NobuoUematsu's[[note]]called the Square Dream Team by fans, as they previously collaborated on VideoGame/ChronoTrigger[[/note]] attempt at a ClicheStorm, after seeing how cliche {{RPG}}s had become.
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* YMMV.TheChaseMyLittlePony: Some [[Website/FimfictionDotNet FIMFiction]] critics consider 'The Chase' this. It becomes excessive as the story goes on. With just more and more cliches being piled on.

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* YMMV.TheChaseMyLittlePony: Some [[Website/FimfictionDotNet [[Platform/FimfictionDotNet FIMFiction]] critics consider 'The Chase' this. It becomes excessive as the story goes on. With just more and more cliches being piled on.
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* YMMV.{{Stargate}}: Creator/RogerEbert's review (he put this movie on his [[RogerEbertMostHatedFilmList most hated list]]) boiled every element of the movie to this, right down to the snare-drum "military" music as Daniel arrives at headquarters. '''Doesn't describe why it's cliche.'''

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* YMMV.{{Stargate}}: Creator/RogerEbert's review (he put this movie on his [[RogerEbertMostHatedFilmList most hated list]]) list) boiled every element of the movie to this, right down to the snare-drum "military" music as Daniel arrives at headquarters. '''Doesn't describe why it's cliche.'''

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* Positive/Neutral: 14/50, or 28%
* Negative: 21/50, or 42%
* Only about part of the work: 3/50, or 6%
* Intentional: 2/50, or 4%
* ZCE/Other: 10/50, or 20%


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* YMMV.BinaryDomain: The setting and story are what you would expect if you put a bunch of cyberpunk anime into a blender and filtered it through competent writers. Still, it is very much enjoyable.


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* YMMV.BlackDesertOnline: It would be cruel to say that BDO's story is incompetent in everything from its writing and presentation to its translation. It would also, unfortunately, be accurate. It's a disjointed ClicheStorm filled with paper-thin characters where the BlindIdiotTranslation and inept cutscene direction make it difficult to follow or grasp the importance of basic plot points, and the voice-actors audibly struggle with the messy script and lack of direction. The good news, though, is that the game itself is a satisfyingly busy WideOpenSandbox with an appealingly flashy HackAndSlash combat system with just enough depth to be interesting, so you'll be spending most of your time building your own trade empire, exploring a huge and gorgeous world, or juggling orcs with magical kung fu and murderous Chinese ribbon dancing rather than pretending to care about the main plot.
* YMMV.BringItOn: Most of the sequels do retreads of the first film's plot, usually with an anti-racism Aesop tacked on.
* YMMV.CallOfDuty: ''Ghosts'' is generally considered to be a sub-par ''Call of Duty'' sequel due to its weak original setting story and characters, over-reliance on RareGuns as the second attempt to futurize the franchise, stupid hype ("Fish AI" that wasn't as unique as advertised and didn't work anyway, and an "improved graphics engine" that was only a noticeable improvement in [[TechDemoGame the system requirements]]), and a ClicheStorm plot with [[TooBleakStoppedCaring no likeable characters on either side]] that ends in a blatant SequelHook.
* YMMV.CinderellaIIDreamsComeTrue: This movie is considered a strong contender for being one of the worst, if not the absolute worst, of the Disney direct-to-video sequels, for the jarring drop in animation and overall '''[[ClicheStorm unoriginality]]''', and had a huge hand in crystallizing the already notorious reputation of the sequels. The [[WesternAnimation/CinderellaIIIATwistInTime third film]] [[SurprisinglyImprovedSequel on the other hand....]]


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* YMMV.MemphisBelle: One of the primary complaints about the film is that while it's competently made, it doesn't really hit any notable dramatic heights, and could have easily been mistaken for a typical drama filmed during the actual war, nearly to the point of being a ClicheStorm.


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* YMMV.{{Radiant}}: The most common criticism of the series is its use of many of the common tropes present in many other anime fighting series, such as a generic StockShonenHero as the main character with a DarkAndTroubledPast and a SuperPoweredEvilSide he needs to control, leading to inevitable comparisons with ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' and ''Manga/FairyTail''. The main premise, involving the search of a MacGuffinLocation, also lead to comparisons with ''Manga/OnePiece''.


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* YMMV.TheHardTimesOfRJBerger: ''Seriously''. This show is like if ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'' took itself seriously, minus the creative premise to boot.
* YMMV.TheLastLegion: Definitely right up there, what with the ActionGirl [[AllAmazonsWantHercules pairing off with the]] ''deliberately mentioned'' single lead, the boy they'd adopted turning out to be King Arthur's ancestor, among other things.


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* YMMV.DungeonsAndRandomness: Some of the more dramatic characters qualify, especially Malchus.


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* YMMV.IndependenceDay: Certainly enough from every other alien invasion movie to go around.
* YMMV.ItsNotTheRaptorDNA: Everything about [[BigBad Bridges.]]

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* YMMV.BokuraNoHentai: Although the manga deconstructs many tropes from OtokonokoGenre and BoysLove, it still has a noticeable number of them, like the natural femininity of crossdressers or IncompatibleOrientation to make the "non-standard" characters' feelings more dramatic. It also follows similar beats to other pieces of transgender fiction.



* YMMV.DoomAndDestiny: This game is chock full of cliches pertaining to anime, video games (mainly [[EasternRPG JRPGs]]), and so much more. Most of the people who played the game enjoyed it because of its parodic nature and charm.



* YMMV.HarveyStreetKids: Most of the episodes are simple retreads of plots done by other shows. [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools Not that it makes them any less entertaining]].



* YMMV.OverwatchStoryAndLore: The story is full of classic sci-fi and superhero cliches, such as a RobotWar, a hyper-intelligent gorilla, a supervillain whose powers are the results of medical procedure gone horribly wrong, two ninja brothers (one of whom is now a cyborg) who oppose each other's ideals, and so on. [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools A lot of this adds to its charm]], however, as the familiar tropes make the characters very easy to understand and the story easy to get into. What also helps is that, despite the familiar premises, each character possesses well-written and sympathetic backstories that make them easy to identify with. Up to and including several ''[[TragicVillain villains]]''. The story, despite not being in the game itself, is very detailed and well thought-out and has people wanting more.



* YMMV.TheFarawayPaladin: The story uses all of the stock fantasy tropes, such as an invading Demon King, the StandardFantasyRaces, patron gods and goddesses, the separation of magic and benedictions, as well as the protagonist being a reincarnation of a Japanese person from Earth. But TropesAreTools is in full effect, and the setting, while familiar, remains distinct through its examination and usage of these tropes.



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* YMMV.CopCraft: The series as a whole seems to be attempting to set a record for how many BuddyCopShow and CowboyCop cliches it can cram into twenty minutes. All played very, very straight.


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* YMMV.RainbowRangers: The show follows a basic Nick Jr. formula. The girls fit standard character archetypes and have a cute, clumsy pet, there's a fairly harmless villain with a daughter who isn't so bad, and while Kalia is said to have depth to her character she mainly fills the generic mentor archetype as well as MissionControl.
* YMMV.RavenswordShadowlands: One of the many criticisms aimed at the game is that it's one of the most generic [=RPGs=] out there.


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* YMMV.SpaceSweepers: While entertaining, the film does suffer from a variety of cliches, at least to a Western audience. Namely, the [[VisionaryVillain utopian CEO]] of a MegaCorp being the BigBad of the film would be obvious to anybody with experience in the {{Cyberpunk}} genre, many a DisneyDeath make the characters' sacrifices and efforts lose their sense of risk, their schemes near the end of the film seem like the characters are donning their PlotArmor, Tiger Park's axe is an obvious ChekhovsGun, and TheCavalry arriving to save the day at the end of the film are easily predictable or overdone going into the film. '''Claims the film his entertaining, but has a very negative slant.'''
* YMMV.SurvivingTheGame: Feels like checking boxes on the list of all possible plot devices, archetypes and cliches to make the HuntingTheMostDangerousGame scenario. Doesn't mean it's bad per se, but still schematic.
* YMMV.TheAccidentalAnimagus: Some FandomSpecificPlot(s) like "Ancient and Noble Houses", wards, super!Harry[[note]]although Harry and Hermione have only mastered first year wandless spells and it took them more than a year to get the hover and repairing charms to work[[/note]] are present. Also the fact that Hermione's parents are called [[Creator/DanielRadcliffe Daniel]] and [[Creator/EmmaWatson Emma]]. Ironically, the author's FFN bio calls out super!Harry as one of his {{Pet Peeve Trope}}s.
* YMMV.TheChaseMyLittlePony: Some [[Website/FimfictionDotNet FIMFiction]] critics consider 'The Chase' this. It becomes excessive as the story goes on. With just more and more cliches being piled on.


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* YMMV.TheIdhunsMemories: The trilogy crams up a ton of staples of teen fantasy fiction: [[WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld improbably young characters saving the world]], a lot of focus being put [[RomanticPlotTumor solely on their relationships]], [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys girls repeatedly falling for (very) bad boys]], a [[FlatCharacter rather neuter female protagonist]] with two love interests [[RedOniBlueOni antagonistic to each other]], stock European fantasy creatures like dragons, [[StarCrossedLovers forbidden loves that reach cosmic levels...]] Interestingly enough, some of those traits weren't actually that popular yet back when the books were published, at least compared to how huge they would become later, meaning ''Idhún'' managed to predict an entire segment of literature many years before it happened.
* YMMV.{{Uglydolls}}: Despite its message about embracing differences and standing out being anything but subtle, the film has been savaged by critics for its generic plot, unmemorable characters and for not standing out at all from any other cookie-cutter children's animated film in the last decade.


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* YMMV.ArbyNTheChief: The entirety of "Endgame"
* YMMV.FastGirls: It ticks most of the typical tropes you'd find in a sports movie.
* YMMV.MitadakeSaga: The comic tends to invoke common anime clichés wherever possible.


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* YMMV.ThePearlFishers: There are lots of clichés and coincidences in this opera.
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* YMMV.GundamBuildDrivers: A major sticking point for some viewers is how it doesn't break much ground as far as MMORPG anime go. A StockShonenHero, his MysteriousWaif ally, his glasses-wearing nerdy {{Lancer}} best friend, the PluckyGirl in a cute Gunpla and two [[AloofAlly Aloof Allies]]. The breaking point for these viewers was Episode 12, where the day is saved by a combination of PowerGivesYouWings, ThePowerOfFriendship and DeusExMachina.

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* VideoGame.RomancingWalker: Despite a '''[[ClicheStorm surfeit of standard RPG motifs]]''', and a [[TranslationTrainwreck less than optimal translation]], ''Romancing Walker'' still manages to be fun and entertaining, mostly because of its [[BattleHarem characters]], and because it [[AffectionateParody doesn't take itself too seriously.]]
* YMMV.BuddyComplex: The first episode has been called out for having a lot of this including an invasion, a high school student going to school, the apparent death of a love interest, etc. It doesn't help that viewers keep comparing with ''Anime/ValvraveTheLiberator''. On the other hand, the use of time travel has made the series stand out a bit.
* YMMV.FinalSpace: Everything, from the plots to the characters to the dialogue. Naturally, it's all an AffectionateParody, or at the very least Administrivia/TropesAreTools and/or NarmCharm.
* YMMV.LadyBird: Like many other great teen comedy-dramas before it, the movie doesn’t exactly change up the formula or break new ground, but [[Administrivia/TropesAreNotBad it presents itself with plenty of heart, charm, and substance]].
* YMMV.NinthCompany: First half of the film (the boot camp) fully embraces all possible cliches about conscription story. [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools That doesn't mean it's bad]]. Then there is the second half, which gradually twists and inverts every single war movie trope into a bloody mess of WarIsHell. And it's [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome awesome to watch]].
* YMMV.{{Ouija}}: It seems like there was a checklist of basic horror movie tropes that needed to be fulfilled in order to make the movie work.
* YMMV.SkiesOfArcadia: If you had to look at the game on paper, it'd be hard to see what all the fuss is about. It's an extremely standard turn-based RPG that follows the OneTrueSequence (or at least appears to) one hundred percent, it has your typical "race with the bad guys to collect the magic crystals in the world" plot, only a handful of the characters really undergo any substantial CharacterDevelopment, and the villains are an [[TheEmpire Evil Empire]] staffed mostly by some of the hammiest, most straight-forward and one-dimensional {{Card Carrying Villain}}s ever. [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools But it pulls off each and every single one of these cliches and tropes so well that the game is far more than the sum of its parts]], especially considering it came out in the wake of a whole slew of overly [[DarkerAndEdgier dark and edgy]] ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' imitators, where these old cliches felt like a breath of fresh air after being smothered by the new ones so pervasively.
* YMMV.ZapDramatic: ''Sir Basil Pike Public School'' uses many subplots and tropes common to fiction involving school (the BigGame, school dance, disguising yourself as another person to humiliate someone).


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* YMMV.GundamBuildDrivers: A major sticking point for some viewers is how it doesn't break much ground as far as MMORPG anime go. A StockShonenHero, his MysteriousWaif ally, his glasses-wearing nerdy {{Lancer}} best friend, the PluckyGirl in a cute Gunpla and two [[AloofAlly Aloof Allies]]. The breaking point for these viewers was Episode 12, where the day is saved by a combination of PowerGivesYouWings, ThePowerOfFriendship and DeusExMachina.
* YMMV.NewYorkMinute: Part of the reason the film bombed; many felt that the film didn't justify its theatrical release because, despite having a higher budget, it had the same kind of plot and character types as their direct-to-video movies.
* YMMV.TheRugratsTheory: Let's see. The entire series was all in one of the protagonist's heads? Check. The world is 'actually' ridiculously dark to the point of bordering on {{Narm}}? Check. Multiple inconsistencies that the writer {{Handwave}}s as the protagonist being crazy? Check. Yep, it's your fairly standard DelusionConclusion. The supposed BasedOnATrueStory implications from it were also a recurring element from many creepypastas made at the time.
* YMMV.TitanicTheLegendGoesOn: The film has an ''insane'' list of clichés found in kids' movies (''especially'' Disney ones). Talking animal characters, an antagonist with incompetent henchmen, a girl with an [[WickedStepmother evil stepfamily]], LoveAtFirstSight, {{Disneyfication}} gone mad, and more clichés are there to show its notoriety.


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* YMMV.AGoodDayToDieHard: Alik is your typical America-hating Russian villain. The portrayal of Russia in the movie as a whole is a hailstorm of UsefulNotes/TheNewRussia clichés that were already dated 20 years before.
* YMMV.{{Orange}}: The original plot settings, but not the story itself, are full of this in the context of the shoujo manga, for we have a love triangle with the naive main character, angsty {{Tsundere}} and NiceGuy.
* YMMV.{{Raw}}: Jojo and Anthony. Let's see, girl marries a guy she doesn't know that well - he immediately turns into a controlling Jerkass and borderline abuser. Oh and he's foreign too.
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* Literature.WearingTheCape: Jacky in ''Bite Me: Big Easy Nights'' [[InvokedTrope intentionally invokes]] as many vampire tropes as she can, sleeping in a coffin on native soil, wearing lots of black and goth-like clothes, even studying to become [[VampireDetectiveSeries a private detective]], so that she go undercover in the local "vampire" culture. Jacky finds it all stupid, but since Vampire-type breakthroughs get their powers by being incredibly obsessed with vampires, it's otherwise universal.
* VideoGame.BlueDragon: ''Blue Dragon'' started out as a 2006 RolePlayingGame for the UsefulNotes/Xbox360, developed by several of the people behind the ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' series and the artwork of the ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'' franchise. It's basically Creator/AkiraToriyama, Hironobu Sakaguchi, and Creator/NobuoUematsu's[[note]]called the Square Dream Team by fans, as they previously collaborated on VideoGame/ChronoTrigger[[/note]] attempt at a ClicheStorm, after seeing how cliche {{RPG}}s had become.
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* Manga.EvenAMonkeyCanDrawManga: The book itself, and the manga you would produce if you followed its advice. '''Why?'''
* YMMV.{{Stargate}}: Creator/RogerEbert's review (he put this movie on his [[RogerEbertMostHatedFilmList most hated list]]) boiled every element of the movie to this, right down to the snare-drum "military" music as Daniel arrives at headquarters. '''Doesn't describe why it's cliche.'''
* YMMV.WaistDeep: This was a major criticism of the film. '''Why?'''
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A wick check to see how ClicheStorm is being used. Concerns include it being a dupe of {{Troperiffic}}, it being complaint-bait, and it being ZCE-bait.

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