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* ''Literature/SirAproposOfNothing'' gets humor from playing with many knight errant medieval story cliches. The cahracters themseves live up to them fully, from the perfect hero (who lives for heroism) to the protagonist, who is such a dadbeat he was born with teeth, from a rape, in a barn, his mother was a prostitute, he lost his money to a scheme from his first lover, worked in a tavern (where his mother was the prostitute), frequented by unruly knights, had a bum leg, red hair, and true to form once he realised he possessed all loser characteristics disqualifying him from herodom, doesn't care for any one or thing heroic without irony, despite his following the hero around for the time before he became a hero himself. Then other characters, like princess Entipy, are unlike their roles suggest, her being annoying, useless, and prone to tantrums, instead of wholesome, kind, useful or gentle. They even find and try to burn a witch, who gets the better of her attackers by being genre savvy and them not.
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* ''Literature/SirAproposOfNothing'' gets humor from playing with many knight errant medieval story cliches. The cahracters themseves characters live up to them fully, from the perfect hero (who lives for heroism) to the protagonist, who is such a dadbeat deadbeat he was born with teeth, from a rape, in a barn, his mother was a prostitute, he lost his money to a scheme from his first lover, worked in a tavern (where his mother was the prostitute), frequented by unruly knights, had a bum leg, red hair, and true to form once he realised realized he possessed all loser characteristics disqualifying him from herodom, doesn't care for any one or thing heroic without irony, despite his following the hero around for the time before he became a hero himself. Then other characters, like princess Entipy, are unlike their roles suggest, her being annoying, useless, and prone to tantrums, instead of wholesome, kind, useful or gentle. They even find and try to burn a witch, who gets the better of her attackers by being genre savvy and them not.
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* [[DefiedTrope Defied]] by ''Literature/CodexAlera''. Yes, it is a story about a FarmBoy who becomes a sword-wielding badass, learns the magic system, gets a hot girlfriend, saves the world from an AlwaysChaoticEvil nonhuman menace, and is [[spoiler:secretly the incredibly magically powerful heir to the throne]]. But it ''isn't.'' Perhaps this is due to the CoolVsAwesome. Or the unique magic system. Or the fact that all the races have been replaced by completely different and awesome things. Or that the main character is the DefiedTrope of the MartyStu. Or maybe because it was written by Creator/JimButcher.
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* ''Literature/TheMissus'' is the sequel to ''The Mister'' and carries over its predecessor's cliches. The A-plot about a woman from a poor working-class background who married a rich upper-class man having to stand up to the judgement of his family and peers, all the while worrying about the effect this will have on their relationship and whether it will be worth the struggle, is pretty hackneyed; not helping is that the novel doesn't even try to do anything different with the premise, instead packing yet more romance cliches on top of this.
* ''Literature/TheMister'' gets this even worse than the author's previous series, ''Fifty Shades of Grey''; while that story was also cliched by romance novel standards, it at least stood out a bit due to its heavy focus on BDSM (albeit badly depicted). ''The Mister'' doesn't have this gimmick so we're stuck with an outdated, paint-by-numbers romance book about a playboy aristocrat who [[LadykillerInLove finally finds love]] with the [[TheIngenue unworldly]] [[CinderellaPlot and hard-done-by heroine]], whom he must rescue from numerous bad situations she gets into, up to and including [[spoiler:the villain kidnapping her and trying to pull an AndNowYouMustMarryMe]].
* ''Literature/TheMister'' gets this even worse than the author's previous series, ''Fifty Shades of Grey''; while that story was also cliched by romance novel standards, it at least stood out a bit due to its heavy focus on BDSM (albeit badly depicted). ''The Mister'' doesn't have this gimmick so we're stuck with an outdated, paint-by-numbers romance book about a playboy aristocrat who [[LadykillerInLove finally finds love]] with the [[TheIngenue unworldly]] [[CinderellaPlot and hard-done-by heroine]], whom he must rescue from numerous bad situations she gets into, up to and including [[spoiler:the villain kidnapping her and trying to pull an AndNowYouMustMarryMe]].
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* ''Literature/TheMissus'' is the sequel to ''The Mister'' and carries over its predecessor's cliches. The A-plot about a woman from a poor working-class background who married a rich upper-class man having to stand up to the judgement of his family and peers, all the while worrying about the effect this will have on their relationship and whether it will be worth the struggle, is pretty hackneyed; not helping is that the novel doesn't even try to do anything different with the premise, instead packing yet more romance cliches on top of this.
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** ''Literature/TheMister'' gets this even worse than [[Creator/ELJames theauthor's author's]] previous series, ''Fifty Shades of Grey''; while that story was also cliched by romance novel standards, it at least stood out a bit due to its heavy focus on BDSM (albeit badly depicted). ''The Mister'' doesn't have this gimmick so we're stuck with an outdated, paint-by-numbers romance book about a playboy aristocrat who [[LadykillerInLove finally finds love]] with the [[TheIngenue unworldly]] [[CinderellaPlot and hard-done-by heroine]], whom he must rescue from numerous bad situations she gets into, up to and including [[spoiler:the villain kidnapping her and trying to pull an AndNowYouMustMarryMe]].AndNowYouMustMarryMe]].
** ''Literature/TheMissus'' is the sequel to ''The Mister'' and carries over its predecessor's cliches. The A-plot about a woman from a poor working-class background who married a rich upper-class man having to stand up to the judgement of his family and peers, all the while worrying about the effect this will have on their relationship and whether it will be worth the struggle, is pretty hackneyed; not helping is that the novel doesn't even try to do anything different with the premise, instead packing yet more romance cliches on top of this.
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** ''Literature/TheMister'' gets this even worse than [[Creator/ELJames the
** ''Literature/TheMissus'' is the sequel to ''The Mister'' and carries over its predecessor's cliches. The A-plot about a woman from a poor working-class background who married a rich upper-class man having to stand up to the judgement of his family and peers, all the while worrying about the effect this will have on their relationship and whether it will be worth the struggle, is pretty hackneyed; not helping is that the novel doesn't even try to do anything different with the premise, instead packing yet more romance cliches on top of this.
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* ''Literature/TheEmpyrean'': The first book, ''Fourth Wing'', contains a ''lot'' of "romantasy" cliches, including the protagonist being a feisty underdog [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer targeted by everyone]] for her 'weakness' who turns out to be the most powerful person in the setting, a [[BettyAndVeronica love triangle]] involving the heroine's seemingly wholesome childhood friend and a mysterious bad boy she's drawn to despite their mutual hostility [[spoiler:with their roles being [[BettyAndVeronicaSwitch switched]] by the end]], the corrupt government hiding the true nature of the conflict with the country's neighbours, the heroine's [[NeverFoundTheBody deceased-but-never-found-the-body]] relative [[spoiler:being [[FakingTheDead alive after all]] as part of a bigger scheme]] and ending with the heroine [[spoiler:joining a [[LaResistance rebellion]]]]. Some readers still enjoy the book regardless of cliches, but few would give it points for originality.
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* Grahame Coats of ''Literature/AnansiBoys'' is a walking Cliché Storm; to converse with him is to be buffeted by lines you've heard so often that they're not even language anymore, just meaningless noises. For his own part, Coats revels in cliches, finding them far more valuable and expressive than original thinking ever could be; this fits somewhat with the "corporate executive" to Coats' CorruptCorporateExecutive, because in conversation as in business, he'd rather go with the tried-and-true than take a real risk.
* ''Literature/{{Bakemonogatari}}'' relies heavily on pandering to anime and light novel fans, and every character is an {{Otaku}}'s wet dream. It has ''three'' TokenMiniMoe characters--all of different classes--but the clichés don't end there. Like most harems, every female character is one that you've likely seen before. Administrivia/TropesAreNotBad, however, and some characters ''do'' receive development that shy them away from the cliché, or at least give them a FreudianExcuse.
* The magazine essayist Gordon Baxter wrote the following after receiving a memo from management deprecating the use of cliches: "I congratulate you on having the courage of a lion to set foot where the hand of man has never trod before in these shark-infested waters."
* Very intentionally so in ''Literature/TheBelgariad''. It plays the cliches straight, for laughs, and occasionally mildly deconstructs them with the sequel series showing that the characters, having done it before, are very aware of the conventions they're operating under. The characters are a ''lot'' snarkier about it the [[HereWeGoAgain second time around]].
* Lampshaded in ''Literature/TheCavesOfSteel''. Elijah Baley notes that popular culture on Earth includes many stories that follow the same basic template, none of which even vaguely accord to the reality Earthpeople face in the Robot Novels.
-->The popular book-film romances, to be sure, had their stock Outer World characters: the visiting tycoon, choleric and eccentric; the beautiful heiress, invariably smitten by the Earthman’s charms and drowning disdain in love; the arrogant Spacer rival, wicked and forever beaten.
* [[DefiedTrope Defied]] by ''Literature/CodexAlera''. Yes, it is a story about a FarmBoy who becomes a sword-wielding badass, learns the magic system, gets a hot girlfriend, saves the world from an AlwaysChaoticEvil nonhuman menace, and is [[spoiler:secretly the incredibly magically powerful heir to the throne]]. But it ''isn't.'' Perhaps this is due to the CoolVsAwesome. Or the unique magic system. Or the fact that all the races have been replaced by completely different and awesome things. Or that the main character is the DefiedTrope of the MartyStu. Or maybe because it was written by Creator/JimButcher.
* ''Literature/CopCraft'' is a full-blown hurricane of every BuddyCopShow and CowboyCop cliche available, except that the buddy cop in this instance is a cute young MagicKnight from a fantasy world.
* Taking away the BDSM, the main plot of ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey'', revolving around Ana and Christian's relationship, is a very common and stereotypical romance plot – naive, virginal everygirl who doesn't realize [[IAmNotPretty how pretty she is]] meets a moody, hot rich guy, who is charmed by her purity and innocence. He provides her with a sexual awakening while she heals him with the Power of Magic Vagina... er, [[ThePowerOfLove Love]]. Oh and he's got an evil ex who is far more sexually experienced and aggressive than the heroine and tries to break them up. The ending even features [[spoiler: Ana and Christian being married, wealthy and having a son and daughter]], which is practically the ultimate romance cliche.
* ''Literature/TheFionavarTapestry'' reads like a deliberate attempt on the part of Guy Gavriel Kay to see how many high fantasy clichés can possibly be strung together in 1,000 pages of text. Considering his motive for writing it was because he'd just been helping Christopher Tolkien edit The Silmarillion and he needed to get Middle-Earth out of his system, this was probably ''very'' deliberate.
* ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'' is full of clichéd plots — sometimes due to Haruhi's [[RealityWarper reality-warping abilities]] subconsciously making her love of genre fiction manifest in real life, or due to Koizumi arranging the clichéd plot before Haruhi's subconscious gets a chance. They go to an [[ClosedCircle uninhabited island and someone is murdered]], go skiing and get [[SnowedIn snowed in]], get harassed by a student council that wants to shut the club down, and go on a treasure hunt where they actually find treasure, et cetera. The first episode of the anime adaptation is also a cliché storm, but it's a [[ShowWithinAShow movie made by the main characters]] which is meant to be [[StylisticSuck deliberately subpar]].
* Played with in Creator/GeorgeRRMartin's story ''[[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire The Hedge Knight]]''. It begins with every possible cliched circumstance around a knight joining a tournament. Then every single element of the story is revealed to actually be something else.
* ''Literature/HighSchoolDXD'' is basically a combination of the cliches found in the harem, ecchi, and shonen genres. However, the combination actually makes it stand out and indeed, serves as a {{Reconstruction}} of the harem genre. It also plays around with some of them- for example, main lead Issei is ''not'' a CluelessChickMagnet but an open pervert who decides to MarryThemAll long before the end of the series, and the girls are okay with this.
* Creator/MatthewReilly's ''Hover Car Racer'' in particular isn't exactly original, in fact it could be well described as ''Anime/SpeedRacer'' [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace in]] [[FlyingCar Hover Cars]].
* Besides the plagiarism (which included borrowing a lot from other popular teen-oriented ChickLit novels), many people who read ''Literature/HowOpalMehtaGotKissedGotWildAndGotALife'' have noted it comes off as a highly predictable coming-of-age comedy about a nerdy girl who tries get InWithTheInCrowd and discovers who she really is along the way, with stereotypical characters and cliched scenarios.
* One of the most common criticisms of the early ''Literature/InheritanceCycle'' books (if you're feeling generous) or the whole series (if you're not). One of the main reasons [[TheFilmOfTheBook the movie]] was worse was that it took anything original from the book and replaced it with {{Narm}}ful 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. Also, it removed a lot of the intricate details found in the book.
* ''In the Hall of the Dragon King'' by Stephen Lawhead fits this to a T. Peasant boy who becomes heir to the throne. Old, wise mentor figure. SupportingLeader. Completely evil, slightly insane villain who wants to take over the world. EvilPrince. Liberal use of both the IdiotBall and VillainBall. Despite all that, [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools it's still a rather well written book]].
* ''Literature/TheIrregularAtMagicHighSchool'' is full of this when it comes to the characteristics of the main characters. Just remember that the description of Miyuki Shiba on the characters page has almost all the tropes, in one way or another related to the LittleSisterHeroine. Even those that contradict [[NotBloodSiblings each]] [[RoyalInbreeding other]], yes.
* ''Literature/JimSpringmanAndTheRealmOfGlory'' has a [[ShowWithinAShow book within a book]] that purports to be about 'A unique fantasy world of hope and fear, good and evil, beauty and barbarity', where 'A teenager armed only with a magic sword and a stout heart takes up this impossible quest'. The (fictional) book is filled with cliches.
* From the evil twin and the stereotyped characters to the boy drama, the ''Literature/MaximumRide'' series uses almost every YoungAdult fiction cliché known.
* ''Literature/TheLightlarkSaga'': ''Lightlark'' is essentially an amalgamation of almost every popular young adult SpeculativeFiction and RomanceNovel cliché from the past decade before its publication (2022). This includes an angsty, inexplicably-badass heroine who is {{the only one}} who can resolve the plot, a [[StarcrossedLovers forbidden]] {{love triangle}} involving [[BettyAndVeronica a bad boy and a wholesome boy]] (both of whom are [[MayflyDecemberRomance centuries older]] than the heroine), a deadly tournament that also involves parties, pageantry and luxury housing, worldbuilding that largely boils down to PlanetOfHats, the heroine having a [[SecretLegacy secret]] [[DarkAndTroubledPast dark past]] she was unaware of and more.
* ''Literature/TheMissus'' is the sequel to ''The Mister'' and carries over its predecessor's cliches. The A-plot about a woman from a poor working-class background who married a rich upper-class man having to stand up to the judgement of his family and peers, all the while worrying about the effect this will have on their relationship and whether it will be worth the struggle, is pretty hackneyed; not helping is that the novel doesn't even try to do anything different with the premise, instead packing yet more romance cliches on top of this.
* ''Literature/TheMister'' gets this even worse than the author's previous series, ''Fifty Shades of Grey''; while that story was also cliched by romance novel standards, it at least stood out a bit due to its heavy focus on BDSM (albeit badly depicted). ''The Mister'' doesn't have this gimmick so we're stuck with an outdated, paint-by-numbers romance book about a playboy aristocrat who [[LadykillerInLove finally finds love]] with the [[TheIngenue unworldly]] [[CinderellaPlot and hard-done-by heroine]], whom he must rescue from numerous bad situations she gets into, up to and including [[spoiler:the villain kidnapping her and trying to pull an AndNowYouMustMarryMe]].
* ''Literature/RecordOfLodossWar'' in a {{troperrific}} way. As the novels were based on a D&D campaign the writer played, it's full of typical fantasy-related tropes that are largely played straight.
* ''Stained'' is a novel that attempts to address the serious issues of school bullying and sexual abuse. Unfortunately, in the process of doing so, it combines three stock YA novel plots into one monster cliché plot:
** The [[HollywoodHomely ugly girl]] who's not really that ugly (she's normal-looking but has an embarrassing birthmark on her face) but still gets [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer picked on by everyone and their mother,]] especially the AlphaBitch and her GirlPosse, with only her loving-but-not-entirely-understanding Mom and Dad, her [[WithFriendsLikeThese unfaithful popular-wannabe BFF,]] her outcast guy friend who's secretly in love with her and sees her "true beauty on the inside", and her imaginary superhero alter-ego to ''eeeeeease'' her ''[[{{Wangst}} paaaaaaiiiiiiinnnnn.]]''
** The outcast who is an AllLovingHero and PuritySue despite her suffering, taking a stand for her fellow outcasts and instantly forgiving her best friend for not speaking up for her against the popular kids. This is almost entirely an InformedAbility and has little bearing on the plot, as it is only seen during her would-be boyfriend's chapter-long monologues about how wonderful and amazing she really is beneath her ugly exterior.
** The girl who gets kidnapped and raped by a creep who deludes himself into believing [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty they were meant for each other and they'll be together forever,]] and eventually escapes with nothing but her wits, a metal bucket and some rusty nails.
* ''Literature/StrawberryPanic'' has so many YuriGenre cliches, both in the plot and the characters and their relationships, that it might as well be renamed ''How To Write A Stereotypical Yuri Series: The Light Novel''.
* ''Literature/RamaII'' and the ''Literature/RendezvousWithRama'' series contains many improbable and kind of laughable events. A robot genius is on a team of cosmonauts, where he is taciturn (yet perfectly likeable when it comes down to it), and eccentric. He [[SmartPeopleBuildRobots builds robots]]. The other cosmonauts are fine with this habit, like it in fact, and [[SmartPeoplePlayChess play chess]]. The female narrator is a [[MotherNatureFatherScience life science officer and mystic]], and her [[TwoGirlsToATeam complete opposite]] is also present, a materialistic and selfish and pragmatic reporter who [[spoiler: nearly kills Nicole and killed another member of the team]]. There is a gay cosmonaut, and he was 1) involved in politics in school, and 2) had to hide his orientation in order to join the crew. The half black character faces racism from her (Prince of France) husband, and random people, as does Reggie. The lone inventor also has AbusiveParents. In the future, when humans are taken aboard a spaceship, they prove to be their own worst enemies, recreating 70s and 80s 00politics within five seconds of landing on Rama 3. The cosmonaut Nicole who has African heritage knew and was a shaman,and saves herself using her mystical side (which her husband has no access to, being a logical engineer). The family, isolated on the ship, becomes incestuous. Then the husband is kidnapped by aliens, which changes his personality. In the future there will be space HIV, also, and the aliens are biological cliches, in that there is a symbiotic species and one species which is intelligent and like a cephalopod.
* The ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'' series. Everything from a common man of [[LukeIAmYourFather mysterious lineage]], to a [[TheMentor wise old wizard]] with robes and white hair, to a character that was [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings turned into a small, fanatical creature when deprived of the artifact that was precious to him]].
* ''Literature/TalesOfTheFiveHundredKingdoms'': Here, the "cliché storm" is almost literal: a metaphysical force called The Tradition which gathers around significant events and people, directing magical energy to flow in [[{{Archetype}} archetypal]] directions and following certain tropes that have been set down through folklore and that consequently reinforce themselves by inspiring even ''more'' folklore! Characters throughout the series find themselves guided by, opposed by, and sometimes rebelling against The Tradition--a witty metaphor for the writing process itself.
* ''Literature/SirAproposOfNothing'' gets humor from playing with many knight errant medieval story cliches. The cahracters themseves live up to them fully, from the perfect hero (who lives for heroism) to the protagonist, who is such a dadbeat he was born with teeth, from a rape, in a barn, his mother was a prostitute, he lost his money to a scheme from his first lover, worked in a tavern (where his mother was the prostitute), frequented by unruly knights, had a bum leg, red hair, and true to form once he realised he possessed all loser characteristics disqualifying him from herodom, doesn't care for any one or thing heroic without irony, despite his following the hero around for the time before he became a hero himself. Then other characters, like princess Entipy, are unlike their roles suggest, her being annoying, useless, and prone to tantrums, instead of wholesome, kind, useful or gentle. They even find and try to burn a witch, who gets the better of her attackers by being genre savvy and them not.
* ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'': Awkward, clumsy girl moves to new school and is instantly adored by all. She falls in love with the hottest guy in school, who falls for her in turn. Girl is so in love that she will do anything for her true love. And that's just the beginning.
* ''Literature/WarriorCats'' is a long running book series, so some entries in the franchise end up as these.
** The Original Series is a pretty standard example of the hero's journey. Mentor discovers chosen one, teaches them, then dies. Chosen one becomes king and defeats the great evil that threatens the world after uniting the warring factions. It also fits several {{xenofiction}} cliches, such as an [[CatStereotype orange cat]] [[APetIntoTheWild running away]] from his owners because he's bored of being a pet.
** The fourth and final installment of the [[Literature/WarriorCatsPrequelSuperEditions Prequel Super Editions]], ''Tallstar's Revenge''. The concept: Back when one of the most peaceful leaders in the history of the Clans was a young warrior, he left his Clan to seek revenge for the death of his father. The author also mentioned that he had a touching bromance. If you've been reading TV Tropes for any amount of time, you can probably guess exactly what happens, because you've seen it all before. [[spoiler:Tallstar leaves his Clan and is rescued by a friendly tom named Jake that helps him on his quest. They bond over their journey, and Jake eventually becomes like a conscience to him, telling him that vengeance is not the answer. Then Tallstar finds out the ''real'' reason his father died, and understands that friendship, not revenge is what he truly seeks. And then he returns and proves his loyalty to his Clan.]] [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools This is not a bad thing.]]
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* ''Literature/{{Bakemonogatari}}'' relies heavily on pandering to anime and light novel fans, and every character is an {{Otaku}}'s wet dream. It has ''three'' TokenMiniMoe characters--all of different classes--but the clichés don't end there. Like most harems, every female character is one that you've likely seen before. Administrivia/TropesAreNotBad, however, and some characters ''do'' receive development that shy them away from the cliché, or at least give them a FreudianExcuse.
* The magazine essayist Gordon Baxter wrote the following after receiving a memo from management deprecating the use of cliches: "I congratulate you on having the courage of a lion to set foot where the hand of man has never trod before in these shark-infested waters."
* Very intentionally so in ''Literature/TheBelgariad''. It plays the cliches straight, for laughs, and occasionally mildly deconstructs them with the sequel series showing that the characters, having done it before, are very aware of the conventions they're operating under. The characters are a ''lot'' snarkier about it the [[HereWeGoAgain second time around]].
* Lampshaded in ''Literature/TheCavesOfSteel''. Elijah Baley notes that popular culture on Earth includes many stories that follow the same basic template, none of which even vaguely accord to the reality Earthpeople face in the Robot Novels.
-->The popular book-film romances, to be sure, had their stock Outer World characters: the visiting tycoon, choleric and eccentric; the beautiful heiress, invariably smitten by the Earthman’s charms and drowning disdain in love; the arrogant Spacer rival, wicked and forever beaten.
* [[DefiedTrope Defied]] by ''Literature/CodexAlera''. Yes, it is a story about a FarmBoy who becomes a sword-wielding badass, learns the magic system, gets a hot girlfriend, saves the world from an AlwaysChaoticEvil nonhuman menace, and is [[spoiler:secretly the incredibly magically powerful heir to the throne]]. But it ''isn't.'' Perhaps this is due to the CoolVsAwesome. Or the unique magic system. Or the fact that all the races have been replaced by completely different and awesome things. Or that the main character is the DefiedTrope of the MartyStu. Or maybe because it was written by Creator/JimButcher.
* ''Literature/CopCraft'' is a full-blown hurricane of every BuddyCopShow and CowboyCop cliche available, except that the buddy cop in this instance is a cute young MagicKnight from a fantasy world.
* Taking away the BDSM, the main plot of ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey'', revolving around Ana and Christian's relationship, is a very common and stereotypical romance plot – naive, virginal everygirl who doesn't realize [[IAmNotPretty how pretty she is]] meets a moody, hot rich guy, who is charmed by her purity and innocence. He provides her with a sexual awakening while she heals him with the Power of Magic Vagina... er, [[ThePowerOfLove Love]]. Oh and he's got an evil ex who is far more sexually experienced and aggressive than the heroine and tries to break them up. The ending even features [[spoiler: Ana and Christian being married, wealthy and having a son and daughter]], which is practically the ultimate romance cliche.
* ''Literature/TheFionavarTapestry'' reads like a deliberate attempt on the part of Guy Gavriel Kay to see how many high fantasy clichés can possibly be strung together in 1,000 pages of text. Considering his motive for writing it was because he'd just been helping Christopher Tolkien edit The Silmarillion and he needed to get Middle-Earth out of his system, this was probably ''very'' deliberate.
* ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'' is full of clichéd plots — sometimes due to Haruhi's [[RealityWarper reality-warping abilities]] subconsciously making her love of genre fiction manifest in real life, or due to Koizumi arranging the clichéd plot before Haruhi's subconscious gets a chance. They go to an [[ClosedCircle uninhabited island and someone is murdered]], go skiing and get [[SnowedIn snowed in]], get harassed by a student council that wants to shut the club down, and go on a treasure hunt where they actually find treasure, et cetera. The first episode of the anime adaptation is also a cliché storm, but it's a [[ShowWithinAShow movie made by the main characters]] which is meant to be [[StylisticSuck deliberately subpar]].
* Played with in Creator/GeorgeRRMartin's story ''[[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire The Hedge Knight]]''. It begins with every possible cliched circumstance around a knight joining a tournament. Then every single element of the story is revealed to actually be something else.
* ''Literature/HighSchoolDXD'' is basically a combination of the cliches found in the harem, ecchi, and shonen genres. However, the combination actually makes it stand out and indeed, serves as a {{Reconstruction}} of the harem genre. It also plays around with some of them- for example, main lead Issei is ''not'' a CluelessChickMagnet but an open pervert who decides to MarryThemAll long before the end of the series, and the girls are okay with this.
* Creator/MatthewReilly's ''Hover Car Racer'' in particular isn't exactly original, in fact it could be well described as ''Anime/SpeedRacer'' [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace in]] [[FlyingCar Hover Cars]].
* Besides the plagiarism (which included borrowing a lot from other popular teen-oriented ChickLit novels), many people who read ''Literature/HowOpalMehtaGotKissedGotWildAndGotALife'' have noted it comes off as a highly predictable coming-of-age comedy about a nerdy girl who tries get InWithTheInCrowd and discovers who she really is along the way, with stereotypical characters and cliched scenarios.
* One of the most common criticisms of the early ''Literature/InheritanceCycle'' books (if you're feeling generous) or the whole series (if you're not). One of the main reasons [[TheFilmOfTheBook the movie]] was worse was that it took anything original from the book and replaced it with {{Narm}}ful 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. Also, it removed a lot of the intricate details found in the book.
* ''In the Hall of the Dragon King'' by Stephen Lawhead fits this to a T. Peasant boy who becomes heir to the throne. Old, wise mentor figure. SupportingLeader. Completely evil, slightly insane villain who wants to take over the world. EvilPrince. Liberal use of both the IdiotBall and VillainBall. Despite all that, [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools it's still a rather well written book]].
* ''Literature/TheIrregularAtMagicHighSchool'' is full of this when it comes to the characteristics of the main characters. Just remember that the description of Miyuki Shiba on the characters page has almost all the tropes, in one way or another related to the LittleSisterHeroine. Even those that contradict [[NotBloodSiblings each]] [[RoyalInbreeding other]], yes.
* ''Literature/JimSpringmanAndTheRealmOfGlory'' has a [[ShowWithinAShow book within a book]] that purports to be about 'A unique fantasy world of hope and fear, good and evil, beauty and barbarity', where 'A teenager armed only with a magic sword and a stout heart takes up this impossible quest'. The (fictional) book is filled with cliches.
* From the evil twin and the stereotyped characters to the boy drama, the ''Literature/MaximumRide'' series uses almost every YoungAdult fiction cliché known.
* ''Literature/TheLightlarkSaga'': ''Lightlark'' is essentially an amalgamation of almost every popular young adult SpeculativeFiction and RomanceNovel cliché from the past decade before its publication (2022). This includes an angsty, inexplicably-badass heroine who is {{the only one}} who can resolve the plot, a [[StarcrossedLovers forbidden]] {{love triangle}} involving [[BettyAndVeronica a bad boy and a wholesome boy]] (both of whom are [[MayflyDecemberRomance centuries older]] than the heroine), a deadly tournament that also involves parties, pageantry and luxury housing, worldbuilding that largely boils down to PlanetOfHats, the heroine having a [[SecretLegacy secret]] [[DarkAndTroubledPast dark past]] she was unaware of and more.
* ''Literature/TheMissus'' is the sequel to ''The Mister'' and carries over its predecessor's cliches. The A-plot about a woman from a poor working-class background who married a rich upper-class man having to stand up to the judgement of his family and peers, all the while worrying about the effect this will have on their relationship and whether it will be worth the struggle, is pretty hackneyed; not helping is that the novel doesn't even try to do anything different with the premise, instead packing yet more romance cliches on top of this.
* ''Literature/TheMister'' gets this even worse than the author's previous series, ''Fifty Shades of Grey''; while that story was also cliched by romance novel standards, it at least stood out a bit due to its heavy focus on BDSM (albeit badly depicted). ''The Mister'' doesn't have this gimmick so we're stuck with an outdated, paint-by-numbers romance book about a playboy aristocrat who [[LadykillerInLove finally finds love]] with the [[TheIngenue unworldly]] [[CinderellaPlot and hard-done-by heroine]], whom he must rescue from numerous bad situations she gets into, up to and including [[spoiler:the villain kidnapping her and trying to pull an AndNowYouMustMarryMe]].
* ''Literature/RecordOfLodossWar'' in a {{troperrific}} way. As the novels were based on a D&D campaign the writer played, it's full of typical fantasy-related tropes that are largely played straight.
* ''Stained'' is a novel that attempts to address the serious issues of school bullying and sexual abuse. Unfortunately, in the process of doing so, it combines three stock YA novel plots into one monster cliché plot:
** The [[HollywoodHomely ugly girl]] who's not really that ugly (she's normal-looking but has an embarrassing birthmark on her face) but still gets [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer picked on by everyone and their mother,]] especially the AlphaBitch and her GirlPosse, with only her loving-but-not-entirely-understanding Mom and Dad, her [[WithFriendsLikeThese unfaithful popular-wannabe BFF,]] her outcast guy friend who's secretly in love with her and sees her "true beauty on the inside", and her imaginary superhero alter-ego to ''eeeeeease'' her ''[[{{Wangst}} paaaaaaiiiiiiinnnnn.]]''
** The outcast who is an AllLovingHero and PuritySue despite her suffering, taking a stand for her fellow outcasts and instantly forgiving her best friend for not speaking up for her against the popular kids. This is almost entirely an InformedAbility and has little bearing on the plot, as it is only seen during her would-be boyfriend's chapter-long monologues about how wonderful and amazing she really is beneath her ugly exterior.
** The girl who gets kidnapped and raped by a creep who deludes himself into believing [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty they were meant for each other and they'll be together forever,]] and eventually escapes with nothing but her wits, a metal bucket and some rusty nails.
* ''Literature/StrawberryPanic'' has so many YuriGenre cliches, both in the plot and the characters and their relationships, that it might as well be renamed ''How To Write A Stereotypical Yuri Series: The Light Novel''.
* ''Literature/RamaII'' and the ''Literature/RendezvousWithRama'' series contains many improbable and kind of laughable events. A robot genius is on a team of cosmonauts, where he is taciturn (yet perfectly likeable when it comes down to it), and eccentric. He [[SmartPeopleBuildRobots builds robots]]. The other cosmonauts are fine with this habit, like it in fact, and [[SmartPeoplePlayChess play chess]]. The female narrator is a [[MotherNatureFatherScience life science officer and mystic]], and her [[TwoGirlsToATeam complete opposite]] is also present, a materialistic and selfish and pragmatic reporter who [[spoiler: nearly kills Nicole and killed another member of the team]]. There is a gay cosmonaut, and he was 1) involved in politics in school, and 2) had to hide his orientation in order to join the crew. The half black character faces racism from her (Prince of France) husband, and random people, as does Reggie. The lone inventor also has AbusiveParents. In the future, when humans are taken aboard a spaceship, they prove to be their own worst enemies, recreating 70s and 80s 00politics within five seconds of landing on Rama 3. The cosmonaut Nicole who has African heritage knew and was a shaman,and saves herself using her mystical side (which her husband has no access to, being a logical engineer). The family, isolated on the ship, becomes incestuous. Then the husband is kidnapped by aliens, which changes his personality. In the future there will be space HIV, also, and the aliens are biological cliches, in that there is a symbiotic species and one species which is intelligent and like a cephalopod.
* The ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'' series. Everything from a common man of [[LukeIAmYourFather mysterious lineage]], to a [[TheMentor wise old wizard]] with robes and white hair, to a character that was [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings turned into a small, fanatical creature when deprived of the artifact that was precious to him]].
* ''Literature/TalesOfTheFiveHundredKingdoms'': Here, the "cliché storm" is almost literal: a metaphysical force called The Tradition which gathers around significant events and people, directing magical energy to flow in [[{{Archetype}} archetypal]] directions and following certain tropes that have been set down through folklore and that consequently reinforce themselves by inspiring even ''more'' folklore! Characters throughout the series find themselves guided by, opposed by, and sometimes rebelling against The Tradition--a witty metaphor for the writing process itself.
* ''Literature/SirAproposOfNothing'' gets humor from playing with many knight errant medieval story cliches. The cahracters themseves live up to them fully, from the perfect hero (who lives for heroism) to the protagonist, who is such a dadbeat he was born with teeth, from a rape, in a barn, his mother was a prostitute, he lost his money to a scheme from his first lover, worked in a tavern (where his mother was the prostitute), frequented by unruly knights, had a bum leg, red hair, and true to form once he realised he possessed all loser characteristics disqualifying him from herodom, doesn't care for any one or thing heroic without irony, despite his following the hero around for the time before he became a hero himself. Then other characters, like princess Entipy, are unlike their roles suggest, her being annoying, useless, and prone to tantrums, instead of wholesome, kind, useful or gentle. They even find and try to burn a witch, who gets the better of her attackers by being genre savvy and them not.
* ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'': Awkward, clumsy girl moves to new school and is instantly adored by all. She falls in love with the hottest guy in school, who falls for her in turn. Girl is so in love that she will do anything for her true love. And that's just the beginning.
* ''Literature/WarriorCats'' is a long running book series, so some entries in the franchise end up as these.
** The Original Series is a pretty standard example of the hero's journey. Mentor discovers chosen one, teaches them, then dies. Chosen one becomes king and defeats the great evil that threatens the world after uniting the warring factions. It also fits several {{xenofiction}} cliches, such as an [[CatStereotype orange cat]] [[APetIntoTheWild running away]] from his owners because he's bored of being a pet.
** The fourth and final installment of the [[Literature/WarriorCatsPrequelSuperEditions Prequel Super Editions]], ''Tallstar's Revenge''. The concept: Back when one of the most peaceful leaders in the history of the Clans was a young warrior, he left his Clan to seek revenge for the death of his father. The author also mentioned that he had a touching bromance. If you've been reading TV Tropes for any amount of time, you can probably guess exactly what happens, because you've seen it all before. [[spoiler:Tallstar leaves his Clan and is rescued by a friendly tom named Jake that helps him on his quest. They bond over their journey, and Jake eventually becomes like a conscience to him, telling him that vengeance is not the answer. Then Tallstar finds out the ''real'' reason his father died, and understands that friendship, not revenge is what he truly seeks. And then he returns and proves his loyalty to his Clan.]] [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools This is not a bad thing.]]
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