Mine has got to be the tourtered soul type usually tall dark, and handsome on a long road to revenge or redemption, and usually there's a chick determined to figure him out. What are some cliche' s your're tired of seeing?
Cliche's your're tired of seeing
Main characters who are killed off even though everyone knows they are to important to the company to stay dead for long.
"I became a hero/villain because my father/mother/brother/sister/wife/girlfriend/political cousin was killed"
Hero possessed by a malevolent entity, who must then spend time brooding about the evil acts they committed.
Villains posing as heroes.
Warping fun & light-hearted characters into dark, brooding 1990's stereotypes.
Moving the X-Men's base of operations every other year.
Writers caring more about the shock value of the book (violence, gore, cursing) then the actual writing
Well gosh, that's almost every popular character! How can you get tired of it lol" Mine has got to be the tourtered soul type usually tall dark, and handsome on a long road to revenge or redemption, and usually there's a chick determined to figure him out. What are some cliche' s your're tired of seeing? "
@Son_of_Magnus
said:100% agree" Writers caring more about the shock value of the book (violence, gore, cursing) then the actual writing "
@Gambler
said:" Main characters who are killed off even though everyone knows they are to important to the company to stay dead for long. "
A certain X-Men character comes to mind -_-
This is a cliche I'm sick of. Its when a woman is trying to go at the guy, he tries to stop her, the woman who he is in a relationship comes and gets mad then the guy says. "No honey it's not what you think!"
Really when it comes to those parts that line is always used. They really need to think of a new line.
" "Its not you its me." -_____- "Agreed *translation* "I've been cheating on you for a month"
" "I became a hero/villain because my father/mother/brother/sister/wife/girlfriend/political cousin was killed" "@xerox-kitty said:
" Hero possessed by a malevolent entity, who must then spend time brooding about the evil acts they committed. Villains posing as heroes. Warping fun & light-hearted characters into dark, brooding 1990's stereotypes. Moving the X-Men's base of operations every other year. "
" @Charmix said:" "Its not you its me." -_____- "Agreed *translation* "I've been cheating on you for a month" "
xD LOL.
Celebrities giving sh#t to us average Joe's who are holding onto our apartments by pennies each month for not giving enough to charities *cough*George Clooney*cough* when they are buying useless private jets and gucci shoes for there 1 month old in the obnoxiously big mansions. Give me a break >.>
Warping fun & light-hearted characters into dark, brooding 1990's stereotypes.Speedball comes to mind.
Characters and stories losing all meaning and effect when climatic a story and or death is reversed and done so with as little effort and thought as possible.
" Main characters who are killed off even though everyone knows they are to important to the company to stay dead for long. "this is my #1. the worst examples i ever saw were Ms.Marvel (died but was still in her book and others, aknowledged that she died
at some point like it was nothing) and X-Men (worst being during Apocalypse The Twelve, Wolverine dies in the core book but is alive
in his own, and alive in the next issue of X-Men, (he topped this recently when the only weapon meant to kill him, oops, didnt) and Cyclops
in the very same arc, who came back about 3 or 4 issues later and no one had anything to say about it. his hair was notably longer).
Accelerated health/Healing factors! It was cool and different in the begining, but it seems like everybody has one now (I got one for christmas!)
Trenchcoats
2 Pistols - has anyone ever tried this? This is actually really hard to do. You'd have to have individually opposable eyes to get off a decent shot.
Known "supervillans" with established criminal records, and or pasts, somehow ending up in positions of power and nobody believing the established "superheroes" when they say, "Um, yeah, that dude's a villain. He's playing you."
"Known "supervillans" with established criminal records, and or pasts, somehow ending up in positions of power and nobody believing the established "superheroes" when they say, "Um, yeah, that dude's a villain. He's playing you." "
that's what I continually b@tched about at the beginning of Dark Reign...it just seems so unrealistic...like if Charles Manson announced that he was running for President and people thinking it's a good idea
" @Gambler said:It just got played out. We've seen it to many times. There's a bad guy, he's been a bad guy for who knows how long, a war breaks out and during the war he does something heroic and the World forgets (or refuses to listen) as said villain is handed the reigns of power."Known "supervillans" with established criminal records, and or pasts, somehow ending up in positions of power and nobody believing the established "superheroes" when they say, "Um, yeah, that dude's a villain. He's playing you." "
that's what I continually b@tched about at the beginning of Dark Reign...it just seems so unrealistic...like if Charles Manson announced that he was running for President and people thinking it's a good idea "
this is kinda off topic but gambler where did you find that pic xD
also i hate when X comic hero says he can't kill X villian even though he knows that if he does not people are going to die, it makes NO sense.
The use of the term "and ----- will never be the same." in issue summaries. Even more so when it's not true.
Death and revival of characters. Jean Grey has died and revived so often that it has no emotional impact. It's a joke. I feel like the next time she revives and dies the first thing the X-Men should do isn't plan the funeral. They should start an office pool. At this rate she's going to need her own separate cemetery to accommodate all the tomb stones. If someone dies they should stay that way.
Villains who are out to destroy the world. Don't they realizes that they will die too?
Luthor just sucks, he constantly needs a plot device even to be just considered a threat to the heroes anymore
I would rather see a hero deal with alcoholism and guilt over the number of people that died in some war. This would be so more real rather than seeing a guy in a cape pulling cats out of trees, beating the bad guys in 30 seconds and being so damn invincible every day of the week
" Characters that are unstoppable and overrated when they really shouldn't be. "a certain anime comes to mind....
What she said." Good characters that get killed off. When extremely annoying characters can never die. ¬¬ "
and...
misspelling in the thread titles. are comic fans really that bad of spellers?
"When the odds are stacked against them, heroes finding the smallest, most un-likely, and downright absurd means of victory. "THIS.
@Gambler said:
"Known "supervillans" with established criminal records, and or pasts, somehow ending up in positions of power and nobody believing the established "superheroes" when they say, "Um, yeah, that dude's a villain. He's playing you." "
AND THIS.
1. Characters that call other characters by their aliases when away from civilians. Sorry, it's stupid. And I seem to cringe the most when Superman is mentioned.
2. When characters state the obvious and / or things that belong in captions / thought bubbles.
3. Thought bubbles. They're just annoyingly cliche. Captions are better suited as being like journals rather than "thoughts."
4. Spandex. They were colorful and "cool" once. Now they're corny.
5. Like of like 4. Underwear outside of costumes is utterly STUPID and was never cool. Ever. Sorry, but for the "dark knight," Batman has one of the least scary costumes of all time. Especially when he wears blue or that yellow symbol (yeah.... glow in the dark yellow... that's real stealthy, bats)
DC retelling there stories of the entire dc universe god forbid when they kill clark or bruce let someone else take up the mantle they where holding
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