30 Unoriginal Movie Cliches We’re Tired Of Seeing
![30 Unoriginal Movie Cliches We’re Tired Of Seeing](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/0/2/819202_320x180.jpg)
Have you ever seen something happen in a movie and went, “huh, I swear I've seen that like a million times before"? That's because you have. Hollywood loves reusing the same tropes, no matter how dumb they are, time and time again. Exhibit A: sexy aliens. What are the odds that a creature that shares absolutely no DNA with us would happen to be shaped in a way that would provoke us to smooch it? Pretty slim! And yet… every Star Trek alien. Exhibit B: fightin' fists. Sure, we sometimes see a dude shake out their hand after cracking another dude in the head. But the truth is, without the proper training – even with the proper training – most people very likely to make a fist incorrectly when it's punchin' time. Exhibit C: Captains Vs. Doctors. Why is it that captains are HEROES while doctors are EVIL MASTERMINDS? Hollywood, give us a nice doctor and an evil captain for once. Oh, and racist pirate tropes don't count!
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![Divorcees have a tough time getting along... Wacky illegal antics/large scale tragcdy ensues... Hurray! No more marriage problems! CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/3/4/819234.jpg)
![Good cowboys didn't always wear white hats. Good guys in old-timey westerns wore white hats, and villains wore black hats-sometimes. The opposite was just as likely. There wasn't any intentional moral symbolism to hat colors. The idea that there was came much later. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/3/3/819233.jpg)
![GRACKED.COM Top Gun Animal House Brother Bear Princess Frog *COUGH* INSULT *COUGH* It's probably still funny for schoolkids.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/3/2/819232.jpg)
![TELL US NOW. ... No, Holly В. won't leave you the bottle. I'm a bartender and I think it's super weird whenever someone on TV orders a drink and says 'Leave the bottle' and the bartender does it. That's a great way to get your ass fired. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/3/1/819231.jpg)
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![... TELL US NOW. SEXY ALIENS Mark S. says, Sexy aliens are unrealistic. Chimps are 98% the same as US, and we don't find them sexy. Imagine how different aliens will be. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/3/0/819230.jpg)
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![Fists aren't easy. A fight-worthy fist isn't just a bunched-up hand--it takes a lot of learning to get it right. Even professional boxers bungle it, resulting in broken bones (their own). CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/2/9/819229.jpg)
![... TELL US NOW. Can I borrow a power? CRACKED James W. questions how superheroes not only bend the laws of physics for themselves, but anyone they save. Sure, the Man of Steel might be able to take the 10 G shock of landing at terminal velocity, but Ms Lane in his arms definitely cannot.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/2/8/819228.jpg)
![When was the last time you witnessed an uninvited guest object to a wedding before running off into the sunset with the bride? Probably in a movie theatre. The Graduate The Princess Bride Made of Honor Shrek GRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/2/7/819227.jpg)
![ARE YOU A VILLAIN IN A DYSTOPIAN MOVIE? YOU'LL NEED AN ALL WHITE OUTFIT. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/2/6/819226.jpg)
![Twister The Parent Trap Making divorced people fall back in love is just lazy and predictable, with the addition of giving kids false hope for their own divorced parents. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/2/5/819225.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM ТОМ CRUISE IS 5'7 I REMEMBER THIS EVERY SINGLE TIME HE'S THE TALLEST PERSON ON SCREEN](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/1/1/819211.jpg)
![YOU CAN FIND EVIL ENTITIES UNWITTINGLY LIBERATED IN THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. Not all genies are as friendly as Aladdin's. The folk tale The Fisherman and the Jinni features a genie who tries to kill the man who released them rather than granting him any wishes. If you find a random lamp or bottle lying around, leave it alone! CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/2/1/819221.jpg)
Cornell University Library / Middle East & Islamic Studies Collection
![CRACKED.COM ORPHANED? Congratulations! Someone is DEFINITELY trying to kill you.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/1/8/819218.jpg)
![Captains are heroes THE of Captain America Captain Planet Captain Haddock Captain Marvel Captain Harlock Captain Scarlet Captain Mar-Vell Captain Caveman Captain Kirk Captain Picard Doctors are villains Doctor Sivanna Doctor Doom Doctor Octopus Doctor Mindbender Doctor Eggman (Captain Marvel) (Fantastic Four) (Spider-man) (G.I. Joe) (Sonic the Hedgehog) Dr Hugo Strange Doctor Faustus Doctor Evil Doctor Light Doctor Claw (Batman) (Captain America) (Austin Powers) (Teen Titans) (Inspector Gadget) GRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/2/0/819220.jpg)
![KURT RUSSELL JAMES SPADER JOHN WAYNE™ STARGATE THE SEARCHERS 1956 1972 1994 2000 JEREMIAH JOHNSON IT NOT TAKE SHANGHAI NOON A foreign man... space cowboy cowboy cowboy cowboy accidentally marries a native girl. abydonian indian indian indian GRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/1/0/819210.jpg)
![Pretty Little Liars High school girls don't dress like it's the prom every day. GRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/0/7/819207.jpg)
![VOTE FOR PEDRO Asperger syndrome is hilarious. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/1/4/819214.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM cthulhu Even though he's a central figure in Lovecraft's shows up mythology, the hulking brute only ever shows his squid in one story face in 1928's The Call of by H. P. Cthulhu -a story that Lovecraft himself didn't Lovecraft. consider particularly good.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/0/8/819208.jpg)
![If something's got you feeling down... CRACKED.COM IT'S TIME TO HIT THE BOOZE!](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/1/6/819216.jpg)
![TELL US NOW. ... Tasha F. says not all Florida is Miami. Because of movies and shows, everyone's got a narrow idea of what Florida is. But North FL looks like Georgia with hills and brick homes. Central FL looks like traffic jams and teens entering college. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/0/9/819209.jpg)
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![... TELL US NOW. ROSE PETALS Nina F. says, Flower petals thrown everywhere. That's a mess that needs to be cleaned up and will stain things and stick to you uncomfortably. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/0/5/819205.jpg)
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![... TELL US NOW. Thanks, it has pockets! CRACKED Tony F. asks, when Clark Kent does a quick change in a phone booth, where does he stash his clothes? Greg В. has the (unconvincing) answer: I remember a comic that explained this by having a pouch in his cape.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/1/7/819217.jpg)
![Gilmore Once Upon a Time Girls Charmed Just chillin' on a bed in my combat boots CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/1/3/819213.jpg)
![Batman vs Superman Monsters used as weapons always predictably turn on their creators. 1111 Alien: Resurrection CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/0/6/819206.jpg)
![A character dies but comes back to life for the sequel: CRACKED.COM Gandalf dies in part 1 alive for part 2 Spock HI dies in part 2 back to life in part 3 I mean REALLY??](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/1/2/819212.jpg)
![30 Unoriginal Movie Cliches We’re Tired Of Seeing](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/1/9/819219.gif)
![CRACKED COM LOCUSTA WAS THE FIRST SERIAL KILLER. Locusta was busted in the mid first-century for poisoning people. That wasn't the end of her career, though-people in high places got to hiring her services for their own benefit. Serial killers after her only got into it for the love of the craft.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/2/2/819222.jpg)
![Someone acted sympathetically towards the protagonist during his struggle to unravel a conspiracy? they are secretly the mastermind behind it! GRACKED.COM X](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/1/5/819215.jpg)
![GRACKED.COM Every author of a beloved work, Adult World Field of Dreams Goosebumps Turns out to be a curmudgeonly recluse. The Fault in Hey Arnold! Our Stars Finding Forrester](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/2/4/819224.jpg)