30 Worn-Out Cliches Movies Can’t Stop Using
![30 Worn-Out Cliches Movies Can’t Stop Using](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/7/2/819272_320x180.jpg)
There’s nothing wrong with recycling certain ideas from time to time. You know how the old saying goes, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” But at the rate that Hollywood is recycling certain tired cliches, we’re starting to think that some of these ideas are, in fact, broken.
We’ve seen it time and time again. There are those wildly transformative haircuts that are meant to be character development. Then there’s the convenient skill that the protagonist just so happens to know in order to advance the plot. And let’s not forget that nerds can’t have 20/20 vision because how will we know that they’re a nerd if they can’t wear glasses?
These are just a few of the lazy cliches that makes us want to claw our eyes out that some filmmakers love to employ instead of good, solid storytelling. Here are a bunch more — we apology for your eyes in advance…
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![CRACKED.COM GOTH GIRLS KNOW DARK MAGICI Bellatrix Lestrange Nancy Random spell caster Black Alice AND ARE ALL BAT-SHIT CRAZY.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/9/5/819295.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM New Girl Friends Are you best friends with your exes? How I Met Your Scrubs Mother](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/9/4/819294.jpg)
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![CRACKED.COM sean Bean doesn't actually die that often. With 23 on-screen deaths, Bean doesn't even make it into the top ten of most killed actors. As he has been in about 80 movies, it's safer to bet that any random character he plays will, in fact, make it out alive.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/9/2/819292.jpg)
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![TELL US NOW. ... Gaming scenes in movies and shows leave Marc H. skeptical. As a lifelong gamer, I get the distinct impression that most TV and movie writers have never held a controller in their life and wouldn't know Mario from Kratos. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/0/2/819302.jpg)
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![... TELL US NOW. DESTRUCTION Dawn S. says, Wrecking a room in a moment of unrestrained passion. ... I'm all for having sex when and where the mood strikes, but you'd have to clean up all the mess. Also, not sexy nor comfortable for the person on the bottom. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/0/1/819301.jpg)
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![You can't have a conversation during a gunfight. Gunshots are louder than jackhammers, so forget about cracking wise at your opponents (let alone whispering to your partners) while bullets are flying. You'll be pretty much deaf for a while. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/0/0/819300.jpg)
![... TELL US NOW. Where are all the horny supers?? GRACKED Ken S. finds it absurd to the point of obnoxious that, for all their obligatory 'love interests,' these always-beautiful, chaste ubers apparently have no libidos. Like, they simply must save their beloved, but they're never horny for them. That's f*ckin' stupid.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/9/1/819291.jpg)
![Friends Only You Prem CRACKED.COM Don't worry, if someone loves you just book a flight and they'll chase you to the airport to stop you from leaving them... ...right? She's Outta My League Love Actually](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/9/0/819290.jpg)
![GRAGKED.COM SNOW PLANET. DESERT PLANET JUNGLE PLANET A planet with more than one type of biome? Only Earth.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/7/5/819275.jpg)
![It is hard to take a movie seriously when the main character has an obscure hobby that gives them the exact skill needed to advance the plot. Billy from Jurassic Park-III actually does base-jumping in his spare time. Nick Spitz from Murder Mystery just happens to speak Latin. Too convenient. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/8/8/819288.jpg)
![EVEN THOUGH THESE SCENES IN THE REVENANT WERE INTENSE, EVERY TIME STEAM, SOIL AND SNOWFLAKES HIT THE CAMERA LENS, IT JUST PULLS YOU OUT OF THE IMMERSION. GRACKED COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/9/9/819299.jpg)
![CRACKED COM THE NOPPERABO FREAKS PEOPLE OUT WITH ITS LACK OF FACE. The ghosts in The Haunting of Bly Manor are creepy, aren't they? So is the nopperabo, a similarly faceless ghost from Japanese folklore. That's its main thing, in fact- it's mostly harmless, it just enjoys scaring the hell out of people.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/9/8/819298.jpg)
![The romance develops quickly. CRACKED.COM Canon THE BIG TWIST? She's working for the bad side.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/9/7/819297.jpg)
![CRACKED COM Not all nerds wear glasses. But anyone who wears glasses is Yamazaki Velma probably a nerd. (Welcome to the (Scooby-Doo) NHK) Tucker (Danny Phantom) Steve Urkel Taranee Hale (Family Matters) (W.I.T.C.H.) Polly Professor Frink Professor Farnsworth St. Trinian's) (The Simpsons) (Futurama)](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/8/5/819285.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM Best friends in high school (these are all specifically about males) try to lose Porky's their virginity before college or some other specific date. Hilarity rarely ensues. American Pie Superbad Girl Next Door Sex Drive](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/8/2/819282.jpg)
![Millennials are automatically hostile to anyone older than them. Girls You're the Worst Togetherness Louie CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/7/9/819279.jpg)
![JOB DESCRIPTION: Impossibly awesome killer or assassin. Must be prepared for high stakes, such as responsibility for the future of mankind. IDEAL CANDIDATE: Seeking an ex-killer who has left the business to live in self-imposed exile for years. Should be hard to track down for interview process. Professional skills should be unhoned from years of lack of practice, mental capacity restricted from years of solitude, age preference for the dubiously old. No other candidates, please. GRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/7/8/819278.jpg)
![sherlock Holmes said The game is afoot! only once. It's become a Holmesian catchphrase, almost on par with Elementary, dear Watson (which he never actually said). But the game is afoot appears in a single story-and Holmes was, in fact, quoting Shakespeare when he said it. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/8/6/819286.jpg)
![MR. & MRS SMITH Perfect Gift... Bill Card TMNT SPIDER-MAN WALL-E DAWN OF THE DEAD X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE *Awkward Elevator CRACKED.COM Music*](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/8/0/819280.jpg)
![TELL US NOW. ... Sharon G. is sick of implausible CSI tech. I'm still searching for that computer program CSIs use to take a grainy low resolution video and zoom in on the license plate to get a crystal clear image with perfectly legible numbers. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/8/7/819287.jpg)
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![... TELL US NOW. CHOCOLATE David P. shares, Chocolate in the bedroom is a BAAAAAAAAAAAAAD idea. Especially chocolate sauce. You think it's going to be great, until you realize how horrific the visual combination of chocolate and genitals is... CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/7/4/819274.jpg)
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![You can't be easily sedated. Too little sedative, and nothing will happen. Too much, and you will kill your target. And even if you get the dose just right, the effect is never immediate. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/8/9/819289.jpg)
![... TELL US NOW. Why is every superhero a serial monogamist? CRACKED Heather S. says Not every superhero film needs a love interest. Especially if they don't serve any purpose beyond being a love interest.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/7/6/819276.jpg)
![Terminator: Genisys James Bond: Tomorrow Never Dies SMON Need a Door Locked/Unlocked? Just break the security console and the door will conveniently seal itself shut or open automatically, without setting off any alarms! CRACKED.COM Star Wars: A New Hope Resident Evil](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/8/1/819281.jpg)
![RETURN STARWARS JEDIEJIEDI OF CRACKED.COM Command bridges are needlessly overexposed. Put them deep inside your starship, not right on top where everyone can easily destroy them. STAR TREK- ENTERPRISE](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/8/3/819283.jpg)
![CRACKED COM Enough of the new hair = character development shortcut. It's time to be a little more creative.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/8/4/819284.jpg)
![This savage woman who lives in the jungle has clearly had an appointment with her beautician lately. CRACKED COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/7/7/819277.jpg)