Movie Cliches/Stock Characters You Hate

[Grendel]

m188 said:

The ultimate in dating cliches is: The one were this one guy is unpopular or unlucky in love and loves this certain girl who has an jerk for a boyfriend, he does something extrodinaire and then she loves him. He then messes up and she leaves only to return at the end when everything is alright.

That movie "'ohn Tucker must die' is one big cliche.

You actually watched John Tucker Must Die? I feel so sorry for you.

Okay, my movie cliche that I can't stand is a certain movie cop. You know the one, the opinionated jerk who will never listen to anyone, especially the teenager or young adult. He usually pays for it in the end, but don't we have enough of that in movies?

[Confused Mark Wahlberg]

-The old man who shows up out of nowhere warns the dumb teens that 'Dere's trouble out dere!' A cousin of his is the creepy isolated gas station attendant, who gleefully knows that the people are going to die.

-Horror movie characters who SPLIT UP

-Comedy that is 'funny' just because somebody famous is dressed up in a fat suit or other makeup.

-Wiseass black guy, douchebag white guy, tough Latina, pretty white girl with mental problems...wait, that was just 'See No Evil' sorry.

[Shy Guy]

maybe its because i'm a red head, but i hate how they always have the red heads wearing tacky clothes and they're always loud and obnoxious...

[Tha Kid Joker]

Those movies where they turn some unattractive, unpopular nerd chick into a young beauty. It's obvious that the actress was already pretty, and they just nerded her up for the movie. I'd like to see this done with a genuine unattractive person.

Also, the cliche scenes in these movies irk me as well. Such as when the girl walks through the hallway for the first time, sporting her new look, and everybody turns to look at her as she passes by like they've never seen a pretty person before. Plus, these are always the movies where a guy pretends to like the girl for some reason, but ends up falling in love with her somewhere in the middle. She finds out about the original plan, he tries to explain that he really does love her, she dumps him for some jerk that he hates, they end up back together by the end of the movie.

Also, the cliche "slut" in every horror/scary movie is irritating. But hey, gotta have somebody that people root for to die, right?

[samachine]

The badass.

Oh my god, why does there always have to be 'the badass'?

[SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman]

Whenever the nice guys spares, or worse, SAVES the bad guy. C' mon, dude ! He' s the f' n villain ! Just let him die !

And I can' t belive how often we still see the situation of "Hey look ! I' m a black dude in a group of mostly white dudes ! Oh s*** I' m the first/only one to die !"
That or they' re the bad guy .

[acressl]

I'm kind of sick of the bad guy redeeming themelf in the final moments of the film by doing something noble. Their slate is just wiped clean, apparently.

[SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman]

Oh, I forgot the following scene :

"_Arrgh !! leave me here ! Go on ! I' ll just slow you down !
_NO !! We don' t leave a soldier on the battlefield !"

BS.

[Rapper & Actor Sammy Davis III]

Anybody see See No Evil. I knew about 1/4 into the movie that the guy who survived was going to. How, he was exactly the same character as the guy who survives in House Of Wax.

[SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman]

And something that happens A LOT, way too much, in American movies : the random death of a character at the end of the film.

I mean, all the characters are happy, they have defeated the bad guy, they cheer, they are about to go back home, but suddenly one of the villains raises just before he dies and shoots one of the characters down, making everybody ( but the dying villain ) sad and all. The guy who got shot giving 99% of the time a heart-breaking speech...

Seriously, it doesn' t add ANYTHING !! It' s totally pointless ! Why do filmmakers keep doing it ?? IT' S FREAKING ANNOYING !!

And of course, there' s a lot of other ways to do it, like at the end of American History X when Danny gets shot by the black boy.

Or in a lot of horror movies, when the characters are about to escape the "danger zone" ( haunted house, basement, forest, whatever ) and one of them gets trapped just before they get out !

[Spyke the Pacers Fan]

Writer #1: "Hey guys, I have a great idea for this one scene."

Writer #2: "Go on."

Writer #1: "OK, so Old Man Jenkins is dressed up like Snoop Dogg and is backstage at a rap concert..."

[W.R]

thaxkidxjoker said:

Those movies where they turn some unattractive, unpopular nerd chick into a young beauty. It's obvious that the actress was already pretty, and they just nerded her up for the movie. I'd like to see this done with a genuine unattractive person.

Also, the cliche scenes in these movies irk me as well. Such as when the girl walks through the hallway for the first time, sporting her new look, and everybody turns to look at her as she passes by like they've never seen a pretty person before. Plus, these are always the movies where a guy pretends to like the girl for some reason, but ends up falling in love with her somewhere in the middle. She finds out about the original plan, he tries to explain that he really does love her, she dumps him for some jerk that he hates, they end up back together by the end of the movie.

Also, the cliche "slut" in every horror/scary movie is irritating. But hey, gotta have somebody that people root for to die, right?

I assume somebody's not a fan of "She's All That", the funny thing is I saw Rachel Leigh Cook a few months back at the video game awards and she was a complete stunner, even as a complete nerd she was hot in that movie.

[amsiraK]

I've always hated when the male lead in a romantic/comedy film has the wiseass best friend. The dude is smarmy and jaded, spouting all kinds of he-man women-hating nonsense, only to have a change of heart in the film's climax, then falling for some woman who'll make a better man of him.

[erisi236]

The Mayor in Jaws type character - People in charge who REFUSE to believe in the on coming terror despite all the evidence, till it comes up and bites them in the ass.

[acressl]

The mysterious mystery man characters can be comically overused. You know, there's always just some guy no one's ever seen before standing there smoking a cig or something right by where the main characters are although he wasn't there before and no one heard him approach. He just starts up in the middle of someone else's dialogue and he always has valuable information to the story or a solution of some sort.

[Rorschach]

stevedave said:

I liked the take on the whole "Get yourself out I'll be fine!" "No we won't leave you!" in Eurotrip when the one guy went "Save yourselves!" and everyone else went, "Okay!" and ran away.

In just one horror movie I would like to see the obnoxious jock survive because of his athletic ability.

I was just going to say that.

I HATE the "last girl" horror trend. It's just so creatively bankrupt nowadays......but EVERYONE is still using it.

"Virginal caucasian girl without a lick of physical prowess survives unstoppable psycho killer, while Kung Fu black belt, starting nose tackle, female British SAS Agent, and former UFC champ are slaughtered in seconds."

THAT right there just pisses me off. Want a great example of something like that? Look no further than the TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE: THE BEGINNING. Matthew Bomer's Vietnam vet is just slaughtered by Leatherface, as is his pretty well built brother, and the last person to fall is, once again, the virginal female, played by Jordana Brewster.

Would it be so much to ask for Horror to give us a "Last guy" every now and again?

[FrankGotch]

May sound sexist but The tough girl who hangs with the guys in football, hockey, boxing, usualy showing them up , or saving the day in the end. Sorry, but its total horse crap stop with it already. My sophomore year of high school football we had a girl join the team, she played corner back. She was in for three plays that year all three resulted in touchdowns for the other team, after she got burnt by the wr she was covering. Lucky for us we already had 28+ point leads at the times she was put in.

[Confused Mark Wahlberg]

Oh, yeah, the Chief in any cop flick who gives the hero 48 hours to solve the case.

"Dammit, Jones, you are a pain in my ASS. You've destroyed 60 city blocks catching that jaywalker! You have 48 hours to solve the case or that's YOUR BADGE!"

[ThereIsNoAbsurdistOnlyZuul]

samachine said:

The badass.

Oh my god, why does there always have to be 'the badass'?

It's a fundemental law of the universe. I know I put it there.

[G✇JI☈A]

One I hate in Japanese monster movies is the stupid comic relief.

No matter how serious the film is they always put on of these characters in. Usually a clumsy oath of some sort.

Best example would be a guy in the 90s Gamera Trilogy. In the first film he plays a cop driven mad by the monster menace. In the second film he plays a brewery worker who encounters another monster attack that has him reaching for his medication. And in the third one he is now a bum who encounters another monster attack.

But it does not end there. The director of the trilogy later made a Godzilla film and brought the actor back to play a guy trying to commit suicide (cause suicide is funny ) and falls into King Ghidorah's tomb. He is later thrown in jail for being mad and he has an encounter with Baragon.

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Another one is the Kenny. Kenny is term given to a child character in a monster movie that has some bond to a monster and gets upset when they are plans to hurt the monster. The early and latest Gamera films are famous for this. But they have appeared in a number of Godzilla films as well and also there was a really annoying one in the British monster film Gorgo.