Not the cliches we still like, like women having to run in high heels while in danger, but the ones that are, well, old and cliche.

Mine:

• When they do 21 gun salutes at military funerals and the shots make grieving family members flinch.
  
• The "slow clap."
  
• Passionate kisses in a torrential downpour.
  
• "I didn't sign up for this."
  
• Cars exploding into a fireball if they crash or get shot.

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What are some more?

*When the bad guys are shooting at the good guy, the trail of bullets is just barely behind him, and at the same pace he is running.

*The "stay of execution" always comes, and usually in the last minute.

*In TV commercials, 90% of the time men are made to look stupid.

When someone dies and the hero spends 2 minutes trying to revive them until someone puts their hand on hero's shoulder and says... 'enough, she/he's gone.'
They all look sad for 15 seconds before hero takes a deep breath...squares shoulders... 'I'm NOT GIVING UP ON YOU!!!' Starts pounding on victims chest until victim suddenly draws a loud deep breath and miraculously comes round.

Everybody's favourite squadmate finally takes a bullet, usually to the chest. The raging battle they are in conveniently calms down long enough for his pals to gather round to watch him die as they listen to his oscar acceptance speech. 'Tell my wife and kids... I love them. Tell my Mom... I miss her. Tell my dad... I'm sorry.... croak'
The enemy give them a few seconds to have a sad moment before the firing picks up again and they go back to war.

Lawyer who never loses. It’s a very old, stale cliche that surely everyone knows is total BS.

The camp Iron Man superhero pose - crouching with the right arm extending downwards across the body, hand balled into a fist. Copied by loads of other superheroes and always struck for no reason whatsoever.

All these so called normal characters. Innocent females, infallible heroes, dogs that don’t bite, etc. how about we get a jackass hero with a severe drug problem, a female with a slutty raunchy side, and a dog that attacks at the slightest provocation. I would watch that.

Wait I think I just described kingpin lol.

just watch porn movies. plently of females with a slutty raunchy side.

The “no one ever actually dies” cliche.

Marvel is the worst for this.

I know I'm old, but I know I'm not so old that Marvel means "movie" and nothing else.

lol the only time this ever worked for me was in The Abyss. Ed Harris just kills it.

Cocking the gun to tell the person you're aiming it at that you are REALLY serious.

Real talk, my mom gave my father the "fight" speech moments before a highly risky surgery where the surgeon told us my father may not make it. He survived and is well and healthy now. Holy **** when she told him, "fight fight fiiiiight." DAMN. I get emotional every time I think about it. I'm just glad she didn't call him a ***** lol

Would love if we can get rid of two guys who have a past together, reunite, have a long pause with a comment like, "You've gotta lotta nerve showing your face around here." Another pause, acting like they're going to fight and then... BRO HUG

When a guy is standing on a ledge of a 30 building threatening to jump - the ahole never jumps. Someone always talks him out of it.

Also, a bad guy holding a hostage. He has a gun to her head and the hero is just standing there. Why doesn't the bad guy just shoot the good guy, and then have his way with the hostage???

I like Lethal Weapon's twist on this.

Wow....chills.

In January, when my best friend Bill was dying, his doctor, his wife, and I were with him in the hospital, and the doctor was telling us that if we put a tracheotomy in Bill, he might last a little longer, but that's how he'll die.

Bill was lucid but just couldn't talk...I leaned over and asked, "He Buddy, we don't want you to suffer anymore, what do you want to do?"

And he smiled and held up his fists and shook them.

He wanted to fight.

Absolutely kills me.

"Ugly" person takes off their glasses and is suddenly super attractive.

Computer screens having words in a font size north of 100

The old Im drowning, near death and need to be chest pumped
then after furious pumping I spit out a few ounces of water,cough a couple times and now feel ready to swim again.

And wtf with a gunman who can shoot the beard off Lincoln on a penny from a hundred yards away but
then misses shot after shot up close on the baddie.

Someone receiving the Heimlich Maneuver somehow coughing up solely the item they're choking on, instead of projectile vomiting like most people do.

This one isn't as irritating as a "warning shot." It's extremely dangerous to do this. Either you shoot the dog dead or you don't shoot at all.

The other one is "you have to wait 24 hours before you report a missing person."

Yuck to both of these. I wonder how many lives were ruined because of these two cliches.

Hmmmm. We waited months before we reported Zeno missing.

I knew where I was.

And even though the above is probably bad grammar; it is no cliche.

"Its quiet around here."
"Yeah.....Too quiet."

good guy has defeated the bad guy in hand to hand combat and is deliberating whether or not to shoot him and finally shakes his head and realizes hes not gonna stoop to his level and turns to walk away only for the villian to reach for a hidden gun and the hero whips around and kills him in self-defense.

while engaged in a fight to the death hero is making witty quips.

whole bunch of ridic exposition by the villian which gives the hero time to either escape from bondage and kill him or allows the cavalry to arrive.

villian says the hero doesn't have the balls to shoot so the hero fires a shot into the air and that scares the villian into believing they mean business.

I can't get a signal on my cell!

We've a mystery to solve. Let's go find out everything on the internet including a handy uploaded vid from a previous victim.

Villain holding a match/lighter over pool of gasoline doing a monologue & not bursting into flames due to the fumes.

Drivers never watching the road, turning around to give their passenger long meaningful stares & never running anyone over in the process/crashing.

Chicks getting outa bed all made up with perfect hair & not a bit puffy eyed.