User blog comment:GunboyGuncrazy/Why is it that some people to this day see Sanic.exe as a good pasta?/@comment-24381191-20140824103902/@comment-1196539-20140824151617

They were present, but they weren't cliches yet. There was a point in time in which these concepts came into being and a point at which they began to be incredibly overused. Sonic.exe falls between these.