User blog comment:Gbr10013wrrw/Absolute WORST cliches?/@comment-26475800-20160317003219

There are some really good cliches on this list, good as in bad. But not all of the cliches are a bad thing, most of them (excluding story themes and some others,) have become cliches because they work. So, that being said, maybe all of these things shouldn't be so hated on.

Look at this for a moment, things had to be good at one point to become so popular in the first place. Gore, which is something that I hate to see used poorly in stories, is perhaps one of the most popular themes in movies of the past ten years. Look at the Hostel and Saw franchises, they made a boat load of money off of how horrible they can kill people. Saw, which I have to say I did enjoy the first one, was more of a story than Hostel, but they both are gore fests.

So, if a cliche is done well, it isn't bad. It can be enjoyable, even to read a story that has one or more of these cliches. Think about it for a second, would you rather read a horror story with no gore, or one which uses gore and a lot of gore, but does it well?

Would you like to read a gaming pasta that is new and unseen? Something that is different from all the other gaming pastas before it?

Read the Outsider by H.P. Lovecraft. There is no gore in it but it is another cliche that had been mentioned below.

Yes, some things are unacceptable, poorly written stories and characters are chief among them. But done well, most stories can use any of these cliches and still be interesting and fun to read.