User blog comment:William See/Cliche vs Trope: Big Diff?/@comment-33904527-20200211233038/@comment-5306249-20200214161503

I think cyclical narrative tropes are so broad and so deeply entrenched in human history, its difficult to make it a cliche (unless you kept trying to copy what Dark Souls/Dragon's Dogma did). Much like the concept of death, it has a ubiquitous presence and is spread over many different smaller tropes.