The reverse is also true. If a non-leading character is injured or sickened in some way, and another character says, "Don't worry, we'll get you through this, you're going to be fine," he won't be.

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Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by ignorance or stupidity.
Isaac Asimov

Either way, characters are lousy at making predictions!

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"If you think the LHC will create black holes, you might as well believe Hobbits are at the bottom of your garden."- Dr. Mike Inglis
Rovers forever! - ToSeek
"Carl Sagan sent a message to ET,
Neil Armstrong walked in the Sea of Tranquility
Steve Squyers built Spirit and Opportunity
Dan Haylen upchucked in zero gravity." -Brent Simon, The Space Camp Song

People giving hypodermic injections with a couple of milliliters of air still in the syringe.

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The Devil offered me power. I told him I preferred aperture.

This one isn't really a cliché (thanks Moose) as much as it is a persistent background item, but it bugs. Part of stocking shelves in a grocery store is pulling the product forward so it looks good. This is called "facing". after throwing the load, you face the store. No matter when the scene takes place in the movie, the entire aisle is faced, meaning that no one had bought anything off of it all day. It could be 10 PM and the shelves are still un-touched. I'm not really sure why it bugs me. Maybe it's the fact that it breaks the immersion by having something that my mind picks up as being wrong.

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A Nerd can figure out how long it will take the original Enterprise traveling at warp 6.5 to travel from Regulus to Antares.
A Geek will think he can use that to pick up a girl in a bar.
A Dork knows he can't pick up the girl with it, but will hang around for hours anyway, just in case she asks.
She might. You never know.

Hate when you are watching a movie and the couple are about to get it on, but then the telephone rings and the dude is like "I have to get it". She's insisting that he not answer but of course the guy - (modified by moderator) answers. And it's always like the President or someone important on the other end telling him he's got to go save the world. Why can't they at least be in the middle of it.

Separate irritating movie scene, not a cliche...in the movie KPax....Prote (Kevin Spacey) is supposed to be from another planet that is far more advanced and he is supposed to be super-intelligent. Yet in the movie, he gets on his knees and starts barking and having a conversation with a dog. Is it me or is this part of the movie retarded. Even us inferior minded people know a dog lacks the ability to express complex thought. I guess whatever....it's just a movie right??

Never show a photo of your wife and kids to your buddies. It's an almost certain death sentence, especially if you're set to retire from a dangerous job like Cop or Soldier in just a few weeks.

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"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take" - Wayne Gretzky

This has just gotten too predictable:
So, you're at school, hanging out with your friends, and somebody mentions a place where there's supposed to be a ghost/monster, and everybody goes "Cool, let's check it out!", except one kid who makes an excuse.
Then the camera shows that kid go home and prepare a hoax to scare the jeepers out of all of you.
You get there, he scares you, you freak out, but then something happens to prove he's behind it. So, you relax and have a good laugh, but then another ghost/monster shows up, so all of you freak out even worse. After a lot of running around, it turns out that this ghost/monster is just some other guy who also wanted to hoax you.
You all leave, and behind you, the camera shows/suggests the real ghost/monster.

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"If you think the LHC will create black holes, you might as well believe Hobbits are at the bottom of your garden."- Dr. Mike Inglis
Rovers forever! - ToSeek
"Carl Sagan sent a message to ET,
Neil Armstrong walked in the Sea of Tranquility
Steve Squyers built Spirit and Opportunity
Dan Haylen upchucked in zero gravity." -Brent Simon, The Space Camp Song

Just like real life!

Edited to add - I suppose that response is itself a cliche now.

But wait! There's a twist!






Scroll down for twist...






Keep scrolling for the twist...






Nearly there...






Brace yourself for the twist...






Twist now imminent (and it's a doozy, whatever that means)






The Twist!






Despite my saying "Edited to add" I didn't actually edit this post!

...Or, as the Robot Chicken version of M. Night Shyamalan would say, "What a twist!"

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

Wow, my post has been compared to the works of M. Night Shyamalan! You just don't get that on other boards. I'm off to bed with a smile on my face!

Edited to add: Why the smile on my face? Well, I just didn't have anywhere else to put it!

Which one, "The monster/ghost is real" or "There's no way he survived that"?

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"If you think the LHC will create black holes, you might as well believe Hobbits are at the bottom of your garden."- Dr. Mike Inglis
Rovers forever! - ToSeek
"Carl Sagan sent a message to ET,
Neil Armstrong walked in the Sea of Tranquility
Steve Squyers built Spirit and Opportunity
Dan Haylen upchucked in zero gravity." -Brent Simon, The Space Camp Song

Both, but mainly the former.

Shocked I didn't think of these sooner: In every sports film-- or any film that features a sports-playing in any great capacity--the protagonist teams are always underdogs, and start off awful. I mean they're bad, bad, bad. The best of the best of the antagonist teams are always composed of sadistic jerks coached by a coach who has forgotten the True Meaning of the Game. Which is--say it with me-- to have fun. Awww, so sweet. Everyone learns a heartwarming lesson about sportsmanship in the end.

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If we don't play god, who will?-James Watson
I never think of the future, it comes soon enough.-Albert Einstein
The large print giveth and the small print taketh away.-Tom Waits
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a yo-yo.-Enoch Root, The Confusion
When I was a kid, if someone brandished a shrink gun he'd get a little bit of respect!-Myron Reducto, Harvey Birdman

But hey.......How about those Patriots????
Dan

Giants are gonna put their winning streak to an end in 2 weeks. :P

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Jobu likes this cliché almost as much as he likes cuban cigars and rum.

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Listen close to everybody's heart________And you believe there's good in everybody's heart
And hear that breaking sound_____________Keep it safe and sound
Hopes and dreams are shattering apart____With hope you can do your part
And crashing to the ground_______________To turn a life around

Everytime someone thinks something seems fimilar, somebody has to explain deja-vu. Everytime someone thinks something seems fimilar, somebody has to explain deja-vu.

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If it's just us, it seems like an awful waste of space.
Contact Carl Sagan

Never, ever say "What's the worst that could happen?"
By the way, interesting new avatar, Paul.
Don't zap me!

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"If you think the LHC will create black holes, you might as well believe Hobbits are at the bottom of your garden."- Dr. Mike Inglis
Rovers forever! - ToSeek
"Carl Sagan sent a message to ET,
Neil Armstrong walked in the Sea of Tranquility
Steve Squyers built Spirit and Opportunity
Dan Haylen upchucked in zero gravity." -Brent Simon, The Space Camp Song

Why not? I mean, if I do, what's the worst that could happen?

BTW, another one for the list: Everytime someone finds something to be familiar, somebody has to explain deja vu.

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"Ask to understand, but don't challenge unless you have the knowledge."--NEOWatcher

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Listen close to everybody's heart________And you believe there's good in everybody's heart
And hear that breaking sound_____________Keep it safe and sound
Hopes and dreams are shattering apart____With hope you c