But then that would become a cliché.

Are a few times (I only know of one group of series that does this: Tenchi) really enough to constitute a cliché?

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Anime has its own set of cliches, enough for its own thread.

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No. I'm sure there are a couple of other instances of it, but as I've said elsewhere, I watch an awful lot of anime, and I'm unable to remember any other examples.

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Anime is usually so stylized that it basically is made up of cliches.

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Anime has to be cliche because the characters aren't as smart. With eyes that big, it means the brain has to be smaller.

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I think it's important to remember that something isn't a cliche just because it happens a lot. Someone walking through a door isn't a cliche.

It is if it's a horror picture and the "someone" doesn't bother to open it.

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That reminds me of the scene in Terminator 2 where the morphy terminator walks through a set of bars, but has not allowed for the fact that he is carrying a gun, which does not morph. A splendid example of the benefits of thinking one's fiction through.

"Heeeeeears Johny!"

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Here's a cliche:
What are the odds that circumstances will allow you to naturally say something you said earlier at a moment that makes it ironic?

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Both likely, and unlikely, depending on your definition irony.

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Asteroids being much closer together than in real life. I've even seen this in educational films like Secret of the Cardboard Rocket.

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Yes, but if there's a collision between two large asteroids, and they're not exposed to strong tidal forces to pull them apart, you could get a gravitationally bound field of debris lasting many years.

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"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

Another over used cliche thats all to obvious (thats why it's a cliche .. in it?) .. I copied pasted it from a website coz I couldn't be bothered typing it myself..

If there is more than one or two of an alien race, they are always roughly the same size as humans... (I'll come up with something original, after I've wasted a couple of hours of my life thinking of it.)

Henchmen who don't have any clear motive for following someone.

McClaine in Live Free or Die Hard: "What, do you have some kind of service? Some sort of 1-800-henchmen? Are you still on hold about a replacement stalker-kung-fu-ninja lady? You have got to be running out of bad guys!"

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There's actually an agency in Kim Possible called "Henchco."

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

In a Star Wars parody I did recently, I had fun with this one-
"Why do we put up with Vader?"
"Because we're getting payed 11 bucks an hour to appear in this picture."

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"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
'Evolution and science are one thing, but you don’t mess with Yoko Ono. Everybody knows that. ' - 386sx

Here you go. It's a movie about 16 minutes long. Decent quality overall and I don't recall any bad language in it, but I wasn't really listening for any.

Summary: YouTube clip that shows a guy getting placed by a temp agency to be a henchman. Kind of a slow start, but I liked it.

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She might. You never know.

Except... Secret of the Cardboard Rocket is in our asteroid belt, and I don't think that's happened recently.

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Steve Squyers built Spirit and Opportunity
Dan Haylen upchucked in zero gravity." -Brent Simon, The Space Camp Song
'Evolution and science are one thing, but you don’t mess with Yoko Ono. Everybody knows that. ' - 386sx

The Main Belt is too close to the Sun, the cluster would get pulled apart in a few centuries. It would have to be in the very shallow fringes of a gravity field to avoid signifigant tides that can separate the fragments. So it would be in the outer Kuiper Belt or the Oort cloud, too far for us to see.

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Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
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"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