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Movie/TV Cliches

Beautiful girl is not popular until popular boy takes an interest in her (initially not seriously). She removes her glasses and becomes a different kind of beautiful and is popular and wins the boy’s heart.
 
Fridging female character to motivate male protagonist
 
Cold open
*X hours/days earlier*
A couple of scenes happen
Back to the opening scene again
 
Main character(s) being the only one not wearing a helmet into battle or immediately losing/removing it (and other similar situations with face coverings) just so the audience can see their face
 
asterixsmeagol said:
*Nosebleed/cough blood* This character will die
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- Similarly, it's become cliche for anyone suffering a mortal wound regardless of location to cough/spit up blood. It WAS cool, but has since been played out.

- Characters gesturing with their hands while holding a loaded weapon and no one having a problem with a gun in their face.

- OH! And there was a running gag/trope in the early 2000's where a dorky or clumsy character might engage in some slapstick or suffer a great fall off screen to jump up and say "I'm okay!". Always cringed when they pulled that one.
 
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Not sure if this counts — not sure if it is just a tv/movie thing or an American culture thing—-

No one takes off their dirty shoes when they enter their house or someone else’s.
 
destined spaghetti said:
- Characters gesturing with their hands while holding a loaded weapon and no one having a problem with a gun in their face.
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Everyone is pointing guns at eachother, but nobody is shooting because it's not that part of the scene yet.
Bonus points if one of them just runs away instead of shooting.
 
Tarantino does a great job of seeing these tropes and then exploiting them wonderfully in his films. The waving the gun thing is, of course, “you shot Marvin.” But one I love is the way character don’t notice strange accents when a character is pretending to be someone from another country. QT did that wonderfully in Inglorious Basterds.
 
bionicbob said:
Not sure if this counts — not sure if it is just a tv/movie thing or an American culture thing—-

No one takes off their dirty shoes when they enter their house or someone else’s.
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Oh yeah, that's an American thing, definitely not just in movies.
 
catferoze said:
Main character(s) being the only one not wearing a helmet into battle or immediately losing/removing it (and other similar situations with face coverings) just so the audience can see their face
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Or comic adaptations where a character who typically wears a mask must wear the mask as little as possible so the audience can see the actor's face. (See Judge Dredd (1995), with Dredd (2012) being a welcome subversion)
 
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