In a perfect world, the hero is able to defeat the villain, save the damsel in distress, and bring peace back to the land. That is the formula most forms of popular culture have used to portray any type of story, excluding stories about villains or anti-heroes. However much people have eaten up this perfection in the past, the idea is starting to get a little old. It is cliche to make the hero win every time. Not only is it a recycled plot device, but this will bore your audience with its repetition. Sometimes the hero has got to lose, in order to bring up the stakes of the hero's mission and take the audience off guard. That way when on the few occasions the cliche is used, (It is fine to use it as long as you take this route), your audience will feel rewarded and will be coming back for more. As much as we all want everything to go fine for the hero of a story, we have to remember that life isn't perfect and people mess up sometimes.
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A Hundred Cliches That Really Need To Die
RandomEver watched or read something, and felt annoying that a certain plot device was used for the thousandth time? Well, I certainly have. Here are a hundred of some of the worst cliche's ever, which hopefully none of you will use any time soon in you...
