Thread: Most annoying anime cliche(s)?

"I've got a similar cliche: the hero who is hopelessly outmatched by an absurdly powerful villain still manages to win when he uses some incredible power within himself that he had never used before and that he had just discovered during the final battle. It's annoying as hell not just because it's used in every shounen anime that comes out now, but because it makes nearly every fight all about who has the most power....

Yeah, anime hair gets really distracting, especially when a character in a completely serious anime has a hair style that would look incredibly stupid in real life.

School rooftops (and the conversations that are held up there). "Not trying to be insulting here, but you don't watch any shonen, do you? And about your signiture, well, I could say the same for fangirls, couldn't I?" Dude, SHUT UP. There is nothing more annoying and obnoxious to me than some moron who, for lack of contributing anything of any substance to a thread, wants to start an argument. Go fight with your...

People and animals using legs to walk, birds using wings to fly, murderers using guns to kill.

That person's name has "vivi" in it, so I don't think that was a guy. "Every escape artist is claustrophobic, that's why we want to escape."

UPDATED Sat Mar 15 2008 21:08:14 "I can't stand how stupid many of these "likeable young heroes" can be, falling for every sly remark and scheme. Why can't they actually try to outsmart the villain back and forth and have a genuine battle of wits?" I think because in anime series of that nature, cynicism & sardonic jokes are viewed as negative personality traits....Or at least, personality...

Lately I've taken a dislike to girls who are insane with love for guys who either a) don't love them back or b) actively despise them. These situations tend to degrade both the girl and the guy, undercutting sympathy for them. It's hard to feel much respect or admiration for a girl who routinely humiliates herself in pursuit of a guy who doesn't give her the time of day, or for a guy whose mission is not to win or earn love...

I find that there is a number of misogynistic cliches in anime, like female characters being useless. One show that does that to the most annoying degree is Tokyo Underground- Ruri is far too cliche. God is so an anthropomorphic platypus.

LOL the use of swords in modern settings is the one cliche i really like "Sieg Zeon!"

UPDATED Mon Dec 17 2007 13:26:01 Well the title of this thread is "Most annoying anime cliche(s)?". We were asked to post the cliches in ANIME that we personally found annoying. Not cliches in mobster movies, sci-fi fantasty films, horror movies, rom-coms or anything else...Sure there are other cliches in other genres of anime but that user found the ones in shounen the most annoying. He didn't say "I hate all...