Cliché Character #5

The Overprotective Dad

Liam Neeson in Taken (2008)

Fathers often seem to have a special relationship to their daughters, almost to the point of being a little perverse at times.
This kind of father is so protective that even if his daughter were over 18 years old, he'd still get really suspicious when she had a new boyfriend.
Now, how about their sons? They'll survive, let 'em be boys.

Cliché Character #4 The not-so-skilled Hero

Good guy vs. Bad guy. The villian is much stronger and more skilled than the hero, but somehow the hero wins anyway.

Usually there is a scene near the end of the movie, where these two fight and the villian is superior throughout the fight, but through some good luck and coincidents the hero suddenly defeats the villian. Why not let the hero kill the bad guy in one blow for once?

Examples:
Batman vs. Random Villian (Although Batman is quite easy to beat in a one-on-one fight he always wins.)
Terminator T-101 vs. T-1000

Cliché Character #3 - The Avenger

The Punisher (2004)

A skilled person whose family (wife/kids or both) got killed by bad guys, plans and prepares his revenge for months. His plan is the one thing that keeps him going and he's not interested in anything else. Usually he has been transformed to a emotionless killing machine. Of course, he almost always gets his vengeance.

Cliché Character #2 - The Nerd from High-School

Bachelorette (2012)

This character pops up now and then in comedies where some kind of planned or unplanned reunion takes place.

The reunion takes place 10-20 years since the group was split up and the place is often a small town where everybody knows each other. 

For this character to exist we also need the popular girl, or preferably the entire popular girl gang. They left town for a big city long ago and has only been back in town a few times since. The nerd has always had a crush on one of them, and when he sees her now after so many yeard he approaches her and starts a conversation. He tries to remind her who he is, but nothing rings a bell. Of course he used to sit behind her in class and maybe even helped her with some homework occasionally, but that's not what eventually will remind her who he is. Usually, there is a silly name they used to call him or something embarrassing he did once that makes her remember him. Finally, at the end of the movie, the two will become a couple. Sorry for the spoiler.

I know this is supposed to be one of the top jokes in these movies, but it has honestly never been funny.

Cliché Character #1 - Asian Horror Girl

This very common horror character comes from Asian culture, where dead women and ghosts are portrayed as having long black hair that covers their faces.

Read this interesting article which further explains the use of these kind of ghosts: Link to article

Examples: 
Ringu (1998)/The Ring (2002)
Ju-on (2002)/The Grudge (2004)
Honogurai mizu no soko kara (2002)/Dark Water (2005)