While I like the discussion and all the examples mentioned in this thread I think no one should ever take any of it into consideration other than trying to do his/her best to make the plot work without screwing the whole lore.
Reason being is that there's literally not a single thing that won't be a cliché.
We've heard so many stories, read so many books and we've seen so many movies now that doing something that isn't a cliché in some sense simply isn't possible.
Make a gay roegadyn wearing a pink subligar riding on raptors that have chainsaw for hands and jump into an active volcano. You will find someone that has already done this before somewhere.
So my message is: If you're new and you have an awesome idea but you get scared cause you think it might be a cliché, don't worry about it!
Making the story work is more about the execution nowadays, not about the fact that someone might consider it a cliché. There's been countless of movies and books that have more or less copied something and they were still successful, because they executed the story in a good way and because the characters were interesting.
Just my 2 cents ^^
Reason being is that there's literally not a single thing that won't be a cliché.
We've heard so many stories, read so many books and we've seen so many movies now that doing something that isn't a cliché in some sense simply isn't possible.
Make a gay roegadyn wearing a pink subligar riding on raptors that have chainsaw for hands and jump into an active volcano. You will find someone that has already done this before somewhere.
So my message is: If you're new and you have an awesome idea but you get scared cause you think it might be a cliché, don't worry about it!
Making the story work is more about the execution nowadays, not about the fact that someone might consider it a cliché. There's been countless of movies and books that have more or less copied something and they were still successful, because they executed the story in a good way and because the characters were interesting.
Just my 2 cents ^^
