But here are 100 cliches that tend to get relied on over and over again…

1.

Cars are never locked, and contain the keys needed to start them.

An aircraft will fall from the sky if left unattended for 10 seconds.

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4.

A moving vehicle can only be stopped either with a rocket launcher or goods train.

Women can run in whatever footwear theyre got on.

The FBI always arrive by helicopter, irrespective of where they came from.

However threatening its predicament, the dog wont die.

The bad guy always has an English accent.

The biggest solider will die first and the stupidest officer will usually survive.

Automatic weapons are useless when confronted by a pistol.

Stolen cars are always fully fuelled.

The hero must have a friend who is a social outcast.

Bullets fired in aircraft cause explosive decompression.

Young kids are always smarter than adults.

Summer camps are filled with the musically gifted and psychopathic.

Remote places of the world contain unknown giant versions of animals.

Anything alien that turns up on our planet uninvited is invariably out to kill us all.

Once a horse sees a rattlesnake, it will throw the rider off in the snakes direction.

Dying people always live long enough to say something moving or significant.

Girls named after fruit are easy.

Zombies are deceptively rapid walkers.

In a group of teenagers being stalked, girls who can scream well wont die first.

Its easy to pop fire up door of an aircraft while in flight.

A truck is almost indestructible, apart from the brakes which are incredibly fragile.

Any drug deal usually involves multiple fatalities.

Reading any book aloud usually has catastrophic consequences.

Mobile phones work almost anywhere unless its important that they do.

People that carry guns consider ammunition to be a optional accessory.

If a car is shot it will explode.

Horses are both bullet and arrow proof.

When people fall from high buildings, they always look back at where they came from.

People pursued by the most dogged policeman or FBI agent are invariably innocent.

In any fight between two men, the one with the least practical weapon will win.

Abducted people always call for their father, never their mother.

Asking the question do you think well get out of this?

never illicits an honest answer.

Two spacecraft meeting in deep space always agree what orientation is up and down before doing so.

A performer can spot a loved one in a crowd of 20,000 people instantly

43.

After sex, women suddenly become coy and cover their bodies up.

50% of henchmen are mute.

Shooting at a lock with a pistol opens it really easily.

All white street gangs have one black kid, but black street gangs dont reciprocate on that deal.

High schools always have a socially inept outcast who is secretly talented.

People who dont know their parentage turn out to be either very rich or aristocracy.

When e-mail arrives, the entire screen of the computer animates a huge envelope opening

51.

Giant mutant creatures always head for down town locations, presumably to shop.

A theatre can only be saved from demolition by staging a musical extravaganza at very short notice.

Pilots who have a pet dog suffer a 100% attrition rate.

A dam has only one purpose, to break.

Natural disasters only occur where they can cause the most damage and casualties.

Old men die of heart attacks, old women in their sleep.

All superheroes leave a calling card so others dont take credit for their work.

Men will do more for a woman who has divorced him than any other.

All Victorian street urchins dont own shoes, but they all have a hat.

Staying more than a day in the wilderness will involve meeting a hungry bear.

People marooned on desert islands soon learn to make almost anything from bamboo.

People who retire always buy a boat.

Failing businesses are run by old people, successful ones by greedy ones.

Women reduced to wearing a mans shirt as a dress will always find a belt to accessorize.

People falling from high buildings always land on a car.

However hard the hero is beaten hell always ask is that the best you’re free to do?

All government agencies have computer systems where their logo is a prominent feature.

Decisions to murder people are usually made on the golf course.

When the hero destroys something in a spectacular explosion, he never watches his handiwork.

Hes either walking or driving away looking in the opposite direction.

People told to stay somewhere never do.

Women always have an ex-boyfriend who can fix cars.

Men who have been wrongly imprisoned never have anyone meet them when theyre released.

Young cops carry semi-automatic pistols, while old cops always have a pump action shotgun handy.

Breakfast is always cooked each morning but the husband never has time to eat it.

When a cop is close to solving a case, hell be suspended from duty, which hell ignore.

Its easy to knock someone unconscious using blunt force trauma or even asphyxiation without causing any permanent problems.

All funerals are attended by the person responsible for the death, who arrives in a limo.

A person waking from a nightmare will only have woken in reality about 10% of the time.

Usually theyre still having the nightmare.