30 Cliches and Stereotypes Hollywood Can’t Let Go
They sure do love the same old, same old
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Clichés! Hollywood just can’t seem to avoid them. You’ve got your trusty go-tos for evil characters: They’re a doctor! They have a cat! Their old name is “dead”! Then, there’s when you need to make sure the audience knows a character is cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs: They skirt gender norms! They’re goth! They’re lonely or introverted! If a character is heroic, obviously that means that they’re either a) a captain; b) punching the villain; or c) driving a pickup truck. And we can’t forget that arrogance means eating apples and that being a smart person means wearing glasses and having frizzy, crazy hair. Here are some of the most egregious clichés and stereotypes that keep popping up over and over again…
![Draco Malfoy Jack Sparrow Cocky pricks love them apples! James т. Kirk Ryuk CRACKED.COM Sokke Indiana Jones](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/9/0/805590.jpg)
![Fear The Walking Dead All Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind Twilight - 24G THE Gran Torino Suburban heroes drive pickup trucks. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/9/2/805592.jpg)
![Looking to score some drugs? HIGH SCHOOL NIP/TUCK Just find a tattooed guy! AMERICAN DAD I CRACKED COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/9/3/805593.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM Loners in movies are almost always creepy/weird. PROHIBITED - Travis Bickle Gordo Taxi Driver The Gift 6 5 Henry Spencer Seymour Parrish Eraserhead One Hour Photo](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/9/1/805591.jpg)
![Captains are heroes THE of Captain America Captain Planet Captain Haddock Captain Marvel Captain Harlock Captain Scarlet Captain Mar-Vell Captain Caveman Captain Kirk Captain Picard Doctors are villains Doctor Sivanna Doctor Doom Doctor Octopus Doctor Mindbender Doctor Eggman (Captain Marvel) (Fantastic Four) (Spider-man) (G.I. Joe) (Sonic the Hedgehog) Dr Hugo Strange Doctor Faustus Doctor Evil Doctor Light Doctor Claw (Batman) (Captain America) (Austin Powers) (Teen Titans) (Inspector Gadget) GRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/8/3/805583.jpg)
![In the movies, if you're trans... AN C LVA Norman Bates Dr. Frank N. Furter Jame 'Buffalo Bill' Gumb You're probably depraved or a criminal. Einhorn is Finkle! Finkle is Einhorn! CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/8/8/805588.jpg)
![GRACKED.COM Every author of a beloved work, Adult World Field of Dreams Goosebumps Turns out to be a curmudgeonly recluse. The Fault in Hey Arnold! Our Stars Finding Forrester](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/8/5/805585.jpg)
![6'0 .0.9 5'6 5'6 5'0 5'0 4'6 6 ة 4'0 3'6 '6 3 3'0 Todd Hockney - Usual Suspects The short ones are often portrayed as ... Yao - Mulan Aggressive, hot-headed, short- tempered, and ill-mannered. Wolverine X -nen GRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/8/6/805586.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM GOTH GIRLS KNOW DARK MAGICI Bellatrix Lestrange Nancy Random spell caster Black Alice AND ARE ALL BAT-SHIT CRAZY.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/9/4/805594.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM That name no longer Jack?? has any meaning for me! Jack is dead, my friend. SCORPOWER No. Not Barker. Harry is That man is dead. DEAD! Going evil requires you declaring your former self dead and assuming a new name?](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/7/9/805579.jpg)
![CRACKED COM Not all nerds wear glasses. But anyone who wears glasses is Yamazaki Velma probably a nerd. (Welcome to the (Scooby-Doo) NHK) Tucker (Danny Phantom) Steve Urkel Taranee Hale (Family Matters) (W.I.T.C.H.) Polly Professor Frink Professor Farnsworth St. Trinian's) (The Simpsons) (Futurama)](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/8/9/805589.jpg)
![Ernest Blofeld Gargamel Argus Filch Hollywood seems to think that cats are the symbol of pure evil. That must be why nearly every movie or TV show villain owns a cat. Angelica Pickles Dolores Umbridge CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/8/7/805587.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM Crazy White Hair Genius equals Thinker Clockwise fromtopleft Dr. Rotwang, Metropolis; Microsoft Genius assistant; Yoda, Star Wars; Dr. FrederickFrankenstein, Young Frankenstein; Prof. E. Gadd, Mario Bros.; Dr. Strangeduck, DuckTales; Scientist (center), Civilization game, Dr. Strangelove; Doc Brown, Back to the Future.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/8/2/805582.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM LEX LUTHOR BATMAN SUPER-RICH SUPER- HEROES SEEM TO BE HEIRS DOCTOR DOOM IRON MAN TO THEIR FORTUNES. SUPER-RICH GREEN ARROW GREEN GOBLIN SUPER- VILLAINS SEEM TO HAVE TO WORK FOR WONDER WOMAN POISON IVY A LIVING. PROFESSOR X RED SKULL](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/8/1/805581.jpg)
![GENIUSES Gregory House House M.D. Sherlock Sheldon Holmes Cooper Several Media The Big Bang Theory ARE (If you're real, you will be jerkified lest Tony audiences be confused Stark Ironman as to your intellectual Alan acumen.) Turing The Imitation Game JERKS CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/8/0/805580.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM Enough with the mandatory NOOOOO! scene.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/6/7/805567.jpg)
![He thinks he's being kissed by a beautiful woman... but actually he's being licked by an animal. Either stop doing it, or stop pretending it's an accident. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/7/0/805570.jpg)
![GRACKED.COM Top Gun Animal House Brother Bear Princess Frog *COUGH* INSULT *COUGH* It's probably still funny for schoolkids.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/6/8/805568.jpg)
![If something's got you feeling down... CRACKED.COM IT'S TIME TO HIT THE BOOZE!](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/7/5/805575.jpg)
![LORD THE RETURN BAS MINE THE FC OF MIN - RINGS OF SAMPLE THE LIFE meta KING - - PLAN and MADE i TOS IS-FOR BATMAN FOREVER AND THIS IS FOR... CRACKED.COM KICK-ASS7](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/7/4/805574.jpg)
![1976 1991 BUCKINGHAM PALACE TED NUGENT called. They want their HAIRSTYLE TEENAGE ANGST HAT SHIRT 1600 back. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/7/2/805572.jpg)
![MR. & MRS SMITH Perfect Gift... Bill Card TMNT SPIDER-MAN WALL-E DAWN OF THE DEAD X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE *Awkward Elevator CRACKED.COM Music*](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/6/6/805566.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM GET LORD LEI THE THE OF RINGS TWO TOWERS OUTTA A L I E N THERE! Shit's about to go down! MATRIX AVATAR](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/7/8/805578.jpg)
![Yeah you better run! - Says the prey to his/her fleeing predators before meeting the top of the food chain behind him/her Batman Begins (2005) Rango (201 11 Willow (1988) CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/7/6/805576.jpg)
![You shouldn't use the phrase a storm is coming as a symbol for an ominous future if you can't do it better than The Terminator: Boy: Allá, ¡viene una tormenta! Sarah Connor: What did he just say? Man: Не said there's a storm coming in. Sarah Connor: I know. Selina Kyle: There's a storm coming Mr. Wayne. The Dark Knight Rises Hagrid: There's a storm coming, Harry, And we all best be ready when she does. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Larry : I told you there's a storm coming! CRACKED.COM Night at the Museum](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/7/1/805571.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM DON'T YOU DIE ON ME!](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/6/9/805569.jpg)
![It's a Wonderful Life Foul Play CRACKED.COM No matter how sexy the librarian, glasses are required The Mummy Personals NATURAL NOVELS Rufus Wainwright-Out Of The Game The Big Sleep](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/8/4/805584.jpg)
![a a ZIGHT TERRAL CRACKED.COM SMART IN ENGLISH CHARACTER MILLER PLEASE TECHNOBABBLES 2015](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/7/3/805573.jpg)
![WE ARE NOT SO DIFFERENT! YOU AND I CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/7/7/805577.jpg)
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