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	criticalcricket 2007-07-05 06:00 am UTC (link)
	Hmm, here's a few. Mary Sue/Marty Stu Sexual Healing (sex cures rape trauma ya know) Magical Kisses Overly Convenient Coincidences Hate turned to Love That's all I have right now. Just because I'm trying to think of them, these ideas are running away. =/ (Reply to this)

	jetamors 2007-07-05 06:18 am UTC (link)
	Falling in Love With Your Rapist The Virgin Sex God Completely Incoherent 'Humor' Fic Gratuitous Character Bashing, and/or Those Fics Where One Character Suffers Horrible Deaths Repeatedly Injokes Only the Author's Three Friends Understand 'lol i suck at summaries so just read ok' Gratuitous Author's Notes Purple Prose (Reply to this)

	ryuutchi 2007-07-05 06:24 am UTC (link)
	Alien sex pollen Script-fic Instant Messenger/Chat fic (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	spleen 2007-07-05 06:33 am UTC (link)
	Spontaneous Hate Sex That Turns Into an Elaborate Scripted BDSM Scenario Unintentional Yet Humorous Spelling Mistakes Abound Choose Your Own Ending High School AU Product Placements Galore (sponsored by Tim-Tams (r)(tm)) [character] Is An Angsty Teenager Goth (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	wrongly_amused 2007-07-05 06:41 am UTC (link)
	Love Springs Eternal From the Flu (traditional sick/comfort stories) What Would Jesus Wank (insertion of pointless and superfluous, frequently offensive, non-sequitar religious content into otherwise unfitting storyline) Spellchequer R Us (LOLZ my frendz tel me mah spellin is fyne!) (Reply to this)

tangentialone
2007-07-05 07:52 am UTC (link)

Song lyrics inserted into the story.
Modern song lyrics inserted into the story.
Anachronstic (or otherwise setting-innapropriate) song lyrics inserted into the story.
Anachronstic (or otherwise setting-innapropriate) song lyrics inserted into the story by way of a character bursting into song.

Re-use of one-shot jokes from the canon. (Example: Vetinari being described as a carnivorous flamingo. Someone saying, "So, no more fun and games?" to Xander.)

Overuse of in-jokes or catch-phrases from the canon. (Example: Jack Sparrow saying "That's interesting," or asking why the rum is gone.)

Painful inclusion/description of visual tropes, especially anime/cartoon ones. ("She sweatdropped." "His nose started spurting blood.")

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	vigilanterodent 2007-07-05 07:56 am UTC (link)
	Sappy death via leukemia/[insert dread disease here]. Random genderswap. AU vampire fics. Poorly researched AU historical fics. Somebody gets turned into a kitten. (Reply to this)(Thread)

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luvginnyarwen
2007-07-05 08:24 am UTC (link)

- The Timer Turner in HP fics
- The Room of Requirement in HP fics
- Mary-Sue
- No one realizing that the main character is an asshole
- Mildly handsome canon character becoming a sex god in fics. See Malfoy,
Draco and Snape, Severus.
- Making someone abusive in fics who has never been shown to have abusive tendencies in canon, just to advance the plot and have the abuser's victim fall for the rescuer. See Weasley, Ron, and bad Hermione/anyone fics.
- Making mildly bitchy characters in canon into completely unbearable shrews, just to advance the plot and give sympathy to the heroine of the fic.
- Love as the cure-all to any disease or danger.
- Making characters into useless, stupid stumps.
- A character pushing his/her love interest away to 'protect' them
- Naming the character after the author.

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	caffeine_fairy 2007-07-05 08:42 am UTC (link)
	She Was His Love In A Former Life (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	eilisliana 2007-07-05 09:12 am UTC (link)
	Character-turned-into-a-baby in HP fics, especially Harry and Snape guardian fics. (Reply to this)

	schuldig 2007-07-05 10:51 am UTC (link)
	Character A is dressed up by Character B so they can fit in at a nightclub. Fuji gets hit by a car. (Reply to this)

	dracothelizard 2007-07-05 12:15 pm UTC (link)
	Love Interests Who Turn Stalkers Random Kidnappings so that the love interest can heroically save them. Love/lust at first sight Canon characters acting completely opposite from how they would usually act. (Reply to this)

	twoiskewl 2007-07-05 12:16 pm UTC (link)
	mpreg? (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	mydruthers 2007-07-05 12:19 pm UTC (link)
	- Having to share a bed - Gender switch - Make-over - Characters switching bodies (Reply to this)

souris
2007-07-05 01:34 pm UTC (link)

Who Are You and What Are You Doing Here All of a Sudden? -> A person from our world enters the story universe through a mysteriously appearing portal/after death/because of a spell/as summoned by somebody powerful/via some serious handwaving by the author.

Those People, and You, Too! -> A person joins a group of important canonical people as its extra member (the tenth walker of the fellowship, the fourth one in the golden trio, etc.).

Only You Can Save the World! -> A person is suddenly found out to be the prophesied saviour of the world - in the kind of story where there already is somebody to do that canonically, like with Buffy in BtVS, (I assume) Harry Potter in HP, Frodo&Sam&Gollum in LotR, etc.

It's Just Like the Original, But with This Awesome New Character! -> I'm not sure if this qualifies as a cliché, but at least with LotR badfic, there are a whole lot of stories where the authors basically copy&paste the entire movie script into a Word document, and then add a few lines and descriptions of an OC, and call that a story.

I Used to Be a Manly Man until I Learned to Love Cock, and Now I just Cry and Redecorate -> pretty damn self-explanatory, I think.

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	whimsy_chan 2007-07-05 01:54 pm UTC (link)
	Nothing new to add, just that the old Magical Healing Cock is one of my favorite badfic cliches. Also, I'm in the middle of rereading Fushigi Yuugi, and I'm a little disturbed at how many of these cliches show up there. D: (Reply to this)

	fuji 2007-07-05 02:23 pm UTC (link)
	--Bathe in the Healing Light of My Cock, or How Sex With My Twu Wub Cures the Angst/Rape/Trauma of My Past --I Am A Female Character, Therefore I Am The Bitch Standing Between Boylove --Hello, Self-Insert Female OC! --It's War! We Cannot Die Virgins! --My Enemy, My Shag Buddy (Reply to this)

damnedfallacy
2007-07-05 02:58 pm UTC (link)

Any character, no matter how evil/cruel/cranky/childfree they are in canon, secretly wants to have lots of baaaaaaaaaaabies with their won twu wub, and will turn into a giant pile of goo when confronted with the adorableness of their offspring, who are born looking like chubby four-month olds and already giggling and cooing.

Additionally, labor will always consist of vitrolic insults and threats against the person of the non-bearer by s/he who is squeezing the child out of whichever orifice, but no actual blood/pain/gore/placentas are depicted.

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eljuno
2007-07-05 02:59 pm UTC (link)

-Wings
-Inappropriate Self-injury and/or eating disorders
-Alcohol == Spanish Fly with a touch of amnesia drug.
-Could you have made that description a little bit worse/more disgusting/more not-sexy? If you tried?
-Inappropriate fluff
-Rape
-Secret rape
-Secret rape with wings and eating disorders and self injury and alcohol and bad descriptions that becomes inappropriate fluff.
-Brushing teeth.

Yes, I've read all of these.

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sarajayechan
2007-07-05 03:23 pm UTC (link)

-A quiet character being Sekritly Wangsty
-Made-up wangsty pasts
-Death by childbirth for characters often portrayed as super-fragile (Florina, Ninian, Duo, Quatre, Legolas, etc)
-Rape victims slitting their wrists because they're not pure for their one true love anymore
-Character feels unloved and unwanted, so they run away and turn over to the bad guys' side/become super-powerful and discover their true destiny as savior of the world/almost die and make everyone feel guilty for being so mean/find true love in a whole other series
-Comic relief being twisted into Serious Business for wangst purposes (Jessie and James losing their hair to Scythers turns them into wangstbuckets because their hair is connected to their Wangsty Pasts and it crushes their souls)

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	sarajayechan 2007-07-05 03:35 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, and all male characters in yuri fic being portrayed as perverts and rapists, especially the love interests who have been raping and abusing their girlfriend, thus allowing her to run crying into the arms of her best friend/worst enemy/sister/cousin/teacher/other girl of the author's choice. (Reply to this)

	hypno_jango 2007-07-05 04:41 pm UTC (link)
	A strong, independent woman in canon gets turned into a dependent, useless damsel who's only role is to be the devoted little wife of her boyfriend/husband. (Reply to this)(Thread)

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harrylovesron
2007-07-05 04:50 pm UTC (link)

"Medieval" AUs where the Manly Knights of the Realm fight for the love of the Pretty But Fickle Princess.

"LOL I ROTE THIS FIC AT 2AM WHEN I WAS TOTALLY HIGH ON SUGAR HOPE U LIEK IT"

LOLRANDOM crossovers of universes that don't mesh well.

Plain/average/ugly female character gets a makeover and becomes Drop Dead Gorgeous (and a slut).

Any character (canon or OC) discovers they're related by blood to a canon character, especially the villain.

My Speshil New Powers - Any character suddenly discovering that they have Special Unique Powers (e.g. wandless magic, telepathy/other psychic powers, flight) that they then use to save the world when nobody else can. Bonus points if they overshadow the main character.

My Sekrit Heritage - Character discovers one of the following:
1. She is the last heir/member/descendant of an ancient and powerful race. This knowledge makes her angst and woe until she uses it to save the world.
2. He is secretly royalty (being King/Prince of another race counts), only discovers this when he turns a certain age, and angsts when he is whisked off to claim his birthright. Bonus points if he instantly changes into a vampire/elf/etc. the day he comes of age.
3. She is secretly the child of two canon characters, but was adopted by an ordinary, nondescript couple to "protect her".

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	sarajayechan 2007-07-05 05:43 pm UTC (link)
	Another one I'm sick of: Sex > pregnancy, and puking anytime before noon MUST be morning sickness. (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	verthandi 2007-07-05 06:43 pm UTC (link)
	-Characters meet up in a chat room/the internet (netspeak optional) -Characters conspire to get Character A and B together because that's all that matters -Next gen -Children in fic exist to get Character A and B together -Author bamfs to get Character A and B together -The single tear of angst/compassion/sadness/despair -Pregnancy brings Character A and B together (Reply to this)(Thread)

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