Supernatural

Whenever a hero is presented with two choices - very often two bad ones - you can be sure as hell that he'll come up with a third, good one, against all odds.

In the world of movies, Babysitting is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world, or at the very least, the most stressful.

When a character, almost always female and always physically attractive gets naked and relaxes in a bath.

Despite Angle Blades can be up to a foot long, they are easy to hide.

Because Clowns just aren't ominous enough. Make them British for extra creepiness.

Season 2, Episode 2: "Everybody Loves A Clown"

Whenever a fight ensues in the proximity of a toilet, you can bet that someone's head is going in there.

If a side character shows off a photo of his family just before some sort of dangerous event, chances are he's never going to see them again.

Sam does this so Dean can't escape the bathroom.

The bad guy urges the protagonist to kill him.

The good guys in a movie are locked up for causing trouble and the situation at hand worsens without their involvement.

A Heroic Sacrifice is when a character makes a sacrifice for the benefit and well-being of others. This is quite possibly the most prevalent cliche in cinema today.

Death was not the end! This person had died but came back, possibly as a vampire or simply because time had reset itself.

Hero interrogates criminal, criminal refuses to talk because his boss will kill him! Hero usually says "I'll kill you if you DON'T talk!"

In which soldiers, police officers, or someone in another kind of strict hierarchical organization is given explicit orders from a superior, only to ignore, disobey, or explicitly rebel against those orders because they believe that following them would be wrong.

For those characters that look human and act human and later turn out to be an alien, robot, demon, monster or something else.

When ever Sam or Dean dies, only to be brought back some way or another, one of them will cry.

Sometimes you have to change your mind. After the deal was made. But that's ok, it happens to both good guys and bad.

When characters getting lost is the catalyst for the movies plot.

Typical of "psychological" horror movies, a character wakes up from a particularly terrifying experience and is relieved that it was all "just a dream". Then, suddenly, the horror quickly re-establishes itself.

All the friggin' time

Splitting up is the hardest thing to do. In most movies, it's also the DUMBEST thing to do. Something unquestionably horrible is guaranteed to happen the second the group disbands in opposite directions.

In a film series, the love interest to the hero is often killed off or otherwise exorcised from the Hero's life, either by the end of the first film, or at the beginning of a sequel.

When two human beings are in danger, the best idea is to commit their love for each other. Someone is shooting at you, there's a ravaging lunatic in the house or we're all going to die tomorrow - it doesn't matter.

A dramatic device used to show that things have taken a turn for the worst. No message is ever severe enough unless it's written with the writer's actual blood.

Someone's precious car gets destroyed and they don't like it.

You can see them, but turn away for a moment and they'll suddenly be gone when you look back.

Only bad things happen in parking garages.

He doesn't want to save the world, but in the end, he saves it splendidly and gets the girl.

At the start of the film, the protagonist wakes up in a hospital bed or laboratory to find the world has drastically changed since they were last conscious.

Everyone in a small town has something to hide.

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The all-too-common tactic of making the audience jump by faking out a character with a cheap scare.

Why? To look cool.

Some normal person intended for GREATNESS! For he is the chosen one!

Lucifer in Sam's body wearing a white suit. Mark Pellegrino (Jacob in Lost) also plays Lucifer. Demons regularly steal the show as well: Mark Sheppard (as Crowly) and Fredric Lehne (as Azazel) are great examples.

John Winchester tells something about Sam in Dean's ear.

Standing in front of the mirror, shaving, doing your hair, your makeup, or whatever else, nothing bad can happen to you right? Yeah, everything's fine, lemme just close that mirror and OHGODWHOISTHATSTANDINGBEHINDMEGAAAK!!

In which a psychic or fortune teller, who often looks like a fraud, actually knows more about who or what is going on than anyone in the movie. They give often unsolicited advice that the main character only comes to understand later is the key to all their problems.

In an effort to prove that they aren't chauvinist pigs, directors of action movies often include exaggeratedly masculine - yet still pretty - women in their team of heroes. Examples include Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2 and Jenette Goldstein in Aliens. See: Michelle Rodriguez's entire career. DOES-NOT-INCLUDE-MOVIES-WHERE-A-CENTRAL-AND-NEEDED-CHARACTER-IS-A-TOUGH-LADY-(such-as-Aliens-or-The-Hunger-Games)

A troublesome relationship between parents and their children which must be dealt with for the character to move on or have closure

Wanna make your vampire movie "edgy" and "cool?" Add a wrinkly forehead appliance and weird nose to your vampire to make it look more ferocious. Hooray for Count Orlok!

Some "good" vampires choose not to feed on humans, instead finding other sources of blood to nourish themselves with.

We've all seen it. The Villain just wants a friend.