So you've read Get Started, explored the Multiverses mythology, and are well on your way to joining in. Well done! But it is recommended that, before you create anything, you have a good look at this list.
A cliche can be defined as- An idea so often used that its original power has been drained away.
We strive for the cool, original, and plausible.
Animal Cliches[]
- Earth animals, except differently coloured
- Earth animals, except swapped places (massive carnivore rats and tiny weed-eating lions, say)
- Earth animals, except with antennae
- Earth animals, except with mental powers
- Earth animals, except with more eyes/heads/arms
- Aliens so close to humans that you could mistake them if them simply turned away
- Aliens like humans, except with different colour blood/eyes/skin
- Humans with tentacles
- Furries
- Dinosaur people, with human hands and faces and everything
- Aliens which all look like attractive women
- Walking squid/octopodes(or octopus or whatever)/cuttlefish/true fish
- An ecosystem without predators (The Cambrian Explosion was partly caused by the evolution of predation)
- Giant versions of Earth animals
- Little green men
- Aliens with many arms, just for the heck of it
- Non-technological aliens who suffer from no diseases
- Aliens who heal visibly
- Small aliens who are really really strong, just for the heck of it
- Aliens which explode when you shoot them
- Purely biological aliens which fly through space
- The above always have fins, flippers, and etc.
- Animals and aliens from other fanons (e.g movies, TV shows, etc.)
Planet Cliches[]
- Planets which don't orbit a star
- Planets which share atmospheres with another planets
- Planets with only one biome
- Planets with enormous 'ion storms' around them
- Planets which are entirely covered in city
- Planets with technicolour skies
- Planets with excessive numbers of moons
- Planets where there are floating rocks
- Planets which are covered in ancient crater and have a breathable atmosphere
Sapient Cliches[]
- (All the alien cliches, plus)
- Aliens which have advanced beyond the need to eat, drink, procreate etc. without any signs of changes
- A race where every individual has the same personality, ideas, etc.
- A race with only one culture
- A race where all individuals have the same job
- A race of aliens with an uncanny resemblance to fairies/elves/etc.
- Aliens who want to destroy everything for the heck of it
- Sapient nebulae
- Sapient rocks
- Sapient inorganic objects for the heck of it
Universe Cliches[]
- Universes with fluid instead of vacuum
- Universes which glow for the heck of it
- Universes which are handily manipulated to allow a certain scheme, with no other changes
- Universes in which every race is at war
- Universes where everything is exactly like stereotypical fantasy