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Top 10 Common Cartoon Cliches

Created by Heather Murphy Staff · May 2024 · Updated Jun 2025

Top 10 Common Cartoon Cliches: 35 items ranked by popular vote. Browse more in Animated.

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Characters impersonating other actors or characters

Characters impersonating other actors or characters

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The good guy never gets hurt

The good guy never gets hurt

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Satire and cultural references

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The damsel in distress

The damsel in distress

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Villains with dumb henchmen

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Bad guys always lose

Bad guys always lose

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Cat and mouse chases

Cat and mouse chases

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Traps and weapons backfiring on the bad guys

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Parents never around

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Characters wearing the same clothes every day

Characters wearing the same clothes every day

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The dumbass dad and the mom too good for him

The dumbass dad and the mom too good for him

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Greedy characters

Greedy characters

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Innocent characters who immediately become targets for abuse

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Characters walking off the edge and not falling down immediately

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Villains boasting about how evil they are

Villains boasting about how evil they are

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Main character always has a crush on a Latin-American character

Main character always has a crush on a Latin-American character

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Teenage girls who secretly fight crime

Teenage girls who secretly fight crime

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Angry mobs

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There's always a Christmas special

There's always a Christmas special

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Character has only four fingers

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Getting hit by an anvil and not dying

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Talking dogs

Talking dogs

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Villains with an "evil laugh"

Villains with an "evil laugh"

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Characters with faces never shown

Characters with faces never shown

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Kids being smarter than adults

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Good guys vs. bad guys

Good guys vs. bad guys

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Boy characters disguised as ladies

Boy characters disguised as ladies

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That dumb character

That dumb character

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Character gets rolled into a giant snowball

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Always a dumb blonde

Always a dumb blonde

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Character becomes a werewolf when the moon shows

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Celebrities popping out of nowhere

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The bullies are cheerleaders

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One-dimensional villains

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Plot solved at the end of the episode

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