Rivals to lovers. Found family. Mutual Pining. An unfortunate circumstance that requires two people to share a single twin-sized bed.

You know them,Walker (2025) you love them — clichés. Even if you claim that you hate overused, blatantly obvious tropes in fiction, they're there for a reason: We keep coming back for more.

For me, it's fake dating. "Oh no, please I have to go to my ex's wedding, will you just pretend to be my partner for a week so no one clowns me for being single?," the character asks a friend. And, fool that I am, I think to myself, "Oh no, what if they... slowly fall in love with each other, but still pretend that the relationship is fake? What will they do?"

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There's absolutely zero surprise when they get together in the end, every single time. Yet I hop along for the ride, every single time. It's about the journey, not the destination. And boy do these clichés take us for a rollercoaster of emotions. Here are the best memes about tropes that make you weak (and don't lie, you all have at least one. You know the one.)

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The meme has also sparked communal responses, with everyone dropping their favorite examples of clichés from Netflix shows, anime, video games, and more. The original post even got a shoutout from the Twitter of Amazon Prime's Good Omens, promoting their own show's (excellent) grump/sunshine trope.

If you want to see a visual representation of a lot of these beautiful, repetitive, cyclical, and beloved tropes, artists on Twitter had their own challenge a few months back, drawing their favorites, too.

So embrace them fully. After all, you never know when they might be subverted.


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