[Tobytwo]

If we're talking about fantasy, I agree with the above. Particularly tired are stories where the hero appears to be a nobody but is actually some sort of genetic inheritor to success.

Also tiresome are stories in which the hero is some sort of custom-built uber-soldier, or where evil women are all good looking but have questionable sexual interests. There are also some story concepts so cliched that it would take a genius to write them as anything other than comedy or utter pulp: sexy vampires, dragonriding, techno-undead Nazis, joining teh uber space commandos and learning D&D-style magic whilst wearing an oversize robe fall into this category. Not that they'd be automatically rubbish, but that you'd have to be very clever to make them anything more than ok.