What are some cliches in Twilight?

Question

Like busy as a bee, cold as ice, jet-black, or even plot or character cliches. I know there are a lot throughout the series, but I don't even have the books with me to pick them out.

I'm doing an opinion article about Twilight, and one of my paragraphs will speak about cliches.

Answer 1

Umm.....gosh, there are a lot.

Emmett and Rosalie are walking jock/blonde cliches.

Bella: my cheeks were red as tomatoes. (not an exact quote)

Bella is a cliche, mary-sue character

Numerous times, Bella refers to Edward as rock hard and ice cold. "Like a statue."

The cliched happily ever after ending.

Clumsy girl falls for hot guy and, miracle of all miracles, he has secretly loved her too.

Bella's "I'm not smart or pretty or talented" attitude.

Charlie's character. He's just the typical parent cliche.

The fact that Edward is apparently smart, hot, talented, sensitive, and the perfect guy.

The damsel in distress thing with the evil vampire.

The Cullens happening to be good vampires.

Answer 2

There a alot but I'm just going to name some verb and adjectives.

Snarled, tinkling, (or musical laughs) growled, hissed, just to name a few.

Dazzling, gorgeous, (oh, the scent of him!) god-like. These are all off the top of my head. Here are some character cliches:

Edward - the "perfect" bf (yeah, there's just the minor problem of him being a huge domestic abuser)

Bella - the girl "every" girl is supposed to relate to. Clumsy, average, but incredibly luck. (if I had half Bella's luck in getting bfs, I'd be miserable. "<shriek>Edward, get the h**l out of my bedroom!"

Alice - the perfect best friend and sister, always friendly and perky, beautiful, always ready to make you up and give you clothes. (What Meyer fails to mention is that's she's incredibly pushy. I mean, kidnapping your bff just cuz your brother is worried?)

There's loads more but I'm lazy.

LuthienT

PS Aki, when are you going to post this? Will you send it to me?

Answer 3

How about the average girl meeting the popular, handsome boy and they fall in love with the handsome boy so smitten with her he doesn't notice anyone else or anything else when he's around her?

Damsel-in-distress is enough to show what big cliches Twilight is hiding. Prince Charming is always around the corner to help her when she falls.

Tomato-red for when she blushes.

New girl in town has the attention of everyone--happens in every story with a new girl.

How about Edward and Bella being so smitten with each other they can't notice their faults?

The best friend falling for a girl (his best friend) without her liking him back.

Charlie being a stupid, clueless dad just because he hasn't been in her life.

The immature, selfish mother who had a child when she was really young, had fallen for a guy, got hitched quickly and then divorced because they realized marriage wasn't all wedding cakes and bouquets.

How about all of the clueless townsfolk. None of them have any idea who the Cullens really are.

The dark and mysterious vampires who are so attractive because of their enigmatic quality.

A big one: the "average" girl who doesn't realize how beautiful she is no matter how much she's told she is.

The jealous girls and the boys who want to get with her. (Jessica, Mike, Eric etc.)

How about how she describes Edward's eyes as Topaz all the time? That's very cliche to use jewels to describe someone's eyes.

Alice being the quirky little girl that no one understands. Jasper being the quiet guy in the background who falls into temptation (bloodlust) easily and has some of his own "secrets".

Of course, how can we forget the fact that Edward has powers and that those powers don't work on Bella, who just happens to be the girl he falls for? It happens in every book. The powers don't work on the person so they try to "learn" more about them and "inadvertently" fall for the person.

How about in the beginning where Edward hates Bella and then he falls for her? Very cliche.

That's all I can really think of right now.

Answer 4

The most cliche thing I came across and it just drove me crazy, was how she was so clumsy and was always falling/getting hurt and nauseous and sick to her stomach.  Pa-leez!  I was so waiting for someone to say she had "the vapors!"  *LOL*  Oh her being the "delicate creature" is also cliche.

Answer 5

CHARACTER CLICHES

bella is the stereotypical damsel in distress, which has been mentioned. she has no capability of taking care of herself, and continues the long tradition of damsels in distress from snow white to andromeda.

edward is the 'perfect man' who is gorgeous, witty, and oh, also happens to thirst for human blood. his apparent 'lack' of flaws are part of what makes him so annoying. or maybe it's just that he's so ****ing smug all the time...

jacob is kind of the boy next door, the guy that's so obviously in love with the 'heroine' that you want to smack her upside the head for being so thick as to not notice.

emmet- strong, hot jock

rosalie- blond, gorgeous, queen bee type

charlie- dense parent

alice- alice is kind of an oxymoron. i imagine her as a goth/punk, but she's too ****ing cheerful. i'd say poser goth.

PLOT CLICHES

the heroine just can't live without a superhot boytoy to lean on, whether it be hairy or unnaturally cold

everything always turns out happily for bella (oh yeah, i forgot to mention that she's a glaring mary-sue, as are half the other characters), while her enemies are mostly vanquished with little or no bad consequences

true love ALWAYS will prevail

human loves non-human

yadda yadda yadda...

*celebrindal*

Answer 6

Some of the deeper cliches in the series include the "normal girl falls in love with prince charming," the "helpless, damsel-in-distress falls in love with a monster," the "love triangle," the idea of "love conquers everything (who said you need a boyfriend to be happy?)," and much more.

The reason there are many cliches in these books, I think, is because the author modeled her books after others