10 Movies That BRILLIANTLY Avoided Huge Cliches

10. K ISN'T The Chosen One - Blade Runner 2049

From fairly early on in Blade Runner 2049, it seems like it's going to do the incredibly boring and obvious "legacy sequel" thing of making the new protagonist, replicant K (Ryan Gosling), the child of prior protagonist Deckard (Harrison Ford) and his lover Rachael (Sean Young).

And if K were indeed the first child of a human and replicant, it would basically make him an extremely important Chosen One-like figure in the resistance movement for replicant freedom.

But in the third act, K learns that Deckard and Rachael's child is female, and more to the point, they're a relatively minor character who appears only briefly earlier in the story - Dr. Ana Stelline (Carla Juri).

This was a fantastic subversion of expectations, leading audiences to expect another generic everything-is-connected hero's journey, only to reveal that K isn't The Special, but can still make a difference and have agency through his own actions - not merely because of who his parents are. 

How refreshing in a Hollywood landscape dominated by belated sequels that are hopelessly obsessed with creating sappy, convoluted familial links between new characters and old.