5. Movies Influencing Comics
This is probably the newest cliché that exists in comics today, but one that has already been overdone and is incredibly predictable. "X-men" in 2000 was a huge turning point for comics. Even though comic book movies had been released in the past, this is really what kicked off comic book movies as their own genre. Marvel then decided to change up their X-men roster at the time to reflect the characters in the film. The idea is simple, the X-men were introduced to a wider audience with the film and Marvel wanted to bring in new readers. Fine. It's glaringly obvious when this happens, but it's understandable. The trick is to know when to not overdo it. There's a tendency to relaunch comics with a new issue #1. Iron Man did it in 2008 and Spider-Man is going to be doing it this April. Another example is having the antagonist of a film to suddenly become the villain for an arc in the comics around the time of the movies release. These again, are understandable. But then it starts to get silly. My favorite recent example is War Machine. The comic book War Machine became Iron Patriot, just like in "Iron Man 3". What? It doesn't make any sense within the canon of the comics. Would anybody find Norman Osborn's old armor patriotic? Probably not. Dialogue from movies can be really overused too. Following the success of "The Avengers", Black Widow kept on bringing up how she has "red in her ledger". That line was used in multiple comics over a very short period of time. The line loses its power if everyone keeps using it. And it's just lazy writing. They deserve 12% credit for originality.