10 Movie Cliches Everybody Hates

6. Everybody Is Related To Everybody Else

Family may or may not be the most important thing there is, but Hollywood is absolutely obsessed with creating eye-rollingly incestuous character dynamics in most of its flagship franchises.

Sure, it felt fresh in The Empire Strikes Back to have Darth Vader be revealed as Luke Skywalker's (Mark Hamill) daddy, but movies have recycled this plot twist so aggressively over the years that making the antagonist the hero's parent/sibling/cousin twice removed is more embarrassing than shocking these days.

In the last year alone Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald revealed in its cliffhanger ending that Credence Barebone (Ezra Miller) was actually Dumbledore's (Jude Law) secret brother, while Mortal Engines made the comically awful, ludicrously predictable reveal that Hugo Weaving's baddie was the protagonist's dad all along.

And if it's not villainy, then Hollywood is trying to conjure up convoluted familial relationships between heroic characters, encouraged by fans who desperately desire everything to be linked together, logic be-damned.

That's why Star Wars: The Last Jedi was so damn satisfying in dismissing all of the fan theories regarding Rey's (Daisy Ridley) parentage, with Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) insisting that she's nothing more than a junker's daughter. Fingers crossed J.J. Abrams doesn't go all gooey on us and retcon it, though.