8 Sci-Fi Clichés That Need To Calm Down

4. Psychopaths Are Easily Cured By A Dose Of Good Luvin€™

You know the drill: A person, usually a sexy lady (bonus points if it's a sexy Crayola lady), is taken by the Bad Guys at a young age and "turned intoa weapon".

She is then invariably sent to kill our hero with some badass high kicks.

The thing is about raising a psychopath, is that it's not the kind of thing you can just switch off.

However, the hero and our sexy psychopath will probably get a little bit of downtimeto have a good heart-to-heart at some point, during which she will reveal her harrowing past and the horrific things that were done to her by her cruel masters to turn her into killing machine.

"Not to worry", says the hero "I'm going to kiss you, maybe goof around a bit first, and you will be magically un-psychopathed", cue the inevitable heel-turn of the Crayola psychopath as they are brought over to the good side.

Now it could just be that most evil overlords are so bad at training their living weapons that they will simply snap out of itmid missionusually at thecruciallyopportune moment,but it's hard to believe that a lifetime of training can be overridden by a flutter of the eyelashes.