8 Sci-Fi Clichés That Need To Calm Down

2. High Powered Characters Using PowerSparingly

Superpowers are basically god's gift to writers everywhere. Written yourself into a corner? Just get one of your characters to briefly turn on god mode and you can get yourself out of anything.

This produces it's own problems, however, as turning on your Go-Go-Gadget-Plot-Device basically removes any peril from any storyline.

So you know how Groot can murder an entire corridor of guards in one fell swoop, Deadpool cansurvive a nuclear blast and Thor isliterally a god? Well it's be a pretty fricking short film if they were allowed free reign with their powers.

If Superman can lift a train, then punching a bad guy in the head should by all rights reduce said head to red mist.

To combat this, most overpowered characters are given some kind of handicap, whether it is self-imposed for moral reason, or literally Kryptonite. They might also just be some kind of Trickster character who doesn't care how powerful they are.

Either that, or they're just kept out of things altogether in order to preserve the storyline, like Superman's reluctance to show Batman up by cleaning up Gotham's streets over night.