Mainly dealing with console RPG cliches, since they're the easiest, but anything will do!

I found this list somewhere, I'll post a few of my favorites.

- RPG characters with two living parents are almost unheard of. As a general rule, male characters will only have a mother, and female characters will only have a father. The missing parent either vanished mysteriously and traumatically several years ago or is never referred to at all. Frequently the main character's surviving parent will also meet an awkward end just after the story begins, thus freeing him of inconvenient filial obligations.

- No matter what she's accused of doing or how mysterious her origins are, the hero will always be ready to fight to the death for any girl he met three seconds ago.

- The hero's home town, city, slum, or planet will usually be annihilated in a spectacular fashion before the end of the game, and often before the end of the opening scene.

- If the male hero has an older sibling, the sibling will also be male and will turn out to be one of the major villains. If the hero has a younger sibling, the sibling will be female and will be kidnapped and held hostage by the villains.

- All legends are 100% accurate. All rumors are entirely factual. All prophecies will come true, and not just someday but almost immediately.

- No matter what happens, never call on the government, the church, or any other massive controlling authority for help. They'll just send a brigade of soldiers to burn your entire village to the ground.

- A "free stay at the inn" is never really free. Expect to be woken up in the middle of the night for a mandatory plot event.

- Any advisor of a major ruler has been scheming after his throne for quite a while. Thanks to the miracle of timing, you will arrive at the king's inner sanctum just in time for the coup.

- Anything that appears cute and cuddly will instantly obliterate your entire party.

Well, the only rpg game which I found like that is Final Fantasy. The rest, nope.

And Chrono Trigger.

Phantasy star does correspond with somethings you put there...

Oh yeah! Phantasy Star does to!

- No matter what she's accused of doing or how mysterious her origins are, the hero will always be ready to fight to the death for any girl he met three seconds ago.



i like that one

You got that right...

devil may cry. though not an rpg it also happens there as well... (though dante and vergil are twins but one could say that vergil was born first making him the older of the 2 twins...)