A cliche that always drives me nuts...

Hmm. I've never had that problem while choking someone.

Oh look another Stygiannati Stooge.

In the movies I watch where people are being choked there is always a happy ending.

If they're choking someone in a complete rage, their perception of what's going on around them may be a bit clouded.

You know what's awesome? The Mythbusters actually busted some of these cliches! I'll list as many as I can remember here:

- cars do not always blow up when they tumble to the bottom of a cliff
- punching someone in the face doesn't actually sound like it does in the movies; in fact, it actually sounds a lot like a severe slap
- if you have a trail of gunpowder behind you, the flame will not follow it to the barrel you foolishly left at the end of the trail
- the only way you're gonna be able to fire a gun and have it actually hit the target, is to hold it the way they show you at the shooting range; (however, I do think holding the gun up to someone's body and firing to injure or kill them would still work, but how often are you gonna get close enough for that?)
- if you push an inflated life raft out of an airplane, chances are, the plane's gonna crash before you're done, because a real one is almost too big to get out the door. Even worse, it will flip over and dump you out unless you lash yourself to it and treat it like an actual parachute.
- trying to shoot the gun out of someone's hand is gonna injure their hand, even if you truly are a great shot and just hit the gun with the bullet
- running along a collapsing rope bridge when there's an explosion behind you will not work. Chances are higher that you will fall with the bridge before you can react at all to the explosion
- you absolutely cannot jump on falling debris and "climb" your way up while falling through a great chasm to get out. It just doesn't work, sorry.
- there's no such thing as a mechanism you can fire into the ceiling or nearest building, have it anchor properly before you hit the ground, and pull you up. Sorry Batman. Same goes for your car's grappling hook.
- punching the front hood of a vehicle with a stone fist is not gonna make it do a gymnastics move where the car flips over your head and lands perfectly behind you on its wheels - sorry Hellboy
- you really should not sit on the toilet for 12 hours before asking for help; it will cut off your circulation after just 1 hour, and you risk losing your legs

I have more, but those are what I can remember at this time.

The most common cliche that drove me nuts was, everybody knows martial arts. EVERYBODY! It's ridiculous! And often there is no explanation for that. I've been in karate classes, it is not as easy as it looks, trust me.

In line with that, I find it ridiculous when I see people just know how to do heroic things, without anyone teaching them. They just "know by instinct." It's very bad writing and makes it seem like the character was using the script like a crutch.

I actually haven't seen this cliche very often, but movies where the hero is pining for this one girl, and totally ignoring some better options right in front of him, and still ends up with the snotty, high-maintenance bitch the script told him to end up with....it's one reason I hate films like that.

I also can't stand films where they make the protagonist look stupid. It's one thing to have a few laughs in a comedy, but when the list of embarrassing moments get up to the ridiculous levels, it's not that funny anymore; and belittles the main character overall, like he's some big joke the universe is playing insidious pranks on for cheap laughs.

Sith Lords don't seem to have this problem when they 'Force choke' someone.

The worst is when they are being suffocated with a plastic bag and claw at the attacker instead of ripping a hole in the bag 🙄