Clichés by themselves are not a huge problem. Barring a few pathbreaking creators, most makers work with templates. A lot of creative story-telling works with long-standing traditions often telling the same stories. Practically everybody is attempting to flesh out the skeleton they've chosen and breathe life into it. Some end up being God. Some, Frankenstein. But that has its own merits. The sorry ones are the those who hand you over a bag of bones. It can be gross.
Here's a sundry list of things that feature in Pandaga Chesko - appended to each item are some other examples em....