List the most common plot on most anime series?

[OniCourseMusha]

I love coming up good story plots from my characters I create.  But I would like to know list  the most common plot whether it's a side story or filler arc u think there are on most animes out there.

So far

Hot Spring

Action Anime:
Forfill someone else
Revenge
Journey to find a certain thing
Tournament

I'll post more

[drallcome]

Nerdy boy falls in love with hot chick / robot / cat girl / schoolgirl / maid / UBS device/ ect...

Saveing the world

Love triangles

School girls

Tokyo Tower

Fights at Tokyo tower

Distruction of Tokyo and or Tokyo Tower.. lol

[gmontem]

- Some weak-looking dude with hidden powers
- 13th episode recap

Nerdy boy falls in love with hot chick / robot / cat girl / schoolgirl / maid / UBS device/ ect...

From that I would like to add

- Hot chick falls in love with originally despised nerdy boy.
- Female android/alien/non-human falls in love with nerdy boy

[Absolute0]

-Prophecies.
-Tentacles for all you hentai watchers...

That is all.

[gmontem]

Ugly-looking townspeople will always betray the group.

[Darryl Mendoza]

A nerdy guy trying to get a date with the popular hot chick, gets refused and made fun of, then another hot chick hangs out/lives with him, and the popular hot chick gets jealous and falls for him, and then out of nowhere she pops out to try to get him.

Big fighting robots, space/battle ships, or just regular people kung-fu fighting, mysterys (like Conan, some parts of Steam Detective, and some parts of Master Keaton), and lots of others.

I hope I was help to you, OniCourseMusha

[drallcome]

One guy in a huge house / temple with lots of girls and he so stupid he doent get any action with any of them, but all the girls still want him.

Hell, just watch excel saga. It has everything any anime has.

[Sunara Ishi]

Distruction of Tokyo and or Tokyo Tower.. lol

Revive, repeat, destroy, revive, repeat, etc etc. How many time must it be destroyed before it learns????

Common plots... lets see.... how bout:

Ordinary person receives some great power and must save the world from badguys.

Does that work? O.o?

[swordofthebezerk]

Starts off with a normal character with a strong will and a specific special trait and ends up him honing it to an amazing potential and or upgrading him/herself to the max and defeating every foe in the process.

[Darryl Mendoza]

I forgot... A character who kicks ass and is a good guy, but then turns evil, but still kicks ass. Kinda like Gouki/Akuma whatever you call him.

[OniCourseMusha]

Harem:
A girl gets a love letter from a popular guy. And at the end the girl rejects him cuz she has feeling for the main character.

Beach where every girl shows off there bikiniwear.

Pretending to go out wit a girl because to shoo off a stalker or random person.

[sheikfreak]

a romantic or action-packed story that includes one or all of the following:

hot springs
watermelons on the beach
exploding chibis
pervy old men
mysterious strangers

Sorry...I didn't get enough sleep to be more inspired or original than that :?

[G.I.R]

1.   A boy, and his robot / mecha.
2.   Girl(s) that transform to "Magic Girl(s)", with optional anthropomorphic side-kick.
3.   The "My girlfriend is an alien" scenario.
4.   Kid aquires device that releases a creature to do battle, or even save the world.
5.   One word: MAIDS!

[LastElixir]

-Very average boy going to a very average school. Bam! something happens and hes in a effed up mess and wants to solve it but only have very average ideas. Usually involving a very cute/hot girl gets with super natural powers. Also involves another female protagonist thats usually the main character's childhood friend, creating some odd love triangle.

This doesnt necessarily make the series bad, but it feels like every school related fantasy starts off like this.

[OniCourseMusha]

The girl character becomes an idol singer episode are pretty common.

[mDuo13]

mDuo13's Clichénime Scale. (Inspired by Lord Raglan's Hero Scale)
Mark 1 point in the blank if the statement is true of the anime, then total them up. A perfect score would be 32 points.

_ Boy is training/working/studying and living alone.
_ A severely underdressed girl
_ meets him under supernatural circumstances (such as falling out of the sky)
_ and he takes her home, or, she follows him home.
_ They begin to fall in love.
_ Pretty soon her crazy sisters or other acquaintances show up to bother her, and end up living with them.
_ because she is an alien princess, a prototype robot model, or something similar.
_ Demons, thugs, or other baddies show up to capture her,
_ and she fights back with her special powers,
_ but the boy ends up saving her from them.
_ All of the girls fall in love with the boy,
_ even the girl(s) who are significantly younger than him.
_ When they are not dealing with schoolwork,  
_ they are doing chores & cooking,
_ attending summer festivals,
_ and going to the beach,
_ and hot springs,
_ where they will fuss over confessing their love,
_ the girls will fight over him,
_ and then eventually they will be attacked by demons anyway.
_ She is kidnapped by a very powerful evil force,
_ but he discovers his own hidden powers,
_ and with everyone working together (maybe a song is involved)
_ they defeat the evil.
_ Finally, the first girl finds out that she has to leave permanently.
_ This causes the boy to become emo,
_ even though they have wiped his memories so he has no idea why.
_ Eventually, he regains his memories, also realizing that
_ he had also met her as a young child.
_ Finally the girl returns to him, and
_ they embrace, confessing their love for each other,
_ and shortly thereafter, all the other weird girls return.

[zoupzuop2]

Robots, scantily-clad and VERY easy girls, some sorta animal sidekick, panties, bulging muscles, energy balls and beams, and the world exploding.
No real PLOT, but that's the stereotype.

[mDuo13]

By the way, some results from my scale:

As scored by me:
Oh My Goddess (manga, movie, and OVA combined): 26/32
Mahoromatic: 20/32
Shuffle!: 23/32
Midori Days: 11/32

As scored by Loktera:
Tenchi Muyo! (based on the TV series): 28/32

Note that you have to make some allowances for Tenchi and OMG because they started some of these cliches.

[Spiritsnare]

We need a cliché anime drinking game based on mDuo13's scale...XD

[mDuo13]

We need a cliché anime drinking game based on mDuo13's scale...XD

You, my friend, are a fscking GENIOUS.

Now, I need to ask some of my friends from the old high school anime club if they can find some of the true clichénime they showed. Some of it was so bad that they covered half these points in the first EPISODE.