ITT stale cliches

> It's "The party meets a young rebelious noblewoman, who ran away from her family, because they wanted her to marry an old man" episode.
I've seen this so often, and literally never any of my DMs put any clever twist or variation into it. What are other things that your DMs pull again and again?

I'm sort of surprised it's never the other way around. I mean, how many dudes would freak and run if they found out their wife to be was some bitchy old hag?
>Inb4 fertility
It would still be creepy as shit. Hell, the fact that she's desperate due to biological clock would make things worse, in my opinion. Especially if she uses magic to hide her true appearance and he saw through it.

>how many dudes would freak and run
But that's the thing, they don't need to run away to get away. Historically a man was perfectly justified spending his entire life on military campaigns. The woman was generally stuck in the house - unless she ran away.
With equal genders in RPGs this explanation wouldn't work anymore of course.

Well, actually, young men specifically seeking out old, rich widows and marrying them used to be a common thing and was a common trope in literature too - because when their wives die, they get all of their money and estate for themselves.
Never seen it in tabletop, however.

I can see it now.
>Why is your PC fighting in the war?
"Well, he was betrothed to this noble widow because his family needed the money. They told him she was a nice woman."
>Yes, and?
"And then he met her. So he picked up the draft as soon as he could, hoping to outlive her."

>stale cliches
The evil guy did it.

the party take turns fucking her face and arse before cleaning her up and returning her to the old guy for the reward.
see also: older white women in turkey or africa.

Hell, even Muhammad married an older rich widow as his first wife.

>"The party meets a rebellious young princess, who ran away from the imperial throne, because they wanted her to marry a crossdressing shota trap kitsune prince."

How would your party resolve this?

I don't mind it as a PC origin story, since at least that gives the character room to grow into more than "runaway noble girl".