It's funny . . . maybe I read the "wrong" stuff most of the time, but . . . it's like I instinctively know this is a horribly cliche story line, but I can't actually offhand think of any other examples of it. Normally to become cliche something has to actually be done a bunch, but I guess some things just scream out an inherent cliche-ness.
. . . Hang on, I guess the new Star Wars trilogy is basically one of these.