Alright. I just want to comment on a few things.

First off...

What is a "Dead Unicorn Trope"

If a "Dead Horse Trope", a trope that has become so overused that parodying it has become a trope of its own, wasn't really a trope to begin with, it is considered a "Dead Unicorn Trope" instead, since it's a combination of unicorns never existing to begin with, unicorns being described as horses with single horns on their heads, and the whole "beating a dead horse" figurative saying.

[warn='WARNING']Your Mileage WILL likely vary.[/warn]

Cloud Leonhart Syndrome

The stereotype of the typical JRPG protagonist as being an angsty, spikey-haired teenager swinging a sword with its own zip code.

I've seen this one mentioned and discussed so many times in so many places. "Cloud Leonhart Syndrome", as I call it, has some truth to it. There are JRPGs that feature an angsty, spiky haired teenage boy wielding a BFS. the point is, not too many that feature all of those in the same character, or even in the same game.

• Chrono from Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross fits the spiky haired teenager, but we don't know his personality because he never talks, and he doesn't wield a sword that needs its own zip code.
  
• Final Fantasy VI's main character doesn't even use a sword at all, and she obviously doesn't have spiky hair.
  
• Although it's usually defined as a strategy game rather than an RPG, Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragons and the Blade of Light lacks the angsty, spiky haired, and BFS parts. The later games add spiky hair, and both Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn add the BFS part in place of the teenage part.
  
• Super Mario RPG is essentially a JRPG, even if it is nowhere near as complex or high-stats as the typical representatives of the sub-genre...
  
• Even Final Fantasy VII's Cloud Strife, the stereotype definer, doesn't fully fit the part. He has the spiky hair, the angst, and the BFS, so what's missing? Little observed fact - Cloud is 21. Definitely not a teenage boy. More like a young man. And yes, I actually defended Cloud rather than kicking more dust in his face for a change. No, I am not pulling a FaceHeelTurn...
  

Basically, if you want to assume a game features an overused cliche simply due to its genre, first find out whether the cliche even is a cliche at all, or just a poorly thought-out stereotype.

Here be Dragons:

There was only one map that actually had this written on it - the Lenox Globe (from the 1500s). It was written in southeast Asia and likely refereed to the Komodo dragon, the largest of the Monitor Lizards. There's not much else to say, it just caught my eye.

"Zombie think brains are delicious!":

It wasn't until Return of the living Dead that this actually was used. Yes, fictional zombies eat human flesh, and the only way to kill said fictional zombie is to shoot its brains out, but where they got the idea that zombies specifically require human brains is anyone's guess.

• Zombies originally weren't undead either. Voodoo Witchdoctors would use natural chemical compounds available to them to inhibit the higher brain function of a victim, turning said victim into a zombie.
  
• Contrary to pop-culture, a zombie virus as seen in so many movies and video games would not actually work. There's a reason why we have skin, and it's not because it's a canvas for ink.
  
• Then there's the headcrab zombie from Half Life and Half Life 2. I don't think anyone can survive having their chest and ribcage torn open either, and yet EVERY zombie in the Half Life series either has no skin or their ribcage torn open.
  
• Ironically, the above examples defy "Zombie think brains are delicious!". I guess you can't really have your cake and eat it too...