Before I start, I would like to give a very special thanks to 1BadApple1 for suggesting I cover this fantasy cliché.  If you guys would like me to cover any clichés that personally bother you, please let me know in the comments.  I feel the fans are just as important as the material itself.

  The main character in any fictional work is possibly the most fragile aspect to work with.  Creating the main character in a relatable and flawed manner is the only way for the audience to truly get attached to them.  A character like Darren Shaw from the Circus du Freak book series works so great because we can relate to his dilemma of just wanting to be normal again after turning into a half vampire, despite the story being mainly focused on the supernatural.  Besides that, he is flawed by not always being in the right, such as his act in the second book of approaching multiple humans still very early into his transition despite his master's warnings.  Then there are the too perfect characters such as Bella Swan/ Cullen from the Twilight series that fails to become relatable from not acting human enough.  In fact, she becomes debatably a bad role model by the second book, New Moon, by almost killing herself in multiple stunts just to see an illusion of the boyfriend that broke up with her over five months ago.  Main characters need to be handled carefully if you wish for your fantasy book to succeed.

  So making the main character immune to whatever plague or virus is roaming around in the story is just asking for your book to be given a death sentence.  Not only is this cliché overused, especially in zombie-focused stories, but it takes away any relatable aspects they could have with the audience.  In order to win over the audience, the character needs to be in just as much danger as everyone else in the plot.  How would you feel if suddenly Rick Grimes from The Walking Dead graphic novels was immune to the zombie virus?  If the answer was annoyed or even angered, you realize just how bad this immunity cliché really can be on a character.

  Making the stakes the same for your central character is one of the many ways to write a great fantasy novel.  Without barriers in the main character's way, how are we as an audience supposed to root for them?