diff --git a/src/analyze/flavors/custom-element/exclude-node.ts b/src/analyze/flavors/custom-element/exclude-node.ts
index 9b455931..369e36f0 100644
--- a/src/analyze/flavors/custom-element/exclude-node.ts
+++ b/src/analyze/flavors/custom-element/exclude-node.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import { Node } from "typescript";
 import { AnalyzerVisitContext } from "../../analyzer-visit-context";
+import { getNodeName } from "../../util/ast-util";
 
 /**
  * Excludes nodes from "lib.dom.d.ts" if analyzeLibDom is false
@@ -11,6 +12,12 @@ export function excludeNode(node: Node, context: AnalyzerVisitContext): boolean
 		return undefined;
 	}
 
+	// Exclude polymer element related super classes
+	const declName = getNodeName(node, context);
+	if (declName === "PolymerElement") {
+		return true;
+	}
+
 	return isLibDom(node);
 }
 
diff --git a/src/cli/analyzer-cli-config.ts b/src/cli/analyzer-cli-config.ts
index 9b8012da..36030e5c 100644
--- a/src/cli/analyzer-cli-config.ts
+++ b/src/cli/analyzer-cli-config.ts
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ export interface AnalyzerCliConfig {
 	analyzeDependencies?: boolean;
 	analyzeDefaultLibrary?: boolean;
 	discoverNodeModules?: boolean;
+	excludeClasses: string;
 
 	markdown?: {
 		headerLevel?: number;
diff --git a/src/cli/cli.ts b/src/cli/cli.ts
index 46635e4f..704ceb7b 100644
--- a/src/cli/cli.ts
+++ b/src/cli/cli.ts
@@ -84,6 +84,10 @@ o {tagname}: The element's tag name`,
 			boolean: true,
 			alias: "d"
 		})
+		.option("excludeClasses", {
+			describe: `List of classes to exclude from parsing, separated by commas`,
+			string: true
+		})
 		.option("verbose", {
 			boolean: true,
 			hidden: true
diff --git a/src/cli/util/analyze-globs.ts b/src/cli/util/analyze-globs.ts
index b3e672ed..8d589a49 100644
--- a/src/cli/util/analyze-globs.ts
+++ b/src/cli/util/analyze-globs.ts
@@ -47,6 +47,12 @@ export async function analyzeGlobs(
 	// Parse all the files with typescript
 	const { program, files } = compileTypescript(filePaths);
 
+	// Index excluded classes
+	const excludedDeclarationNames: string[] = [];
+	if (config.excludeClasses) {
+		excludedDeclarationNames.push(...config.excludeClasses.split(",").map(s => s.trim()));
+	}
+
 	// Analyze each file with web component analyzer
 	const results: AnalyzerResult[] = [];
 	for (const file of files) {
@@ -60,7 +66,8 @@ export async function analyzeGlobs(
 				analyzeDependencies: config.analyzeDependencies,
 				analyzeDefaultLib: config.analyzeDefaultLibrary,
 				analyzeGlobalFeatures: config.analyzeGlobalFeatures,
-				analyzeAllDeclarations: config.format == "json2" // TODO: find a better way to construct the config
+				analyzeAllDeclarations: config.format == "json2", // TODO: find a better way to construct the config
+				excludedDeclarationNames: excludedDeclarationNames
 			}
 		});