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* ''Manga/TheKeeperWantsToBuildAZooInAnotherWorldSoHeTamesMonsters'': ZigZagged. As expected of a zoologist, Ikuhara is correct on several topics, like when he explains gynandromorphy or mimicry to Merou. However, he also talks about AlphaAndBetaWolves, which was debunked years ago (it could be true for {{hellhound}}s, but he should know it isn't for real wolves).

* Charles Darwin once famously pointed out that the way Laocoön's eyebrows bulge in ''Art/LaocoonAndHisSons'' is physiologically impossible.

** ComicBook/{{Batman}}'s physical capabilities are supposedly natural, without any artificial or supernatural enhancements, but his feats are greatly embellished. For example, he's able to bench press 1,000 lbs ''and'' fight for 28 hours straight. Even when Batman's feats are within the bounds of human achievement, they will clash with each other. The physiques required to be the best powerlifter, boxer and marathon runner are all completely different. Also consider that athletes who make record-setting achievements have carefully regulated their training for weeks or months beforehand to "peak" at just the right moment to perform. One cannot stay in a constant state of peak performance.

** Marvel officially lists [[Characters/MarvelComicsTheKingpin the Kingpin]] at 6'7" and 450 pounds, but he is frequently depicted as looking more like a refrigerator than a human being. He claims that only 2% of his body mass is fat; while that is physically possible for bodybuilders to achieve, with the build that he has it is certainly impossible. For real-life comparison, a sumo wrestler with 10% bodyfat would be extremely low, with most being closer to 30%. [[DependingOnTheArtist Sometimes]], he is depicted as a fairly realistic albeit very large person, but he's often drawn several feet taller than anyone around him, including ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} and ComicBook/SpiderMan (both of who are fairly average height). His hands in particular are frequently drawn as larger than Spidey's head or chest by a large margin. His feats of strength are certainly beyond what are humanly possible, even at Olympic weightlifter levels: he's been shown casually lifting, swinging and throwing objects that weigh hundreds of pounds with no apparent difficulty at all, as well as crushing thing like concrete with his bare hands.

* In ''Series/DiagnosisMurder'' episode [[Recap/DiagnosisMurderS6E11TrappedInParadise Trapped in Paradise]]", it's stated that 3 recent murder victims share 75% of their DNA, so they must be brothers. Full siblings have a 50% genetic similarity, not 75%. Anything higher is the result of in-family marriage, which the episode doesn't claim happened in this family.

* ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'': Pumas don't sound like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt8hwLlSyvo jaguars]]. In fact, they don't roar at all, but growl, hiss and make [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKw4OFAu1WM snarly near-human screams]].

* ''VideoGame/TheWitness'': Out of all the rooms inside the greenhouse, the one with green light is probably the most prominent: it provides the main difficulty for the elevator puzzle, it's harder to reach compared to the other rooms, it contains an audio log and an environmental puzzle, and it's the only one which can be seen from the outside. It's ironic that the green room was chosen to be this way, considering it's also ''the most unrealistic''. Chlorophyll absorbs light throughout the visible spectrum, but mostly in the blue and red regions and very little in the green region (in fact, of all the many pigments that plants use to absorb light, none of them absorb much green light).[[note]]This is actually a form of protection. The sun gives off the most amount of its energy as visible light in the green region of the spectrum (483-520 nm). Chlorophyll is easily destroyed by too much energy, and when the pigments break down and stop absorbing light entering the plant, that energy can cause damage to other plant tissues as well, including the plants DNA. Think of it as a sort of plant sunburn.[[/note]] Plants ''look'' green because they ''reflect'' green rather than use it.
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* ''VisualNovel/TheFruitOfGrisaia'': While cell memory similar to [[spoiler:Michiru's]] does exist, and the heart is certainly the most reliable organ to donate for it to happen, it doesn't actually transmit [[spoiler:an entire personality as a living consciousness with memories and all.]] Even if it did, it would [[spoiler:absolutely not co-exist with Michiru in the separate-but-equal state]] shown in the novell.

* ''Webcomic/GeorgeTheDragon'' has a sword fighting scene where the duelists have an improbable Darth Vader/Luke Skywalker moment. [[http://www.drunkduck.com/George_the_Dragon/index.php?p=502824 "Lobster, I am your Fish"]]

* SteelEarDrums: Nobody in fiction suffers permanent hearing damage from loud noises such as explosions, gunfire, or concert performances.

* Any work featuring humanoid and anthropomorphic animals would definitely qualify thanks to the endurance running hypothesis.

* ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes'' has apes develop human level intelligence remarkably fast, though this was possibly later retconned into being the result of a stable time lop. However that does not explain the mysterious plague that wiped out cats and dogs (thus causing apes to be kept as common pets) and ''only'' affected cats and dogs. A disease that could kill both species is hardly impossible, they are both mammals after all, but they are not particularly closely related (with their last common ancestor being 42 million years ago) so any disease that affected both species would almost certainly have affected many other mammals as well, quite possibly including humans and apes.

* ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes has apes develop human level intelligence remarkably fast, though this was possibly later retconned into being the result of a stable time lop. However that does not explain the mysterious plague that wiped out cats and dogs (thus causing apes to be kept as common pets) and ''only'' affected cats and dogs. A disease that could kill both species is hardly impossible, they are both mammals after all, but they are not particularly closely related (with their last common ancestor being 42 million years ago) so any disease that affected both species would almost certainly have affected many other mammals as well, quite possibly including humans and apes.

* One episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' that has blood type as a plot point ("Stranger") has a doctor first make the claim that a child of two parents with type A blood can only be type A, and then that a type A mother could not give birth to a type B child (the latter being to rule out the possibility of the child being a product of an affair). Apparently the doctor forgot that recessive O genes exist: if both parents have a recessive O gene, they have a 25% chance of having a child with type O blood[[note]]which is irrelevant in this case because the girl at the center of the case is type B, but the doctor is still making an incorrect statement when he says that if both parents are A, the child "can only be type A"[[/note]], and a type A mother with a recessive O gene and a type B or AB father ''could'' have a type B child if the child got a B gene from the father and an O from the mother.

** "What You See Is What You See": The femur being the strongest bone in the human body, there's no way Sheldon could've twisted it to make the lodged bullet fall out.
** "What Schemes May Come": A laboratory mouse is used to demonstrate how an apparently dead victim had been put into an experimental state of hibernation. The mouse is hooked up to a heart monitor, which can be heard slowing as it enters hibernation and then speeding up as it revives... but only to a (human) rate of ~75 beats per minute, rather than the ''500+'' beats per minute that would be typical for a mouse. A mouse with a human's heart rate would ''have'' to be in hibernation just to be alive.

*** While {{mutants}} are supposedly "[[EvolutionaryLevels the next step in human evolution]]", a claim which in and of itself shows a lack of understanding of the concept of evolution, absolutely ''none'' of their powers work without liberal use of the MST3KMantra. Also, the fact that ''one'' mutated gene [[MagicGenetics can apparently do so much]] and the constant claims that mutants are not humans show a clear misunderstanding of what the word "mutation" even means. The vast majority of mutants have absolutely ludicrous powers, {{hand wave}}d by [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien the Celestials]] inserting the x-gene in humanity millennia ago, known as the celestial seed.

* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10781990/1/the-man-with-two-souls the man with two souls]]'', a ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' fic, depicts Jaune's evil split personality as being physically stronger and more martially skilled than him. Despite sharing the same body.

* ''Fanfic/FullMetalDragon'' doesn't even have to start before this happens. Jake's mom had an affair while she was still pregnant with him. resulting in two infants. Jake stayed with them while the other child went with his father, Hoenheim of Light. While this ''is'' possible (it's called [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfetation superfetation]]) it's also ridiculously rare -- there have been only ten known human cases.