History RealityEnsues / LiveActionFilms

** RealityEnsues/MarvelCinematicUniverse

* In ''Film/AirForceOne'', the terrorists know that while they might be able to wreak havoc against Secret Service agents armed with only pistols, but if the plane lands at a military airbase, they're no match for the heavily-armed soldiers that will storm the plane.

** ''RealityEnsues/{{Logan}}''

** Dr. Gray is ''furious'' she finds out what's been going on. It's not just about the personal betrayal, but the professional fallout. She's completely right to think that Dr. Forrester basically kidnapped, drugged, and [[spoiler: assaulted]] a helpless patient. Had the whole [[spoiler: DemonicPossession]] situation not happened, John Doe's family could've easily sued the hospital.

* Like the ''Film/KickAss'' movies, ''Film/{{SUPER}}'' shows the realistic outcome of an Average Joe attempting to become a BadassNormal superhero. The injuries Frank inflicts on bad guys are [[{{Gorn}} bloody]] and gruesome since real thugs are not MadeOfIron, his PaperThinDisguise fools neither the police nor the gangsters he's trying to take down, and in general, the public regards him with alarm and suspicion rather than love and adoration.
** And as [[spoiler: Boltie]] tragically finds out, real life gangsters and {{Mooks}} do not use ATeamFiring.

*** Both Marty and Doc ''nearly'' find out the hard way that just because Doc died of his wound on a particular day, doesn't exactly mean it's the day Buford shot him. It appeared to not occur that being shot doesn't necessarily mean InstantDeathBullet and that Doc could have eventually succumbed to his wound the following days.

** In an act that is later suggested to be a deliberate act of sabotage by Carter Burke, Lieutenant Gorman reveals during the flight to LV-426 that although he's a highly-accomplished leader within ''simulated'' combat drops, he's only ever performed two real-life drops. As a result, when circumstances turn messy in the hive, he is unable to think quickly on a course of action, and his inaction would have led to the entire unit's massacre had Ripley not intervened.

** ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'' - The police haven't forgotten what happened at the West Highland police station, so when they discover that someone matching his appearance has broken into Cyberdyne they bring a much bigger SWAT team. They still don't succeed, but points for trying.
*** Towards the end of this scene, the T-800 uses a tear gas grenade launcher to shoot the SWAT members. The canisters may not explode (and because the SWAT team were wearing gas masks they wouldn't have been affected by the tear gas), but getting shot point-blank by a 40mm metal canister in the chest, even with body armor on knocks them to the floor and leaves them groaning in pain.

* ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2014'':
** April is a reporter who goes to her boss with minimal evidence, ranting about mutant turtles who are also ninjas, after being told once before she needed real evidence, and promptly gets fired. [[spoiler:She doesn't miraculously get her job back at the end either, choosing not to expose her new friends]].
** Splinter and the Turtles are self-taught from a karate book that got tossed into the sewer. Though competent against mooks due to their size and speed, Shredder is out of their league since he's better-trained and wearing PoweredArmor that makes him a physical equal.
** The sewer-surfing scene is getting to be a tradition for this franchise, but then a slight mis-timing causes all of them to reach the narrow drain at once instead of one after another. At least it's PlayedForLaughs.
* ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesOutOfTheShadows'':
** Rocksteady uses a machine gun on the turtles during a fight inside a cargo aircraft. The hail of bullets proceeds to tear apart the cockpit and sends half off it flying off before the jet starts a nosedive. Even Bebop called him out on it.
** No one can understand what Casey is saying while he's wearing his hockey mask.
** Krang is a little too big for his android body's stomach in this incarnation. So much so that after he sends Shredder off to find the artifacts for his doomsday weapon, he orders his android to stuff him in the cockpit.
-->'''Krang''': [[NoIndoorVoice Place me back in!]]\\
''[the android tries pushing him in gently]''\\
'''Krang''': [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor Push me in, you stupid robot!]]\\
''[the android begins punching him into its stomach, and finally crams him in uncomfortably]''\\
'''Krang''': [[YouFool You idiot!]]
** Mikey raising his mechanized [[FightingWithChucks nun-chuck arms]] in celebration during a high-speed chase, resulting in their sacrifice to the gods of LowClearance.
** As highly trained and proficient in close combat Karai is, she is still taken down by the numerical superiority of the untrained CombatPragmatism of April O'Neil and Vernon teaming up against her.

** Earlier on, after kidnapping Jean, Showalter and Grimsrud get pulled over by a state trooper because the car Jerry gave them doesn't have temporary tags. Showalter's first instinct is to try and bribe the trooper. Who's not having it and tells Showalter to get out of the car. It's not impossible for police officers to be corrupt in real life, but the vast majority of them aren't going to look the other way no matter how much money you offer them. You wave a few a few hundred dollars in a cop's face, and you're just giving them a reason to arrest you.

** In ''Film/RamboLastBlood'', the first time Rambo tries to rescue Gabriela, he goes in without doing any reconnaissance, into unfamiliar territory and armed with only a pistol and a knife. [[spoiler: The gang sees him coming a mile away and beat him within an inch of his life with their 30 to 1 advantage in numbers and firepower. And in the climax, for all of Rambo's careful preparation, even he's not prepared when, trying to collapse a tunnel on some gunmen, one of them turns around, notices him, and manages to get off a lucky shot that hits him in the gut.]]

* Towards the end of ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'', [[GameBreakingInjury Commodus stabs Maximus]] [[DirtyCoward in order to get an unfair advantage during their match]]. But since Maximus is a veteran general, and Commodus only occasionally indulged in swordplay, Maximus still beats him [[spoiler:although he dies from the stab wound anyway]].

* ''Film/DieHard'': Yes, the later films [[Sequelitis became increasingly unrealistic]], but the first very deliberately subverted a lot of unrealistic action tropes:

** In ''Die Hard with a Vengeance'' John has to explain how to use a gun to Zeus, since he's a civilian and has never used one. Since the explanation is rushed, and under very stressful conditions, John forgets that things that seem obvious to him (like the need to manually chamber the first round) wouldn't occur to someone who's never held a firearm before. Needless to say Zeus's attempt to shoot Simon does not go as planned.
** [=McClane=] weaponizes this to kill [[BigBad Thomas Gabriel]] in the fourth film as Gabriel is standing directly behind [=McClane=] with the gun pressed against John's body. [=McClane=] knows that at that close a distance, a bullet would travel through the body of the first person who was shot. John forces Gabriel to fire the gun, causing both of them to take the bullet, but while John takes it in a non-vital area and hangs on until medical aid arrives shortly after, Gabriel dies instantly.

* Cursing an infant which includes the terms "...Beloved by all who meet her..." means it can (and does) affect the caster. Just because you cast the spell doesn't always mean you are immune to its effects.

* ''Film/DieHard'': Yes, the franchise got very insane later on, but the first had many instances of this:
** John [=McClane=] witnesses a bunch of terrorists take his wife and her co-workers hostage. Does he immediately rise to the occasion and defeat the terrorists? No, he knows he's out of his element and tries to call for help multiple times. He is forced into fighting the terrorists because the police are too incompetent and he is stuck on the top floors of a high rise.
** The film subverts the MadeOfIron and NervesOfSteel action hero. A night of battling terrorists with no armor and truly bare feet leaves a you a physical wreck, and for all his wisecracks, [=McClane=] is clearly scared out of his mind.
** [=McClane=] himself lampshades what would have happened if he'd tried to stop Hans from killing Takagi when [=McClane=] was outgunned and outnumbered.

* ''RealityEnsues/{{Batman}}''
* RealityEnsues/DCExtendedUniverse
* RealityEnsues/JamesBond
* ''RealityEnsues/Joker2019''
* ''RealityEnsues/{{Logan}}''
* RealityEnsues/MarvelCinematicUniverse

* RealityEnsues/StarTrek
* RealityEnsues/StarWars

* ''Film/TheJungleBook2016'': King Louie orders the Bandar-Log to throw Baloo off the cliff. Thing is, he's a bear and they're monkeys. As long as he puts forth any effort at all, they're not going to be able to move him. He barely even seems bothered by their efforts, picking monkeys off of him casually while talking with King Louie.

** The second movie has the BigBad flaunting his DiplomaticImpunity in the faces of the heroes. In the climax, said diplomat is trying to actively gun down cops, saying that his diplomatic immunity will protect him. Murtagh [[BoomHeadshot just revokes it]], and suffers no consequences for it. No sane government would harbor a criminal with such a long rap sheet, especially one that includes attempted murder of police officers; doing so could be considered ''an act of war''. Plus, diplomatic immunity only prevents people from being ''prosecuted''. They can still be shot dead in self-defense.

** HeroInsurance is not part of the package when you join the police service. In the fourth film, Riggs racks up all the expenses Murtaugh has had over the series -- rebuilding large parts of his house twice, buying a new boat, and sending two kids to college -- and realizes that there is ''no way'' Murtaugh could afford to do all that on a sergeant's salary, thus suspecting him of being a DirtyCop. This is compounded when Riggs confronts Murtaugh, and Murtaugh fails to offer an alternative explanation.

* ''Film/Little2019''

** Jordan forgot how it was like to be a child when she was magically aged into a child, so it makes sense that she would still do adult like behavior in a teenage girl’s body.

* ''Film/MeanGirls'',

* The beginning of ''Ocean's Twelve'' shows the after effects of TheCaper pulled off by the protagonists in ''Film/OceansEleven''. It ends up a sadistic mob boss wouldn't like his casino getting robbed of millions and would use his considerable resources to track down the people who robbed him.
* In ''[[Film/{{Deadpool 2}} Once Upon a Deadpool]]'', after Vanessa tells him to kiss her, Deadpool abruptly stops the story, expecting to reenact ''Film/ThePrincessBride''[='=]s "kissing story" exchange with Creator/FredSavage. After an awkward silence, Savage realizes Deadpool's intent and tells him he's old enough not to let [[GirlsHaveCooties such things]] bother him anymore.
* ''Film/TheOtherGuys''

* ''Film/PacificRim''

* ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld''

** The third movie has a much more humorous example. Shortly before the climax, the killer throws his knife at Dewey. Cue slow- motion as the knife reaches him..... Only for it to bounce off his head and cause him to tumble down the stairs, instead of impaling him through the skull like what normally happens in fiction.

* ''Film/ShesOutOfMyLeague''

* ''Film/{{Goodfellas}}'': Sure, Billy Batts was acting like a {{jerkass}} to Tommy [=DeVito=], and Tommy kills him as a result. But killing an officially made member of the UsefulNotes/TheMafia without permission from his bosses is a big no-no, even if the offender had valid reasons. The murder of Bentvena would cost Tommy his life as well.
* In ''A Good Old Fashioned Orgy'', people learn that trying to have a TwoPersonPoolParty is very difficult and uncomfortable.

* ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy''
** ''Film/BatmanBegins'' has Bruce's first StealthHiBye going less than smoothly, with him narrowly evading arrest and also injuring himself in the process.
** The Scarecrow's defeat is simple but effective. It doesn't matter how much of a scary badass you are, [[spoiler: taking a Taser to the face will cause anyone to run away screaming]].
** In ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' the mob don't take a [[ComicBook/TheJoker guy dressed as a clown]] seriously... until [[PsychoForHire after he shows]] [[TerroristWithoutACause just how dangerous]] [[AxCrazy he really is.]]
** ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' has an accountant for Wayne Enterprises discover Bruce's identity as Batman simply by going through files on how Bruce's money is spent, and locating the blueprints for the "Tumbler" Batmobile in Wayne Enterprises' archives. On the other hand, this knowledge doesn't do him any good, because, as Lucius Fox points out, he is attempting to blackmail a billionaire who is also a ruthless vigilante; There is no possible way this will end well for him, and he concedes.
** Also, [[spoiler:Harvey Dent/Two-Face]] falls a couple of stories but lands wrong and dies of a broken neck.
** ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' explores the idea that a normal human being (no matter how BadassNormal or CrazyPrepared) couldn't continue indefinitely as Batman due to the physical strain, the psychological breakdown, and the increasing likelihood of incarceration or death.
** Also [[spoiler:Talia's death from injuries sustained in a two-story drop in a truck]], contrary to how it would not normally be fatal to characters in action movies.
** Just because you are a master hand-to-hand combatant with genius tactical skills hopped up on anesthetic gas does not mean you're any less vulnerable to [[spoiler:heavy weapons.]]
** Batman and Bane's first fight. Rather than a spectacular, choreographed showdown, it's short, brutal and sees Batman, who has been out of practice for eight years and sports a bad leg, easily defeated with his punches having no effect on Bane.

** In the final street fight, Tommy Gunn expects an easy victory against Rocky, as he's the newly crowned heavyweight champion of the world and in his prime while Rocky is old and out of shape. Thing is, it's a ''street'' fight and Rocky used to be a legbreaker, and a series of dirty moves and generally knowing where to hit when bare-knuckled ends up causing Tommy's defeat.

** At the very end of the film [[spoiler:Deadpool has Ajax at his mercy and with no reason left to keep him alive is ready to finally kill him, but Colossus attempts to talk Wade out of it. Unfortunately for Colossus, talking ''isn't'' a free action for him as Deadpool shoots Ajax dead in the middle of his speech; since he's got absolutely no reason to forgive the man who tortured him for days, and then tried to kill Vanessa just to get revenge on Wade]].