History RealityEnsues / WesternAnimation

* Point blank: just because you have a sibling, it won't guarantee a good relationship for any number of reasons. Ed and Sarah and [[spoiler:Eddy and his brother]] are good examples of this.

-->"The style of humor in this show is getting a cliché or something cartoony and giving it real-world consequences. Example: A freeze ray anywhere else would stop a person in place; in Rick and Morty, if someone tips a frozen person over, they're dead.

** Eddie Brock tries to frame Spider-Man by committing crimes while dressed like him. However, when he goes to the police with the footage, Captain Stacey immediately recognizes the man as an impostor. While he may not know who either version of Spidey is, the difference in body language is enough to tell Brock is a fake.

* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'': In the crossover episode with ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' "[[Recap/SupermanTheAnimatedSeriesS2E16To18WorldsFinest Worlds Finest]]", during an argument, Batman takes Superman unawares and judo throws him across an alley. Superman responds by getting up and punching Batman several feet into the air, quipping "I knew you were crazy, I didn't think you were stupid". Rather than break out some specialist gadget or use some arcane martial arts technique, Batman holds Superman at bay with some Kryptonite and flee, since he is smart enough to realise that he cannot fight a superstrong man who he cannot even hit without breaking his hand.

* ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'':
** [[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou Original series]]:
*** "A Clue For Scooby-Doo"; the gang (in skin-diving apparatus) is underwater looking for the ghost of Captain Cutler. He chases Shaggy and Scooby aboard a sunken ship where Shaggy tries to light a cannon to use against the ghost. Then he remembers that matches don't light underwater.
*** "Never Ape an Ape Man": There is a scene where Scooby (normally a cowardly character) actually gets the Ape Man to back off, just by snarling at him after mustering up courage. The Ape Man may be intimidating, but he is as per usual [[ScoobyDooHoax just a guy in a suit]] (a stuntman, specifically), and the undisguised human, if they did threaten the team, would never win a verbal argument against Scooby-Doo, who is a large Great Dane who could take down a decent-sized man with ease. CowardlyLion, indeed!
** ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooOnZombieIsland'':
*** The gang splits up after getting tired of fighting criminals in masks. Turns out that no matter how well you get along with your teammates, after doing the same song and dance over and over again the gang will eventually split when one of them wants something different. Given that Daphne was the one who split first, it quickly led to the other gang members parting ways (although reluctantly). Sometime after splitting up, the gang is shown as dissatisfied with their current positions or their quirks (such as Shaggy and Scooby's {{Big Eater}} habits) bringing negative consequences for them since others wouldn't be so tolerant of them as their teammates would be (Shaggy and Scooby getting fired from airport security for eating contraband).
*** Simone and Lena were able to kill large amounts of people for several centuries in large part due to the fact that the area they lived in was remote, the time period usually had people die from disease, ships sinking, and war anyway, and if it wasn't that, they were usually fugitives who no one would care about. Once it becomes obvious that more modern tourists are starting to disappear on the island, it doesn't take long for the cops to launch an investigation. Given Beau was TheMole for them working as a gardener, it quickly becomes obvious they were considered prime suspects in spite of whatever alibi they have.
*** Why are most of the zombies in the area of the swamp or near them? Simone, Lena, and Jacques quite realized very quickly that while pirates and colonists, along with soldiers could be washed away, large amounts of people from the modern era could not, so they threw the bodies in the swamp for several reasons. Number one, the alligators are a massive deterrent. The quicksand, while the zombies seem to be smart enough to move around it, force lengthy detours that are long enough to delay anyone from getting to the chamber. But thirdly, in the event the cops suspected them of murder or launched an investigation, they threw them into the swamp to ensure that it wouldn't be an area close enough to the house to portray them as potential murderers.
*** The movie itself could be this when it comes to showing what happens when a bunch of civilians, whose shtick is dealing with criminal hoaxes run into actual, dangerous, supernatural creatures. The cheerful gang we know who were never in such peril end up running for their lives from a horde of undead monsters. Never before had the gang looked so terrified, being blatantly out of their depth and barely surviving only by luck, not really by working as a team. The gang punching way above their weight class debatably even appears in the end after the supernatural threat is dealt with, when Daphne laments at the end they can't reveal what happened on the island due to quicksand swallowing up the camera.
*** As Simon and Lena learn the hard way, just because two of their targets are [[CowardlyLion Cowardly Lions]], that doesn't mean they can't be a liability. It was due to writing off Scooby and Shaggy as not worth using their voodoo dolls on them and thinking their third, Jacques, can take care of them that ultimately ended up being their downfall.
** ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'':
*** Shaggy and Velma's relationship ends up being rather rocky, due to Shaggy's insisting they keep it a secret from Scooby. When Scooby does find out, he doesn't take it well, and Shaggy is forced to choose between his Scoob and Velma. He ends up choosing Scooby, leaving Velma crushed that she's been dumped for a dog. Later, Shaggy wants to get back together, but Velma, while still having feelings for him, doesn't want to risk getting hurt again and turns him away, squelching the WillTheyOrWontThey plot often depicted in various shows, and they never end up getting back together, although they do end up becoming friends again.
*** Shaggy gets sent to military school at the end of the first season. When he returns in season two, he now has a crew-cut. It takes several episodes for his hair to grow back.

* In ''WesternAnimation/CentralPark'', Season 1 "[[Recap/CentralParkS1E4GarbageBallet Garbage Ballet]]", Cole pretends to be sick so he can stay home and stop his mom from killing any rats. But because Paige is actually sick, his exposure around her causes him to catch her cold and get sick for real since he didn't taking any precautionary steps to keep himself healthy.

** Aang is revealed to have died sometime in his 60s, despite the Avatar generally stated to live really long lives, with Kyoshi managing to get to her second century. The century spent stuck in an iceberg ended up having severe health issues for him later on, leading to his early death.

** When Ben's parents find out about his heroics and try to stop it by grounding him, he does so without complaint. However, when the current threat becomes too much for him to ignore, he turns into Humungousaur and leaves the house over his parents' protests. They might be his parents, but Ben is in control of the most powerful device in the universe, and if he doesn't want to listen to them, they don't have the power to stop him.

* "The Earth King": The Gaang, by this point utterly fed up with trying to navigate the conspiracies and lies in the city of Ba Sing Se, decide to go directly to the Earth King to explain what's going on. Except that in order to ''get'' to him, they have to launch an all out attack on the palace, fight numerous guards, ''and'' their enemy Long Feng already got there before them. Understandably, the Earth King isn't inclined to hear them out at first: "You invade my palace, lay waste to all my guards, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking break down my fancy door]] -- and you expect me to ''trust you!?"'' (Toph admits he has a point) And when he's calmed down (and his bear, who Aang befriended earlier, [[LickedByTheDog licks him to show he remembers him]]), he wants proof before he believes their (apparently) wild claims.

** The end goal of Gorilla Grodd's master plan for the group of villains he assembled is eventually revealed to be: turning everyone on Earth into gorillas. Naturally, all the villains are infuriated that they've spent all this time working on such a ridiculous plan and none of them object when Luthor usurps control from Grodd--though they later make it clear to Lex that they're keeping an eye on him just to ensure his plan isn't something stupid like that.
** OfficialCouple is given this treatment during the finale of season one of ''Unlimited''. While in the future, Warhawk reveals to John Stewart that he and Shayera Hol are his parents, despite their relationship sinking after the finale of the original ''Justice League''. This means that in the timeline of the series, they eventually get back together, something when John realizes, he spends several episodes conflicted on. Instead of this mending the relationship and making them get back together as one might think, John refuses to get back together with her, citing that while it might be the future, he has the right to decide what he wants to do, and that the future doesn't automatically make things EasilyForgiven. Even when he tells Shayera about it, its clear that he still isn't willing to get with her simply because the future said so. The series even ends with him still not back with Shayera to hammer this point in.

* "The Earth King": The Gaang, by this point utterly fed up with trying to navigate the conspiracies and lies in the city of Ba Sing Se, decide to go directly to the Earth King to explain what's going on. Except that in order to ''get'' to him, they have to launch an all out attack on the palace, fight numerous guards, ''and'' their enemy Long Feng already got there before them. Understandably, the Earth King isn't inclined to hear them out at first: "You invade my palace, lay waste to all my guards, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking break down my fancy door]] -- and you expect me to ''trust you!?"'' (Toph admits he has a point) And when he's calmed down, he wants proof before he believes their (apparently) wild claims.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons'', George gets transformed into a superhero, [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength but he has some problems adjusting to having super strength, and nearly destroys everything he touches.]] He starts to get the hang of it as the episodes progresses however.

** Sokka confesses to his sword-master Piandao that he is from the Water Tribe, to which the latter admits he figured out that tidbit the moment Sokka used his actual name instead of playing it smart like Zuko and using a common name instead.

* "The Earth King": The Gaang, by this point utterly fed up with trying to navigate the conspiracies and lies in the city of Ba Sing Se, decide to go directly to the Earth King to explain what's going on. Except that in order to ''get'' to him, they have to launch an all out attack on the palace, fight numerous guards, ''and'' their enemy Long Feng already got there before them. Understandably, the Earth King isn't inclined to hear them out at first: "You invade my palace, lay waste to all my guards, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking break down my fancy door]] -- and you expect me to ''trust you!?"'' And when he's calmed down, he wants proof before he believes their (apparently) wild claims.

** In "Return of Forever", we learn that after the events of "Frogs of War", when he tried to spin doctor the Incursians invasion of Earth and banishment of Ben, Will Harangue's ratings plumeted. Turns out that when you effectively become TheQuisling to a hostile invading force, you tend to lose a ''little bit'' of the people's good faith.

*** We also learn that after the events of "Frogs of War", when he tried to spin doctor the Incursians invasion of Earth and banishment of Ben, Will Harangue's ratings plumeted. Turns out that when you effectively become TheQuisling to a hostile invading force, you tend to lose a ''little bit'' of the people's good faith.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons'', George gets transformed into a superhero, [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength however he has some problems adjusting to having super strength, and nearly destroys everything he touches.]] He starts to get the hang of it as the episodes progresses however.

** Another episode has Azmuth chew out Ben over his TransformationSequence, namely him always slamming the Omnitrix's plunger when he's choosing an alien. ''Of course'' it's going to spit out the wrong alien from time to time -- it's a piece of machinery and it's very sensitive.

** The Nemetrix was made specifically to counter the Omnitrix, containing the DNA of the natural predators to the Omnitrix's aliens. However, the Nemetrix didn't have ''nearly'' as much time in development as the Omnitrix and with how vast the universe in the series is, there's not a counter to ''every'' single alien in the Omnitrix, if not because of how many aliens in the series there are, then simply because some of them don't even ''have'' a natural predator to begin with.

-->'''Officer Brown:''' Sir, will you be pressing charges?\\

** "Your Old Man" has Pigeon realize that since pigeons live 3-5 years at most, he’s probably going to die soon. It also turns out that Pigeon fathered a child, [[spoiler:Yung]], which was likely to happen considering how many people Pigeon has had sex with.

** Hawk Moth is a fully developed adult with his own Miraculous to even the playing field. The few times he bothers to fight Ladybug and Chat Noir directly, he can usually fight them to a standstill single handedly.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'': The episode "The Return of Raggedy Android" deals with FantasticRacism when Jenny isn't allowed in a restaurant Brad got a job at because she's a robot and the owner doesn’t like them. To combat this, Jenny gets a human suit to disguise her real features so she can hang out at the restaurant. Unfortunately, she's not able to fight the robots that keep breaking into the restaurant because the other half of the outfit pressures Jenny into acting like a regular human girl. Jenny eventually gets fed up with the other half, so she destroys the outfit and ends up saving the restaurant. Despite this, the owner of the restaurant still can't stand robots and acts like an UngratefulBastard towards Jenny. This disgusts the other teenagers, who were actually grateful Jenny saved them. The moral: no matter how nice you are to racist people and no matter what you do for them, the racism won't go away in a blink of an eye.

** The pilot episode starts when Bob's boss, George, takes away Bob's medical insurance due to to many claims. As such they can't afford for Milo to go to a special school and allow Milo to go to a normal school.

** In "[[Recap/RugratsS5E2HiccupsAutumnLeaves Hiccups]]", when Tommy [[HiccupHijinks gets the hiccups]], Angelica tells him the only way to cure him is to scare him, which she intended to do (in reality, she just wanted to give Tommy a bad scare). After some failed attempts however, Angelica decides to use something called the "Scare Machine". She proceeds to put it together using various items she finds around the house. However, since she's a three-year-old with no experience building machines, and the Scare Machine was cobbled together by random debris, as soon as Angelica turns it on, it falls apart on top of her. [[spoiler:Though Tommy seems to have been cured of his hiccups, which he reasons that when the Scare Machine fell on Angelica, Tommy got scared she might be hurt.]]
** In "[[Recap/RugratsS4E12SendInTheCloudsInTheNaval In the Naval]]", when Angelica's Cynthia doll is swallowed up by a giant fish, Tommy and Chuckie decide to drop her toy boat into the water. Their reasoning is that, when the fish sees the boat, he'll realizes that the "Wavy Seals" (Navy Seals) have come, get scared, and spit Cynthia up. The fish just eats the toy boat.

*** The gang splits up after getting tired of fighting criminals in masks. Turns out that no matter how well you get along with your teammates, after doing the same song and dance over and over again the gang will eventually split when one of them wants something different. Given that Daphne was the one who split first, it quickly led to the other gang members parting ways (although reluctantly). Some time after splitting up, the gang is shown as dissatisfied with their current positions or their quirks (such as Shaggy and Scooby's {{Big Eater}} habits) bringing negative consequences for them since others wouldn't be so tolerant of them as their teammates would be (Shaggy and Scooby getting fired from airport security for eating contraband).

*** Why are most of the zombies in the area of the swamp or near them? Simone, Lena, and Jaccques quite realized very quickly that while pirates and colonists, along with soldiers could be washed away, large amounts of people from the modern era could not, so they threw the bodies in the swamp for several reasons. Number one, the alligators are a massive deterrent. The quicksand, while the zombies seem to be smart enough to move around it, force lengthy detours that are long enough to delay anyone from getting to the chamber. But thirdly, in the event the cops suspected them of murder or launched an investigation, they threw them into the swamp to ensure that it wouldn't be an area close enough to the house to portray them as potential murderers.

** In ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnoldTheJungleMovie'', Big Bob's Beepers goes out of business due to the rise of cellphones and Big Bob's utter refusal to switch to selling cell phones, causing the Pataki family to move into the building it's sold at. This is TruthInTelevision for anyone who's owned a business.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheHollow'': Sometimes, just because a boy and a girl spend a lot of time together, it doesn't mean the both of them are romantically interested in each other. [[spoiler:Adam turns down Mira, whom Kai had a crush on before he fell for Vanessa]]. Season 2 adds the information that [[spoiler:one of them might not even be interested in the opposite gender. When the characters get their memories back, Mira remembers that Adam is gay and profusely apologizes to him for kissing him.]]

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' parodied the superhero genre, and had Master Shake expose himself to radioactive waste in order to give himself superpowers. The plan fails, and instead, he just gets radiation poisoning. Throughout the episode, you can see his condition gradually worsening.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MikeTysonMysteries'', in the episode "Is Magic Real?", when a professional gambler needs one million dollars to participate in a poker game, Mike Tyson, despite being a famous retired boxer, doesn't have that type of money and he even points out that him going to far places to solve mysteries for free is not profitable to him.

** Also, while Rhino's armored skin protects him from harm, it also prevents his skin from perspiring (He can't sweat), turning his armor into a virtual oven. Thus, during his first fight with Spidey, he has to constantly stop for a drink of water. Spidey ultimately defeats him by luring him away from any water and using the sewer's steam pipes to beat him.

** In "Handsome Ransom", [[FlyingBrick Captain Sunshine]] dumps The Monarch in jail, Silver Age style. The Monarch is allowed to simply walk out, since there is no legal basis to hold him there.

-->'''Security Guard on TV:''' Not safe, girls. Don't do it.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'' episode "Johnny vs. Smash Badger 3", Johnny gets a new video game, [[NintendoHard only to be stuck on the first boss]], prompting him to look up some cheat codes online. A quick web search reveals... nothing. As [[UpliftedAnimal Dukey]] notes, the game has only been out for such a short amount of time, so no one's had a chance to play through it and post any cheats yet.