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* ArtisticLicenseExplosives: Nick jumps on the grenade he himself threw, and ends up getting set on fire (though he somehow survives). Hand grenades like the ones he was using are concussive, not incendiary, meaning instead of being set on fire, he's likely just get blown up, and/or peppered with shrapnel.



** Special note is made of Nick's DrillSergeantNasty wearing his uniform off-duty... while visiting a strip club. Military personnel are not usually supposed to wear their uniform while off-duty, and when they do they are expected to present an image of dignity in keeping with military standards, so wearing the uniform while at a sleazy strip club is straight out.

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** Special note is made of Nick's DrillSergeantNasty wearing his uniform (and his ''dress'' uniform at that) off-duty... while visiting a strip club. Military personnel are not usually supposed to wear their uniform while off-duty, and when they do they are expected to present an image of dignity in keeping with military standards, so wearing the uniform while at a sleazy strip club is straight out.



* JumpingOnAGrenade: Nick does this during his "fantasy".

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* JumpingOnAGrenade: Nick does this during his "fantasy"."fantasy"... which somehow sets him on fire.


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* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: The exact powers of the hobgoblins are... inconsistent to say the least, ranging from just brainwashing (as they do with Amy, and a couple Club Scum employees), to downright RealityWarping (as they subject Dennis, Kyle, and Kevin to). And apparently they will sometimes just resort to attacking physically, as if they have none of those abilities at all. [=McCreedy=] claims that they inevitably end up killing people with these fantasies, but the only time the fantasy ever actually directly acts on this was in Kyle's case.
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* InformedAttribute: [=McCreedy=] describes the Hobgoblins as being ObliviouslyEvil LiteralGenie types who try to make people's dreams come true, but inadvertently end up killing them. This is completely at odds by what we actually see in the film, where the Hobgoblins are completely malicious and AlwaysChaoticEvil, and are very deliberately trying to kill the people who's fantasies they bring to life.

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* InformedAttribute: [=McCreedy=] describes the Hobgoblins as being ObliviouslyEvil LiteralGenie types who try to make people's dreams come true, but inadvertently end up killing them. This is completely at odds by what we actually see in the film, where the Hobgoblins are completely malicious and AlwaysChaoticEvil, and are very deliberately trying to kill the people who's whose fantasies they bring to life.
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* CommonHollywoodSexTraits: That's... not how phone sex lines work. There's more of an interactive element, rather than a lady just describing some cheap porno plot to you.

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* InformedAttribute: [=McCreedy=] describes the Hobgoblins as being ObliviouslyEvil LiteralGenie types who try to make people's dreams come true, but inadvertently end up killing them. This is completely at odds by what we actually see in the film, where the Hobgoblins are completely malicious and AlwaysChaoticEvil, and are very deliberately trying to kill the people who's fantasies they bring to life.



* InformedAttribute: [=McCreedy=] describes the Hobgoblins as being ObliviouslyEvil LiteralGenie types who try to make people's dreams come true, but inadvertently end up killing them. This is completely at odds by what we actually see in the film, where the Hobgoblins are completely malicious and AlwaysChaoticEvil, and are very deliberately trying to kill the people who's fantasies they bring to life.
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* InformedAttribute: [=McCreedy=] describes the Hobgoblins as being ObliviouslyEvil LiteralGenie types who try to make people's dreams come true, but inadvertently end up killing them. This is completely at odds by what we actually see in the film, where the Hobgoblins are completely malicious and AlwaysChaoticEvil, and are very deliberately trying to kill the people who's fantasies they bring to life.

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