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** For the Kushans, a FantasyCounterpartCulture of [[MysticalIndia India]] with some ArabianNightsDays thrown in, he depicts real weapons and armor that most Western readers have never even heard of: examples include Silat's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urumi urumi]] swords, with multiple [[WhipSword flexible whip-like blades]], and the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maduvu maduvu]] used by the monstrous Daka soldiers, which consist of two blackbuck antelope horns pointing in opposite directions and connected by two crossbars which serve as grips.

* ''ComicBook/Rorschach2020'' features a major plot element of a video cassette documenting a séance held between Creator/FrankMiller, Otto Binder (best known creating ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} and his work on [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} DC's Captain Marvel]]), and others, using on a technique of listening to cassette static to hear messages. In the comic, this gets passed around as being what ends up driving those who listen to it into a conspiracy theory, believing there to be a hidden message sent by [[Comicbook/{{Watchmen}} Dr. Manhattan after the heroes disbanded long ago]]. However, the tape itself actually existed in real life -- Binder fell into the "Static Man" conspiracy rabbit hole following the death of his daughter, and he became convinced he could listen to her through the static. The transcript of the tape presented in the comic is almost identical to the real deal, with the only change being how it replaces the "Tom Fagan" in attendance being substituted for the fictional William Myerson.

* Many non-European viewers of Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'' consider Esmeralda AmbiguouslyBrown, but her ethnicity actually ''is'' "gypsy". Gypsies, or UsefulNotes/{{Romani}} as they're more ''correctly'' called, are descended from nomads who left India hundreds of years ago. Many people who have never met a Romani don't realize that "gypsy" is an actual ethnic group and not just a term for nomadic travelers. To add to the confusion, like most adaptations, Disney [[spoiler:gave the character a RaceLift (in the book she was a stolen white baby raised by the gypsies). Due to the UnfortunateImplications of this, most adaptations cut this part out]]. With that said, Disney's version of Esmeralda does have a darker skin tone than even the other UsefulNotes/{{Romani}} in the film, so she may be AmbiguouslyBrown after all.

* In one ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' strip, Calvin's dad waxes nostalgic about wooden escalators. It's easy to assume he's just talking about regular stairs as a snipe at modern technology (and would even be well within his character to do so), but no, wooden escalators were a real thing (and, while much rarer now, [[https://www.thomasnet.com/insights/why-everyone-wants-to-ride-macy-s-100-year-old-wooden-escalators-a-byte-out-of-the-big-apple/ still exist today.]])

* "Punk Rock Girl" by Music/TheDeadMilkmen features the lines "Someone played a [[Music/TheBeachBoys Beach Boys]] song on the jukebox / it was 'California Dreamin'..." Some have expressed irritation at such an error, since "California Dreamin'" is of course by The Mamas & The Papas. Others have called it a deliberate mis-attribution: the main characters are portrayed as [[TheQuincyPunk Quincy punks]], so it would sort of be in-character for them to not know (or care about) the difference. However, the band have confirmed they were actually referencing a CoverVersion of "California Dreamin" that Music/TheBeachBoys had released as a single two years earlier (in 1986). The Beach Boys version was much later used in a montage in ''Series/StrangerThings'' Season 4 episode "The Hellfire Club", since the season was set In 1986 and the montage in question involved a character moving to California.

* "Punk Rock Girl" by Music/TheDeadMilkmen features the lines "Someone played a [[Music/TheBeachBoys Beach Boys]] song on the jukebox / it was 'California Dreamin''..." Some have expressed irritation at such an error, since "California Dreamin'" is of course by The Mamas & The Papas. Others have called it a deliberate mis-attribution: the main characters are portrayed as [[TheQuincyPunk Quincy punks]], so it would sort of be in-character for them to not know (or care about) the difference. However, the song is actually referencing a CoverVersion of "California Dreamin'" Music/TheBeachBoys had released as a single two years earlier (in 1986). The Beach Boys version was much later used in a montage in ''Series/StrangerThings'' Season 4 episode "The Hellfire Club", since the season was set In 1986 and the montage in question involved a character moving to California.

* "Punk Rock Girl" by Music/TheDeadMilkmen features the lines "Someone played a [[Music/TheBeachBoys Beach Boys]] song on the jukebox / it was 'California Dreamin''..." Some have expressed irritation at such an error, since "California Dreamin'" is of course by The Mamas & The Papas. Others have called it a deliberate mis-attribution: the main characters are portrayed as [[TheQuincyPunk Quincy punks]], so it would sort of be in-character for them to not know (or care about) the difference. However, the song is actually referencing a CoverVersion of "California Dreamin'" Music/TheBeachBoys had released as a single two years earlier (in 1986).