Laser Guided Amnesia, Tap On The Head, etc

These are things you don't exactly think about when you're 10 years old and watching Dragon Ball Z.

• In anime, a character suffers head trauma and loses a specific branch of their memory. In real-life, this is rarely so simple.
• In anime, characters attack pressure points or karate chop people to knock them unconscious (comic books do this as well). In real life, knocking someone unconscious is extremely dangerous and potentially lethal, even if you know what you're doing. Strangling someone (according to the trope page) is only mildly safer.

Does anybody have any more examples of "anime vs real life", independent of these two tropes?

I figured that was more of a fiction thing than an anime thing.

Getting amnesia with just a bump in the head happens in a lot of Western cartoons, too.

But to go with the thread:

In (a lot of) anime, people have far more limited movement than they would in real life.

edited 29th Nov '14 12:33:22 PM by Aldo930

Yeah, those are more of a fiction thing....well, they happen alot in Western Animation also.

Now, the God of falling seems to be more of an anime thing.

The thing about easily knocking someone unconscious is that it is narratively very convenient. It allows for child-friendly fighting, or for the protagonist to be threatened by enemies without lasting problems. Tintin is knocked out an average of more than once an album, I recall. Even Terry Pratchett played this straight.

I think it would be better to talk about this in Trope Talk, it's not medium-specific.