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eroock
Since: Sep, 2012
5th Dec, 2020 06:03:24 AM
May be covered by Hollywood History. The first example is exemplifying Too Important to Walk.
A trope where something normally rare, exceptional or otherwise Too Awesome to Use in reality is actually the norm or perfectly ordinary in fiction.
For example, tribal chiefs being carried on shields by their warriors only happened on special occasions in post-Roman Gaul, in Asterix it's treated as the chief's equivalent of driving a car (down to the chief's wife being carried by his shieldbearers to go do the groceries). Similarly, boar was a rare food for the Gauls, not an everyday meal.