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Main Did Not Do The Research Discussion
I'm surprised not to see a "Schizophrenia = multiple personality disorder" trope. I can't count how many TV shows and movies and made for TV movies conflated the two. Stargate SG-1 writers even seemed to look up the clinical definition of the latter and have Amanda Tapping use it to describe the former.
I was just watching the still unaired No Ordinary Family pilot, where the characters go to Belem, Brazil, just to show a skyline there is a sea of forest, unreal for a somewhat big city, and a strange number of '50s cars, like Cuba that we know from fiction, but not at all like Brazil.
But where would I put those examples? There's so many subtroupes...
Is there something that fits "Somewhere an Explosives Technician is weeping"?
I noticed this after following a link coming from "no idea how C4 works".
I'm still freaking confused. Many people keep listing Did Not Do The Research as a trope, but, however, another majority of tropers keep erasing DNDTR because it's index, which is also shown by the cast of Permanent Red Link Club. The main cricket is... there is no warning on the fact DNDTR is not a trope. On the index's page itself, that is.
Why not to put a "Please do not list this as a trope on the work's page" disclaimer then?
The page image (An image of New Mexico with the Disney character Jose Carioca on it) is kind of "Did Not Do The Research" in a way. The points it makes are true (Jose isn't Mexican and neither is New Mexico), but the image is from a set of pins shaped like American states with Disney characters on them; other pins in the set include Arthur from The Sword In The Stone on New Hampshire, Pumba from The Lion King on Arkansas, and Buzz Lightyear on Wymong. The pins clearly aren't meant to present the characters as representatives of the states.
This may have been touched on earlier, but the English broadcast of Ninja Warrior and American Ninja Warrior are guilty of this due to Midoriyama translating into "green mountain" or, in this case, "Mount Green" and the narrator/broadcast team, depending on the show, calling it "Mount Midoriyama", which translates into "Mount Green mountain".
Do we have a trope for a completely hypothetical work, where there is no real research to do?
Something I have seen many times over the years in WW 2 documentary videos showing the Red Army.
A common lapse in these videos is the narration not in sync with scenes. For example, the narrator talks about events taking place in 1941-42, but the soldiers shown were wearing 1943-45 uniforms. On the flip side, the narrator talks about events taking place in 1943-45, but the soldiers shown were wearing pre-1943 uniforms. Similar lapse also applies to military equipments. For example, the narrator is talking about events taking place in 1941-43, but the tanks shown were T-34/85. However, T-34, which originally started out with 76mm AT gun, was not upgraded to 85mm AT gun until 1944.
The Red Army went through a major change in uniform in 1943. Up to that point, their insignias were worn over their collars. After the change, insignias were worn over their shoulders. This change was instituted by Stalin to raise the prestige of the Red Army, even though the shoulder boards used in the new uniforms resembled the ones worn during the tsarist times. Not to mention, the communists have been pretty much against just about everything symbolic of the tsarist past!