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** Chief among them: A persistent idea that the setting is as rabidly xenophobic as that of its sibling franchise. In actuality while FantasticRacism exists, the "good" races generally get along and it is not that unusual to see persons of different species being close friends (except [[ElvesVsDwarves elves and dwarfs]]; that ''is'' unusual, but it has still happened). Major cities across the world have mixed-species populations living in them, trade between the Order factions thrive, and the great powers cooperate closely in the event of major invasions by the forces of Chaos and other threats. What Fantastic Racism does exist also takes many forms including CondescendingCompassion (e.g. default High Elf and Dwarf attitude to humans) or mundane 16th century ignorance (e.g. most humans to the other races). In the Empire, there are even de facto independent nonhuman client states more-or-less integrated with their neighboring entities (including the Grey Dwarfs of the Grey Mountains, the Eonir Elves of Laurelorn Forest, and the Halflings of the Moot -- the latter being officially classed as an electoral province with a vote to elect the emperor). This is mirrored in the High Elves' relation to the human state of Marienburg, which they de facto have under a protectorate in exchange for maintaining an elf district within the city and handling most of the High Elves' trade in the area. Even the beastly Lizardmen and Ogres can be found in other species' lands as traders or mercenaries.

** Everyone knows that ''Warhammer'' is a grimdark CrapsackWorld. Well, it's not really. Outside of the End Times (which is itself an AlternateTimeline from the Storm of Chaos and several video game-exclusive timelines), ''Warhammer'' is more accurately classed as HighFantasy. Heroes can be flawed, but they're glorious and generally good people, fighting clear evils, almost always succeeding by the end of the book/campaign/game/novel. The living standards of the humans in the world may be bad [[ValuesDissonance to us]], but they're not dystopic and are really no different than those of Eurasia circa the 16th and 17th centuries (in many cases they're flat-out better; Reikland and the Tilean cities, for example, have borderline early 19th century levels of wealth due to their industrialization). Elves, (some) Lizardmen, and Dwarfs are much richer and have higher living standards than humans thanks to magic and steampunk tech. And most critically: for most people, huge wars are a rarity. Low-level threats constantly stalk the forces of Order but they're consistently handled by the regular forces and militias before they cause too much damage, similar to how low-level warfare was a constant throughout the early modern era but only rarely snowballed into larger conflagrations (it was actually a major complaint of the setting that a few towns or armies could end up destroyed but for decades [[StatusQuoIsGod large-scale setbacks for the good guys never really happened, as they'd immediately change the relatively small and detailed world]]). The only threats that really rock the boat are the major Skaven, Orc, or Chaos campaigns that, pessimistically, occur about once a ''century''. Even those are typically dealt with quicker and with less bloodshed than real-world tragedies of the 17th century like the UsefulNotes/ThirtyYearsWar or the Manchu Conquest.

** Today the belt is owned by Conrad Thompson, a wrestling podcaster and Wrestling/RicFlair's son-in-law.[[note]]He's married to Ric's older daughter Meghan, Ric's younger and more famous daughter [[Wrestling/CharlotteFlair Ashley]] is married to former WWE and current Wrestling/{{AEW}} wrestler [[Wrestling/AndradeCienAlmas Andrade El Idolo]]. He's had the belt since 2013, before he met Ric or married Meghan. In fact, it was his acquisition of the belt that led to him meeting Flair; they met during the writing of the book). He kept his ownership of the Big Gold a secret until after he became famous through his podcasts.[[/note]] It's not in Wrestling/TripleH's office (after Flair gave it to him as a gift) as often believed[[note]]According to Flair, he actually gave Triple H the "[[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/28/7b/2a/287b2a32fe88ac1bd28723f43164d997.png Vegas Big Gold]]", a knockoff version briefly used by WWF at live events during their legal battle with NWA/WCW over the real Big Gold appearing on WWF television during Flair's WWF run.[[/note]]. It is also widely believed that Wrestling/ScottSteiner stole the original Big Gold while he was WCW Champion and replaced it with one of the cast copies. It's certainly plausible since Steiner was the last person known to have possessed the original belt prior to WCW's downfall and he did use one of the cast copies during the last few months of his title reign; the same copy that would carry over to WWF in 2001 in fact. General consensus is that Steiner did keep the original for years until Conrad bought it from him, but there's no definitive proof of this.

** Hogan tends to be remembered as much more squeaky-clean (if not boring) than his actions at the time would suggest. For instance, while 1984's Hulk vs. Wrestling/TheIronSheik is remembered as a cartoonish battle of the AllAmericanFace vs. the ForeignWrestlingHeel, it's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9psdw86uAUg Hogan]] who starts the match with a flurry of cheap shots. He was also fond of back rakes and face stomps, both heel tactics, and wasn't above using "bad powder" and chairshots on opponents when the ref was distracted. This is because Hogan was trained to wrestle as a heel and had been one until his run in the [[Wrestling/AmericanWrestlingAssociation AWA]].

* Critics of ''Theatre/{{Grease}}'' constantly say that in the end, Sandy's greaser makeover is "to please Danny" or "to make Danny love her." But Danny already already loves Sandy when she's a "good girl," and though he does feign indifference to her for a while to uphold his reputation, he gets over that and wants to go steady with her ''before'' her makeover. But then ''she'' dumps ''him'' because he wants to "go all the way" and she doesn't, which leaves him heartbroken. Her transformation can be read in a number of ways (wanting to fit in with the cool kids, abandoning social norms and finding her true self, etc.). But even she does do it mainly to get back together with Danny, it's more about abandoning her own reservations than about pleasing him.

** Many wrestling fans are under the impression that the original Big Gold Belt had a black leather strap and that the plates were completely gold. [[https://i1.wp.com/lylesmoviefiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/nwa-big-gold-belt.jpg When the belt was first made in late 1985]], the strap was a cherrywood brown color with light gray stitching and the plates had a sterling silver[[note]]Many have claimed that the plates were actually made of German silver aka. nickel silver, an alloy of nickel, zinc and copper (sometimes with a bit of tin or lead added) meant to mimic the appearance of silver but with no actual silver present. This is untrue, the engraving on the back of the plates confirms that they are indeed solid sterling silver with 24-karat heavy gold electroplate.[[/note]] background with the lettering, swirl patterns and relief pieces being gold-plated. While the original brown strap was eventually replaced by a new black strap, it wasn't replaced until 1999. (Even most people who know that the strap wasn't originally black think that it was replaced much earlier. This is likely because the original brown strap became so dirty and discolored by the mid-'90s that it began to look black on TV. This was pre-HD after all.) As for the plates, not only did they initially look completely gold on TV except in close-up shots, but as time went on, the gold became less shiny and the silver became tarnished, which made it harder to tell that the plates were two-tone even up-close (compare how the plates looked when they were [[https://youtu.be/7JQWWu5X-Ms?si=pYouzfIgQxn7oqow&t=1m29s brand new]] to how they looked just [[https://youtu.be/j8ggDRV5Rj4?si=usUKwvZ9cj2aOW-I&t=59s five years later]]). And towards the end of WCW's existence, the original Big Gold Belt was replaced by a series of cast copies[[note]]Despite what Wikipedia says, these cast copies were not made in order to be used as props in the ''Film/ReadyToRumble'' movie. The [[https://i.pinimg.com/736x/73/5d/f6/735df65c881406b14b7f06b0991a21e2--ready-to-rumble-belts.jpg prop belts]] in that movie were etched replicas made by professional championship belt maker [=J-Mar=] and have very noticeable differences compared to the [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dx7FXJvWsAEvryB.jpg real Big Gold]] and the [[http://belttalk.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/DDPBGdone1.jpg cast copies]], so they couldn't have been cast from the original. WCW ordered two cast copies because the original Big Gold was in rough shape by that point and they needed replacements. A third cast copy was made as a backup in case one was lost or needed repairs and two more were personal copies made for Wrestling/KevinNash and Wrestling/DiamondDallasPage making a total of five direct copies.[[/note]], which ''were'' entirely gold-plated, with one of these cast copies carrying over into WWF during Wrestling/TheInvasionAngle. The WWE versions of the Big Gold Belt used for their World Heavyweight Championship would also feature all-gold plates on a black leather strap (with a red crocskin backing added in 2011), which probably helps fuel the misconception among younger fans.

* While on the subject of Sting it's commonly believed that the other Music/{{Sting}}, Gordon Sumner, owns the rights to the name "Sting" and the wrestler, Steve Borden, has to pay a small annual fee to Sumner to fulfill the legal obligations of protecting the trademark.[[note]]Not doing this is known as "abandonment", which basically means that said trademark is now public domain[[/note]] In reality it's actually ''Borden'' that owns the name, not Sumner, even though Sumner was calling himself "Sting" long before Borden even got into the wrestling business.

** ''The Last Supper'' is commonly referred to as a fresco, which it is not. Creator/LeonardoDaVinci experimented with this painting, and instead of painting it on wet plaster as was the convention, he painted ''The Last Supper'' on a dry wall with an experimental mix of tempera and paint, differentiating it from ordinary frescos.

* One of Rembrandt's most iconic paintings is ''The Night Watch''. Except its actual name is ''Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq''. It doesn't even take place at night, either; it was just covered with a dark varnish for a very long time.

* Everybody knows that Creator/FranciscoGoya's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_Devouring_His_Son most famous painting]] is a depiction of a brother of Zeus (or Jupiter) being eaten by their father Cronus (or Saturn). Actually, there's no definitive proof of that: ''Saturn Devouring His Son'' is just the most popular name given to one of 14 paintings (nicknamed "The Black Paintings") that Goya painted privately toward the end of his life, and never intended for public display. As such, there's no clear indication of what (if anything) Goya intended to title it, and we can only speculate about what its subject was intended to be.

* Similar to Hulk Hogan, everyone "knows" that Wrestling/{{Goldberg}} can't wrestle, can't work any match longer than a few minutes, and has no moves other than [[FiveMovesOfDoom "Spear, Jackhammer, pin"]]. In reality, this only applies to his part-time WWE run, in which his first match back was just over a month before his 50th birthday. When active in his prime, Goldberg actually performed a considerable number of different moves over the years, constantly trying out new things that you wouldn't expect like the Dragon Screw Leg Whip, Corkscrew Dropkick, a couple of submission moves like a rolling kneebar and ankle lock[[note]]The Goldberg gimmick was originally conceived as a ripoff of Wrestling/KenShamrock and Wrestling/DanSevern, Wrestling/EricBischoff thought he could book a guy pretending to be a UsefulNotes/{{UFC}} fighter better than Wrestling/VinceMcMahon could book two real ones. Seeing as how Goldberg became the most over guy in wrestling not named Wrestling/SteveAustin for a while, and Shamrock and Severn had only one PPV main event and zero world titles between them (while being employed by Vince that is, Shamrock would later become [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]]'s first world champion), Bischoff was right[[/note]] and almost every variety of slam under the sun, as can be seen in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HhwKkkfgkk his top move compilation video]] (which compiles 35 recognised moves, plus 3 bonus moves).

* Creator/RossChastain and his insane [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNGN_mLyCpo wallride pass]] to win the 2022 Xfinity 500 was the talk of the sports world in late 2022, with clips being circulated all over social media. Thing is though, ''he didn't win'', he finished fourth. Christopher Bell won, but the extra points Chastain earned with his crazy move was enough to get him into the last round of the UsefulNotes/{{NASCAR}} playoffs (though Joey Logano would win the Cup Series title the next week). Cue the ObviousRulePatch at season's end to make sure no one tries this again.[[note]]As explained by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiDMyfz9WbE this video]] this sort of "wallride" wouldn't have been possible in the past because of the way the cars were constructed, meaning this rule patch actually wasn't that obvious.[[/note]]

** Many wrestling fans are under the impression that the original Big Gold Belt had a black leather strap and that the plates were completely gold. When the belt was first made in late 1985, [[https://i1.wp.com/lylesmoviefiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/nwa-big-gold-belt.jpg the strap was a cherrywood brown color with light gray stitching and the plates had a sterling silver[[note]]Many have claimed that the plates were actually made of German silver aka. nickel silver, an alloy of nickel, zinc and copper (sometimes with a bit of tin or lead added) meant to mimic the appearance of silver but with no actual silver present. This is untrue, the engraving on the back of the plates confirms that they are indeed solid sterling silver with 24-karat heavy gold electroplate.[[/note]] background with the lettering, swirl patterns and relief pieces being gold-plated]]. While the original brown strap was eventually replaced by a new black strap, it wasn't replaced until 1999 (even those who know the strap wasn't originally black think that it was replaced much earlier). The original brown strap became so dirty and discolored by the mid-'90s that it began to look black on TV (this was pre-HD, after all). As for the plates, not only did they initially look completely gold on TV except in close-up shots, but as time went on, the gold became less shiny and the silver became tarnished, which made it harder to tell that the plates were two-tone even up-close (compare how the plates looked when they were [[https://youtu.be/7JQWWu5X-Ms?si=pYouzfIgQxn7oqow&t=1m29s brand new]] to how they looked just [[https://youtu.be/j8ggDRV5Rj4?si=usUKwvZ9cj2aOW-I&t=59s five years later]]). And towards the end of WCW's existence, the original Big Gold Belt was replaced by a series of cast copies[[note]]Despite what Wikipedia says, these cast copies were not made in order to be used as props in the ''Film/ReadyToRumble'' movie. The [[https://i.pinimg.com/736x/73/5d/f6/735df65c881406b14b7f06b0991a21e2--ready-to-rumble-belts.jpg prop belts]] in that movie were etched replicas made by professional championship belt maker [=J-Mar=] and have very noticeable differences compared to the [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dx7FXJvWsAEvryB.jpg real Big Gold]] and the [[http://belttalk.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/DDPBGdone1.jpg cast copies]], so they couldn't have been cast from the original. WCW ordered two cast copies because the original Big Gold was in rough shape by that point and they needed replacements. A third cast copy was made as a backup in case one was lost or needed repairs and two more were personal copies made for Wrestling/KevinNash and Wrestling/DiamondDallasPage making a total of five direct copies.[[/note]], which ''were'' entirely gold-plated, with one of these cast copies carrying over into WWF during Wrestling/TheInvasionAngle. The WWE versions of the Big Gold Belt used for their World Heavyweight Championship would also feature all-gold plates on a black leather strap (with a red crocskin backing added in 2011), which probably helps fuel the misconception among younger fans.

** Many wrestling fans are under the impression that the original Big Gold Belt had a black leather strap and that the plates were completely gold. When the belt was first made in late 1985, [[https://i1.wp.com/lylesmoviefiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/nwa-big-gold-belt.jpg the strap was a cherrywood brown color with light gray stitching and the plates had a sterling silver[[note]]Many will claim that the plates were actually made of German silver aka. nickel silver, an alloy of nickel, zinc and copper (sometimes with a bit of tin or lead added) meant to mimic the appearance of silver but with no actual silver present. This is untrue, the engraving on the back of the plates confirms that they were indeed solid sterling silver with 24-karat heavy gold electroplate.[[/note]] background with the lettering, swirl patterns and relief pieces being gold-plated]]. While the original brown strap was eventually replaced by a new black strap, it wasn't replaced until 1999 (even those who know the strap wasn't originally black think that it was replaced much earlier). The brown strap became so dirty and discolored by the mid-'90s that it often looked black on TV (this was pre-HD, after all). As for the plates, not only did they initially look completely gold on TV except in close-up shots, but as time went on, the gold became less shiny and the silver became tarnished, which made it harder to tell that the plates were two-tone even up-close (compare how the plates looked when they were [[https://youtu.be/7JQWWu5X-Ms?si=pYouzfIgQxn7oqow&t=1m29s brand new]] to how they looked just [[https://youtu.be/j8ggDRV5Rj4?si=usUKwvZ9cj2aOW-I&t=59s five years later]]). And towards the end of WCW's existence, the original Big Gold Belt was replaced by a series of cast copies[[note]]Despite what Wikipedia says, these cast copies were not made in order to be used as props in the ''Film/ReadyToRumble'' movie. The [[https://i.pinimg.com/736x/73/5d/f6/735df65c881406b14b7f06b0991a21e2--ready-to-rumble-belts.jpg prop belts]] in that movie were etched replicas made by professional championship belt maker [=J-Mar=] and have very noticeable differences compared to the [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dx7FXJvWsAEvryB.jpg real Big Gold]] and the [[http://belttalk.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/DDPBGdone1.jpg cast copies]], so they couldn't have been cast from the original. WCW ordered two cast copies because the original Big Gold was in rough shape by that point and they needed replacements. A third cast copy was made as a backup in case one was lost or needed repairs and two more were personal copies made for Wrestling/KevinNash and Wrestling/DiamondDallasPage making a total of five direct copies.[[/note]], which ''were'' entirely gold-plated, with one of these cast copies carrying over into WWF during Wrestling/TheInvasionAngle. The WWE versions of the Big Gold Belt used for their World Heavyweight Championship would also feature all-gold plates on a black leather strap (with a red crocskin backing added in 2011), which probably helps fuel the misconception among younger fans.

** Today the belt is owned by Conrad Thompson, a wrestling podcaster and Wrestling/RicFlair's son-in-law.[[note]]He's married to Ric's older daughter Meghan, Ric's younger and more famous daughter [[Wrestling/CharlotteFlair Ashley]] is married to former WWE and current Wrestling/{{AEW}} wrestler [[Wrestling/AndradeCienAlmas Andrade El Idolo]]. He's had the belt since 2013, before he met Ric or married Meghan. In fact, it was his acquisition of the belt that led to him meeting Flair; they met during the writing of the book). He kept his ownership of the Big Gold a secret until after he became famous through his podcasts.[[/note]] It's not in Wrestling/TripleH's office (after Flair gave it to him as a gift) as often believed[[note]]According to Flair, he actually gave Triple H the "[[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/28/7b/2a/287b2a32fe88ac1bd28723f43164d997.png Vegas Big Gold]]", a knockoff version briefly used by WWF at live events during their legal battle with NWA/WCW over the real Big Gold appearing on WWF television during Flair's WWF run.[[/note]]. It is also widely believed that Wrestling/ScottSteiner stole the original while he was WCW Champion and replaced it with one of the cast copies. It's certainly plausible since Steiner was the last person known to have possessed the original Big Gold prior to WCW's downfall and he did use one of the cast copies during the last few months of his title reign; the same copy that would carry over to WWF in 2001 in fact. General consensus is that Steiner did keep the original until Conrad bought it from him, but there's no definitive proof of this.

** Many wrestling fans are under the impression that the original Big Gold Belt had a black leather strap and that the plates were completely gold. When the belt was first made in late 1985, [[https://i1.wp.com/lylesmoviefiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/nwa-big-gold-belt.jpg the strap was a cherrywood brown color with light gray stitching and the plates had a sterling silver background with the lettering, swirl patterns and relief pieces being gold-plated]]. While the original brown strap was eventually replaced by a new black strap, it wasn't replaced until 1999 (even those who know the strap wasn't originally black think that it was replaced much earlier). The brown strap became so dirty and discolored by the mid-'90s that it often looked black on TV (this was pre-HD, after all). As for the plates, not only did they initially look completely gold on TV except in close-up shots, but as time went on, the gold became less shiny and the silver became tarnished, which made it harder to tell that the plates were two-tone even up-close (compare how the plates looked when they were [[https://youtu.be/7JQWWu5X-Ms?si=pYouzfIgQxn7oqow&t=1m29s brand new]] to how they looked just [[https://youtu.be/j8ggDRV5Rj4?si=usUKwvZ9cj2aOW-I&t=59s five years later]]). And towards the end of WCW's existence, the original Big Gold Belt was replaced by a series of cast copies[[note]]Despite what Wikipedia says, these cast copies were not made in order to be used as props in the ''Film/ReadyToRumble'' movie. The [[https://i.pinimg.com/736x/73/5d/f6/735df65c881406b14b7f06b0991a21e2--ready-to-rumble-belts.jpg prop belts]] in that movie were etched replicas made by professional championship belt maker [=J-Mar=] and have very noticeable differences compared to the [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dx7FXJvWsAEvryB.jpg real Big Gold]] and the [[http://belttalk.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/DDPBGdone1.jpg cast copies]], so they couldn't have been cast from the original. WCW ordered two cast copies because the original Big Gold was in rough shape by that point and they needed replacements. A third cast copy was made as a backup in case one was lost or needed repairs and two more were personal copies made for Wrestling/KevinNash and Wrestling/DiamondDallasPage making a total of five direct copies.[[/note]], which ''were'' entirely gold-plated, with one of these cast copies carrying over into WWF during Wrestling/TheInvasionAngle. The WWE versions of the Big Gold Belt used for their World Heavyweight Championship would also feature all-gold plates on a black leather strap (with a red crocskin backing added in 2011), which probably helps fuel the misconception among younger fans.

* Everyone remembers Wrestling/TripleH getting [[Main/SquashMatch squashed]] by Wrestling/UltimateWarrior at ''Wrestling/WrestleMania XII'' as punishment for the "curtain call"[[note]]Where Triple H, Wrestling/ShawnMichaels, Wrestling/ScottHall, and Wrestling/KevinNash all broke Main/{{Kayfabe}} and hugged in the ring at the end of a show in New York (it's also referred to as the "MSG Incident", Hall & Nash had given their notice weeks earlier and this was their last night in the company), causing a near mutiny among the old guard working backstage. Triple H ended up being the only one punished because Michaels was WWF world champion (and with Wrestling/BretHart taking time off Michaels was basically the only upper card babyface on the roster) and Hall & Nash had taken their talents [[Wrestling/{{WCW}} down south]], and he spent the next few months jobbing out[[/note]], it's even mentioned on a couple pages of this website. Problem is, the "curtain call" happened about six weeks '''after''' ''[=WrestleMania XII=]''. Triple H got squashed by Warrior because he was deemed the one heel over enough that the fans would want to see him [[Main/CurbStompBattle get wiped out in short order]] but not over enough that the loss would really matter (keep in mind that Triple H had only been in the company for about 4 months), and while he obviously didn't much care for being treated like a [[Main/{{Jobber}} job guy]] he certainly appreciated getting what was the biggest one night payoff of his life up until that point. If he was already on Vince's shit list someone else would have been collecting that ''[=WrestleMania=]'' bonus.

* Everyone remembers Wrestling/TripleH getting [[Main/SquashMatch squashed]] by Wrestling/UltimateWarrior at ''Wrestling/WrestleMania XII'' as punishment for the "curtain call"[[note]]Where Triple H, Wrestling/ShawnMichaels, Wrestling/ScottHall, and Wrestling/KevinNash all broke Main/{{Kayfabe}} and hugged in the ring at the end of a show in New York (it's also referred to as the "MSG Incident", Hall & Nash had given their notice weeks earlier and this was their last night in the company), causing a near mutiny among the old guard working backstage. Triple H ended up being the only one punished because Michaels was world champ and Hall & Nash had taken their talents [[Wrestling/{{WCW}} down south]], and he spent the next few months jobbing out[[/note]], it's even mentioned on a couple pages of this website. Problem is, the "curtain call" happened about six weeks '''after''' ''[=WrestleMania XII=]''. Triple H got squashed by Warrior because he was deemed the one heel over enough that the fans would want to see him [[Main/CurbStompBattle get wiped out in short order]] but not over enough that the loss would really matter (keep in mind that Triple H had only been in the company for about 4 months), and while he obviously didn't much care for being treated like a [[Main/{{Jobber}} job guy]] he certainly appreciated getting what was the biggest one night payoff of his life up until that point. If he was already on Vince's shit list someone else would have been collecting that ''[=WrestleMania=]'' bonus.

* The villain of the first ''WebVideo/DontHugMeImScared'' video is officially named "Sketchbook", not "Notepad". They are also officially [[AmbiguousGender of unknown gender]], though fans near exclusively consider Sketchbook female.

* ''WebVideo/Mega64'': It's easy to assume that a group that specializes in video game related skits would have named themselves after the UsefulNotes/Nintendo64, but the truth is the name came from how Rocco, as told through a podcast, felt he was being followed by the number 64 as it was his locker number in school and a grade he got on a test. In fact, Rocco made it a screen name weeks before the Nintendo 64 was even announced.
* The popular ''VideoGame/CounterStrike'' video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqB1uoDTdKM DOOR STUCK!]] in which a player {{Troll}}s his teammate by [[StuckInTheDoorway trapping him in a door]], is treated by gamers on the casual side of the CasualCompetitiveConflict as an example of how players used to be able to have fun in multiplayer games instead of being forced to treat everything like TournamentPlay. Ironically, the video description says this happened in a competitive match, as it says he's "having fun in ESEA", a competitive league which includes ''Counter-Strike''. Furthermore, the video takes place on de_cpl_mill, the "cpl" in which stands for Cyberathlete Professional League, meaning the video would still depend on ''Counter-Strike'' having an esports scene to exist in the first place even if they were playing casually.
* WebVideo/VOMSProject:
** Lots of people tend to assume that VOMS is a company like WebAnimation/{{Hololive}} or WebAnimation/{{Nijisanji}}, but this is very much not the case. According to Pikamee, the talents sign contracts with GYARI which basically allows them to use his art, models and music as long as they "don't do anything stupid" while they're using them. The members of VOMS are also basically ordinary people who happen to do [=VTubing=] as a hobby or secondary source of income, as opposed to the companies mentioned above who treat it much more seriously and often lean towards pre-established internet figures for their talents.
** Pikamee's graduation was ''not'' caused by the ''VideoGame/HogwartsLegacy'' controversy, nor was she "bullied into graduating" as many claim. Pikamee and GYARI were in talks about her graduation for a good few months before the controversy occurred, and she would've likely announced her graduation around that time anyway if she hadn't cancelled her ''Hogwarts Legacy'' stream and extended her hiatus, as March is the end of Japan's fiscal year. That said, the controversy ''did'' rob fans of the extra time they could have spent with her.

* Everybody knows that ''Magazine/TimeMagazine'''s famous "Person of the Year" title is an award intended to honor public figures for their contributions to society, which is why the magazine has gotten considerable backlash for giving it to a few rather controversial public figures over the years. Except it isn't an award at all: it's a statement about which public figure had the most profound impact on the world (for good or for ill) in a given year. Case in point: UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler was Person of the Year in 1938, and UsefulNotes/JosefStalin was Person of the Year in 1939 and 1942. ''Time'' has partially contributed to the misconception themselves, since they've generally avoided giving the title to controversial figures ever since they faced backlash for giving it to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1979; the 2001 title, which went to Rudy Giuliani instead of UsefulNotes/OsamaBinLaden, is one of the more infamous examples of the title straying from its original intended meaning.

* Everybody knows that Creator/FranciscoGoya's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_Devouring_His_Son most famous painting]] is a depiction of Zeus (or Jupiter) being eaten by his father Cronus (or Saturn). Actually, there's no definitive proof of that: ''Saturn Devouring His Son'' is just the most popular name given to one of 14 paintings (nicknamed "The Black Paintings") that Goya painted privately toward the end of his life, and never intended for public display. As such, there's no clear indication of what (if anything) Goya intended to title it, and we can only speculate about what its subject was intended to be.

** Crossing with FakeMemories, during the 2020 Usefulnotes/OlympicGames many Brazilians learned that their then-best known gymnast, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daiane_dos_Santos Daiane dos Santos]], had never won an Olympic medal (she was the World Champion on floor exercise in 2003, but in three Olympics, was at most fifth in the floor finals) after Rebeca Andrade became the first Brazilian woman to medal in gymnastics at the Games.

* "Avocado" supposedly derives from the Aztec word for "testicle". Nope. The word ''āhuacatl'' always meant "avocado". It was sometimes used informally to mean "testicle" because of the similar shapes of the two items, much as "nuts" and "plums" are used as slang terms in English. The plant you're looking for whose name derives from "testicle" is the ''orchid'', whose name derives from the Greek (ὄρχις) due to the distinctly testicular shape of its tubers, which generally come in pairs.

* Despite casual references to him as "the fiddler", Tevye, the milkman and lead character of ''Theatre/FiddlerOnTheRoof'', is decidedly not the title character, nor is the title character an actual character. He is a visual representation of what it's like for a people bound by ancient tradition to live in an environment that is hostile to said traditions.

*** "Star-crossed lovers" is ''not'' a synonym for "happily ever after". It means that they are ill-fated, that destiny is against them. ("Stars" stand in for "fate", and "crossed" in this case is akin to a "double-cross", i.e. a ''betrayal''. If the stars have "crossed" you, then bad things will happen to you.) They ''die''. There's a reason the StarCrossedLovers trope means a relationship is doomed to ''failure''.

** Contrary to almost all depictions (and how they're portrayed in every other form of media), elves in ''[=D&D=]'' are, by the rules as written, a head ''shorter'' than humans.

** Again similarly, a natural 20 is normally only an auto-success, and only on attack rolls and saving throws (and only in some editions for saving throws). It is not an automatic success on a skill check, and it's not a super-duper ultra success. The only exceptions are Death saving throws in Fifth Edition, where natural 20s and natural 1s have explicit special effects (they count as an automatic revive and two failures, respectively), critical hits (which can sometimes happen on slightly lower rolls) and attack rolls with a Vorpal Sword (which either beheads the target or deals a massive amount of extra damage [which is further multiplied by virtue of being a critical hit] if the target cannot be beheaded or could survive such a fate).

** Again similarly, a natural 20 is normally only an auto-success, and only on attack rolls and saving throws (and only in some editions for saving throws), with critical hits being an entirely optional rule. It is not an automatic success on a skill check, and it's not a super-duper ultra success. The sole exception is Death saving throws in Fifth Edition, where natural 20s and natural 1s have explicit special effects (they count as an automatic revive and two failures, respectively).

** The game was directly inspired by ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', right? No, it wasn't. Gary Gygax ''hated'' Tolkien -- he only incorporated elements such as halflings and treants on the insistence of his gaming group, who wanted to play as Frodo. He actually drew much of his inspiration from the ''Literature/FafhrdAndTheGrayMouser'' stories by Creator/FritzLeiber, Creator/RobertEHoward's ''Literature/ConanTheBarbarian'', and Creator/JackVance's ''Dying Earth'' works. ''D&D'' does borrow from ''Lord of the Rings'', but it would probably be harder to name a pre-1970s fantasy work that ''D&D'' ''didn't'' borrow something from, with early Monster Manuals being laden with thinly-veiled {{Expies}} of monsters from random pulp novels. Tolkien's work just happens to be much more well-known than that of Lieber, Howard, and Vance, much less Creator/RichardSharpeShaver or Creator/AEVanVogt.

** Many wrestling fans are under the impression that the original Big Gold Belt had a black leather strap and that the plates were completely gold. When the belt was first made in late 1985, [[https://i1.wp.com/lylesmoviefiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/nwa-big-gold-belt.jpg the strap was a cherrywood brown color with light gray stitching and the plates had a sterling silver background with the lettering, swirl patterns and relief pieces being gold-plated]]. While the original brown strap was eventually replaced by a black strap, it wasn't replaced until 1999 (even those who know the strap wasn't originally black think that it was replaced much earlier, usually somewhere between 1994 and 1998). The brown strap became very dirty and discolored over the years, to the point where it often looked black on TV (this was pre-HD, after all). As for the plates, not only did they initially look completely gold on TV except in close-up shots, but as time went on, the gold became less shiny and the silver became tarnished, which made it harder to tell that the plates were two-tone even up-close (compare how the plates looked when they were [[https://youtu.be/7JQWWu5X-Ms?si=pYouzfIgQxn7oqow&t=1m29s brand new]] to how they looked just [[https://youtu.be/j8ggDRV5Rj4?si=usUKwvZ9cj2aOW-I&t=59s five years later]]). And towards the end of WCW's existence, the original Big Gold Belt was replaced by a series of cast copies[[note]]Despite what Wikipedia says, these cast copies were not made in order to be used as props in the ''Film/ReadyToRumble'' movie. The [[https://i.pinimg.com/736x/73/5d/f6/735df65c881406b14b7f06b0991a21e2--ready-to-rumble-belts.jpg prop belts]] in that movie were etched replicas made by professional championship belt maker [=J-Mar=] and have very noticeable differences compared to the [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dx7FXJvWsAEvryB.jpg real Big Gold]] and the [[http://belttalk.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/DDPBGdone1.jpg cast copies]], so they couldn't have been cast from the original. WCW ordered two cast copies because the original Big Gold was in rough shape by that point and they needed replacements. A third cast copy was made as a backup in case one was lost or needed repairs and two more were personal copies made for Wrestling/KevinNash and Wrestling/DiamondDallasPage making a total of five direct copies.[[/note]], which ''were'' entirely gold-plated, with one of these cast copies carrying over into WWF during Wrestling/TheInvasionAngle. The WWE versions of the Big Gold Belt used for their World Heavyweight Championship would also feature all-gold plates on a black leather strap (with a red crocskin backing added in 2011), which probably helps fuel the misconception among younger fans.

* During the 1936 Summer Olympics, Adolf Hitler did not shake hands with Jesse Owens. This is true - although not for the reason usually stated, which was due to him being non-Aryan (ie not blond-haired blue-eyed). In reality, on the first day of competition, Hitler shook hands with only the German athletes. The head of the IOC told him that he could either congratulate everybody or nobody, and he chose the latter. Owens would later admit to being snubbed by somebody: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who didn't even send Owens a telegram or invite him to the White House.