History SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome / LiveActionFilms

** Murtaugh sits motionless on the toilet all night to prevent a bomb from going off in the toilet. By the next morning, Murtaugh being stuck in that position for that long means he can't stand up on his own, much to his horror when he realizes this means he won't be able to escape the bomb blast since there's a DeadMansSwitch. Riggs ends up having to yank Murtaugh off the toilet, throw him into the bathtub, and smother them both in a bomb blanket in a split second to survive the blast.

* In ''Film/LethalWeapon2'', BigBad Arjen Rudd is flaunting the fact that he has DiplomaticImpunity from being prosecuted for his crimes. Much to Rudd's fatal surprise, Murtaugh shoots Rudd in the head and announces that "[[BondOneLiner it's just been revoked]]" after Rudd shoots Riggs, and Murtaugh suffers no legal consequences. Diplomatic immunity extends to being unable to be arrested or prosecuted; Rudd had to learn the hard way that being shot in self-defense isn't covered.

* ''Film/TheParentTrap1998'': Annie and Hallie give each other a crash course on their lives and how to pretend to be each other at summer camp, but they can't learn how to perfectly mimic each other in a few weeks, they even admit ahead of time that it's only a matter of time before they're found out. While they're parents don't realise they have the wrong daughter, the people around them do quickly notice that the girls aren't acting like themselves and realise what's going on within days. The twins were actually counting on their impersonations not being perfect, as it would force their parents to reunite in order to switch them back.

* In ''Film/TheAwakenPunch'', a 1970s Kung Fu movie, the hero tracks down the leader of the gangsters responsible for murdering his family and kidnapping his love interest, and kills him after a brutal fight. S.O.P., right? Well, then he gets arrested for nine major offenses, including the deaths of six other gang members. [[DownerEnding The End!]]

* The 1994 version of ''Film/AngelsInTheOutfield'' does this for a key plot point, as a way to show that protagonist Roger was DramaticallyMissingThePoint. Roger asks his dad when they'll be a family again. Roger's dad quips "when the Angels win the pennant". He was in SarcasmMode, since at the time, the Angels were in last place in the American League and had a long shot at best to win the World Series. But Roger thought his dad was being literal. And even though the Angels start winning with divine intervention, Roger's dad doesn't come back. Instead, a scene in the middle of the film shows Roger's father giving up custody of Roger to the state of California, as he feels that it's in Roger's best interest. Roger is thus quite heartbroken when he realizes what his dad was actually saying, and breaks down into tears.

** Upon seeing Marsellus Wallace out in the street, Butch tries to run Marsellus over with his car. Butch hits and injures Marsellus, but not much since he barely had any room to punch the gas. Also, Butch injures himself in the collision because he wasn't wearing a seat belt.

* ''Film/Ghostbusters1984'': The Ghostbusters rush up the stairs of Dana's apartment to defeat Gozer. 18 floors later, and the quartet (all of whom are middle aged smokers that subsist on junk food and takeout) is completely winded. There's a reason buildings weren't built past six stories before the invention of elevators.

* ''Film/{{Enchanted}}'': The movie often contrasts between the [[AlternateTooniverse animated world]] and [[RealLife reality]]. For example, in the animated opening, Giselle falls from a great height from a tree but is caught effortlessly in Edward's arms (on a horse) and she is unhurt. On the other hand, in New York when Giselle falls from a billboard (a much lesser height) and Robert tries to catch her, he does manage to cushion her fall, but they are both hurt and end up in an undignified tangle to boot. Also, Pip can speak in the animated world, but can't in the real world.

* ''Film/{{Aliens}}'':
** Usually used to establish how out-of-depth the Colonial Marines are when they meet the Xenomorphs. Lt. Gorman has only ever performed two real combat drops (including the current one he's leading), so when the SergeantRock is killed and circumstances get messy, he freezes and Ripley has to salvage the situation.
** Ripley wakes up 57 years after the loss of the ''USCSS Nostromo''. [[SoleSurvivor There's nobody else to corroborate her story]] about how a lethal alien monster with [[AcidAttack acid for blood]] killed the rest of the crew, and the Xenomorph was ThrownOutTheAirlock (some damage it caused to the escape pod being the only evidence of it ever being there). The planet where the Xenomorph was encountered in her story has been colonised for twenty-two years and nobody there has ever reported encountering any living thing matching the creature's description. [[SarcasmMode Surprisingly]], the WY executives do not take her testimony seriously one bit. Instead, they chalk it all up to an industrial accident and revoke her flight licence.
** Hicks shooting down Vasquez's suggestion to deploy CN-20 nerve gas against the Xenomorph hive after most of the Marines are slaughtered. While he concedes it's worth a try, Hicks also rightly points out that they have no idea if CN-20 will affect Xenomorph physiology or not. This is quite {{justified}}, as the only real knowledge the team has of said physiology comes from what little Ripley and the ''USCSS Nostromo'' crew were able to discover in the previous film (in addition to the Marines having just seen their resiliency firsthand in the Atmospheric Processing Facility). So going back into the Nest to deploy the CN-20 — a weapon they can't garuntee will work — with their depleted numbers would be a guaranteed SuicideMission and it's thus too risky.
** The explosion of the Atmospheric Processing Facility. Ripley's concerns about using heavy ammo around the reactor's coolant system are right on the money, but Gorman's failure to explain this to the team when he issues his orders means several of the Marines naturally ignore him and keep their ammo. So when the Xenomorphs attack, out come the bullets and instant damage to critical systems ensues (if he'd explained his reasoning, they might have at least been more careful where they were aiming). Combine the firefight with the additional damage caused by the Dropship crash (on top of nobody servicing the Station for at least several weeks once the Colonists were overrun) and something like this was inevitable.

* ''Film/{{Enchanted}}'':
** The movie often contrasts between the [[AlternateTooniverse animated world]] and [[RealLife reality]]. For example, in the animated opening, Giselle falls from a great height from a tree but is caught effortlessly in Edward's arms (on a horse) and she is unhurt. On the other hand, in New York when Giselle falls from a billboard (a much lesser height) and Robert tries to catch her, he does manage to cushion her fall, but they are both hurt and end up in an undignified tangle to boot. Also, Pip can speak in the animated world, but can't in the real world.
** When Giselle calls animals in New York, instead of [[WoodlandCreatures cute forest animals]], she gets the assistance of rats, pigeons (one of whom is maimed in a way a lot of pigeons are in New York), and cockroaches; all the vermin you'd find in "a place where there is no happily ever afters."
** Also, when Robert decides to let Giselle [[BeautifulDreamer sleep on the couch for the night at his apartment]], he has Morgan go into his room because he still doesn't truly know if the woman who thinks she's going to be a princess is a psychopath who could hurt his daughter.

* In ''Film/MuppetsMostWanted'', Nadya arrests Kermit for escaping from the gulag (though it seems his arrest has more to do with leaving before the gulag revue ended). She only lets him go after Walter, Fozzie and Gonzo ask her to arrest them, too. Used as a gag on the blooper reel when Kermit then asks her how the hell she got through customs with a foreign army (apparently she had a small problem, but only because she was carrying fruit).

* In ''Film/TerminatorSalvation'', this trope was used as the justification for why John Connor is a low-level operative in the human resistance, rather than the leader like he was in the future segments of the first two films.
-->'''Joseph [=McGinty=]''': You survived the nuclear holocaust and you crawl out of the hole after three-to-five years and say, "Well, I know what's going on — I'm the one!" Some SAS guy isn't going to say, "Where do I go, boss?" He'd say, "Shut the fuck up and get in line."
* ''Film/UnderTheShadow'': At one point in the movie, after suffering [[spoiler:another supernatural attack from the djinn]], [[TheProtagonist Shideh]] grabs her daughter and runs out of the apartment building into the street. However, she didn't put a hijab on before going out, so when the authorities catch her, she's arrested.[[note]]This movie is set in 1980s Iran.[[/note]] She's brought in, and told she should be ashamed for exposing herself in public.
* ''Film/{{Unforgiven}}'': The whole film is built on this trope applied to westerns:
** The QuickDraw is shown to be bunk. Little Bill explains [[spoiler:and William Munny later demonstrates]] that winning a gunfight, even one against multiple people, isn't about who can draw first, but who can accurately aim first. [[spoiler:Munny prevails in a close-range shootout against Bill and four of his deputies because when Little Bill, the only truly experienced gunman of the group, is taken out first, most of the deputies respond by firing off panicked snapfires (with most of the deputies obviously acting in an unthinking and panicked haze), while Munny makes himself as small a target as possible and calmly pops them off one-by-one.]]
** When Munny decides to join the Schofield Kid on the bounty hunt, he goes outside and practices firing at cans. Despite being an experienced gunslinger back in the day, Munny hasn't touched a gun in years since his [[ViolenceIsDisturbing "glory"]] days, and is rusty.
** There's a strong element of GossipEvolution with characters recounting events. Every time a character gives the story of Delilah's mutilation, the gory details get more and more extreme because the tellers are operating on second-hand information and they have a vested interest in making the offending cowboy sound bad. Basically, Delilah's face got cut up [[DisproportionateRetribution because she laughed at his pecker]]; by the end, the story goes that Delilah lost her nose and her breasts were cut up as well, both untrue.
** In contrast to many westerns, the act of the hero so causally being able to gun down some one, here it is shown to be a horrific act that one never truly gets over. Munny is plagued with guilt over all the people he has killed over the years and [[spoiler: The Schofield kid damn near has a complete breakdown after he kills one of the man involved in attacking Delilah.]]
** The quality of both the guns and gunpowder available and the potential issues they can cause is mentioned or shown to be an issue several times. Little Bill tells the less than flattering truth about how English Bob killed "Two-Gun" Corcoran; Corcoran's Walker Colt exploded on him when he went to fire, allowing Bob to get the drop on Corcoran and kill him while he was defenseless. At the end of the film, Munny walks through a dramatic thunderstorm with his shotgun out to confront Little Bill... and when he tries to shoot Little Bill, it misfires, either due to being faulty or because the gunpowder has gotten wet from exposure to the storm.

* ''Film/GrandmothersFarm2'': In [[Film/GrandmothersFarm the first movie]], Khalid brings one of the girls he met at the gas station, Noora, back to Yassir's grandmother's farm while under the influence of the djinn. By the time of this movie, she still hasn't come back, and Khalid is dealing with her angry, worried mother about it. She tells him she plans to call the police.

** The QuickDraw is shown to be bunk. Little Bill explains [[spoiler:and William Munny later demonstrates]] that winning a gunfight, even one against multiple people, isn't about who can draw first, but who can accurately aim first. [[spoiler:Munny prevails in a close-range shootout against Bill and four of his deputies because they're firing off panicked snapfires while Munny is calmly popping them off one-by-one.]]

** There's a strong element of Chinese Whispers with characters recounting events. Every time a character gives the story of Delilah's mutilation, the gory details get more and more extreme because the tellers are operating on second-hand information and they have a vested interest in making the offending cowboy sound bad. Basically, Delilah's face got cut up [[Disproportionate Retribution because she laughed at his pecker]]; by the end, the story goes that Delilah lost her nose and her breasts were cut up as well, both untrue.
** In contrast to many westerns, the act of the hero so causally being able to gun down some one, here it is shown to be a horrific act that one never truly gets over. Munny is plagued with guilt over all the people he has killed over the years and [[spoiler: The Schofield kid damn near has a complete break down after he kills one of the man involved in attacking Delilah]]

** There's a strong element of Chinese Whispers with characters recounting events. Every time a character gives the story of Delilah's mutilation, the gory details get more and more extreme because the tellers are operating on second-hand information and they have a vested interest in making the offending cowboy sound bad. Basically, Delilah's face got cut up [[DisproportionateRetribution because she laughed at his pecker]]; by the end, the story goes that Delilah lost her nose and her breasts were cut up as well, both untrue.

* ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'': One character is very close to an explosion when it goes off. They pick themselves up out of the rubble and start to walk away... only to collapse and die seconds later. Being that close to an explosion can kill you even without obvious wounds, and bleeding inside the brain has no visible signs.

* ''Film/AirForceOne'': In the climax, the titular plane takes a few bullet holes in the tail and some shrapnel from a plane exploding next to it. There's no nail-biting emergency landing by the hero. The plane is now incapable of landing.

* ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'': One character is very close to an explosion when it goes off. They pick themselves up out of the rubble and start to walk away... only to collapse and die seconds later. Being that close to an explosion can kill you even without obvious wounds, and bleeding inside the brain leaves no obvious outward markings.