Film.Notes On A Scandal: Very Loosely Based on a True Story: The infamous Mary Kay Letourneau case. Blanchett even resembles Letourneau somewhat. Ironically, the movie has the more realistic ending—jail time and a damaged marriage/career for the perpetrator, whereas Letourneau and her victim married after her release from prison.
Recap.My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic S 1 E 1 Mare In The Moon: At first glance, one might wonder over the bird that looked like a cardinal but was red on top and brown on the bottom; males are red above and below and females are brown above and below. The closely related pyrrhuloxia, also called the desert cardinal, is pied but is gray below, and the two species can hybridize.
Theatre.The Miracle Worker: Some viewers consider it unrealistic that Helen is portrayed saying "wah-wah" to mean “water” when she was too young to learn to speak before her illness. However, according to her autobiography, Helen was 19 months old and had begun to speak when she became sick. She did indeed say "wah-wah" and claimed that she retained that word for a long time after most memory of speech had faded.
Literature.The Berenstain Bears: An Aesop: Some of the Big Chapter ones are particularly hamfisted in doing so (such as No Guns Allowed, where Too-Tall gets busted for using a squirt gun and the police confiscate it). Reality Is Unrealistic: Under super-strict zero-tolerance (read zero-thinking) rules, kids can and have been suspended or even expelled simply for bringing squirt guns to schools, even if it was only by mistake. In certain cases, kids have even faced prosecution for this.
Literature.Thursday Next: After The Eyre Affair, Thursday's look becomes the in thing, and she learns that she doesn't quite have the Thursday Next look right. "How can I not have the Thursday Next look? I am Thursday Next!"
Film.Hudson Hawk: The "Da Vinci Codex" is a misnomer, as there are at least 5 codices of Da Vinci's. The one in the film is neither; it is a composite of two recognizable Da Vinci works: the Vitruvian Man on one side, which was never in a codex, and the Study on Muscles on the other, which are among the Windsor Folios. No such codex exists. Nor is there a Da Vinci codex in the Vatican Museum.
Fanfic.Anomaly Series: John A. Pence winning the presidential election. Apparently this was all calculated in full by the author.
Trivia.Bridge To Terabithia: Leslie's death was inspired by how the aforementioned Lisa Hill was killed at age 8 by being struck by lightning. Paterson thought that would be too unbelievable, so she changed it to drowning instead.
VideoGame.Max Payne: The third game comes as close to the serious (and nigh-unimpressive) end as the Max Payne formula allows it; the Favela thugs look like straight out of any Real Life favela, and the private contractors and police are closely modeled on actual organisations - there are no fancy exaggerations (apart from Bald!Max' (much-mocked) Hawaiian-Shirted Tourist get-up, and Hoboken's "spray-tan Guido douche" stereotype).
Series.Private Schulz: SS officer Bernhard Naujocks, on whom the Neuheim character is based, had a heavily-scarred face and wore a black-eyepatch — but that would have seemed too cliched even for a comedy.
Theatre.A Bronx Tale: A few reviewers criticized the romance plot, feeling that it was a rip-off of previous musicals like West Side Story and Memphis. Apparently they didn't realize the show is based off of Chazz Palminteri's life and he actually did date a black girl during the racial unrest of the late 1960s.
Headscratchers.Pulp Fiction: The scene only takes a few minutes, and gunshots aren't necessarily recognized as such, especially by people with little experience with guns. The first shots may have been dismissed by neighbours as a car backfiring, or a TV on too loud (remember, it's 7 am when this happens; the neighbours may still be asleep). When they finally gun Brett down, and Jules is being all contemplative about the "divine intervention," then people might've started making calls. You'll note that while Jules is pondering the meaning of life, Vincent is getting increasingly agitated and saying they should get out of there before the cops come.
Manga.Golden Kamuy: An example particularly noteworthy because of Reality Is Unrealistic reasons would be Sugimoto's aftermath for brain damage: instead of commonly depicted highly visible results (like losing mobility or speech), he's shown without any apparent effect. However, one of the many possible results of brain damage in the area he was shot is mild dyslexia, and an exaggerated emotional answer. And next chapter, he's actually shown consistently taking out the wrong photo, getting all teary-eyed at having found Asirpa's track, and being much quicker to anger, even for his usual standards. Do the math.
Film.The Addams Family: About the only thing that you can't actually do in the Mamushka from the first film is the thrown sword-swallow. Everything else is actually something you can do if you can juggle.
FanonDiscontinuity.Literature: Alex Rider: Some fans say that Alex died at the end of Scorpia and the other four did not happen, not because they were bad, but because some fans think surviving a bullet to the chest is unrealistic.
Film.Black Hawk Down: People have pointed out that the soldiers never use the downed helicopters' mounted miniguns to defend the crash sites. Miniguns do not work without electricitynote Most weapons in the military, other than some bolt-action rifles most typically used for sniping, use the "explosion" of the bullet's gunpowder to cycle the weapon and bring the next bullet up and ready to be fired. Miniguns fire too quickly for this, so they use electricity to cycle the barrels and feed the ammo belt, making them functionally useless (although Shughart did use their ammunition to reload his M14).
Film.Hyde Park On Hudson: Some people were creeped out by the pairing of Bill Murray and Laura Linney and Murray's much older character putting the moves on Linney's. Except this film is based on a true story and Roosevelt was a ladies' man.
Film.Reclaiming The Blade: Inevitable, given general attitudes and misconceptions concerning European swordsmanship.
Fridge.Megamind: Bernard actually has a good reason to think that Megamind's costume needs work. If you look at the Megamind masks and dummy in the film the heads are way smaller than his as it just wouldn't be practical for a mask or dummy's head to be that size. So it's a case of in-universe Reality Is Unrealistic.He also has good reason to think that Megamind's costume needs work because Megamind isn't wearing one of his usual supervillain outfits — he's wearing his pajamas.
WesternAnimation.My Little Pony Tales: Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: The only way to tell a background pony's gender is by its single clothing accessory or by the length of its mane. And sometimes, not even then. Half of Teddy's farming cousins, who wear pink coats and have long, curly rainbow-colored manes, are male. And the father looks identical to the mother, but that's a different trope entirely.... This is actually more realistic than it seems, as horses really don't have much in the way of obvious sexual dimorphism, so clothing or mane style being the only differing feature is logical.
Creator.Doug Walker: Pointed out in Balto about Steel being more realistic than he seems because Republicans can often act like that, destroying another party's goals purely out of spite.
Characters.Prehistoric Kingdom: A very accurate depiction of the animal, though it looks slightly different from most in popular media. This is because most popular depictions of Brachiosaurus are based off Giraffatitan, an African sauropod once thought to be a member of the genus.
Literature.The Emigrants: For some international audiences, the scenes taking place during Swedish summer nights, such as Arvid and Robert wrestling over the axe, seem like a case of Special Effect Failure due the lighting seeming like its dusk. However, summer nights in Sweden are very bright, and even though Småland is far south of the midnight sun there's only a few short hours of actual darkness. The rest of the night is more a prolonged dusk/dawn.
Film.Easy A: A clique of Christian Fundamentalists and a homophobic school principal in California? It's more likely than you think. Not all of California is as liberal as people think.
WMG.The Dark Crystal Age Of Resistance: Actually, it takes very little time for even large settlements in heavily forested areas to be overgrown when abandoned. It's completely possible for Stone-in-the-Wood (which seems to be the most likely candidate for the ruin) to have disappeared within a generation.
Trivia.The Dark Knight Rises: Translation Correction: A variant. As having Two First Names is an extremely rare phenomenon for Russian names, Dr. Leonid Pavel was given the more realistic surname "Pavlov" in the Russian dub (although, as it turns out, Russian people with the surname "Pavel" actually exist). Due to the existence of a certain Dr. Pavlov in Real Life, this might have made it sound like Hollywood resorted to the Famous-Named Foreigner trope once again.
Headscratchers.Othello: Why on earth does Desdemona die? She's kind of half-dead, then comes back to life to make her final comments, then dies again. The major problem? She was killed by being smothered! If she didn't die when she was being smothered, it makes absolutely no sense that she should die again after the murder weapon was removed!Rule of Drama. It's a play, main characters who die get final speeches even if it makes no sense. Also a case of Reality is Unrealistic. Without getting too deep into it, a lack of air flow can cause anoxic brain damage, where the brain cells can die and cannot recover, even if the person is able to talk afterwards.
Podcast.The Final Podblem: "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: Jeez, a guy starts one measly little pilot episode of a podcast with a fake advert for Ol' Triple Granddad's Patented Soothing Crabwax and he has to promise he isn't doing it again every time things discovered in the Research segment get improbable, which is a lot.
Literature.Mommie Dearest: Chewing the Scenery: Dunaway mowing down the sets, props and co-stars in every scene she's in. To quote Variety's famous review: "Dunaway does not chew scenery. Dunaway starts neatly at each corner of the set in every scene and swallows it whole, costars and all." According to The Cinema Snob, this is largely because Joan actually behaved this way, citing one quote in particular. "I need sex for a clear complexion, but I'd rather do it for love."
Series.Bottom: An Englishman named Hitler, and related to the infamous German Chancellor? Not just a piece of tasteless comedy. Adolf's older half-brother Alois Hitler Jr. actually emigrated to Liverpool, where he married a local woman named Bridget Dowling and had one child, William Patrick Hitler. William emigrated to the US (he and his mother were doing a lecture tour and were stranded when the war broke out), changed his last name and had no children, but the idea of a Hitler running around the UK is not outside the realm of probability.
Toys.Bionicle: Beyond the Impossible: At one point, Jaller sets Mantax ablaze on the ocean floor. It's Handwaved with the Wizard Did It rule; he has power over fire, and if he wants fire underwater, he can do that (not easily, but still...). Further justified by Greg on an online Q&A when he pointed out that it's possible to have fire underwater. It just takes either certain chemicals or a lot of energy.
Film.Heavens Gate: The scene where Nate Champion writes his Final Speech in a burning cabin, which was unsurprisingly criticized for being melodramatic and an unnecessary addition? That actually happened. One of the few scenes true to historical events, actually.
YMMV.My Chemical Romance: Narm Charm: The "Na Na Na" video and "Art is the Weapon" trailer. Let's face it; MCR is made of Narm Charm. And it's fucking awesome. Gerard constantly Chewing the Scenery during video performances often gets some laughs as a break from the headbanging. He's often actually singing the lyrics, and at the intensity/volume of MCR's punk music, his face inevitably gets contorted. People have noticed with a lot of singers that they can make some weird faces when singing live.
Characters.King Kong 2005: He claims that real heroes don't look like him. Turns out to be quite the truth in his case.
Trivia.Tangled: The Bloodless Carnage when Mother Gothel stabs Eugene is actually to be expected, since Eugene is wearing a silk shirt. Silk is hard to actually pierce so when Mother Gothel stabbed him, he is actually cut by the silk wrapped around the blade, so the blood never reaches the metal.
Creator.Mako: Yes, that was his real accent and not an exaggerated put on. There's a reason he kept it through all of his roles regardless of character.
Funny.Jon Tron Season Five: When the host asks each of the debaters what convinced them of their theories, Jontron interrupts each contestant with a skit of himself dressed as one of them, saying "What started to happen was they just started saying it publicly in front of cameras", and picking up a tv that shows an actual excerpt of financial and tech elites openly admitting to doing morally dubious actions (Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum for Sharmaine, and Mark Zuckerburg for Derek). Doubles as Fridge Horror.
StylisticSuck.Film: According the DVD commentary of Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, they actually went out of their way to make their scenes shot in Southern California look like they were shot from Southern California when they were supposed to be in England, so Austin's joke about England looking nothing like Southern California would be funny. In the same scene, the characters pass a sign that just says "English Countryside."
Trivia.Party Monster: Casual reviewers of the film have derided it's schtick as a "lurid display of camp [that] soon turns tedious," and deride the characters as being played too over the top. The filmmakers insist that they actually toned those things down.
Funny.OSW Review: After 123 Kid and Bob Holly win the tag match, V1 admits that he didn't believe Jay when he mentioned a few episodes prior that they held the tag belts for a good while. V1: "No way they put the World Tag Team Championships on these goofs." I was shocked watching this. OOC was equally in disbelief, fully expecting the Quebecers to come back afterwardnote They were in WCW at this time, and wouldn't return until 1997,, given how they had held the belts "for fucking ten years of the 90s".
Music.Johnny Cash: In reviewing "Walk the Line," Roger Ebert was surprised to learn that Cash really had proposed to June Carter onstage during a concert. "It feels like the sort of scene screenwriters invent, but no."
WesternAnimation.Scrooge A Christmas Carol: Politically Correct History: The film doesn't draw much attention to the fact that Harry has an Indian wife and several ethnically diverse friends at his party, despite still being set in Victorian London. The same is true for Fezziwig, who threw a Christmas party with some of the guests being people of colour. That being said, during the Victorian era, India had been part of the commonwealth for almost four hundred years, and London was by far the most populated trade city in the world.
Characters.The Legend Of Korra Allies: Vocal Dissonance: In his first appearance he has the exact same voice used for the teenage Zuko from the previous series, despite looking like he's in his thirties or so. A case of Reality Is Unrealistic, since Dante Basco himself is in his thirties and naturally sounds like that. In the finale itself, when he has more lines, he does use some different inflections from Zuko, but it's still very close.
Literature.Beau Geste: Comparing Beau Geste with Simon Murray's Legionnaire, a real-life account of the French Foreign Legion, it is apparent that the point where Lejaune draws the line on his Drill Sergeant Nasty treatment of the legionnaires is about the point where the real-life sergeants start.
VideoGame.Project Gotham Racing: Almost every game in this series warned players that the depictions of the game is unrealistic despite the fact that each game showed semi-realism such as breaking for turns instead of speed-turns, etc.
ICarly.Tropes A To E: AcCENT upon the Wrong SylLABle: =] Carly (and everyone else) repeatedly say "Yaki-MUH," as in "I'm not moving to Yaki-MUH." It's actually pronounced "Yakih-MAH." Apparently this was done deliberately. Also an odd case of Reality Is Unrealistic, since it's not an uncommon mispronunciation, though it's more common to southeastern Washington than metropolitan Seattle.
Film.Happy Gilmore: Happy's golf swing is mocked by several people (and secretly attempted by Shooter), but the ESPN show Sports Science showed that a running start gave Padraig Harrington an extra 30 yards distance. Unfortunately, the same show also showed that a running start destroys any chance at an accurate swing, so it's a trade-off of a little extra power for abysmal accuracy.
Series.Graceland: Invoked Trope: Used regularly on the show. The undercovers use many standard tropes and stereotypes to make their targets think that they can be trusted. Briggs invokes Reality Is Unrealistic to convince some drug dealers that his badge is fake and he is just an actor who played a cop in a movie. Johnny invokes Tattooed Crook to make people believe that he really is a hardcore Latino gang banger.
Characters.How I Met Your Mother Other Characters: Epic Fail: In Chicago, Druthers designed a crystal tower. The problem? It reflected so much light that melted near buildings and boiled the aquarium, killing thousands of fish. This actually happened in real life: The architect Rafael Vinloy designed not one but two buildings that focused sunlight to a point it melts plastic check The Other Wiki
Film.Days Of Thunder: "Cole Trickle" was derided by some critics as too much of a stereotype NASCAR-sounding name. Except that the name is a Shout-Out to Dick Trickle.
WesternAnimation.Adventures Of Sonic The Hedgehog: It's ridiculous to think that kids climbing into tumble dryers would be pervasive enough to devote a Sonic Says to, which is why Sonic lampshades this with a "Believe it or not..."
DarthWiki.Headscratchers: I found some MAJOR Butt Pulls that show up EVERYWHERE Bombs explode! People bleed when they're hurt Isn't doing research against the law? You can say ass. Ass ass assity ass. See? My, how assinine.
Headscratchers.Passengers 2016: To be fair, Reality Is Unrealistic. Space is quite empty, even asteroid belts, aside from the very thin and tenuous interstellar medium. An Asteroid Thicket in interstellar space would also be essentially devoid of illumination and impossible to spot from a planetary system. Sure, contingency plans should have been implemented, but it's easy to see why the designers would think they would be unlikely to need any.
Theatre.Done To Death: The Authors are consistently surprised by things turning out realistically rather than how they would write it.
Recap.Agents Of SHIELDS 3 E 2 Purpose In The Machine: Norwegian prisons are much nicer than US prisons. They're so much nicer, in fact, that the prison depicted is actually a lot worse than Norwegian prisons. They're more like dorms you're not allowed to leave. No barred doors or bare concrete blocks.
Headscratchers.Doctor Who Series 12: We live in an age where the net and PR can spin anything and make a solid fact into a debatable question. If Qanon and the anti-vaccination movement are any indication. Within just a few decades, people were already saying that the Holocaust was a myth. With enough money, enough spin, and any narrative can be spun to fool enough people as the past decade has shown.
WebVideo.Casual Geographic: One of the most common ways he discusses Artistic License – Biology. While there are some animals depicted in media as savage monsters and some such as lions as noble creatures, he points out this tends to be the case, such as great white sharks being hunted due to paranoia surrounding then because of Jaws even though they're docile and don't hunt humans.
Literature.Grandmaster Of Demonic Cultivation Mo Dao Zu Shi: Downplayed in regards to the romance between the main duo and other characters' reactions to it. While homosexuality is a huge no-no in Real Life China both then and today, it was still more accepted in the country centuries prior — and the setting of the novel is inspired from ancient rather than modern China. However, there are several characters in the story — be they named or background characters — who express homophobic behavior.
Characters.Jurassic Park Non Dinosaurs: Animal Gender-Bender: All of them have huge crests on their heads, even though in real life only male Pteranodons had large crests. Yet again, it could just be a manipulation of their DNA on InGen's part to make the female Pteranodons appear more formidable and eye-catching to potential park-goers.
Film.The Iron Claw: Adapted Out: There was, in fact, another Von Erich brother — Chris — who was completely omitted from the movie. This is partially to keep the screenplay to a manageable length, and partially because the sheer scale of the real life tragedy might be hard for audiences to believe. Save for Kevin's, the brothers' families are likewise omitted, most notably Kerry's — while Kevin's sons Ross and Marshall (who are depicted in the film) grew up to become wrestlers, so did Kerry's younger daughter Lacey, who briefly competed in TNA in the late 2000s.
Film.Frostbite: Some Swedish critics complained that the accent of many of the cast members sounded like typical Swedish northern. Many of the cast members where actually born and raised in Norrland. The actor playing John is from Pajala, a Swedish town famous for being a small town located in far north in the middle of nowhere who of any one should have a heavy accent, talks with such a hardly noticeable accent it's hard to tell if he just added a few streaks for realism.
ChildrenVoicingChildren.Live Action Films: In Disney's Maleficent. As with Sleeping Beauty, Princess Aurora as a teen is meant to be fifteen/sixteen (the latter age being a plot point). While the animated film modeled Aurora's design after an actress in her twenties, the filmmakers for this live-action adaptation cast Elle Fanning, who at the time of filming was fourteen/fifteen. Cue Reality Is Unrealistic coming into play, with some viewers arguing Elle looked too young to play Aurora, while others defended the casting, pointing out that she actually is a teenager. Funnily enough, by the time the film was released, Elle had indeed turned sixteen.
Trivia.The Deer Hunter: Also subverted: Per De Niro's suggestion, a real charge was placed in the gun during the Russian Roulette scenes to heighten the tension. The crew made sure, however, that the actors wouldn't get the bullet for real.Just as well, because blanks are still quite dangerous, despite the common misconception that they are "safe", and carelessness with a blank has killed at least one person.
Recap.Big Finish Doctor Who Short Trips S 5 E 8 Foreshadowing: The Doctor seems confident that this won't be an issue, despite their outlandish story. "Doctor, I'm not sure if you've considered this, but there is the slightest chance that he might not believe us. It's a slim chance, I know, but it's one that we ought to consider." "Nonsense," said the Doctor, smiling at the lieutenant.
Heartwarming.The Price Is Right: November 10, 2004: Michael proposes to his girlfriend, Rosie, after spinning the Big Wheel in the Showcase Showdown. And while everyone's still in shock, he hits a dollar! Even Bob can't believe it. Bob: If this were in a movie, people would scoff, you know? "Unbelievable!" And just to cap off the heartwarming/awesome, Michael won his Showcase ($23,750 all told), slipping the ring on Rosie's finger while the Wedding March played to end the show.
Characters.MCU Runaways: Allegra Acosta can pass for older, but she was fourteen years old at the time of the series' release; Molly's Age Lift is actually rather slight.
Blog.Hamsters Paradise: The bipedal trunked walkabies may look silly, but they are quite similar to the Paleogene mammal Leptictidium. Large marine arthropods several meters in size may seem like something that violates what we know of animal biology but before fish became the ocean's dominant lifeforms large arthropods known as eurypterids swam the seas, with the largest being the Jaekelopterus which reached 2.5 meters in length.
Headscratchers.LA Noire: The premise that you are Cole Phelps and supposed to be playing entirely from his perspective is wrong. You're the audience watching a Noir film and just so happen to be interacting with the plot. If we were just Phelps, we wouldn't ever play as Kelso, since most of the details of his adventures probably wouldn't have been told to Phelps. We also wouldn't see any of the cutsceens that don't include Phelps, such as most of the newspaper scenes. But we do, since the game would be much more realistic: confusing and spontaneous.
UsefulNotes.Historical European Martial Arts: Due to movies and the long portrayal of European swordfighting as either Flynning or two idiots just whacking away at each other without any finesse, people are often disbelieving of the very concept of European Martial Arts even though, logically, with several thousand years of sword use you'd think something more sophisticated than simply swinging wildly at each other would develop. Some people, seeing reconstructed combat techniques, accuse practitioners of just making something that looks cool instead of the primitive techniques they think were really used.
JustForFun.Daring Do: Sparkleworks from Razor of Dreams had a third set of cones in her eyes, and some said that wasn't plausible. Well, some ponies do, most notably Element of Harmony bearers Pinkie Pie and Rarity Belle.
Series.Hawaii Five O: Five-O is supposed to be an elite unit of the Hawaii State Police. The closest thing Hawaii has to a state police is the Sheriffs Division within the State Department of Public Safety, and they're limited to specific duties such as acting as process servers and providing security at state facilities.
Trivia.Scooby Doo Monsters Unleashed: Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: In the Nostalgia Critic's review of this film, he calls the Miner 49er a Ghost Pirate and mistakes the Tar Monster for an Oil Monster (although Tar is derived from Oil). He also thinks freezing the Tar is unrealistic, calling it a Jump the Shark moment, even though it is possible.
AgentsOfSHIELD.Tropes N To R: Some fans have questioned the authenticity of Fitz and/or Simmons's accents, despite their accents (Scottish and English respectively) being the actors' own natural accents. Skye got a lot of criticism in the first few episodes for the fact she was recruited off the street after trying to cyber attack S.H.I.E.L.D.; in real life, it's not uncommon for intelligence and/or law enforcement agencies to recruit rogue assets to their own side if they prove to be useful, particularly computer hackers.
Headscratchers.Dragon Age Origins Part III: Yes, the City Elves have their own accent. They're their own distinct subculture who tend to restrict themselves to a particular area of a city and therefore develop and maintain their own culture. It's actually a quirk of linquistics that when you have multiple ethnic groups in close proximity, each with develop their own distinctive accent. Have you never watched a movie set in New York City? So yes; the City Elves having their own accent is actually Truth in Television. The American -> Welsh accent change was a deliberate design decision/Retcon to make the Elves more distinctive.
Series.John Adams: Yes. Both Thomas Jefferson and John Adams really did die on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. This would be seen as too on-the-nose if it wasn't for the fact that it actually happened.
Film.It 2017: Pennywise's costume change got a lot of flak from some fans who felt he looked too gothic and scary. Ironically, his appearance is very on par with how a lot of clowns really did dress back in the 50s and 60s. Comparing him to the clowns he was said to look like in the book and you will find this Pennywise bears a little more resemblance than the Tim Curry outfit. However, it still works in the "boomerang" sense as it makes Pennywise look like it's been doing this successfully for a very long time.
ComicBook.Watchmen: In-universe. Movie critic mistakes real footage of Silk Spectre I fighting crime for very bad stunt work.
Recap.My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic S 2 E 17 Hearts And Hooves Day: The Cutie Mark Crusaders expect Love at First Sight when Big Macintosh and Cheerilee first meet. Instead, they get a friendly and slightly awkward talk between two ponies who are just acquaintances at best. Given that situation, Cheerilee's question over whether Big Mac already has plans is quite straightforward, as is her idea to play along with the CMC's plans for a while.
Literature.The Supervillainy Saga: Comic Books Are Real: Gary Karkofsky talks about how "historical comics" exist. These are adaptations of the adventures of the Society of Superheroes and have more or less replaced fictional superheroes in their reality. Given reality is every bit as crazy as in comic books, it's implied the comics actually have to tone the stories down. Gets worse (better?) as the series goes on. All of his books take place in the same The Multiverse and occasionally have crossovers with each other. However, all of the characters are fictional in the realities they visit so Jane Doe is a popular urban fantasy series in Gary's world even when she drops by and vice versa.
Creator.Rocket Jump: Raise your hand, how many of you thought Freddie faked having his hands on fire? Yup, the fire's real.
Series.Cake Boss: A few times the crew partakes in challenges either amongst each other or with a client(s), occasionally the winner is not who you would expect. For example: A sixteen year old (Joey and Grace's son Rob) and a 36 year old (head baker Frankie), the latter of whom is very large, enter a wrestling ring. The winner of the match? The sixteen year old as he is an actual wrestler.
TechnologyMarchesOn.Computers: This is a case of Reality Is Unrealistic as tape is still very much used in areas that require storage for MASSIVE amounts of data. While it is much slower than more modern methods, it can hold much more, and for security reasons, if someone were to hack into the system, it would take them much longer to steal/destroy the data than it would on modern methods.
