Reality Ensues/Surprisingly Realistic Outcome cleanup

• Scott Pilgrim vs. The World:
  • After Scott manages to knock Gideon away, he stops for a chat with Ramona and Knives. Only for Gideon to stab him through the chest. Lots of gaming tropes are played straight in this setting, but Talking Is a Free Action is apparently not one of them. Aversion of Talking Is a Free Action

  • An alternate ending that was never filmed would have had it be revealed that Scott and Ramona were arrested for having murdered seven people. Valid

• Scream:
  • The first film begins with the deaths of two teenagers, the pretty blonde Casey and her boyfriend Steve, as per the hundreds of slasher movies that have come before it. Scary, but hardly harrowing. Then Casey's parents come home. Their panic over the state of the house and realization that something terrible has happened to their daughter suddenly makes the whole thing horribly real. And then, the next day, the media shows up and jams its finger into what is still a raw, emotional wound for the community, not least of all for those who knew the victims, especially Sidney, who was still grappling with her mother's murder in the recent past. Character reactions

  • Scream 3 has a much more humorous example. Shortly before the climax, the killer throws his knife at Dewey. Cue slow-motion as the knife reaches him... only for it to bounce off his head and cause him to tumble down the stairs, instead of impaling him through the skull like what normally happens in fiction. Valid

  • Additionally, throughout the franchise, while the various Ghostfaces are all mercilessly capable, they sometimes have trouble tripping over things and maneuvering. Given they are all wearing flimsy dime-store Halloween costumes that black out their vision, it makes sense. Not a moment

  • Furthermore, unlike Michael Myers or Jason Voorhees, Ghostface is not a supernatural entity and, as such, is incapable of feats like Offscreen Teleportation and is vulnerable to being hurt and even killed. Not surprising

• Serenity:

-Operative: I want to resolve this like civilized men. I'm not threatening you. I'm unarmed-

-Mal: Good. [draws his gun and shoots him]

- Operative: [leaping back up and grabbing Mal from behind] I am, however, wearing full body armour. I'm not a moron. Character reaction

• Toward the end of the film, Wash is killed right in the middle of a Moment of Awesome. Talking Is Not A Free Action. And when the Operative tries to use his Pressure Point technique, it doesn't work because Mal had that particular nerve cluster removed due to a war injury. In Real Life, susceptibility to pressure points varies widely and One Hit Kills are difficult and not nearly so delicate. Subversion of Talking Is a Free Action and Pressure Point

• Seven Psychopaths ends with Marty managing to overcome his writer's block and finish his screenplay, implying his life is finally taking a turn for the better...only for the stinger to imply he's even more miserable than when he started. As much as the events of the film managed to re-invigorate his creativity, they were also incredibly traumatizing, and its aftermath (along with two of his friends dying trying to protect him) likely deepened his depression rather than cured it. Character reactions
  • In the stinger one of the psychopaths called Marty, threatening to have him killed because Marty broke a promise that he made earlier in the film. Marty showed little to no resistance at the threat and even went as far as accepting it. Clearly showcasing that his survivor's guilt has drove him to the point of suicide. Character reactions

• Being a parody of a Zombie Apocalypse, Shaun of the Dead shows how easily it can be controlled not only by poking fun of the genre but it also goes out of its way to deconstruct the common cliches within:
  • By the end of the movie the army comes and guns down all the zombies: a few days later, the city is reclaimed, the few remaining zombies are rounded up, and life goes back to almost normal for the remaining characters. Too fantastical

  • Shaun and company learn during the last few scenes of the film that just because you have a gun, it isn't an automatic Infinity +1 Sword, especially if nobody in your group knows how to properly operate it other than himself. Plot happens

  • The beginning of the film treats mercy-killing Phillip, Shaun's step-father as a lighthearted joke. Once Phillip comes close to actually dying it's treated very seriously and Shaun's mother is heartbroken by the whole ordeal, and even Shaun, who resented him for most of his life, is saddened by it. Character reactions

  • The film really pulls no punches in showing how screwed a bunch of twenty-something Londoners would be in a zombie outbreak. Firearms are illegal in the UK, so Improvised Weapons are the order of the day, and when they finally get their hands on a rifle, they barely know how it works and can't shoot for shit. Their salvation is the fact that the UK is a small country, so The Cavalry is never far away. Too fantastical

• SHAZAM! (2019): Midway through Sivana and Shazam/Billy Batson's superhero vs. supervillain duel in flight above the city, the villainous Sivana begins making a hammy dramatic speech about how powerful he is, how doomed Shazam is... completely missing that he's out of Billy's hearing range and floating above a very noisy metropolitan city. This sounds more like a joke

-Sivana: "Enough games, boy! You think a pack of children can-"
(Cut to Billy's point of view, as Sivana is barely audible hundreds of feet away)
Billy: "Wait, what?"
Sivana: "You will beg for mercy as I feast on your heart. Slowly-"
Billy: "Are you making some, like, big evil guy speech right now or something? You're like a mile away from me right now! There's cars and trucks-"
Sivana: "I will have the world eating out of the palm of my hand-"
Billy: "All I see is mouth moving, I don't hear anything!"

• She's Out of My League:
  • Just because the skinny and dorky protagonist gets a smoking hot girlfriend who genuinely likes him, it doesn't mean that all of his self-esteem problems are instantly fixed. The fact that his friends and family make him feel worse about his relationship doesn't help him either. Character reactions

  • The main character has a My God, What Have I Done? moment at the end of the film, and proceeds to call out his family, except his mom, about how poorly they've been treating him and making fun of him. He promptly turns to get off the plane he's on, only for the flight attendant to remind him that if he tries to get off as he is now, it would be a federal offensive and he'd be heavily fined, plus the plane is already getting ready to take off. He promptly is told to sit back down, with now his family giving him a Death Glare for his comments. Character reactions

• Shooter is kind of in love with this, with the climax being about four or five stacked up. Do not. Mess. With Bob Lee Swagger. The Attorney General (IE, the head guy at the top of all Law Enforcement in the country) had just let Swagger go since the Rifle used to frame him turned out to not be the rifle used, and as a result, he was a free man. The only people who even knew of the atrocities in Africa were all in the room, or with the Senator that had been orchestrating the whole mess. And yet, every one of them believed that Swagger would just return to his home and live out the rest of his life. WRONG. Swagger, a Marine Sniper, trained to gather intelligence and track people down, located them all when they were in one place, killed all of them and their guards effortlessly, blew the place to pieces, and made a forensically "clean" getaway. Clearly, none of them thought out the repercussions of shooting Swaggers dog. That said, the Attorney's "sadly we live in an imperfect world" speech to Swagger after he's forced to let the villains go to save Swagger is a little ambiguous, and can easily be read as a very heavy hint that the AG would actually quite like it if Swagger dished out some vigilante justice. Plot happens
  • Also, the secrecy that protected them from prosecution also prevented them, implicitly, from nailing him for the dozens of mooks he killed. And it may mean that by the time anyone actually finds their little bungalow, the bodies will have been there long enough to make determining exact time of death impossible. Which would make it nigh-impossible to prosecute Swagger. Plot happens

  • Swagger's recorded confession of the conspiracy's crimes, in another movie, would have been the damning evidence that would have thrown the bad guys in jail and exonerated him of his framed crimes right away. Instead, he burns it in front of the villains and allows himself to get arrested, after saving Sarah. As Swagger reasons, having that sort of evidence on a group of murderous conspirators will only make them more motivated to try and kill him. Character reactions

  • And when Danny Glover's Jerkass Smug Snake Evil General character asks to be let go from the hearing, the Attorney General calmly tells him that he got calls from very important people asking just that, but procedure forces him, nay, allows him, to tell them to "fuck off". Character reactions

  • After an entire film of belting out grand speeches that show how much of an irredeemable Jerkass he is, the Senator who is part of the conspiracy only gets as far as "Stop! I am a United States Senator..." on his attempted final speech to try to talk Swagger out of killing him before Swagger just says a blunt "exactly" and shoots him dead. If you frame a man with a known history to go kill-them-all on those who wrong him and your first meeting with him teaches him that you are a bad man, it's easy to say that it's impossible to talk him out of killing you. Character reactions

• Sicario features a group of Mexican cartel thugs attempting to ambush a US government team extraditing a cartel leader while the team is crossing the border. Said US government team is made up of highly-trained CIA operatives and Delta Force operators. Instead of being a protracted gunfight with casualties on both sides, the thugs' ambush is noticed almost immediately and it goes extremely poorly for them. They don't even get a single shot off (apart from one firing off several shots in his death throes after he's been shot and one other member that was either disguised as a cop or one of the corrupt cops on the cartel payroll) and the US operatives kill all of them quickly and efficiently within the span of maybe 30 seconds. Curb-Stomp Battle shoehorning

• Snake Eyes ends with the Corrupt Cop hero being praised by the media as a hero for stopping the assassination of a political whistleblower. Only for the extra attention generated by the media to bring his shady past to the forefront, leading to him getting fired, divorced, and facing prison time. Turns out that it doesn't matter if you're considered a hero, the police take allegations of corruption very seriously. Character reactions

• The Son of Kong picks up a month after the events of King Kong (1933) with New York City still recovering from Kong's rampage. Carl Denham is now hiding in a boarding house as he's being sued by literally half of New York for the damage done by Kong and is flat broke with the public wanting his head. When he hears a grand jury is about to indict him for charges that include manslaughter, Denham decides to take the first boat out of the country. When he returns to the island Kong came from, the natives aren't happy with Denham taking away their "god" which caused a rampage there. Plot happens and character reactions to fantastical events

• Sonic the Hedgehog (2020):
  • During a bar brawl, Sonic attempts to break a beer bottle on a thug's head, having been inspired by watching "way too many action movies". The bottle doesn't break, leaving Sonic momentarily dumbfounded. Sonic even says to himself that he "thought these were supposed to break". It's because glass in movies is made of a substance that's designed to easily break. Real glass is much tougher than that. Valid

  • Sonic decides to head to San Francisco by himself using his Super-Speed...and promptly crashes in the Pacific Ocean because he has no idea where San Francisco is, since he's lived in a small town in Montana for his entire time on Earth. This gives Tom no other choice but to drive him there. Too fantastical

  • When Tom brings an unconscious Sonic, who has been knocked out cold by an explosion, to his wife Maddie, who is a vet, she points out that she has been trained to work with Earth animals, not with what amounts to an alien. She's only able to check for broken bones, feel his pulse and use smelling salts on him. Character reaction to fantastical events

  • Rachel, who has been established to be obnoxious in an earlier scene, spends nearly the entirety of her time yelling at Tom and Maddie when they're staying at her house and trying to stop them going to the Transamerica building. She ends up getting tied to a chair for her trouble, and not even her own daughter seems willing to help her in any way. Character reactions

  • When Tom tries to use his authority as a police officer to get the key to access the Transamerica Pyramid roof, the receptionist points out his license says he's coming from Montana, not from San Francisco Character reactions

• Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022)
  • Sonic learns the hard way that, when running across water, the ocean near the coast may be calm, but the further out to sea you run, the rougher the waters get, and the harder it is to maintain momentum. Aversion of Walk on Water

  • Tails get knocked out by a missile during Sonic's fight with Knuckles and Robotnik in Siberia. It takes him a long while to regain consciousness on his own, and even then, the concussion he suffered makes it hard for him to fly, much less stand. Not surprising

• In Starship Troopers, the human military uses infantry rush tactics without any kind of armor support and without thought or reason under the mistaken belief that their opponents are just mindless insects. Training consists of team-building exercises and slapdash drills that are set up as sporting events, and cruel violence intended more for weeding out the weak stomachs than anything else (a compound arm fracture can be healed in a couple of days with their medical technology, so the drill sergeants can get away with a lot of casual brutality). When the first battle kicks off, the soldiers encounter a bug, watch it dismember two men, one of the female conscripts in the front screams "LET'S GET OUT OF HERE!" and the entire unit falls back in a panicked rout. The end result is a total massacre that leaves 100,000 dead in one hour. Character reaction to fantastical events
  • One criticism that has been thrown at the film is that it is unnecessarily, excessively gory. However, it is worth noting that in real life, when insects such as ants, wasps and termites engage in combat, dismemberment is often par for the course. Not an outcome

• In Starsky & Hutch, the big climatic scene includes Starsky & Hutch going off of a dock with their car to try to land on a boat. In contrast to what you expect, they MISS! Roger Ebert pointed out that it's something we've been waiting to happen for years. Valid

• The climatic battle in the Star Trek parody Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning opens with the leader of the enemy fleet making an overly long, very melodramatic battle speech. The other officers (on both sides) ignore him and start the fight without him. Deconstructive Parody shoehorning

• When a film like Stay Tuned satirizes television and has a Trapped in TV Land premise, it's unsurprising that it tends to show real-life consequences in media:
  • Darryl tampering with television airwaves at the beginning of the film results in an angry neighbor confronting Roy about it and threatening to call the FCC. Character reactions

  • During the Underworld Wrestling Federation segment, Roy assures Helen that wrestling is fake and no one actually gets hurt...and immediately after that, Mr. Gorgon proceeds to lay waste to him. While Pro Wrestling Is Real is in effect, it goes to show that when you pit a professional wrestler against someone with no wrestling training whatsoever, it will not end well for the latter. Character weaker than another character

  • In the Noir segment, Roy picks up a gun and tries to figure out how to use it. He ends up dropping it on the floor, causing it to fire. Just because you watch a lot of detective movies does not mean you automatically know how to properly use a gun, especially if you aren't trained to use one. Lampshaded by Roy. Weapon Grip Failure Trope

-Roy: (internal monologue) I gotta find Helen...gotta find the clues...gotta find out how to use this thing.

• Also in the Noir segment, Roy punches a gangster in the face as he barges into Club Seidenbaum. He ends up hurting his hand afterwards. Not surprising

• During Off With His Head!, Roy is disguised as a woman in the French Revolution and hides in a nearby tavern with Helen. The garcon of the tavern, who had just served them, sees Roy's face on a wanted poster and puts two and two together. Plot happens

• Chun-Li in Street Fighter is shocked that M. Bison doesn't remember attacking her village and killing her father. As he himself lampshades, while it may have been the defining moment of her life, to him it was just another evil thing he did and didn't matter one bit. And he isn't even able to remember the day of the week it happened ("It was Wednesday, you monster!"). Character reactions

• After the long Mind Screw that made up most of Sucker Punch, this trope takes firm hold at the very end. As it turns out, the crazed orderly who screams about how he's in control of the asylum is, in fact, simply a crazy orderly who only has power over a few of the mentally ill patients. Even the other orderlies express willingness to desert him, at the end. And when he tries to use his "ultimate authority" to escape arrest, the police completely ignore him and instead listen to Doctor Gorsky (who really is an authority figure) and make sure Babydoll is alright (because they saw him trying to rape her). Character reactions

• In The Sum of All Fears, desk jockey Jack Ryan tries to fight a big buff Neo-Nazi thug. Goes about as well as you'd expect. Character weaker than another character

• The Sun Is Also a Star: Natasha never finds some legal loophole that allows her to stay in America. She and her family are deported, and, as the years pass, loses touch with Daniel. Plot happens

• Like the Kick-Ass movies, SUPER shows the realistic outcome of an Average Joe attempting to become a Badass Normal superhero. The injuries Frank inflicts on bad guys are bloody and gruesome since real thugs are not Made of Iron, his Paper-Thin Disguise fools neither the police nor the gangsters he's trying to take down, and in general, the public regards him with alarm and suspicion rather than love and adoration. And as Boltie tragically finds out, real life gangsters and Mooks do not use A-Team Firing. Deconstructed Trope

• Switch (1991): Amanda declaring in court that she's a dead man in a woman's body causes her to be committed. She's next seen after three months in a mental institution. Character reactions

• Dan Vs.:
  • In "The Parents", Dan engages in an epic fight with the hippies to save the kid he bonded with from being adopted by them. Then the adoption agency lady arrives with a cop and tells him that his background check disqualifies him from adopting the kid. Dan lets the kid go back to the hippies, but not before making him promise to steal from them at every possible opportunity. Not familiar enough with the show to tell. To qualify, this would have to be a show where major status quo changes like the main character adopting a child can happen. Otherwise, the expected outcome is for Dan to fail to adopt the child.
  • "The Neighbors" has the titular neighbors at first, be amused by Dan’s antics and stories. But as they get progressively more deranged, like when he gets to how he almost *ahem* “does them in” purely because he’s suspicious of how nice they are? They are legitimately horrified that he tried to murder them; all because they were nice to him. After one of his attempts accidentally goes off? They immediately move far away from him and never want to see his face again. Character reaction
• Danny Phantom: There are two instances, in The Ultimate Enemy, where characters, Danny and SkulkTech, fall from the sky and grab onto a flagpole, commenting how they're surprised that it worked instead of breaking. Sure enough, the flagpole breaks and they resume falling, especially since both the flagpole wasn't designed to carry anything heavier than a flag and the latter is clearly heavier than a teenage boy. Not surprising due to the Tempting Fate of them commenting on the unrealistic outcome
• In Detentionaire, every time a character tries to do a Paper-Thin Disguise, they always try their best to turn peoples' attention away from it by telling typical lies, such as "This person is my cousin" and the like. The result? Everyone around them sees through the horrible disguise in mere seconds, and the plan backfires as a result. Notably, obvious disguises never work out in the show and it's only when a character actually puts a lot of effort into changing appearances and voice do they get away with it. But even then, it doesn't fool everyone for long once they slip up. Seems more like Averted Trope if it's a regular occurrence instead of a singular outcome.
• Dexter's Laboratory:
  • Another episode, “Figure Not Included”, has Dexter creating Major Glory action figures with high-tech features and abilities for a group of Glory-loving kids so he can join their gang. Eventually, after a fight, the action figures overload and explode. When the kids prepare to pound him for his defective action figures, the actual Major Glory flies in and saves Dexter in the nick of time. Dexter mention’s that he’s learned a lesson about trying to buy friends with toys. Glory appreciates his moral, but clarifies that he’s taking Dexter to see his attorney, since Dexter committed copyright infringement by making the action figures without Glory’s permission. Not sure.
  • One season 3 episode "Copping an Aptitude" is about Dexter being invited to attend a college. Being the child genius that he is, it makes sense that some schools would be interested in having him join. Dexter of course spends all his time doing nothing but studying and working. His roommate warns him that he will burn himself out, and that’s exactly what happens. Without his family around Dexter gets no social interaction, and without Dee Dee interrupting him occasionally he works so much that he snaps and becomes a partyholic, desperate to throw a wild party when everyone else is focused on studies for once. His antics in trying to covert the college into a giant water tub ultimately floods the school, and result in him getting expelled from the college. Interestingly, this kind of thing happened to him before way back in an early pilot episode. Not surprising if he's warned about the outcome. The rest is a character reaction and not really realistic
• In the Christmas episode of Dora the Explorer, Dora and her friends end up traveling a few years into the future. Dora and Boots only look slightly older, but Swiper, being a fox, ages more rapidly than humans and monkeys, and is now elderly. Too fantastical, since Swiper is clearly not a realistic fox
• This is the premise of the show Dragons: Riders of Berk, Sequel Series to the film How to Train Your Dragon, as the Vikings learn how to live with big, fire-breathing creatures with no sense of the boundaries they should respect. Dealing with problems caused by the new status quo is at the center of a number of plots in the first part of the series. Too fantastical
  • It gets revisited in Dragons: The Nine Realms, where the new protagonists initially approach the dragons as mystical creatures rather than the intelligent wild animals they actually are. The third dragon species they encounter reacts exactly like a large animal being bothered by an unfamiliar creature would, and the fourth manhandles Jun in an attempt to make sense of the strange, hairless ape barking orders at them. Same, and also a character reaction.
• Drawn Together: Toot Braunstein is known for subverting Acrofatic, demonstrating how pathetic a grotesquely out-of-shape person really would be. In "Mexican't Buy Me Love", she attempts Wheel of Feet, even uttering a Road Runner-like "BEEP-BEEP!" — and collapses on the road one second later, completely out of breath. She also performs some lunges and squats while wearing her tight dress — and we hear the sound of said dress quietly ripping. On the other hand, Toot's weight problem is also often exaggerated for humor, such as when she is literally depicted as Jabba the Hutt. The Wheel of Feet part might count. The rest is just an aspect of the character and not an outcome.
• Elliott from Earth:
  • Falling straight on top of your knees while despairing hurts like hell. Maybe valid, since it's pointing out that the Knee Fold Fall of Defeat trope is usually portrayed unrealistically.
  • While trying to have a replica of his mom's coffeemaker made through using his memories, Elliott's inability of getting the shape right because he wasn't very attentive to its shape or because he was a baby back then is so bad that all the coffeemakers come out literally blurry. Too fantastical

• Final Space: Gary wears the skin of a dead alien as a disguise and inadvertently traumatizes her family. In season 2, the family comes back to avenge themselves on Gary, who they believe killed her. They come back again in season 3, ready to murder Gary and his crew once they go through a dimensional portal, or at least prevent him from coming back. Character reaction
  • Back in season 2, Time Swap Sammy makes a deal with Gary to save Avocato's life. In season 3, it's revealed this gesture got him fired for breaking Time Swap laws. Because of this, he wants Gary and his crew dead. Too fantastical, and a character reaction
• The Freakazoid! shorts focusing on Lord Bravery were all about this trope in regards to being a superhero. In one short, Lord Bravery is sued by a bakery because they have the same name, and is unable to convince the owner to change it to something else, forcing him to go by "Lord Smoked Meats and Fishes" for a while. The example admits it's a Deconstructive Parody rather than this trope. And superheroes don't exist, so they can't have Realistic outcomes
  • Another superhero called the Huntsman, proves to be very effective at what he does. So effective, that crime in the city ends up reaching an all-time low, and the Huntsman is ultimately left bored with nothing to do. Too fantastical, since once again, superheroes don't exist, and stopping all crime isn't realistic
  • A Running Gag with the Huntsman shorts is that, since the Huntsman lives in the woods and has to hurry into the city when he's called in to catch a criminal, by the time he arrives to get debriefed, the issue's already been resolved without him. This is an aspect of the character rather than the outcome of one action.
• In Frisky Dingo, Killface and Xander run against each other for presidency for most of the second season before it's pointed out that neither of them are eligible, as Killface wasn't born in the US and Xander is under 35. Might not qualify as an outcome if it's just pointed out to them, but if they already started trying to be elected, it might still count, and that would also reassure audiences that they can be elected, making their ineligibility Surprisingly Realistic.
• In G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, Serpentor's introductory episode has him lead Cobra in an invasion that seizes Washington DC in an attempt to conquer America. But while the initial surprise attack is successful, it turns out that a terrorist organization, even a large one, cannot beat an actual military force in conventional warfare; Cobra's attempt at actually holding the city fails miserably. Didn't Think This Through shoehorn. And supervillains don't exist, so we can't say for sure that they wouldn't be able to match the US military.
• In an episode of Green Lantern: The Animated Series, Hal and Kilowog try to pose as a pair of Atrocitus' guards. The problem is, once they knock out some guards and steal their uniforms, they realize that the armor was meant for average humanoids, not the super-burly Kilowog. Another group of Atrocitus' men happen by and catch Kilowog struggling in vain to cram himself into the armor. Another Didn't Think This Through shoehorn, and Kilowog being an alien makes this Too Fantastical.
• In The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy episode "Prank Phone of Cthulhu", Billy and Irwin's attempts at Prank Calling people fall apart because every modern phone is equipped with caller ID. Not enough context. Probably just the show's reality ensuing, especially since the expected outcome for characters pulling pranks is for bad things to eventually happen to the pranksters.
• In Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, the jury in each of Harvey's cases always consists of the same jurors. This is ignored until the penultimate episode, when Mentok the Mindtaker finally notices and has all of Harvey's cases overturned as a result. Maybe valid.
• He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2021):
  • Felines primarily rely on their claws for hunting and fighting. As such, Cringer is unable to do both very well after he was declawed until Duncan makes him metal prosthetics. Not enough context. Why would we expect Cringer to still be able to hunt after losing his claws?
  • The Jawbreaker trope is normally treated as a fatal injury in fiction, but for Kronis, it's just a painful inconvenience. And as a wanted criminal hiding in a remote location, he can't get proper medical attention for the injury, forcing him to put together a mechanical brace to compensate. The first part might count, since it mentions an Expected Unrealistic Outcome but the second is just Plot.
• The Hollow: Sometimes, just because a boy and a girl spend a lot of time together, it doesn't mean that both of them are romantically interested in each other. Adam turns down Mira, whom Kai had a crush on before he fell for Vanessa. Season 2 adds the information that one of them might not even be interested in the opposite gender. When the characters get their memories back, Mira remembers that Adam is gay and profusely apologizes to him for kissing him. Character reaction
• One episode of I Am Weasel has the Red Guy host "The Sackless Games" with Weasel and I.R. Baboon as contestants. In the end it's revealed that the entire thing was a scam, and thus he had broken the law. The cops show up not long after and simply arrest him for committing fraud, and Weasel doesn't even have to do anything. Needs more context
  Red Guy: Is that a crime?
  Weasel: Why, yes. It is.
• Inspector Gadget: As shown in his backstory, the title character found out the hard way that slipping on a Banana Peel is extremely dangerous, and in his case, the injuries were so severe he had to be transformed into a cyborg afterwards. Doesn't sound very realistic, plus it's part of the show's premise, so not surprising
• Invader Zim: The episode "Walk of Doom" just deals with Zim getting lost in the city and being unable to deal with the Earth's customs. First, he stares deeply into the sun and temporarily becomes blind. Moments before that, he tried to ride the bus without paying, only to get kicked out and called a weirdo. Too Fantastical since Zim is an alien
• Invincible:
  • Being caught off-guard by Omni-Man's sudden betrayal results in the Guardians acting out of panic — some of them are holding back because they believe there's more to it than it seems, freeze up, and/or make mistakes like getting too close. Character reactions
  • Mark learns that his job as a superhero is getting in the way of his studies, job, and relationship with Amber. He is failing numerous subjects at school, and is pulled by the principal to discuss things. As for his job, he simply quits. Too fantastical
  • Debbie is rightly furious and upset after learning about Nolan's crimes, but she also is horrified when the GDA tries to kill him. The betrayal is fresh, but feelings you've held for twenty years don't disappear instantly, no matter what new information has come to light. Cecil reassures her that this is only a last resort; if he could talk down Nolan, he would prefer that and at least tries his best to reason with him, to ask why. Character reaction
  • When you're in a hospital bed for several weeks, you're going to get dehydrated unless you have an IV. Debbie gives Mark water to drink through a straw when he briefly awakens. Not surprising
• Iron Man: Armored Adventures:
  • In "Ancient History 101", when Tony, Gene, Rhodey, and Pepper go to the temple where the second Makluan ring was found, Tony believes they have to break into it because he expects Obadiah Stane to have the temple guarded with armed guards, high-tech security, and possibly even dogs, since the temple is the property of Stark International. When Tony goes to check, he discovers that the temple isn't being guarded at all, Stane just abandoned it because it didn't make any money for him. Sounds more like a Justified Trope of Anti-Climax
  • In "Heavy Mettle", Iron Man and War Machine face off against Titanium Man, whose suit's titanium-vibranium alloy makes it practically indestructible. The two heroes wait until their enemy is in the air, then hit him with their most powerful weapons at the same time. While Titanium Man's suit is structurally undamaged, the sheer force of the explosion sends him flying for miles, with the villain unable to stop himself, due to the suit's inner workings being locked up as a result of the massive explosive force it was hit with. No matter how tough an object is, it is still affected by the laws of physics, and a strong outer shell can only protect the innards so much. Too fantastical
  • Because the Iron Man armors were never patented, as Tony would have had to reveal his secret identity, when Ghost steals the schematics from him, and gives them to Obadiah Stane and Justin Hammer, both men are legally allowed to do whatever they please with the schematics. Plot happens
    • That said, should it become known that Stane acquired the tech from a known criminal, it would deliver a blow to his credibility. Tony and Rhodes' mothers were able to gather enough evidence to expose the shady deal, prompting Stark Industries' board to fire Stane and Tony to finally take company ownership back. Plot happens, plus the villains being defeated is the expected outcome here
    • Unfortunately getting Stane fired has a consequence Tony didn't consider, such as giving Hammer the opportunity to buy Stark International and take control of his inheritance. Removing one enemy from power can allow another enemy to seize it. Plot happens again
  • At the ending of "The X-Factor", after the final fight with Magneto when Senator Kelly expresses his hatred for Annie, who is really Jean Grey, and blames her for what happened, despite the fact she saved his life, which was filmed by a camera crew, everyone present immediately turns on him and he loses his supporters, which the camera crew also filmed, leaving Kelly with no platform to stand on for his anti-mutant campaign. Acting like an Ungrateful Bastard to someone who saved your life can cause people to turn on you, especially if you're a politician. Character reaction, and not surprising