I'm aware of the NCIS scenes, what else you guys got?
Gotta be the "high noon duel" in western movies. That didn't happen much in the real wild west.
Citizens shooting at gangs during bank robberies? Yup.
Shootout at The OK Corral? Yup.
Lynching of accused criminals before a judge could come to town? Oh hell yes.
But that trope of lawman/outlaw facing off in the middle of the street for a prearranged gun duel just didn't really happen.
Makes me wonder where the trope came from…
People definitely used to do pistol duels at prearranged times, but maybe that fell out of favor in the West?
L shaped blankets.
You can't just leave a tvtropes link without a warning! Some never make it back.
Keanu Reeves with a sword, standing in the middle of a pile of bodies. Bad guy enters the room carrying a gun. Bad guy sees him and rather than shooting him from a safe distance, chooses to run towards him, still holding the gun out in front of him, shouting at him rather than shooting at him.
To be fair, in that world body armor seems to be both commonplace and extremely effective.
Pouring gas over everything and lighting it by tossing a lit cigarette into the puddle. It does not work that way.
That one seems intentional. Teaching idiots the wrong way to arson.
You think somebody committed to burning their ex's house or something down will douse the thing in gas, then give up when their lit cigarette does not ignite it?
Just be at work and look around yourself. Many of your colleagues got their jobs without knowing what's actually going on. Doesn't matter what kind of job they have.
To be fair the vast majority of what you need to know to do the job is learned on the job. Maybe not for the people who program CERN, but for the majority of jobs this is true.
About 9/10 court scenes a lawyer walks around the well and doesn't get beaten with a baton, really annoys me.
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