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Writers often play fast and loose with physics —sometimes intentionally, sometimes not. This is usually acceptable when it makes for good storytelling and/or just plain awesomeness, and one should always keep the MST3K Mantra in mind. However, an egregious violation of the laws of physics can result in loss of Willing Suspension of Disbelief, especially in a story that tries to be taken seriously, or if the error could have been avoided with minimal revision. When this is done properly, it can make for awesome action sequences and way-cool visuals —think The Dark Knight or BioShock, for example. Done badly, it can ruin the atmosphere entirely. Some scientifically-minded individuals have a website devoted specifically to detailing these failings in movies: Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics. Soft science fiction uses Artistic License for physics extensively, as do many video games, war films, and horror movies. Hard science fiction uses it too, but will often provide an in-universe explanation that goes beyond "it just does." There will often be some give or take to make up for the conservation of momentum or energy involved, which often makes for an interesting puzzle or workaround for the characters. Often lampshaded with the line "How Is That Even Possible?". Sometimes people think this trope is applied when Reality Is Unrealistic. A Sister Trope to Artistic License – Biology, Artistic License – Chemistry, and Cartoon Physics (which fit Rule of Funny more than Rule of Cool). See also Guns Do Not Work That Way and this Useful Notes page on energy. |
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2012 attempts to justify its scientifically predictable doomsday with an obscure geological theory of crustal displacement formulated in the 50s. The film even throws in an appeal to authority by claiming that Einstein agreed with the theory. The latter is true, and the film depicts at least vaguely accurately what crustal displacement in action might look like. What it fails to address though, is the fact that the theory was formulated before plate tectonics theory was developed, something that didn't happen until the 60s. What does this mean for the movie? Oh, only the fact that the two theories are mutually exclusive, and since plate tectonics is now proven true, the other can't be. Furthermore, Einstein, while brilliant, was not an expert on geology. You wouldn't trust his opinion on plate tectonics any more than you would trust him with open-heart surgery. | |
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Wonder Woman (1942): Lord Uvo has spacecraft that are shaped essentially like a football with a single source of fixed propulsion at the tail end and no wings to speak of, which he uses to fly and even hover in atmosphere. | |
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Project Blue Earth SOS has a glaring example of not knowing their sciences. In the third episode, they launch an old fashioned space shuttle using oxygen and solid fuel. However, the observers are watching this craft take off from a few hundred meters away and are out in the open. Even ignoring the fact that the heat from the engine would likely fry everyone at that range, there is the rather large problem of sound. Space shuttle engines when taking off are loud, really really loud. They are loud enough to stop liquid from being able to flow - NASA discovered they when one of their electrical generators stopped working during takeoff. The sheer volume of the engine stopped the fuel from flowing. That level of noise would kill a human being for various reasons - including all their blood not being able to flow anymore. | |
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Master of Orion II got "Graviton Beam" and Black Holes at once. It gives a weapon with a special effect and something to navigate around, but theories of gravity do not work this way. | |
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The Sentry comes very close to the Sun a few times, for example, in The Collective arc of New Avengers. At that close distance, the Sun is still depicted as having a smaller curvature than the Earth, while the Sun's surface depiction neglects many layers of the Sun that would severely change how it would be perceived by a human-sized observer at such a close distance. Even up close, it's still a small ball of light in space. | |
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DEATH BATTLE!: Wiz was extremely flabbergasted when discovering the speed at which SpongeBob SquarePants unravelled the entire observable universe using only a single piece of string: 8.2 x 10 ^ 78 times faster than light, which Boomstick points out is as many times faster than light as there are atoms in the universe. | |
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Women of the Prehistoric Planet, more well-known since being featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000, has a scene in which an alien spacefarer foots his mouth badly while trying to explain Relativity. He proclaims, "It's due to a warp in the time paradox." Nobody has to be a theoretical physicist to know that the "time paradox" should have been "space-time continuum." Paradoxes have nothing to do with how fast time passes on an object traveling through space. | |
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A Certain Magical Index: Mikoto Misaka's railgun is actually incapable of causing that kind of destruction. Actual lightning travels faster than 1030 m/s (the railgun's max speed). Assuming that this is so and using the weight of a 500 yen coin (~7 grams), the kinetic energy of each blast at maximum is at 3700 Joules, around the same amount as a .280 Remington fired at 861 m/s. But who cares about that when she's blasting someone off with her electricity? There is also angular kinetic energy (rotational energy) to consider since a coin flicked at Mach speeds likely tends to spin like mad. But however much angular kinetic energy Misaka's railgun can realistically possess, the destruction caused by it does still exceed any attainable limits. This may however have been a simple lack of understanding of the amount of power needed to cause that damage on the part of the author. Given that she's supposed to be able to generate an output of 1,000,000,000 Volts, it's entirely probable that the actual max speed of the railgun would be far, far greater than a mere 3 times the speed of sound. On top of that, the fact that all Espers are small-scale reality warpers means that its entirely possible that her power bends, or outright ignores physics, changing them to whatever she desires them to be. |
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One Bones episode featuring a murdered physicist who had worked at the Large Hadron Collider had another physicist say under interrogation that he was glad the Body of the Week was dead because of the LHC black hole scare. Actual physicists had discredited the idea almost as soon as it was brought up because Black Holes Do Not Work That Way. | |
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Monument Valley features several levels with these, including one water wheel that works (when you solve that part of the puzzle) like Escher's above. | |
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In The Simpsons, when Bart, Milhouse and Martin are reading about how Radioactive Man was formed Martin says in astonishment, "I'd have thought being caught in a nuclear explosion would have killed him!" "Well, now you know better." |
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In Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Cybertron, which is far larger than Earth, is brought less than 1 Earth-diameter away from Earth via the space bridge. At that distance, Cybertron should have torn Earth apart. | |
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An episode of MythBusters shows a real world example of what happens when you try to violate this law: The build team builds a giant pressure cannon, and when they test fire the cannon, it nearly flies backwards off the table it's on. Grant points out they'd forgotten to take the mass of the hook they were shooting into account when they calculated how firmly they needed to anchor the cannon down; Kari flat out says "we forgot the Newton's Laws." | |
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Steamboy. The entire concept of the story - the idea that you can compress steam, and store incredible quantities of it in a tiny sphere, so long as the water you used is pure enough - is pure balderdash. The movie ignores the simple fact that if you compress any gas sufficiently, it will condense into supercritical fluid. The more pressure the gas is under, the more heat is required to maintain it in gaseous form, which would mean that the tale's McGuffin would have to be so hot that it would have vaporised the metal it was made of. | |
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Totally Spies!: The infamous double laser scene. | |
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In the first arc of the X-Wing Rogue Squadron comics, an arc plagued with bad editing, a Wookiee swings a wooden stick at a TIE fighter in flight and shreds the wing that he hit. He's not even knocked off balance and the stick is still intact and in his hand, but the TIE explodes. TIE fighters are a bit fragile for starfighters, but they're still space-capable fighters whose wings work as limited armor. And, in the books of the series, they're able to fly quickly through a forest snapping the branches of trees without taking on damage. | |
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In Halloween: Resurrection, a victim (played by Katee Sackhoff) is decapitated in one stroke...with a foot long kitchen knife. | |
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The Flash:. While they address the issue of wind friction by giving the Flash an immunity to the heat generated by it, he should have tremendous difficulty with acceleration (positive, or negative) at the speeds he travels. Obviously ignored because the story of a character limited to the speed of a drag racer wouldn't be as much fun. | |
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The Distortion World in Pokémon Platinum is based on Escher's works. | |
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Similar to Unreal Tournament 2004 above, in 8-Bit Theater, Fighter is able to negate all falling damage while carrying all the others by blocking the ground with his shield. (Think of the ground as being a really big rock thrown at them, and he can block any attack...) | |
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Chinese blockbuster The Wandering Earth has a very loose take on physics - the setup is that humanity has turned the Earth into a spaceship by strapping a bunch of rockets to it. The plot itself kicks off as the Earth is flying past Jupiter, only for Jupiter's gravity to randomly increase, knocking out Earth's engines and pulling it in. Needless to say, planets do not randomly increase in gravity. | |
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The Bridge (2013) revolves entirely around resolving puzzle in Escher-like architecture. | |
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An episode of G.I. Joe had the Joes get their aircraft carrier stuck in a derelict graveyard, and the only way to get out was to rig up a sail on it. Rule of Cool idea, but aircraft carriers are far heavier and more massive than wooden sailing ships and would need one heck of a sail or sails, a very strong mast connected to the superstructure of the carrier and a very strong wind to get moving. | |
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2nd Edition Paranoia states that red reflect armor blocks red lasers and nothing else, while blue reflects blocks all laser frequencies from red to blue. They explicitly lampshade this license, explaining that the game mechanics work this way because they don't want to deal with multi-prismatic armor (like they did in 1st edition). | |
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In From Russia with Love, James Bond destroys a number of attacking speedboats over a large area simply by dumping fuel in the water and lighting it; however this would have no effect if the boats were moving at high speed since they would be cooled by the splashing water (and its evaporation) faster than they could be heated; likewise, the bow-wave of the boats would extinguish the flames immediately around them. Later movies were worse. This could work if the area of burning fuel was large enough. Depletion of atmospheric oxygen by the combustion would cause the boats' engines to stall and the humans to suffocate, leaving them stuck in the middle... | |
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Spiral has a moment where Ayumu's sidekick tosses a key down to him from a moving train. Needless to say, it falls straight down in slow motion. | |
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In RoboCop 2, both RoboCop and RoboCop 2 fall over 100 stories — but survive undamaged and unharmed, due to the durability of their mechanical parts. While their parts may certainly have been that tough, their organic parts still would have felt the crunch of a very sudden stop inside those metal shells. | |
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The Dark Knight Rises has suspension bridges being cleanly severed in the middle, with the rest of the bridges remaining as they were. | |
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And again canon ever since Reign of the Supermen. It was explicitly stated that Superman had a "field" around him that was difficult to recreate properly when they cloned him. That field is the source of his invulnerability, flight and super-strength, and he subconsciously wrapped it around anything he was trying to lift in one piece. Superboy was just able to use the field in a more complex manner. Eventually. | |
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In Freefall: Sam Starfall fails physics forever, but then so did Ecosystems Unlimited. | |
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Aberrant actually points out and justifies this in-continuity. Regardless of how a power appears to work, it is actually a "quantum effect" which may incorporate various side effects to make it work like it should. This happens subconsciously, allowing Novas to make their powers work like they think they should work. A mentioned example is a Nova lifting a battleship, which should at most result in the ship breaking instead; the Nova subconsciously wraps the ship in a stabilising quantum effect so it can work "like it does in the comic books". | |
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The physics engines in Oblivion and Skyrim apparently don't support friction, which often leads to silliness when it interacts with dead bodies. The same is true for Jurassic Park: Trespasser. In Lava Tile Isle from the first two Mario Party games, there is no way the platforms would have enough traction to stop on like normal, yet still slide out from underneath you while moving. |
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In "Battleship, the USS Missouri is able to perform a handbrake turn using the anchor. For a 45,000 ton displacement ship going under full power to execute such a maneuver, the anchor would need to fuse itself to the bedrock ocean floor, otherwise it would just drag along the floor slowing the ship somewhat, and be made of some super strong adamantium type material in order to not just snap off. | |
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Averted in Robert A Heinlein's The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. Soldiers brought from Earth to repress the rebellion on the Luna penal colony resent being there because it is nearly impossible for anyone to return to the Earth after more than a few months on the Moon because their body has acclimatized to 1/6 Earth gravity. The soldiers are also disadvantaged because their normal walking gait learned on Earth causes them to fly into the air. Also, a delegation sent from Luna to Earth must take long and very inconvenient acclimatization measures just to not die when they arrive Earthside, and every step is an enormous strain. The older of them can barely even sit up without straining his heart, and he was born and raised on Earth. | |
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Heavenly Bodies's default difficulty setting isn't the largely physically-accurate Newtonian mode, but a modified version of it that allows the player to move through the vacuum of space by flapping their arms. It works like swimming and is there to make it more difficult to go careening off into space with no way to turn back. | |
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In one episode of Maya the Bee 3D series, insects are lifting a tree trunk with a lever by pushing the shorter arm. This would make the necessary force bigger. | |
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Iron Man: Tony Stark survives a fall from hundreds of feet in his Mark I. Granted, some people have survived falls from that height but they typically didn't have a horizontal velocity to combine with the vertical from an arced blaster jump. He doesn't even seem to be injured. He later gets shot mid-flight by a tank and hits the ground without even a cracked rib. | |
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The Transformers three-part episode "The Ultimate Doom" revolves around—just like Dark of the Moon—the planet of Cybertron teleported into Earth's orbit. While this does cause various cataclysmic effects to happen on Earth, none of them are remotely realistic (why would one planet suddenly appearing next to another cause a volcano to become active?), neither planet's gravitational pull rips the other to pieces, and Cybertron isn't affected at all despite the numerous disasters occurring on Earth's surface. | |
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In Me, Myself & Irene, Charlie's 'sons' manage to take off in a helicopter that, in reality, would have been unable to hover, let alone fly, with the weight of the three in question on board. | |
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In X-Men: First Class, before Banshee's first flight attempt, you have Dr. McCoy, allegedly a scientist, telling Banshee, "We need the sound waves to be supersonic!" Right, you need them to be faster than the speed sound... travels... at... huh? To be fair, he probably meant "ultrasonic" (i.e. above the range audible to humans). | |
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Another Earth isn't about people running for their lives on the appearance of a twin of Earth appearing and coming in close to our planet - it's about grief and redemption with the second Earth representing hope, but it still doesn't follow physics precisely: The other Earth is always portrayed as "full" in the sky during the day (The way the Moon is full); it would have to stay on the night side of Earth to do that unless it was only being viewed at sunrise and sunset. A second Earth-sized planet that near would really throw off Earth's orbit. It would also impact other planets' orbits, though to a much lesser (but still detectable) extent. Even if the planet had been hiding behind the Sun the whole time before it appeared, we would have already been able to infer its existence from its effect on the other orbits in the inner solar system. If a planet were coming that close to Earth, people would be more worried about a collision. Ocean tides here on Earth are the result of the moon pulling on the Earth. Another Earth so close as to be bigger than the moon in the sky would send ocean tides over huge swaths of populated land. And if it's that close, our own moon would have crashed into it. |
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In 2009's Star Trek, after dumping the warp core at close range into a gravity well to gain some slight distance via propulsion, the ship and crew are immersed in a wave of sparkling light that can penetrate physical matter and biological tissue with no consequence, showing how coming into direct contact with an anti-matter reaction is both non-lethal and at worst, mildly pleasant. | |
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The old arcade Xain'd Sleena has an underwater stage ("Guwld Soa"/"Neptune" depending on the version) in which the action takes place in the seabed, but everything is as on the surface including the ship descending/ascending to leave/after retrieving the protagonist once the stage is clear. | |
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In Lava Tile Isle from the first two Mario Party games, there is no way the platforms would have enough traction to stop on like normal, yet still slide out from underneath you while moving. | |
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In Higurashi: When They Cry, at one point in the third arc Satoko freaks out and manages to push Keiichi and his chair all the way across the classroom. Even the reverse would be very difficult, but Keiichi is a guy twice her size. Physics say "this can't happen". Artistic demonstration of Satoko's breakdown says "screw physics". | |
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Deep Impact not only shrugs off the energy release by the asteroid hitting the atmosphere even if it's blown up into pieces, but it also greatly underestimates the power of tsunamis. A tsunami wave of that size would have completely levelled the city. There would have been no ruins left, only a flat wasteland. | |
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In Fallout: New Vegas, Scientist Keely wants you to ignite flammable gas in Vault 22 to destroy a botanical experiment Gone Horribly Wrong. Keely explains that you need to detonate explosives right next to the ventilation system pumping the gas because "the gas becomes semi-inert on exposure to oxygen". | |
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In Turning Red, when Mei pulls her friends into her room to shush them, their spines seem to bend 180 degrees backwards in order to fit through the window. | |
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Mario Party 3: In Tick Tock Hop, jumping off a rotating clock hand would send you flying outwards in real life, as once you go airborne, you travel according to you linear speed, not your rotational speed. That being said, realistic physics would make the minigame unplayable. | |
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In Superman: The Animated Series, Batman dissolves a chunk of Kryptonite in acid, thereby apparently making all the radiation go away. The Kryptonite hasn't disappeared, it's just reacted with the acid, and if you dissolve a real radioactive material like this (for example plutonium in hydrochloric acid) the resulting compound (plutonium chloride) is still radioactive. | |
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One of the later levels in Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening has a huge crush on the works of Escher. | |
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Schlock Mercenary had a strip where the ship made a quick u-turn... in space. The footnote did point out that under normal conditions any u-turn has to make a wide arc (to avoid breaking the ship on either side of the "pivot point" from stress as different parts are moving in different directions), and even the fact that ships in the Schlock universe have "inertics" and gravity-manipulation to help hold things together, the travel arc still wouldn't (likely) end up as narrow as shown. Net judgment: it doesn't matter, because it looks good. | |
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Ice Breaker: The actual fact of "things become more brittle when frozen" is exaggerated. | |
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In Spider-Man, the Green Goblin cuts the cable of a cable car and grabs it to present Peter a Sadistic Choice. When an object hangs from a horizontal cable, it puts lateral force on the cable (to make it form a V shape, if that helps you visualize). A cable car weighs several thousand pounds. Even if we could Hand Wave the Green Goblin being able to carry that weight, it would have simply pulled him off the platform he was standing on. | |
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A most likely unintentional example turns up in the original Resident Evil 2. The main lobby of the R.P.D. precinct has a fairly steep incline leading up to the western offices, but if you travel from the western corridor to the offices or back again, you'll encounter no inclines, slopes or steps of any kind along the way; the office doorway somehow shifts you a good four feet in elevation whenever you pass through it. Once you've noticed this bit of Bizarrchitecture, the police station's lack of restrooms suddenly seems a whole lot less screwy. | |
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In The Wolverine, a superheated adamantium sword is depicted cutting through room temperature adamantium. While (in the canon) adamantium can only be made malleable by superheating it, superheating the sword would only render the sword more malleable, not what it's cutting. Given X-Men Origins: Wolverine already demonstrated that adamantium can potentially damage other adamantium under the right conditions, the sharpness and angle of the sword strikes should have been sufficient to do the job, especially when backed by the strength of Powered Armor. | |
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It was also parodied in an old comic strip by MAD's Sergio Aragonés in the Mad Super Special Fall 1981: The Comics. An ocean liner has run into a rock and is sending out SOS signals. Superman tries to rescue it by picking it up from underneath, in the middle of the ship's keel. When he does so, the ship breaks in half. | |
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In MAD's "Teen Titanic (1997)" sketch, a version of Superboy with strength and fight and without TK tried to lift the titular ship out of the way of the iceberg (from the front, or bow). It promptly snaps in half. | |
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Analog magazine has a long-running series of short-short stories with the series title of "Probability Zero", stories which sound plausible but aren't, because of deliberate (and usually subtle) scientific errors. Many of them fall into this category. | |
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In The Lost Fleet and its Spin-Off / P.O.V. Sequel series The Lost Stars, humans have faster-than-light travel but not communication, and FTL travel doesn't work within a solar system—so in the many space battles, characters' information is limited by the speed of light. Usually, this is done properly, but on a couple of occasions, characters on ship A see distant- ship B's reaction to event C (such as a fleet arriving from hyperspace) before A actually sees C (and they'll even have time to wonder what caused B to act as it did). Geometrically, that just can't happen—no matter where A, B, and C are, A will be able to see C before it can see B's reaction to C. | |
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EVE Online actually subverts this trope in one way while opening up physics issues in others. The region of space in which EVE takes place is described as having a fluidic nature, meaning that ships and projectiles are exposed to drag, sound can propagate through space, and ships that lose power slow and eventually stop, requiring constant thrust and having a relatively low top speed limit. However, this excuse goes out the window with ship designs. In fluidic space, ships would ideally be hydrodynamic for efficiency purposes, while many EVE ships have boxy, inefficient designs and many are ridiculously asymmetrical, which would create very imbalanced maneuverability problems. | |
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The plot for The Owl House episode "King's Tide" involves a solar eclipse, which is specifically stated to be happening "when the tide is at its lowest". In real life, the fact that the sun, moon, and Earth are in alignment would mean an exceptionally high tide (in fact, that is literally what the term "King's Tide" means). This discrepancy can probably be chalked up to magic given how it instantly drops when the eclipse reaches totality and the draining spell activates. | |
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The X-Files showed a falling elevator whose passenger was crushed to the floor - but two objects in freefall accelerate at the same rate (9.8 m/s2), so he would have felt weightless. In any case, the only way he could be crushed to the floor would be if the lift were accelerating upwards. | |
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This has actually been parodied in an old Donald Duck comic by Carl Barks, where Donald, granted superpowers, tries to lift a sunken ship into the air, only for it to snap in half and slam into him from both sides. | |
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Reborn as a Space Mercenary: I Woke Up Piloting the Strongest Starship! hardly strives for scientific accuracy in general, but one thing it actually gets right is the minor plot point that carbonated beverages don't behave well in microgravity (because the carbon dioxide bubbles don't rise to the top without gravity), so soda (protagonist Hiro's Trademark Favorite Food) is almost impossible to find, providing him with early motivation for his mercenary career.note He plans to save up to buy a house on a planet surface so he can drink soda freely. However, while this would make sense on a spaceship where Artificial Gravity is subject to failure, the Space Stations in The 'Verse all appear to use Centrifugal Gravity, which can't fail that way. | |
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The (in)famous "baseball boat" of Pacific Rim - where one of the Humongous Mecha drags a long, skinny (but still massive) freighter along behind it, like a caveman would drag a club. And then proceeds to use that vessel like a baseball bat. Then again, who cares about physics when a mecha is beating the hell out of a kaiju with a ship? | |
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X-Men Film Series In X-Men: First Class, before Banshee's first flight attempt, you have Dr. McCoy, allegedly a scientist, telling Banshee, "We need the sound waves to be supersonic!" Right, you need them to be faster than the speed sound... travels... at... huh? To be fair, he probably meant "ultrasonic" (i.e. above the range audible to humans). In The Wolverine, while fighting atop the bullet train, Wolverine charges at a mook many feet behind him by leaping up so that he remains in the same place while the train speeds by under him. In reality, Wolverine and the mooks are already moving at the same speed as the train, so jumping would at best provide only minimal deceleration through wind drag, as opposed to Wolverine temporarily flying like he's Superman. |
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Mark of the Ninja: During thunderstorms, you risk being seen by guards in a flash of lightning. However, to prevent the player from being caught by surprise, the thunderclap actually sounds before the lightning flash, not the other way around. | |
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Smallville: In "Commencement", meteors are said to take 45 minutes to pass the atmosphere, when in real life, this takes less than a minute. A big one in the grand finale. Just don't think too hard on how Apokolips arrives on Earth. |
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In the Stargate SG-1 episode "Allegiance", someone invisible is running around causing trouble. Carter is asked to come up with a way to make him visible and decides that the right way to do it is to get the naqahdah reactor to emit a burst of electromagnetic radiation with wavelength between 400 and 700 nanometers. While this may sound like Techno Babble, it actually means something — her plan is to make him visible by shining a light on him. Given how closely the numbers involved match up, it's unclear whether this is a goof or just a very subtle Expospeak Gag. Or both. | |
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In The Day of Σ OVA that comes with Mega Man: Maverick Hunter X, Sigma launches several large missiles, think ICBM sized, at Abel City. Several of these missiles touchdown and explode, leaving massive, smoking craters. Obviously, the shock waves from the explosions should've leveled the city outright. | |
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The Day After Tomorrow: The giant wave that washes over New York City should have instantly pulverized the Statue of Liberty and nearly every building it washed over like sand castles at the beach with the amount of mass and momentum a tsunami of such height would have. Instead, the statue doesn't even get shifted, and she gets to be the defining shot of the poster, while the main characters are able to survive the Giant Wall of Watery Doom by hiding inside the library above the water level. | |
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The Mass Effect series has a long history of wavering between acknowledging this and the Rule of Perception, given the series is meant in large part as an homage to classic space opera. So the Codex correctly takes all of these factors into account, and then the cutscene artists make the ships fly around like Spitfires anyway because it would look wrong if they didn't. | |
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In The Flash (2014) episode "Family of Rogues", Cisco uses "ultraviolet imaging" to detect Captain Cold's cold gun, explaining it's the "opposite" of using infrared to trace heat. In reality, ultraviolet and cold have nothing to do with each other; you detect cold by doing an infrared image and looking for places where the heat isn't, since that's all cold is. It's more than one kind of wrong. Infrared imaging is used to trace heat because it's the radiation emitted by objects at ambient temperature. Visible light is emitted by objects that are hotter (i.e. white-hot). Ultraviolets are even further up the scale, and would only make even hotter objects visible. |
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The second episode of Mobile Suit Gundam Wing has the Gundam Deathscythe fighting underwater with as much agility as if it were on land. The depths were far enough to be the giant robot equivalent of deep sea diving using specialized diving suits. | |
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In the prologue of Steins;Gate, a three-meter wide satellite crashes into the Radio Kaikan building in Akihabara after falling from space. The building, however, is still standing with no worse for wear other than some minor structural damage, and the satellite itself, now embedded into the building, is largely still intact. In reality, the crash would've been far more destructive because of the kinetic energy the satellite would've produced from falling through the atmosphere at terminal velocity. It would've completely destroyed the building it crashed into, as well as level surrounding buildings adjacent to it and reduce the city block into a crater. And that's assuming if the satellite is even strong enough to not break apart into pieces upon atmospheric entry. However, the downplay is justified for plot-related reasons: It's not really a satellite that fell out of orbit as everyone assumes. It's actually a time-machine that came from the future. | |
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Star Trek plays fast and loose with the amounts of power its weapons and technology require, sometimes greatly underestimating power output and sometimes greatly overestimating it-maybe. It's hard for us to know how much power FTL warp drives and cloaking technology would consume. Photon torpedoes are projectile weapons that rely on a matter/anti-matter reaction to cause damage. And yet for the most part they seem to act more like glowing cannonballs, mostly doing kinetic damage on impact. In reality, when matter and anti-matter come into contact they immediately turn into a great deal of light (most of that being gamma rays) and heat. So this◊ should look more like this◊. In the Star Trek: Voyager episode Riddles an alien outpost with 3,000 beings aboard is using 9 million terawatts. For comparison, all of human civilization used about 20 terawatts in the year 2008. That's 2,857 watts per human, 3 quadrillion watts per alien. |
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The Escher Vault in Warehouse 13 was designed by Escher. | |
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In the Eraser movie mentioned above, the EM-1 'railgun' is said to propel the bullet (roughly the size of a .50 FMJ) to a speed close to the speed of light. As the kinetic energy equation [E=(mv^2)/2] shows, the muzzle energy of such weapons would be 1,8x10^18 J, i.e. close to 300 MT TNT equivalent (which is 6 times the yield of Tsar-Bomba, the most powerful nuclear device detonated ever). Even at half the speed of light we're still speaking about the yield greater than the one of the Little Boy. Also, due to relativistic effects, the mass of an object near the speed of light approaches infinity, so the energy would be too. Forget the energy of the bullet: consider the power density of the battery required to pump out the juice needed to accelerate the bullet over a distance of just over a meter to "nearly the speed of light". Instead of the bad guys trying to sell weapons to some rinkydink rogue nutcase, they should be marketing the power supply to NASA, ESA, the Russians, the Chinese, or anyone else who want to toodle around in space. |
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The Incredible Hulk: Gamma radiation is depicted as lethal to most any Innocent Bystander, unless you happen to be the one lucky enough to survive, and survivors do not generally suffer from high amounts of radiation exposure. Gamma rays do not seem to penetrate through matter or the Earth to cause damage and destruction to any and all lifeforms, as such a detonation on the Earth's surface would likely do. | |
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I, Robot: The depiction of a damaged suspension bridge crossing Lake Michigan demonstrates a lack of understanding of how such bridges actually work. | |
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Azure Striker Gunvolt: Tenjian, a superhuman with the power to manipulate ice, has the ability to freeze things below absolute zero. If we assume that temperatures below absolute zero can exist, they would actually be warmer than any positive temperature. | |
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The 1985 Squadron Supreme series featured a character named Inertia who's power was "stealing one person/object's inertia" and transferring it to another. This would be a cool and interesting power with many uses of its own but seeing this power in action, it's clear the character is actually transferring momentum or kinetic energy. Inertia is an object's ability to resist changes in motion. | |
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World War Z: In one sequence, zombies are described walking along the ocean floor. Suspension of disbelief present with actively decaying corpses walking at all, they should be crushed flat as a pancake at such a depth. This is even lampshaded in-universe, but no explanation on how inconsistent their durability is is ever given. | |
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The Fifth Element: Based on the stated size of an evil planet, at the orbital distance it is said to have parked by the time it was stopped, a substantial part of it would have actually been within Earth's atmosphere. To say nothing of the tremendous tidal forces a body of its size would have exerted. | |
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The physical complications listed above have caused some fans to speculate that Superman's power is not actually physical strength and invulnerability, but rather a form of telekinesis. For a while Post-Crisis, that was the canon explanation of his powers in the comics. It still is the explanation of the powers of Gladiator. | |
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BattleTech rarely gives out hard numbers, but when they do they tend to be ridiculous. One sourcebook had a single line mentioning the power output of an Aerospace Fighter's fusion engine: the math worked it out to be more than 50% of the total energy output for the electrical grid of the entire US. | |
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Plan 9 from Outer Space. Everyone should know that particles of sunlight are "made up of many atoms"! | |
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In The Water Babies (1978), the buoyancy of ice is evidently negated when you cut a chunk of it off an iceberg, as the heroes do to bombard the villain's underwater lair. | |
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In Alvin and the Chipmunks, the opening depicts Alvin surfing in a bathtub, on a wave created by an electric fan. The wave supports Alvin, maintains its wavy shape, and stays in place for several seconds without collapsing. | |
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Nemesis (Mark Millar): The first issue has the main character stand in front of the outside of an airplane...while it's in mid-flight. Before you ask, no, Nemesis doesn't have superpowers. Yes, the comic is supposed to be realistic. | |
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The same is true for Jurassic Park: Trespasser. | |
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The three fireplace-sized logs that Doc gives to Marty in Back to the Future Part III would not be sufficient to run a steam locomotive for a mile or more. This example overlaps with Just Train Wrong, because the idea behind a steam locomotive is to produce a steady, even source of heat and raise the water/steam temperature incrementally. Since there's such a large volume of fluid a significant, but short burst of heat probably wouldn't be sufficient to raise the pressure in any significant way. Not only that, but such a dramatic means of powering the train wasn't even necessary. Some trains of the late-19th century were more than capable of achieving the speeds required by the DeLorean under the normal capabilities of their boilers, and on properly built and maintained track. However, whether the class of locomotive shown or the underlying track would have supported / survived this effort tends to bring us back to this trope. | |
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Disney's The Black Hole depicts a black hole as an inhospitable wormhole space cave without the effects of gravity or density. | |
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Wonder Woman Vol 1, Vol 2, Vol 3, Vol 5 & Sensation Comics Featuring Wonder Woman: While Di does occasionally use her lasso to spread her points of contact with a large item, like a ship, when lifting it she usually does not and the structures ought to snap and collapse under their own weight from the way she's carting them around. The lasso is magical, and that magic is stated to make the lasso itself indestructable not whatever it's wrapped around. In The Legend of Wonder Woman (2016) a plane she lassos does fall apart. | |
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In Sliders, after launching a nuclear rocket at a comet to destroy it before it hits Earth, Quinn is surprised when it doesn't explode on impact, however, Arturo explains the delay is down to the limited speed of light. However, the light coming from the rocket approaching and hitting the comet should be delayed too, so it should still appear to explode on impact. | |
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In George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, the Wall is stated to be 700 feet high, yet people on the ground can fire arrows from wooden bows at defenders on top of the Wall and hit with enough force to kill. Not even modern compound bows could accomplish this feat. For reference, the average skyscraper is between 500 and 900 feet. This might be a good time to mention that the difficulty of accurately firing a bow 700 feet is nothing compared to the issue of not possibly having the strength to propel an arrow 700 feet UPWARDS (think back to elementary school science — one word, gravity). Though it is mentioned that, of the thousands of arrows fired at the Wall over the course of one battle, only one actually managed to hit anybody, and that guy only died because he fell off the edge. Most of the folks who spend time at the wall aren't even literate, never mind capable of trigonometry, and nobody has a 700ft. measuring tape lying around- given the state of disrepair the wall is in, it could be that it was 700 ft. tall once, isn't anymore, and people keep on repeating that number to each other so that way they feel safer from the ravening hordes below. It's said that, when George RR Martin saw a video game that faithfully recreated the size of Wall as described in the book, he admitted that he "made it too big". This would explain why the action around it behaves as though it were much smaller. |
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One Piece In episode forty, a Fishman believes that dragging Sanji to the bottom of the ocean will cause him to explode from the inside...this Fishman clearly doesn't understand the way pressure works, or that there is the word "implosion." Admiral Aokiji, who can instantly freeze part of the ocean. Even waves that come crashing down on him are frozen in place. And Admiral Kizaru, whose Light powers frequently cause inexplicable explosions. |
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In I Am Legend the main spans of the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges are destroyed but the back spans remain intact with main cables in tension. | |
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In The DCU Daxamites are vulnerable to lead radiation—for those not familiar with the periodic table, lead is generally considered a stable element in its most common isotopes, meaning it is not vulnerable to spontaneous radioactive decay in the same way that, say, uranium is. (This has been retconned into a severe allergy to lead, even in trace atmospheric amounts.) | |
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Toy Story. In this case, optics. Woody uses Buzz's helmet as a Solar-Powered Magnifying Glass to light a fuse. Unfortunately, Buzz's helmet is made of plastic, not glass, so it shouldn't be able to focus the sun's light the way glass does. | |
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Futurama: Fry and Bender visit an Escher-esque apartment when they are house hunting. Fry comments that he's not sure he wants to pay for extra dimensions he's not going to use. | |
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Independence Day. The very presence of something as large as the mother ship in orbit should have caused flooding, earthquakes, and other severe problems with the Earth. And that's not getting into what the effects of it actually exploding in orbit would be. When it exploded, this would have been definitely been an "Extinction-Level Event" (to borrow the term from Deep Impact). Also, it was supposed to be 1/4 the size of the Moon. Even taking into account that a lot of the ship is empty space, passing that close would have distorted the orbit of the Moon. Indeed the gravitational effects should have been detectable months before as distortions of the Moon's orbit around the Earth (which is continually being measured and can be done so with extreme accuracy). Plus the effect on the tides on Earth itself. And for that matter, the reflected sunlight from the mothership should have made it detectable by telescopes long before it even crossed the orbit of Mars, and once it was in Earth orbit, it should have been visible to the naked eye and have been at least several times brighter than the full moon. |
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World War Z: The zombies are able to breach the wall in Jerusalem by stacking on top of each other like army ants to form a crude human pyramid (and much later, are shown doing the same thing against a skyscraper to reach the roof). This ignores that, unlike ants, which weigh a tiny fraction of a gram individually, humans weigh a lot more than that; the zombies at the base of the pyramid should have been crushed into meaty pulp by the weight of hundreds upon hundreds of bodies on top of them. The zombies also breach the wall specifically by hurling themselves over the top to reach the other side. Zombified or not, that wall is about a hundred feet high, unless the virus made them into supermen, they should've suffered crippling physical injuries falling that far onto bare concrete, preventing them from being a real threat (or at least until there were enough immobilized zombie corpses piled up on the other side to cushion their fall). Although... it's not as if the original novel was exempt from this trope either (see "Pressure" section). |
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Early versions of Kerbal Space Program played this straight because reentry heating was only effects that didn't affect your craft. Later versions avert this, though. | |
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Vector Thrust's Angle of Attack limiter is usually engaged to limit aircraft stress, but the player can toggle it on and off at well. When limiters are off aircraft start to behave like they're in space- you get things like planes flying backwards or sideways. | |
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The novel Airborn has airships that use hydronium gas for their lifting power. This miraculous gas is specifically mentioned to be even lighter than hydrogen - an atom made up of a single proton. Let's see if we can figure out how many protons something lighter might have... Also despite presumably being some kind of exotic matter, it inexplicably smells like mangoes. Exotic matter particles shouldn't really be participating in organic chemistry at all, let alone convincingly imitating a host of different aromatic compounds. (Although it's actually pretty clear by the second book that nuclear physics works somewhat differently in the world of Airborn, considering that there are at least one species that gets its energy from some kind of nuclear reaction which consumes water (or possibly one of its components) and produces hydronium as a byproduct.) Then there's the scene in the first book where the main characters have been left to die in a pit that's gradually filling with natural hydronium, which is deadly because it displaces all other gasses (like oxygen) very quickly. They escape with the use of a makeshift balloon...which shouldn't have worked, since the hydronium in their balloon wouldn't have been any less dense than the hydronium of the shaft, thus the balloon as a whole would still have negative buoyancy. |
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Super Friends 1973/74 episode "The Shamon U". Near the end, Superman picks up a full-size sperm whale from a city street and carries it back to the ocean. There's no way the whale could survive that much force being applied to such a small point on its body. It would have been ripped apart. | |
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Forbidden Planet. The protagonists are fighting a monster, and one of them says that their attack has no effect even though they're hitting it with three billion electron volts' worth of energy. Three billion electron volts wouldn't fry a mosquito, much less a monster; no wonder their attack wasn't working! (The electron-volt is equal to the energy a single electron gains if accelerated by a potential difference of one volt. Conversion of everyday amounts of energy into electron-volts thus tends to give very large numbers; Newton's apocryphal apple, for instance, would probably have hit his head with an energy in excess of ten quintillion (a billion times itself) electron-volts. And not injured him at all.) It might make a bit more sense if they were referring to energy per particle fired; even something as heavy as stream of uranium atoms, for example, would need to be going at about 20% of Cee to deliver three billion electron-volts per particle. Beta radiation would need to be accelerated to over 99.99%. | |
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Battle for Terra: In one scene, two humans are watching a room in which an alien is in an alien-atmosphere-pressurized room. Then a human is put into the alien's room, and one of the other humans has to decide whether he wants the human or the alien to live by changing the atmosphere or leaving it alone. He ends up choosing the human, but then, seeing the alien's breather mask, tells his robot to save her. The robot cuts open the glass, at which point the whole window explodes outward as the air in the pressure room escapes — even though this was after the atmosphere was adjusted to the same human-friendly levels it would be like outside the room. The phrase cubic pounds of air is used. Twice. |
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Luigi's Mansion 3 has several puzzles requiring weighted objects to be placed on switches on the ground. During these puzzles Luigi plus Gooigi inside the Poltergust weighs less than Luigi plus Gooigi outside of the Poltergust. In real life, a person carrying another doesn't make the latter lose all weight, especially if they're very much not a ghost. | |
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In X-Men: The Last Stand Magneto breaks the Golden Gate Bridge at the anchorages and tower bases and transports it to a new location in San Francisco Bay – still standing. | |
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In Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon, the astronauts get to the moon by being shot out of a 900 foot long cannon. In order to reach sufficient speed to reach the Moon while traveling the length of the cannon, the ship would have to accelerate at 22,000 gravities, which would squash the astronauts inside it flat no matter what precautions were taken. | |
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Infinite Crisis has several Earths appearing and disappearing in space without having major gravitational effects from their close proximity. Superman's yell is powerful enough to travel from the surface of one Earth to another. And a human-sized body flying straight through the diameter of a sun is depicted as somewhat difficult and straining for a superhuman. | |
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My Immortal: At one point Draco Malfoy walks out of the flying car while it is still in the air. He is perfectly fine afterwards. | |
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The Incredible Hercules: Hercules, of all people, feels the need to point out everything wrong about Ego compared to how planets are supposed to be structured. | |
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El Goonish Shive: Somewhere A Physicist Is Crying. That would be Panel 3 of this strip. And he cries some more in this strip. Turns out this one is simple: A summoner wanted a fire monster, but there's no such thing as "living fire," so he ended up creating a monster that looks like fire but isn't actually hot and can be "extinguished." The comic's 'New Readers Guide' immediately warns us thusly: "WARNING: Often ignores the laws of physics." found here |
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The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask depicts a moon threatening to flatten Termina and destroy the world in the process. Even discounting magic, in the unlikely event that the moon were to fall out of its orbit and towards the planet, the gravitational interaction between the planet and the comparatively tiny moon would cause the moon to disintegrate under the pressure of the planet's gravity before it could impact the surface. The planet would still be ravaged by rapidly rising and falling tides and increased volcanism from the crust being pulled by the moon's gravity, but an impact event is nigh impossible. | |
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A puzzle in God of War III involves using a trick of perspective to navigate an impossible Escher maze. | |
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Promare: The Burnish can manipulate and produce fire, which Lio, Guiera and Meis convert into solid matter to create armor, weapons and vehicles, and some non-Burnish characters are even shown to run on fire in its basic form. It's commonly known that you can't make fire into a solid, and you definitely can't run on top of it due to it being a chemical reaction. Possibly subverted, since the flames are actually aliens called Promare, though this doesn't explain why everyone would constantly mistake them for real fire. | |
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The worst offender has to be Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, when he pushes the moon with little effort. | |
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An episode of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, "Sonic Rainboom", shows Rainbow Dash managing to break the sound barrier and create the titular rainboom, saving Rarity and the knocked-out Wonderbolts from falling to their deaths. However, she then does a 90-degree turn while still moving at about the speed of sound. A fan did the calculations and showed that Rainbow Dash (and the ponies she was carrying) would have experienced well over 1,600 times the force of gravity. On Earth, this would not only kill a living person instantly, it would probably liquefy his body. On Equestria, however, all ponies survive unharmed. Another fan did calculations based on a couple of other incidents, concluding that many things in Equestria, such as Applejack and random cloud-like swarms of butterflies, are actually composed of dark matter given the way they negate or transfer momentum. The cloud-like swarm of butterflies, however, is easily explained when you recall that Fluttershy is a pegasus pony. She can walk on actual clouds, which are a lot less dense. In any case, it stands to reason that all of this is really just a function of the inherent magical nature of ponies. |
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At the climax of the Doctor Who story "The End of Time", the entire planet Gallifrey appears next to Earth and apparently has no effect on either the Earth, the Moon, or their orbits. Gallifrey itself appears to already be moving the necessary orbital velocity, too, since it doesn't immediately start falling towards the Sun. This is somewhat justified in that Gallifrey was still phasing into our time from the Time War and wasn't physically there — but that's a whole 'nother issue. In "Kill the Moon", the Moon gets heavier without explanation, then explodes, hatching some space dragon...thing, which then lays an egg exactly the same size as the old Moon, all but the firstnote which drove the plot in the first ten minutes then was never mentioned again with no apparent repercussions. There are at least three different categories of this trope just in that sentence, without even accounting for the debris. |
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Up: Where Carl ties hundreds of balloons to his house to fly away. The problem is Carl's house's apparent loss of momentum. Realistically, it would be almost impossible to get going, and then would drag you a hundred feet when you try to stop. Also, the wind would move it better than you, so you'd just be dragged the way the wind blows. And air pressure is far enough from constant that the house wouldn't stay even like that. They also manage to steer the house with control surfaces that are tiny in comparison to the wind resistance of the house, and the balloons, and there's no apparent effect the direction the house is facing would have anyway, especially seeing as it should have no airspeed as it is unpowered. | |
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In Hunter × Hunter, one arc has the protagonists and their allies playing dodgeball against an enemy. The game is won by one character making the ball stick to the enemy's wrists, while the enemy was trying to deflect the ball thrown by the protagonists back towards them, volleyball-style. According to the story, doing so made the antagonist be pushed back by the force of the ball until he was out of bounds, while deflecting the ball and changing the velocity of the ball to the opposite direction would have allowed him to hold his ground. The Law of Conservation of Momentum weeps. | |
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In Dark Side of the Ring's episode on the infamous Plane Ride from Hell, Curt Hennig was presented as nearly killing everyone on board when he tried to open the emergency exit door when the plane was 30,000 feet in the air. At that altitude, the pressure difference between the inside and outside of the plane is so great that opening the emergency exit is outright impossible. The plane's exit door would need about 24,000 pounds of pressure to open at that altitude; by comparison, only a few human beings in history have ever lifted over a thousand pounds. So even if Hennig was the strongest man in human history, he still wouldn't have even come close to opening the door. | |
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In Unleash the Light, some of the Light and Mirrors Puzzles require you to mix light colors to activate the pyramid. However, it follows the subtractive rule of mixing (done in pigments) instead of the additive rule (done in light), so mixing yellow and blue light would make green light, as if you mixed yellow and blue paints. | |
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Superman's arch-enemy isn't Luthor or Brainiac, but the laws of physics. Due to the wedge principle, picking up anything substantially larger than himself would also trouble Superman, because he is exerting all force on one tight spot. The object would collapse under its own weight and/or drive Superman into the ground like a tent stake. The worst offender has to be Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, when he pushes the moon with little effort. Same in the movie Superman Returns. They did do enough homework to show him expending most of his effort trying to "brake" the plane's fall after failing to stop it by grabbing a wing —meaning Superman knew he'd rip right through the fuselage and cabin if he tried to stop it cold in midair— but none of that research transferred over to the part where he then sets the plane gently down by holding its nose, or when he lifts half of a huge luxury yacht out of the ocean by a single piece of its framework. The physical complications listed above have caused some fans to speculate that Superman's power is not actually physical strength and invulnerability, but rather a form of telekinesis. For a while Post-Crisis, that was the canon explanation of his powers in the comics. It still is the explanation of the powers of Gladiator. And again canon ever since Reign of the Supermen. It was explicitly stated that Superman had a "field" around him that was difficult to recreate properly when they cloned him. That field is the source of his invulnerability, flight and super-strength, and he subconsciously wrapped it around anything he was trying to lift in one piece. Superboy was just able to use the field in a more complex manner. Eventually. |
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Effects artist Steve 'Spaz' Williams downright stated that in animating the jeep chase of Jurassic Park he opted to "throw physics out the window and create a T. rex that moved at sixty miles per hour even though its hollow bones would have busted if it ran that fast". | |
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In The Starchild Trilogy, the authors decided to throw out the widely accepted Big Bang Theory, not because they didn't think it was true, but because the alternative "Continuous Creation" theory espoused by astronomer Fred Hoyle (and, basically, no one else) let them imagine new life spontaneously appearing in the void between the stars, to take advantage of the energy available from the new hydrogen appearing there in Hoyle's theory. | |
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My Bride is a Mermaid pretty much runs entirely on a combo of Rule of Cool and Rule of Funny in regard to physics. For instance, in one episode, Nagasumi, in the form of a mindless giant, gets tricked into climbing on a space shuttle, which launches, carrying him to the moon in a matter of seconds. He gets back by getting hit by a magic lance that Sun throws all the way from earth. It's that kind of series. | |
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In one episode of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, a spaceship stops mid-flight when it runs out of fuel. ND Stevenson acknowledged that the season was going to piss off astrophysicists on Twitter. | |
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In Battlestar Galactica (1978) episode "Fire In Space", there are areas in vacuum that are on fire. And everyone just tries to spray water instead of depressurizing the area, which would kill the fire in a matter of seconds.This is partially justified for some parts of the fire, as there were personnel trapped in some areas with no life suits or escape routes. However, for areas like the Engineering, there's no excuse for not just evacuating and depressurizing. | |
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The spider, the wheelchair, and many other gadgets from the 1999 Wild Wild West film are stated to operate on steam but do not appear to have any provisions for carrying and delivering fuel and water. | |
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Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire did a good job with this, at first. The submarine had several shots of a realistically designed boiler and engine room, and later, after the submarine was incapacitated and abandoned, the convoy of wheeled vehicles appears to include a giant tank of water. However, the film fails hard when "The Digger" rolls onto the scene. From the outset, this vehicle doesn't seem to have near enough boiler space (the moving parts alone are as big as a pickup!) When it briefly breaks down, it backfires flame—Audry then suggests fixing it with a part from a gasoline/diesel truck. Worst of all is when it starts making an idling sound like an internal combustion engine—seconds after Milo starts fiddling with the boiler. | |
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Same in the movie Superman Returns. They did do enough homework to show him expending most of his effort trying to "brake" the plane's fall after failing to stop it by grabbing a wing —meaning Superman knew he'd rip right through the fuselage and cabin if he tried to stop it cold in midair— but none of that research transferred over to the part where he then sets the plane gently down by holding its nose, or when he lifts half of a huge luxury yacht out of the ocean by a single piece of its framework. | |
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South Park: "Raising the Bar": James Cameron's communication with the ship is impossible, as radio waves of cell-phone-transmission frequency can't reach more than a few meters below the sea surface. | |
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Godzilla (2014) shows that special effects artists still haven't figured out what really happens if you sever a suspension bridge's cables. | |
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The Trains in Red Dead Redemption 2 come to a stop much faster than any real-life train. Taking only seconds to go from full speed to completely stopped. Most egregiously seen in the mission "Pouring Forth of Oil III." In real life it can take a full mile for a train to come to a complete stop even when using emergency brakes. And that's with modern braking technology. | |
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Artistic License – Engineering: A made-up machine that is inefficient, dangerous, or physics-defying. | |
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The New Adventures of Superman. In several episodes, the narrator says that Superman is traveling faster than the speed of light (186,000+ miles per second) within the Earth's atmosphere. That means that in one second, he could fly around the entire circumference of the Earth (~25,000 miles) seven times! It then shows him moving for several seconds through the Earth's atmosphere. | |
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Homestar Runner: In the Strong Bad Email "space program", the Strong Badian Administration of Some Aluminum Foil plans a mission to send "fifteen Earth dollars" into space where, "according to our vague understanding of the theory of relativity", it will "age" into one million dollars in gold bullion. Then it's rendered moot when Strong Bad and the Cheat spend the fifteen bucks on a CD of humorous sound effects. | |
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Even interstellar space is not truly empty, so there is still "friction" in space ... just not very much of it. If you're going fast enough for it to be a factor, you've got other issues to worry about. In the Lensman novels, they were going that fast, and this was a plot point. Intergalactic space is considerably emptier, so ships were able to travel a lot faster between galaxies than they could within a galaxy. | |
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Captain Tsubasa. That aspect of the series, specially of the anime, makes for a lot of running gags in the Spanish fandom. There's even an article trying to explain why the characters seem able to bend physical laws to their will. So far, they've reached the conclusion that Captain Tsubasa's Japan is a little asteroid orbiting the Sun, which would explain why you can't see the goal until you reach the penalty area or how Tsubasa is able to jump twice the goal's height to score with his Scissors Kick, due to Asteroidal Japan's smaller gravity. Also that, since the football often leaves an intense yellow trail behind itself, the laws of thermodynamics prove that in Asteroidal Japan, leather is fire-resistant. Why Asteroidal Japanese firefighters don't use it for their uniforms is anyone's guess. |
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The Mummy Returns with the zeppelin-boat thing, which is a classic case of not-enough-bag for too-much-ship problem. | |
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Similar to the Superman example above, Tracy of Filmation's Ghostbusters also has problems with physics. Example: In "The Curse of the Sleeping Dragon," a test of strength involves lifting a temple's pillar, thereby raising the roof. Tracy does this, but in real life, it would cause the rest of the temple to collapse! In the episode, it doesn't. | |
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Speaking of Aragonés, he parodied this trope again in Sergio Aragonés Massacres Marvel: In the Fantastic Four segment, the Thing lifts a huge machine by a small point, until Doctor Doom points out that it would be physically impossible. The Thing immediately crumbles into the floor, pondering it's a bad time to learn Physics. | |
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In the Star Trek: Voyager episode Riddles an alien outpost with 3,000 beings aboard is using 9 million terawatts. For comparison, all of human civilization used about 20 terawatts in the year 2008. That's 2,857 watts per human, 3 quadrillion watts per alien. | |
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This becomes a vital plot point in Little Mushroom, when the scientist characters grow increasingly bewildered by how the accelerating mutations of animal and humankind are defying all known physics laws — the mutations can cause organisms to gain a lot of unexplained mass and don't require genetic exchange, physical contact, or even aerial transmission to occur — until they learn that the reason this is happening is that the scientific laws they took for granted are actually governed by mutable string theory-like frequencies and the frequencies have been changing into ones that are causing Earth's particles, including even inorganic materials, to gradually "mutate" or fuse together. | |
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Likewise, Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull can survive being hurled hundreds of feet because he's inside a refrigerator. He can also apparently survive falling hundreds of feet from a crashing airplane, down the slopes of a snow-capped mountain and off of a cliff into a rapid river as long as he's on a flimsy inflatable raft the entire time... | |
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Dead Space has a funny little story about this one. One of the weapons is a flamethrower, and in trying to show their work, the flamethrower doesn't work in a vacuum. However, they also did their research about mechanical engineering as well, and the flavor text for the flamethrower states it uses hydrazine fuel; this does burn in a vacuum and is used in rocket engines in Real Life. This is corrected in the second game. | |
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In Unreal Tournament 2004, you can partially negate damage taken from long falls by pointing your Shield Gun towards the ground and activating said shield. | |
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The Star Fury of Babylon 5 is one of the very, very few instances where proper use of maneuvering thrust and gimballing is shown properly. Virtually everyone else shows it wrong. Including all the larger ships in that series. | |
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The Dragonriders of Pern series: There's one part where suction cups are used to temporarily fix two objects together... in a hard vacuum. Suction cups do not work in a hard vacuum (since they rely on the pressure differential between the outside and inside of the cup). | |
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Stitch in Lilo & Stitch, who possesses super-strength, is able to pull a semi-truck to a stop. In Stitch! The Movie, he actually keeps a spaceship from taking off by grabbing onto it. In truth, regardless of how strong he is, a creature of Stitch's lightweight could never do these things unless he also had super-anchoring powers. Stitch is dense, and therefore can't swim. He's the size of a small dog, and doesn't appear to weigh much more than one either; the six-year-old Lilo is able to lift him with minimal difficulty. Density is a function of both size and mass, so if he's able to pass for a dog in all respects, weight included, he should have the same approximate density as Lilo does. |
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Revolution: Near the pilot's end, a DOS-based computer is used for communications (and, after all, it is in part a J. J. Abrams project). That is after an event that took out a big part of all electricity and other energy forms. | |
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