Most recent example: I was watching the remake of Salem’s Lot, and protagonist Ben Mears has been on maybe one date with a woman named Susan. Fast forward, Susan is a full-on vampire and is ruthlesssly attacking Ben, trying to bite him. His response: “SUSAN!! IT’S ME!!”

Guns that never need to be reloaded, even after hundreds of shots

Characters wake up with flawless hair and makeup, looking as fresh as ever :D :D :D

Almost any depiction of how consent works.

In the dark knight the police convoy encounters a roadblock (burning fire truck) and goes onto the lower road into an obvious ambush, rather than just… Go onto the incoming lane and around the truck

People driving straight on the highway need to move the wheel around at all times to stay straight. Also, the drivers can look away from the road for like 10 seconds without it being a huge issue that would otherwise be scary and dangerous.

One of the GIJoe movies ends with an underwater arctic base being crushed by ice that is dislodged from a bomb blast on the ice shelf above. Neat except ice doesn’t sink. I’m sure there are all manner of inaccuracy in those movies but that one really stuck with me.

Basically any time someone playing a chef or cook on TV picks up a knife I fly into a rage.

All of this stuff makes me wonder how hard it would be to make a fully pedantic story.

I’ve seen books where the hero was on the verge of winning but gets randomly concussed by a piece of shrapnel. Disoriented, hospital.

Another where the hero had hearing loss issues from solo pistol badassing too much, sans ear protection. (Forgot the titles of these stories).

But what would it take to meet everything? Imagine Superman. Now he has to mind his acceleration to save people. He also has to mind distribution of force, since he can’t lift a plane without puncturing it. (Maybe he can make a little energy net under the plane somehow to distribute pressure?) And then he has to mind the Law of Conservation of Energy unless he splits apart matter somehow. And then this and that…

Will adherently realistic changes downrank most stories? I for one laugh my ass off when The Rock flexes his broken arm cast off in F&F.

In action films, serious injuries heal with just a few hours’ sleep, no recovery needed.

or when someone runs through airport security in seconds to catch a flight. In real life, security lines, tickets, and checkpoints would definitely slow that down

That water pollution is neon green goo, air pollution is thick black smoke, or radioactive waste is only in drums.

Most of it is invisible and you don’t know about it until it’s too late.

People talking over each other. Other than IASIP, I can’t think where they get this right.

In episode 2F09, when Itchy plays Scratchy’s skeleton like a xylophone, he strikes that same rib twice in succession yet he produces two clearly different tones. I mean, what are we, to believe that this is some sort of a, a magic xylophone or something? Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.

Any kind of severe allergic reaction is going to ruin your week. If you’re in anaphylactic shock, you don’t just pop some antihistamines or an epi-pen and carry on with your day. And you certainly should not be moving around.

This happens in many shows. At least My Girl was more accurate.