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* ''[[Blood Plus]]'' went for the climate. At one point in the series, when Red Shield ship came to Vladivostok, the heroes transfered to a train. Among them only [[Token Minority|Lewis]] wore a hat. In the middle of the winter. Apparently, nobody told the authors that the winds at the time could lift an adult man off the ground, and temperatures routinely reached -25C (-13F) with precipitation of 400mm or 32 inches. You'd be lucky if you end up with ''only'' frostbitten ears in such conditions.

** In one episode in Vietnam, Kai ''walked'' from Hanoi to a port and back in a day. Firstly, if you look at the map, Hanoi has no port, the nearest one from there is in Hai Phong, which takes 4 hours to travel by car (assuming it doesn't cross the speed limit), and another 4 hour to go back, and somehow Kai traveled back and forth between the 2 places on foot... in a day... before the sunset. And no, Kai is a human character in this vampire series, and even for the vampire characters, only the Schiff variants have sonic speed power.

* [[Invoked Trope|Invoked]] in ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket|Gundam 0080]]''; Bernie, disguised as an enemy soldier and claiming to be from Australia, talks about how much it would snow in December. Minutes later, the soldier to whom he was speaking [[Eureka Moment|realizes]] that the Southern Hemisphere's seasons are flipped around, exposing Bernie as a spy.

** Most eregiously, in the colony drop scene from the original ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'', although the city is said to Sydney, Australia, the location shown is quite clearly New York.

* ''Resistance 2'' has a secret military bunker on [[San Francisco|Angel Island]]. When you exit the bunker The Bay Bridge has suspiciously been painted red.

** However, the game ''is'' set in an [[Alternate Universe]]...

** ''Soviet'' jungle: The jungle is actually one of the southern republics of the USSR, likely bordering the Himalayan mountains, west of China. It's actually stated that even the FOX unit would be nuts to initiate a mission into ''Russia'', but ''Soviet'' territory is fair game.

** The Turkic republics of the Soviet Union are steppe country. What isn't steppe is desert or mountainous.