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* In 'London Calling' from the ''[[Beyblade]]'' series, the main characters are ditched in Southampton, England, on their way to Russia for a tournament battle. As the ship pulls into harbour at the start of the episode Southampton appears to have [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMj70pnY2T0 green mountains and picturesque brick houses]. It's actually a large modern city and its docks look something like [http://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/24/83/2248380_e9b83cbe.jpg this]. Definitely no mountains, too.

** Then the show redeems itself only a little, relying mostly on [[Willing Suspension of Disbelief]]. The scene suddenly jumps from Southampton to London, which means a distance of eighty miles. Kenny has previously mentioned that they have no money, and it's not said whether they walked, hitchiked or anything else. However their arrival on foot does suggest that they walked. Yet the sky is still bright when they get there, and the only thing to suggest that Southampton is not [[Britain Is Only London|right next door to London]] is Kenny's (vague)comment that seeing Big Ben reminds him of how much time they've lost.

** 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.

** Averted, though, in ''[[Darker than Black]] 2'', where they've ''did'' the research. Sure, the weather was shown to be a bit too balmy for a season, but warm spells ''do'' tend to happen around New Year, and everything else was pretty much spot on.