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[[Mohs Scale of Sci Fi Hardness|Soft Science Fiction]] uses [[Artistic License]] for physics extensively, as do many video games, war films, and horror movies.
 
Often [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] with "[[How Is That Even Possible?]]" Contrast [[Reality Is Unrealistic]] and [[Cartoon Physics]], as they have their own laws and modus operandi, which is entirely [[Rule of Funny|played for laughs]].
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* [[Faster Than Light Travel]]
* [[Floating Continent]]
* [[Frickin' Laser Beams]]
* [[Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress]]
* [[Guns Do Not Work That Way]]
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== [[Film]] - Live-Action ==
* In the [[B -Movie|low-budget]] 1990 movie ''[[Captain America]]'', the title hero is somehow able to redirect the course of a rocket he's strapped to by kicking it ''really hard''. He kicks it so far off course that instead of the intended target, Washington, DC, he ends up in Alaska, somehow not exploding. And moving slowly enough for someone to take a clear picture of him from the ground.
 
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[The New Adventures of Superman]]'' episode "Rain of Iron". A [[Villain]] on Earth fires an iron ball at an asteroid in space. The ball bounces off the asteroid and flies back to Earth. If an iron ball hit an asteroid it would just embed itself, not bounce away like a rubber ball.
* An episode of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|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.
 
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== [[Film]] - Live-Action ==
* ''[[Plan Nine From Outer Space]]''. Everyone should know that particles of sunlight are [[So Bad ItsIt's Good|"made up of many atoms"]]!
* ''[[Eraser]]'' features the EM-1 portable 'railgun'. It is fitted with an 'X-ray scope' allowing the shooter to see the target through walls. Human targets are conveniently presented as skeletons with a pulsing heart clearly visible. First, anything we see is either ''reflected'' radiation (the the visible range of electromagnetic radiation) or radiation emitted by the observed object (like heat detected by thermovisual camera). X-Ray meant to pass through steel and concrete ''twice'' are unlikely to reflect of anything one may encounter in your normal surroundings (X-Ray machines are essentially slide projectors with human body acting as the slide). Furthermore, X-Ray capable of passing through concrete would also pass through bone with ease, not to mention the soft tissues, or the massive dose of radiation this would give out.
 
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* ''[[Superman (Film)|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. Finally, refer to this for [http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/6094-top11superman everything that is wrong with the climax of the first film.]
** Same in the movie ''[[Superman Returns]]'', when he puts a Boeing gently down by holding its nose, and when he lifts a ship too.
** 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 Superman's blatant [[Marvel Universe]] [[Expy]] Gladiator.
** This has actually been parodied in an old [[Donald Duck]] comic by Carl Barks, where Don 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.
*** It was also parodied in an old comic strip by [[Mad Magazine]]'s [[Sergio Aragones]] in the ''Mad Super Special Fall 1981: The Comics''. An ocean liner has run into a rock and is sending out SOS signals. Supernman 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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== Webcomics ==
* In ''[[Eight 8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|Eight Bit Theater]]'', Fighter survives a ridiculously long fall by [[Achievements in Ignorance|blocking]] [[Rule of Funny|the]] [[It Runs On Nonsenseoleum|Earth]].
 
 
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