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* In ''[[Fallout 3]]'', it is prefectly permissable to take cover behind lamp posts or thin trees in order to block gunfire as long as you're standing directly opposite the opponent, even though you should be broader than the cover. Many enemies may even lose track of you if they can't make direct eye contact. It's far from uncommon for a supermutant with a minigun to run up and look for you behind a lamp post. (Although supermutants aren't known to be very bright, so it fits.) Also, due to the general lack of destroyable landscape objects, everything is bulletproof and only takes a few cosmetic bullet holes.

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* Played entirely straight in all ''[[Might and Magic]]'' games. ''[[Might And Magic 8]]'' has the possibility of an explosive fireball being stopped by a tent. That's right, a (theoretically) flammable material stopping a ball of explosive flame. With no damage to anything inside.

== Web Comics ==

* In ''[[A Miracle of Science]]'', Agent Prester gets in a gunfight with a mafioso in a cheap diner, and dives behind a turned-over table for cover. The wiseguy then proceeds to simply shoot through the table while making snide comments about how stupid it is to hide behind 'a flimsy fiberboard table'. Prester gets a bullet through the shoulder, but fortunately, he's [[Made of Iron]]...

* About to be averted in this comic on badspot.us in [http://badspot.us/img/Comic-Silencer.html 3, 2, 1...].

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* Played entirely straight in all ''[[Might and Magic]]'' games. ''[[Might And Magic 8]]'' has the possibility of an explosive fireball being stopped by a tent. That's right, a (theoretically) flammable material stopping a ball of explosive flame. With no damage to anything inside.

== Web Original ==

* One of ''[[Cracked.com]]'''s [http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_586_31-life-lessons-you-can-only-learn-from-video-games/ 31 Life Lessons You Can Only Learn From Video Games] is that "bullets can't pass through wood or cars."

== Real Life ==