Dead Unicorn Trope: Difference between revisions

* Many people believe that [[Indiana Jones]]-type adventurers were ubiquitous in film serials. But if you actually watch those old film serials, you'll find very few characters or situations reminiscent of ''Indiana Jones'', since George Lucas based those films mainly on feature-length adventure films of the '30s and '40s, not serials.

* ''[[MythBusters]]'', of all things, made reference to a '''Dead Unicorn Trope''' when tackling the (busted) myth that steel-toed boots could actually sever toes instead of protecting them. Adam commented about "samurai movies" where the tip of someone's boot would be cut off, except the toes are intact right behind where the tip was severed. This is actually a somewhat common comedy trope, but its appearance in a "samurai movie" is highly dubious at best (what with the characters wearing ''sandals'' and all).

* Speaking of [[Samurai]], Japanese armor was never made of lacquered wood despite many claims to the contrary—it was usually various types of leather, iron, and eventually steel armor, with plenty of silk cording to tie it together.

* At one point in the [[The Tough Guide to Fantasyland]] the author comments on a sort of gender-based [[Wacky Wayside Tribe]] plot/setting, in which while boys do one thing, girls get to bond with dragons. The thing is, that while there are books with female [[Dragon Rider]] characters (i.e. ''[[Pern]]''), there doesn't seem to be any series in which that was an exclusively female activity- it's closer to exclusively male in the Pern books, and the ''[[Pit Dragon Chronicles]]'' likewise features males making that bond, and all of these books were written before the Guide was published.