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* Lampooned mercilessly in the [[Training Montage|"We Need A Montage"]] sequenced of the film ''[[Team America: World Police]]'', where the protagonist Gary goes from being a talented actor to a talented actor capable of performing at Special Forces levels with any or all weapons and his bare hands... in about ten minutes of real time. But hey, he had a ''really'' cool montage sequence, complete with 80s-style power ballad, so why not?
** This was not even the first time Parker and Stone used this gag. The exact same song was previously used to accompany a montage of Stan learning to ski in the ''[[South Park]]'' episode "Asspen." Which is immediately subverted when Stan hasn't gotten any better at skiing.
* Daniel "Daniel-san
* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] a bit in ''[[The Matrix]]'', where all humans spend most of their lives plugged into a computer network through which they receive simulated experiences ''anyway''—their [[Unusual User Interface]]s can also act as [[Upgrade Artifact]]s, making it a trivial matter to have a full training regimen for anything from martial arts to piloting written directly into your brain in a matter of seconds. Whether this carries over to the real world is up in the air.
* Many characters in various ''[[Star Wars]]'' media. This is usually justified by explaining that the reason they're so good is due to their Force-sensitivity.
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