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** His request to see the containment grid isn't really all that reasonable. For one, he has no reason other than vague suspicion he invented himself to explain why he would need to see the power grid. Ultimately his accusations against the Ghostbusters have nothing to do with the environment at all... he thinks they're bilking people and that, despite it not being his purview, job, or power, that because he's involved with a powerful government agency he can make them stop. And Venkman's refusal to let him see it makes sense as well. The containment grid is proprietary technology and the backbone of the Ghostbusters' business... if Venkman let anyone who stopped by and asked to see it do so, they could theoretically be put out of business in months by a wave of knockoffs.

** Also, it is criminally irresponsible for an EPA agent to order that the safety systems on something labeled "hazardous waste containment" be turned off until he has verified that a) there is no hazardous waste actually in there and b) the environment will not otherwise be harmed by opening it up. Seriously, this guy is in a job where he potentially works with every form of hazmat known to man—he should know better than to go around opening up strange containment tanks without testing the contents first, especially when both the owners of said tank ''and'' his own engineer are agreed "THIS IS A BAD IDEA".

* In the second ''[[Iron Man (film)|Iron Man]]'' film, Tony Stark is [[Hauled Before a Senate Subcommittee]] in which a senator tries to convince him to hand over his [[Powered Armor|Iron Man armor]] to the government, insisting that the armor is a weapon other hostile nations are intent on reproducing. Tony refuses, arguing over the definition of the armor as a "weapon", proves the other nations' [[Iron Man]] knockoffs are not a real threat and that he alone is managing a type of nuclear deterrent, leaving the committee chamber to thunderous applause. However, the film purposefully shows Tony's mistakes in judgement as Tony (before later [[Character Development]]) is a very unstable individual (getting drunk while wearing the armor and using his repulsor weapons wildly), and that all it takes is one smart individual to make a breakthrough to that can challenge his superiority (meaning he isn't as unique as he think he is). At the end of the film, [[Take a Third Option|Tony ends up consulting for the government]] (a tie-in to the [[The Avengers (film)|Avengers film]]), while still maintaining ownership of the armor and the government is developing their War Machine companion armor. The Senator still hates him, though.

* ''[[Teaching Mrs. Tingle]]'': the title character is a high school [[Sadist Teacher]] who has it in for the lead character, who is just trying to become valedictorian. At the start of the film, Mrs. Tingle gives a C grade to a project she worked 6 months on, a historical recreation of the diary of a girl [[Burn the Witch|accused of being a witch]] during the time of the Salem Witch Trials. Except that [[Did Not Do the Research|the diary describes witch-burnings]], when the accused witches at Salem were all hanged, meaning the teacher was well within her rights to mark the assignment down.