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→‎Web Original: changed "Meg-Lev to "Mag-Lev" - they're lifted by magnetism, not somebody named Megan.
(→‎Web Original: changed "Meg-Lev to "Mag-Lev" - they're lifted by magnetism, not somebody named Megan.)
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== Web Original ==
* ''[[Trinton Chronicles]]'' features seemingly impossible ''future'' technologies, several of which are actually being tested in Europe and Asia right now, including:
** Meg[[wikipedia:Maglev|Mag-Lev Trains]]: Trains that ride on magnetic thrusting power like a roller coaster using LMS launch systems. Japan is a world leader of this super silent and fast system but France is building an infrastructure based on Maglevs. The first commercially operated Maglev train was a 1984 low speed system at Birmingham airport. The first commercial high speed Maglev line is the Shanghai Transrapid, which was developed by the German company Transrapid International and completed in 2003.
** Recycle Tanks: Pay-As-You-Recycle devices that give change for weight of aluminum, plastic, and paper.
** Paper-Thin Phones: Actually real world tech is going into making cellphones disposable and paper-thin using nano fibers and microchips the size of ants.
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* Parody example: In ''[[Awesome Series|Metal Gear Awesome 2]]'', the player is skipping through an annoying [[Cutscene]] when Snake first meets Otacon ([[No Fourth Wall|at Snake's suggestion]]). Halfway through, he stops skipping just when Otacon is complaining about Snake coming onto him, causing Snake to get [[Armored Closet Gay|annoyed the player had to stop skipping at that part]]. People not familiar with the game but familiar with the flash thought this was so weird it had to be a straight up [[Shallow Parody]] gag, but in fact the scene is a fairly direct spoof of an out-of-place [[Ho Yay]] moment that actually ''is'' in that cutscene, in which Snake starts feeling up Otacon asking if anything's wrong, and Otacon complains that Snake's "getting friendly all of a sudden" (in reality, Snake is checking Otacon for symptoms of [[The Virus|FOX-DIE]]). It's also immediately after a cutscene 'chapter break', so a player skipping through could easily stop skipping exactly at that scene.
* ''[[Syphon Filter]] 2'' has the caseless round-firing H11 assault rifle. Looks and sounds like science fiction, but it's actually a [[AKA-47|renamed version]] of the [[Rare Guns|G11]]. Even [[Harsher in Hindsight]], there have been real-life cases of people being set on fire by tasers.
 
 
== Western Animation ==
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