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{{quote|"Yes, the enlightened [[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Captain Picard]] -- who loves playing flutes, drinking tea and reading Shakespeare -- also loves [[Star Trek: Nemesis|redneck off-roading]]."
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How did a character suddenly acquire a needed skill?
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== Real Life ==
* When Uwe Boll challenged his many critics to a boxing match, most people thought it would be in good fun. It turns out that Boll was a semi-professional boxer before taking up direction. He beat the ever-loving snot out of several untrained critics who went into the ring with him. It should be noted, however, that Boll openly cherry picked his opponents for lack of fighting experience and size and repeatedly refused challenges from critic [[Seanbaby]], who knows Muay Thai and is much larger.
* While filming a scene where a character is stabbed in the back, [[Christopher Lee]] explained to [[Peter Jackson]] that when that happens, the victim doesn't yell. When asked how he knew, he explained that during WWII, he was in the British Special Operations Executive (their equivalent of the OSS). The story is told in the extras for the [[The Lord of the Rings]] and you can watch it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84i82QxNk74 here].
* This crops up a lot in countries where compulsive military conscription is the law or was until recently. For example the nice middle aged gentleman might have once been Spetsnaz, the fellow walking down the street might have been a medical corpsman or your disgruntled worker might have set claymore mines as a combat engineer...
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