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** As well as when they synchronize the sound of an explosion with explosion video footage from a camera far enough from the point of detonation that a noticeable time delay would be expected.

* Parodied in [[Gilmore Girls]] Ep.3/06 after Lorelai and Rory egg the car of the resident Bad Boy:

'''Lorelai''': "Hey, let's run back and speed off like we did something really awful and the cops are after us!" }}

** Then, after fastening their seatbelts, they try to produce the squealing tires by accelerating quickly, which doesn't work of course. In the end, they agree to just make the noise themselves while driving off.

** Many 'realistic' video games have very long draw distances, making everything look extremely crisp and sharp all the way to the horizon. In reality, atmospheric perspective means everything should get hazier (and tinted blue) the farther away it is.

* Plenty of [[Guns and Gunplay Tropes|gun tropes]] are like this, due to the fact that most people who played FPS video games or watched action movies started years before being allowed to handle military weaponry (if they ever do so). In fact, [http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/video-games/4255750 this article] in ''Popular Mechanics'' indicates many times the guns in games such as ''Rainbow 6 Vegas 2'' are first made "extremely accurate, based on factory stats and more" then toned down, not just for balancing reasons, but because of the "the drive to make guns feel like the ones we've seen in movies." Like [[Shotguns Are Just Better|shotguns loaded with buckshot]]:

** Granted, if one has the appropriate license one could buy or create shot specifically made to do just that.

* While it has been noted that the movement speed of FPS player characters has been noticeably reduced since the days of ''[[Doom]]'' and ''[[Duke Nukem]]'' (who could manage about 50 mph at full sprint), not many know that, by scale, modern FPS player characters still move much faster than a real person (''especially'' a real soldier with their rifle readied and aimed forward). Most can manage more than 20 mph simply walking forward, with higher speeds obtained if sprinting. A character moving at real human speed would be painfully slow, especially in [[Wide Open Sandbox]] games like ''[[Far Cry]]'' or ''STALKER''.

* Sergeant Schlock of ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' favors an impressively large plasgun which powers up with an ommmmmminous hummmmmmmm and a glowing barrel. When he goes in to get a new one, he discovers that improvements in technology have led to it being replaced with a small, silent, and more powerful model. [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20020901.html Schlock is appalled, and storms out as the salesman desperately calls after him, claiming that they can give it an impressively large cosmetic casing and a speaker to simulate the hummmmmmm.]

** Not just personal prejudice there; Schlock is a ''[[Captain Obvious|mercenary]]'', and intimidation is part and parcel of the trade. The hum is a [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2000-08-29 proven deterrent], and the [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2003-03-15 glow of doom] from the barrel is nothing to sneeze at, either. It's like selling an intimidating [[Hand Cannon]] without a hammer to [[Dramatic Gun Cock|Cock Dramatically]] ''or'' a [[Laser Sight]] to show someone exactly which part of their body it will blow off.

* In the alt-text of [http://xkcd.com/359/ this] ''[[Xkcd]]'' comic, the author discusses that using a new Guitar Hero controller that doesn't click is unsettling.

* Reflections of shiny objects in many animations often appear as sparkles even if the objects or light sources weren't moving at all. [[Audible Gleam|"Ting" and "ping" and sometimes metallic "whii" sounds]] are quite common to accompany with reflections.

* From ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode "Radioactive Man":

'''Painter:''' Ehh, usually we just tape a bunch of cats together. }}

* Averted in ''[[The Jungle Book (Disney film)|The Jungle Book]]'': The bananas point up.