Truth in Television: Difference between revisions

For example, [[The Mentally Disturbed]] - [[Captain Obvious|mentally ill people do exist]] in [[Real Life]] and therefore the trope belongs on this index. That said, real life mental illness (at least once you include the milder illnesses and degrees of it) is so common that having a list of mentally ill people would overwhelm the entire wiki, and some people would find being listed as examples of mental illness or instability very insulting.

 

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== A-C ==

* [[AB Negative]]: AB- really is the rarest common blood type with between .2% and 1% of any given population having it. However, [[wikipedia:Human blood group systems#Rare blood types|there are LOTS of really rare types.]]

** The whole aspect of the [[Trope]] in that AB- can only take AB- blood is false. The positive variant (i.e. AB+) is considered a universal receiver of Red Blood Cells (O- is the universal donor), which makes life much easier for the blood bankers, in that they can usually just grab a bag of any old blood type and they won't reject it. AB- (the [[Trope Namer]]) is only slightly more limited; they can receive any negative red cells but not positive red cells (as opposed to how the inverse is possible and is why AB+ is the universal receiver).

** You can usually get away with giving Rh+ red cells to an Rh- patient [[It Only Works Once|ONCE without ill effects]]. Most people don’t have Rh antibodies unless they’ve been transfused with Rh incompatible blood (you can get them from pregnancy too). Once a person makes Rh antibodies giving them Rh positive blood can kill them.

** Regardless of the above, it is standard practice to give patients only their own blood type. Even if one is a universal recipient, using another type is done only if you have no choice. Rarity isn't really an issue either, because if one has a common blood type meaning there are plenty of donors, that also means there are plenty of recipients to split it between.

* [[Abnormal Ammo]]: Dragon's Breath pyrotechnic shotgun rounds. Actually most of [[wikipedia:12 gauge shotgun#Specialty ammunition|shotgun ammunition types]] could be considered "abnormal".

** The blunderbuss will use literally anything you can stuff down the barrel as ammo.

** The British rather ingeniously use (or used) tungsten rounds for cave fighting to prevent ricochet. [[Loophole Abuse|There was a side effect of the bullets acting like explosive rounds in human tissue.]]

* [[Insufferable Genius]]: Architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

* [[The Internet Is for Porn]]: And/or downloading music. And/or, according to some, buying drugs.

* [[I Surrender, Suckers]]: The reason why police officers will keep one gun pointed at a dangerous suspect at all times until his arms are fully handcuffed.

* [[It's All About Me]]: Narcissists and sociopaths on the more extreme end, individual survival and forgetfulness on the more benign.

* [[It's a Small Net After All]]: In Mexico, ''everybody'' uses MSN Hotmail, MSN Spaces, and MSN Messenger, thanks to an alliance between Microsoft and Telmex, the latter a nigh-monopolic telco led by Carlos Slim, the richest man in the world.

 

== J-L ==

* [[Jerkass]]: Who hasn't met at least one in real life? If you haven't, you may want to look in the mirror.

* [[Jews Love to Argue]]: The Talmud itself is a result of legal arguments regarding Jewish religious laws. This emphasis may have also been a contributing factor in the amount of Jewish lawyers, [[Unfortunate Implications|stereotypical]] and otherwise.

* [[Joke Item]]: Plenty of them exist, some for the point of using them in practical jokes, others for many other reasons.

** The FCC and "concerned mothers". Both are also [[Acceptable Targets]].

* [[More Than Mind Control]]: How [[Brainwashed]] and [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] actually happen in [[Real Life]]. The amount of ways that people can be turned against their own interests, their own consciences, and even their own bodies and lives, or pressed into [[Happiness in Slavery]] or resignation to slavery are enough to be [[Nightmare Fuel]] and [[Paranoia Fuel]].

* [[Mundane Luxury]]: To someone living in a third-world country, simple things like ''clean'' running water can be considered luxuries.

* [[Music Is Politics]]: Protest songs of the 60s were practically their own subgenre.