- Cars can take huge jumps through the air and then drive off as if nothing happened.
- You can make a car explode by shooting its gas tank with ordinary bullets.
- Swords make "whoosh" sounds during swordplay.
- Guns with no manual safety will often make the sound of a manual safety being clicked on or off.
- A single-action automatic (such as a 1911 or Browning Hi-Power) that's just been been used to fire a warning shot will often have its hammer in the down position so that it can cocked dramatically.
- Anything worth doing on a computer requires a bunch of typing for each operation, even when you're using a program that has a GUI.
- Digital watches or bomb timers make a beep sound every second, but only when you're looking at them closely.
- Full-autos with 30-round magazines can be fired continuously for far longer than ~3 seconds.
- Any remote password-protected account can be cracked with "hacker" software, even though you're normally locked out after a few failed attempts.
- Hackers never hit true dead ends; they are always successful if they have enough time.
- A villain always knows exactly how long it takes to trace a call (because there are no variables to that at all), and you're one second short - *click*.
- Bomb makers always adhere to the wire color scheme as published in the Villain's Guide to Bomb Making, which, unfortunately for them, was required reading at the Hero's Academy.
- Bullet wounds that aren't in a vital organ are trivial ("Just a flesh wound").
- If you order a "beer" at a bar, the bartender will know exactly what you want.
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