The hero (or anybody, really) gets clocked over the head hard enough to knock them out, and then they wake up and go about their business without any ill effects.
Also, people surrounded by gunfire and wearing no ear protection, with no ill effects (not even temporary hearing impairment). Guns are loud!
So are helicopters. Constantly seeing people in helicopters just talking normally without headphones. Impossible. Even in modern passenger helicopters it’s not that much quieter on the inside than the outside.
Add another vote for “Hyperintelligent serial killer who invariably outsmarts the Hero Team, occasionally kidnapping their loved ones to put in deathtraps or just kill, and who has a neat little trademark he leaves at the scenes of his murders.”
To this, I will add “… plus, when you think you’ve caught him? It’s just one of his henchmen, who for some reason is willing to take the fall for his beloved serial killer boss.”
I’ll raise you, “…and it turns out that a member of the Hero Team was a member of Killer Team all along, he just loves that serial killer so much.”
Bonus points if said serial killer is an abusive jerk, and there is no logical reason for his fan club to love him so much; he just has this amazing magnetic personality that we, the audience, may or may not ever get to see. Plus, maybe he has mind control drugs that always work.
Related is the main bad guy who’s frequently killing off his henchmen, because they reluctantly give him bad news, or to make an example to the other henchmen, or just in a fit of rage. You’d think word would get out on the henchman circuit and he’d have a hard time hiring replacement henchmen.
Big problems with talking in general. People are always having normal conversations in conditions where they wouldn’t be able to hear each other, or alternatively people standing a few feet away who should have clearly heard every word of someone else’s conversation hears nothing.
I forgot this one! When the detectives go to someone’s workplace, the person being interviewed doesn’t stop working. They just continue stacking boxes or whatever. After brusquely answering a couple of questions, they say, “Look, I got work to do,” and walk away. Or, if it’s somebody working on a car, they slide back under it to indicate that the interview is over. They’re so blasé that you’d think cops showing up is a daily occurrence.
What I particularly can’t stand is the “dangling by one hand” trope, whether or not the dangler got there by a long fall or not. Nearly every action-adventure movie seems to have at least on example. Sometimes the dangler is holding on to a ledge by one hand, sometimes they are being rescued by the hero or a friend who is clutching their hand. Sometimes they even have others dangling from their own legs. How many people can hold on to a ledge and support their own body for more than a few seconds before slipping off? How many people (superheroes excepted) can pull the full weight of someone up by one arm?
Peter Jackson is particularly prone to this. I’m wondering if there is any Peter Jackson movie that doesn’t include at least one example of this.
Or that trope’s close relative: While on foot and being chased by a vehicle ( ostensibly to get run over ) the hapless chase-ee continues to run RIGHT. DOWN. THE. MIDDLE. OF. THE. ROAD. without deviating, let alone ducking into places that a vehicle cannot easily follow. Of course as well, the whole chase seen is shown from different points of view with multiple quick clips showing speeding vehicles, the anguished looks of the chased, leading us to believe it takes a car doing 70 mph about a minute and a half to overtake a runner a hundred or so feet ahead of it.
Kudos on one of the Austin Powers movies whereby they parodied this effect during a “chase” scene involving a forklift.
Sitcom episodes based on lying to spare someone’s feelings or surprise them.
Supposedly smart people doing stupid things. I had to top watching Legends Of Tomorrow because of this. Every character made every single decision emotionally instead of thinking it through.
Or the determined detective or head cop barking out demands for tons of detailed information for his staff to acquire, stuff that’ll be hard to acquire even with a computer database. The old 50s show ‘Highway Patrol’ never fails to deliver in this regard.
We’ll see the head honcho ( in this case, Broderick Crawford ) give out rapid-fire, highly authoritative instructions to one of his deputies:
“First! Get me a list of every left-handed baptist with a “mom” tattoo in the state of California!”
“Second! I need a rundown on every vehicle sold in San Bernadino county in the last 18 months, organized by color, camshaft duration, rear axle ratio and gross weight!”
“Third! I’ll meet you in an hour at the checkpoint XYZ along the county road near the intersection of highways AA and BB!”
Pitch Perfect is an example of another one - the competitor/group that is eliminated from a competition, but wait, one of the qualifiers is disqualified for some reason and they’re back in - and despite always getting the final qualifying spot in each round, somehow, in the end, they win. (Other examples: Planes; Akeela and the Bee)
in the 80s and 90s not so much now … But if anything bad happened to anyone from about 10 to 18 it happened in you know the juvenile dive bar :a video game arcade!
If anyone of that age acquired anything illegal ie booze drugs guns it was in an arcade… thats not to say it never happened but …
these days its the chuck e cheese type pizza parlor aka “family fun center”
Once, just once, I’d like to see a bit of realism from a diner or bar patron upon preparing to leave. Something like ( to a waitress for example ) “Hey I’d like to leave you something, but all I’ve got is a twenty. Can you break this for me to give me change? Thanks.”
But alas, we see the protagonist get up ( after having taken all of 2 bites of his meal ) pull some unspecified collection of bills from his pocket ( without even seeing their denomination to parcel them out ) and hurriedly drop them on the table, and leave.
They’re looking for someone usually a prostitute and a whole bunch of people get arrested mostly other prostitutes and once they tell the cops the little bit they need to know … everyone goes back to business like nothing happened
like law and order svu there looking for a child sex trafficking victim whos probably 13 being forced to work the streets because he watched his sister who was forced to do the same get murdered
Well they go to a park where apparently all underage sex workers go
they get lucky because another prostitute whos about the same age is approaching johns for him since he’s shy and finds the officer looking for him deals set up and he’s taken into custody … but after questioning the other 13-year-old shes let go and starts working the park again
Does that even happen in real life? i mean maybe for adults but cps would be there with a wagon id think
Retired cop/ex-merc/former special forces/all-around bad dude gets called out of retirement to perform one last task because he’s the only one who can do it. The geriatric hero (yeah, I’m looking at you, Liam Neeson, Clint Eastwood, and soon to be Tom Cruise) is somehow able to still leap tall buldings, crash cars, dodge bullets, and thrash groups of much younger men with relative ease, not to mention being able to satisfy the cravings of a beauty who is 30 years his junior. These are guys who, IRL, are probably gasping for air after climbing their front steps.