In bad 80’s movies, if a bad guy was hispanic he would inevitably pull out either a switch-blade or a butterfly knife when confronting our hero and flip it around in his hand to display his skill.
Terrorists, especially those of Middle Eastern origin, always seem to have a ready supply of shoulder-launched Stinger-type missiles. (insert Ollie North joke here)
At some crucial point in a gun battle, hero-types will often acquire a gun with a grenade launcher, allowing them to blow shit up real good.
Way too many 1960’s cop & spy show episodes opened with an assassin opening up a briefcase containing a broken-down sniper rifle, screwing on the barrel and slapping on the scope, then shooting some VIP or putting one of the lead characters in the crosshairs before they cut to the opeing credits.
Idiocy in the service of dramatic license: he never sighted-in the rifle.
Does a guy with nunchaku ever win a fight? I don’t think filmmakers know what to do with them, so they just have the expendable bad guy wave the nunchaku around a bit before getting smacked down by the hero.
There are RL take-down rifles that do not need re-sighted after they’ve been dismantled and re-assembled. The degree of precision involved in manufacturing such a rifle doesn’t come cheaply. Blaser makes such rifles, for example. They’re quite spendy.
The Intratec DC-9, or ‘TEC9’ has very much secured its place as a ‘gangsta’ gun. Sort of a cheap, semi-automatic submachinegun (??!). It has a bit of a reputation as being a jam-master.
