This seems to be true not just of children, but of family in general. TV spouses will do the same kind of thing for one another.
One time when we were watching Law & Order, my wife told me, “Just in case it ever comes up, I will not go to jail for you.”
Oh, yeah, I forgot to include how the parents will arrange an accident to make sure their kid gets a badly-needed organ transplant.
I watched a woman lie on the stand to protect her son once. She didn’t take responsibility for his crime, but she perjured herself, and she could have gone to jail for that. The worst part is she sold her Granddaughter down the river when she did it, because she was hiding his abuse so he could get custody of her. It was one of the most disgusting acts I have ever witnessed in my life.
James Bond,
Captain Kirk,
Inspector Clouseau,
Maxwell Smart,
according to this guy, the chop to the neck/shoulder works.
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Anyone, anywhere, at any time, no matter if they’re 6’9" or 4’11", can jump into any random car and simply drive off without adjusting the driver’s seat.
That’s possibly the most mundane, and therefore most excellent, example I’ve seen on this thread. Superb.
So true. I’m 13 inches taller than my wife and I have to adjust the seat before I can even get in her car.
Anybody who has ever seen me rent a car would agree. It takes me at least 5-10 minutes to even figure out how to get the thing going, much less adjust the seats and mirrors.
Fake Celebrities in fiction will always refer to “real” celebrities on a first name basis, mainly because so they won’t get sued by the actual real person.
“So I got that new movie role in that upcoming Steven film! And my costar is Arnold! And my love interest is Kim!”
Again, what great example. It might even be fun to see some dude actually curse, and have to adjust the seat despite the desire for tight plots.
Especially if there are zombies pounding on the glass or something like that.
After stealing some random person’s clothes that fit as if tailored for them.
See Indy in the Uboat base.
“Nine million terrorists in the world and I gotta kill one with feet smaller than my sister.”
I’d be turning to my wife: “Wow, he’s going to be in a Steven Seagal film, with Arnold Ziffel and Kim Possible!”
I wear a size 15, so I’ve always felt that line.
And it seems no one’s car-jacked someone whose car was on “E” or was on their way to the charging station.
Read about the jinxed getaway that ended this bank robber’s career: Herman Lamm - Wikipedia
In theory you could at one time, if you purchased an unrestricted ticket. I was going to try it to entice a friend to come visit once many moons ago, until I found one how much said ticket was going to cost. 
This one may have been covered in almost 4500 posts, but how about the heroic cop / FBI agent / CIA agent / member of the military, who suddenly finds out that their trusted superior, who they’ve worked closely with for years, is actually in cahoots with the bad guys?
I know there have been a few historical incidences in which people in high positions of power turned out to be spies or traitors selling secrets to the enemy, but not nearly as often as in TV and movies.
A much better twist would be that the hero discovers strong reasons to suspect their superior of being in cohoots with the bad guys; it turns out that the reason they looked so suspicious was that they really are up to secret, questionable things, just not what the hero thought.