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Goofy Feathered Dinosaur: Feathered dinosaurs are portrayed as goofy, even though in reality a lot of predatory species had feathers. Anacondas get huge, but they spend the majority of their time in the water, only going on land if necessary. Water provides the buoyancy to allow them to grow massive (and never to the size of the snakes in the film, but the entire point is that these are special species that do. Problem is, they'd die if they tried to be arboreal.)

A Fanservice-crossed-with-disturbing The Lord of the Rings fic featured the protagonist sustaining the Fellowship when they ran out of food by breastfeeding them. Human females do not produce enough milk to feed nine adult males at once. Someone on a badfic-sporking community pointed out that they'd do better to kill and eat her. Even if she could produce enough milk, human breast-milk has very little nutritional value to a human older than, say, 8 years old (this being the absolute upper limit).In another '50s B-movie, The Alligator People, a physician uses hydrocortisone injections to induce accident victims to regenerate damaged body parts. While cortisones do reduce inflammation (swelling), and can, therefore, make injuries feel better, they actually slow down the healing process. The two children both taste (but not eat) what is probably a full tablespoon of cocaine and suffer almost no side effects, outside of Henry suddenly becoming very hungry and more hyper for a few minutes. That is not how cocaine works. Even though both of them spit it out due to the taste, they would both be experiencing side effects and symptoms of cocaine consumption, but the movie mostly glosses over it. In The Tag for an episode of Community Abed, Troy and a character played by Betty White rap the biological classification of human beings with a remixed "Africa". While the song is catchy, there are two minor mistakes when the last 's' is dropped from Primates and Sapiens. One character arranges Skittles in the air in microgravity in the shape of about ten base pairs and declares it's the genome of his "perfect woman" (the human genome contains about 3.2 billion base pairs). Another character eats a couple; apparently, it's now the genome of a frog. Easily written off as a joke, until later in the film: after seeing about five base pairs on a screen, a character declares that it "looks human". Five BP on their own would tell you nothing whatsoever about what you're looking at, not even which kingdom it belonged to, never mind species. Perhaps more egregious in this particular scene is how the floating candy DNA chain somehow rotates on an axis. Dr. Holt ( A Gifted Man) had apparently never heard that you're

Another example of artistic license is the way in which stylized images of an object (for instance in a painting or an animated movie) are different from their real life counterparts, but are still intended to be interpreted by the viewer as representing the same thing. This can mean the omission of details, or the simplification of shapes and colour shades, even to the point that the image is nothing more than a pictogram. It can also mean the addition of non-existing details, or exaggeration of shapes and colours, as in fantasy art or a caricature. Battlestar Galactica: In season 2, episode 13, the supposed genius Dr. Baltar heals president Roslin's cancer by injecting her with some cylon/human hybrid blood that is more resistant to diseases because it has no antigens (which means it has bloodtype O) and therefore it has no blood type. Therefore it is somehow capable of destroying a cancer in a very late stage. Furthermore, cancer cells (or any other animal cell type) aren't cultivated in a petri dish and on agar, as it is shown on the pictures Dr. Baltar has, but are instead cultivated in cultivation flasks in a fluid. In Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, “Breaths” are the center of all techniques performed by human demon slayers in the series. While learning how to breathe effectively is a real thing among athletes and martial artists, in here it is taken to a whole new level, proper breathing can make the characters have unprecedent control over their bodies, it can freely control their blood flow to make their muscles have super strength, it can push their bodies to move faster than bullets, it can outright stop hemorrhages by focusing hard enough; even so the series pushes Breaths as something that is not supernatural at all compared to actual demons who can cast magical demonic arts. In The Loud House fanfic Loud Farts , Lisa claims that women are gassier than men. How gassy someone is can depend on diet, and occasionally genetics, but not sex. Longest Pregnancy Ever: A series with a pregnant character takes longer than nine months for the character to give birth.

Revenge (2017): Let's just say that, from a medical point of view, very little of what happens to the characters after Jen's rape makes scientific sense. And it eventually comes out that Legosi's mother developed scales similar to her father later in life that was the contributing factor to her suicide. Cat Concerto: The yowling of a cat is not actually equivalent to human singing, but rather means that they're fighting or mating. Steel Ear Drums: Nobody in fiction suffers permanent hearing damage from loud noises such as explosions, gunfire, or concert performances. Hollywood Chameleons: A chameleon can use their color-changing ability to blend in with their surroundings.

Time Heist": The Teller's ability to reduce its victims brains to soup somehow also caves in their skulls, the bone going from a nice convex dome to a concave section where the forehead and front half of the top should be. It makes the victims actually look like their heads are empty, and is all the more horrifying for it. There's one vitamin commercial that claims that it helps repair your "cell walls", a feature not found in mammalian cells. Even if they're just trying to put "cell membrane" in simpler terms, those terms only exist in biology (nobody knew about the things to name them before the invention of the microscope), so their technical usage is their only correct one.They don't eat multiple prey the size of a human being one after the other. After consuming a meal like that (which can take hours), the snake will find a secure location where it will remain immobile for months to digest its food. Clamshells as Mouths: Clams and other bivalves being depicted with the shells as jaws for speaking and eating.

Hybrid Power: If someone with superpowers and someone without have a kid, the kid always ends up with powers.In Cinders and Ashes: the Chronicles of Kamen Rider Dante, Hoshi receives bullets that contain the body heat of animals. However, a few of those bullets are of cold-blooded animals and insects, meaning they do not have body heat to begin with. Reign of Fire: A whole species consisting of thousands of females and only one male? It's actually not impossible in real life: Blue-Headed Wrasses (a fish) have a reproductive pattern where they live in large schools of females led by a single male. When the male dies, one of the females actually switches sex and becomes the new male. In the film, though, killing the male results in the extinction of the species. Four-Legged Insect: Insects with four legs, arachnids with six legs, or decapods with six or eight legs. Aardvark Trunks: Aardvarks, anteaters, echidnas, and pangolins depicted with flexible snouts much like the trunk of an elephant. Their snouts are also portrayed as expressive. The Spleen from Mystery Men is an in-character example, as he named himself for an organ that has nothing to do with his Fartillery superpower.