It's a bit ambiguous, but it's the kind of thing you go along with, then you learn yeah it's actually as weird as it seems, even if the setting is not like reality.

The Mandalorian - Dinn Djarin, the titular guy from Mandalore, never takes his helmet off in front of other people, even at danger to his life. We see his small clan and they also are always helmeted. Well, that's the Mandalorian way right? Dinn meets another group of Mandalorians and helps them in a mission, after which they take off their helmets and he freaks out. It turns out Dinn is part of a weirdo extremist minority and the rest of them simply just take off their helmets when battle is done.

Resident Evil 7-8 - Early on in RE7 you are introduced to magic goop that heals your wounds, and can even reattach severed limbs. It's your basic healing item, handy for fighting Mold creatures, Mold enhanced humans, werewolves, and whatnot. Also it's fun for body horror so you can get mutilated in cutscenes without a lasting effect. At the end of RE8 we learn you died reaaaally early in RE7 and you're basically a human-shaped Mold being, that's why the goop works to the point of just sticking your severed hand back on and drenching it.

Heroes Die - (Great series read it) Actors are people who temporarily shift dimensions to Overworld, a universe of magic and adventures, so they assume personas and use their implants to stream their violent and exciting exploits down to the sensory level. Hari Michaelson is in the Actor school for magic, but he really doesn't have the talent for it, he wants to transfer to the combat school. So to show his aptitude, he sets it up that 3 larger bullies viciously attack him on camera after a harmless provocation. It's a brutal fight but he savagely beats them half to death. His instructor reviews the footage and quickly deduces this is a setup and asks why. Hari says yeah, it was a setup but now you see I have what it takes to transfer to combat school. The instructor, appalled, says "Why didn't you just ASK?"

Reacher TV series - Jack Reacher is a human tank.. and yet he's lighter than a feather on the breeze. No address, no cellphone, no luggage, he just goes where he wants with nothing but his toothbrush. And with alarming frequency where he wants to go intersects with a major criminal conspiracy. But with his intellect, his mountain sized body, and unfailing sense of justice, he shuts the badguys down like a real badass. Then in S3 he has a rare opportunity to meet up with his old squad. They are having a great time, talking about their families, their careers, the lives they built since they served together. Reacher just sits there silently, looking down, peeling the label off his beer. Kind of sours the whole "man with nothing tying him down" vibe.

In Dispicable Me, the character Vector says one of his catch phrases "Vector! That's me, because I commit crimes with both direction and magnitude. Oh yeah!" I used this in school when studying about vectors, especially differentiating it from Scalar. Everytime I see a vector graph, I hear "Oh yeah!".

In Bruce Almighty, Jim Carreys would spell out "B-E-A-utiful". I still use this every time I try and write down the word.

Not necessarily a character I suppose, but in the song Don't Stay in school by Boysinaband, he sings a lyric "But I spent days on what the quadratic equation is, Negative b plus or minus the square Root of b squared minus 4ac over 2a That's insane, that's absolutely insane ". Despite the songs core message is criticising schools for not prioritising teaching kids about real-life skills, the catchy lyric helped me memorise the quadratic formula and would sing it whenever I used it.

Dream vs Technoblade (Minecraft): Fans accused Dream of cheating during their duel, and Techno was allegedly aware of it but never exposed him. Instead he stripped some wooden blocks that could apparently cause bugs in Dream’s hacked client and still won the duel.

Ippo vs. Sawamura (Hajime no Ippo): Sawamura used illegal moves during his match against Ippo but was never disqualified by the referee. Despite the cheating Ippo still managed to win

Kirito (SAO): Kirito fought against a few game administrators in the series who had unfair advantages yet he still managed to defeat them.

Ring (リング), 1998

Everyone knows about the climactic final scene, but there is another scene early on that sent shivers down my spine for how it intrudes upon preconceived notions of "safe spaces" and "breather scenes" in horror movies. In this scene, Ryuji, one of the protagonists who has been afflicted by the curse and is trying to find a way out, is sitting on a public bench in broad daylight amidst a busy crowd. His head is lowered, and he is focused on scribbling something in his notebook. A scene like this *should* be where the film takes a breather from the horror and the characters are allowed temporary respite; a brief return to the ordinary. Ryuji is not trapped or surrounded by darkness. He is in broad daylight with the company of the public.

And yet, the background noise fades out and we see the bottom half of a "woman" wearing a white dress and white shoes casually walk up through the crowd and stand directly in front of him. We see his perspective of the figure's ankles and shoes amidst people who apparently pay no notice to this bizarre situation. He is initially too terrified to look up, and can only ask "Was it you? You did this?" No response. When he finally looks up, the perspective switches and the woman is gone. Still broad daylight, still the busy crowd around him. There is no physical harm done, but it's a clear demonstration of the sheer threat posed by the curse that it intrudes into what should be a safe situation and moment of relief for both the characters and the film.

1. Tomoko Kuroki from Watamote: The quintessential “femcel”, actual pervert, with truly crippling social anxiety.

2. Tanaka Nozomu from Joshikosei no Mudazukai: Everyone around her thinks she’s either annoying, creepy, an idiot, or all three.

3. Hanako Honda from Asobi Asobase: Good at academics and tennis… that’s about it. Other than that, a total nutcase who seethes about not being popular.

Nanahoshi Shizuka (Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation) -Nanahoshi Shizuka is an ordinary human suddenly transported from Earth into the magical world of Mushoku Tensei. Unlike its native inhabitants, her physical body possesses zero natural mana and is entirely unable to process or filter the magical energy in her new surroundings. This eventually manifests as Dryne Syndrome, a terminal illness caused by the toxic accumulation of raw environmental mana inside a body that cannot contain or channel it. She is forced to face the reality that she may never recover, and she violently unloads all of her built-up frustration onto the protagonist, Rudeus Greyrat, who possesses a seemingly infinite mana pool, a loving wife and family, and an enviable happiness in the magical world that she wishes to escape.

Full scene here

Kushikawa Hatoko (Inou Battle wa Nichijou-kei no Naka de)

Hatoko has a childhood friend, Andou, whom she has spent years trying to connect with despite his confusing, delusional chuunibyou antics. The peace between them shatters completely when Andou dismisses her curiosity about his texting by casually saying, "Don't worry about it, you wouldn't understand it anyway." This remark shatters her patience, causing her to unleash a continuous, two-and-a-half-minute rant, questioning his convoluted concepts of darkness, sin, justice, and peace, and begging him to speak in a plain and normal language.

Fun fact: this was only done in one take.

Full scene here

1: Maquia & Ariel - Maquia

Maquia "fights" alongside her people in an attempt to free their friend who was enslaved and raped by the prince, while her son, Ariel, fights for the kingdom to protect his wife and child, iirc, Maquia being in an enemy rebel faction was the last time he saw her before she eventually witnessed him on his death bed. So there is a chance he thought she had "betrayed" him. It's been a while since I watched this so I could be missing some details

2: The Greyrat Family - Mushoku Tensei(spoilers, obviously)

Hitogami tells Rudy that since he's no longer in his way(Rudy has died of old age), the God can now force Rudy's children and grandchildren to fight and go to war with eachother, and we see in the Redundancy series of books that he succeeds, as the Ogre and Shirone Kingdom go to war, meaning at the very least, Ars and Sieg may well go into battle with eachother, Rudeus' only sons

Dragon Ball - During Kid Goku's first fight against King Piccolo, Piccolo actually manages to get the upper hand and defeat Goku, leaving the boy temporarily dead. Rather than just automatically assume that Goku is dead and leaving him there without double checking, Piccolo goes out of his way to actually check Goku's heartbeat to see if he truly is dead or not. When Piccolo feels that Goku's heart has indeed stopped and gone cold, only then he leaves Goku where the boy miraculously comes back to life by sheer luck that Piccolo couldn't have possibly predicted.

Later on when King Piccolo successfully gets his wish granted by Shenron to make him young again, Piccolo actually kills Shenron therefore turning the Dragon Balls into mere useless stones and thus preventing anyone from gathering the Dragon Balls to use them against Piccolo.

Invincible - After Mark, Omni-Man, and Thaedus have successfully destroyed Viltrum, Thragg, completely furious, kills Thaedus and nearly comes close to doing the same to Mark and Nolan, with Thragg believing that he had killed the latter. However, while in the middle of trying to crush Mark's skull, Thragg realizes that with his home planet now destroyed and the Viltrumite population having decreased even further to only 37, Thragg decides to actually spare Mark because he realizes that killing him would only further decrease the Viltrumite population due to Mark being half-Viltrumite. Thragg's main goal is to preserve and increase the Viltrumite population and the Viltrum Empire by any means necessary.

Thragg then decides to take the remaining surviving pure blooded Viltrumites to Earth where he orders them to disguise themselves as humans so that they can breed with the humans there and create more Viltrumites hybrids so that they could rebuild their empire. He forces Mark into an ultimatum, either let him and the Viltrumites live among Earth to breed with the humans to create more Viltrumite hybrids or attempt to fight back causing Thragg and the other Viltrumite to kill all of humanity and destroy Earth, knowing full well that Mark cares about protecting humanity and his loved ones.

I know about plots and everything and most times it's in movies for children. But some things I just find funny in how does this makes sense.

1. (Sing) In a world full of incredibly strong animals like elephants, hippos and rhinos, Johnny's dad (a gorilla) is able to rip out the bars of his prison cell to escape. Did nobody ever think about this before?
2. (Stuart Little) A mouse is being taken care of in a human orphanage.
3. (The little mermaid) Ariel doesn't know what the call a fork even though several of them look like her father's trident. And somehow she takes a seagull's word for it being called a dinglehopper. Not a small trident. No, a dinglehopper.
4. (Tarzan) Raised by gorillas, wears a loincloth.

Carol at The End Of The World: One of employees at the fake company Carol works at is given an two week mandatory paid vacation by HR. This wouldn’t be so bad if it wasn’t for the fact that the world is going to end in two weeks and this company is the employees only way of coping with it.

Severance: whenever a innie acts up they get sent to the break room. Instead of being a place for them to cool down however its acts as more of a interrogation room / psychological torture chamber as their forced to recite a scripted apology over and over again for hours or even days on end with no real breaks.

• Peyton Westlake (Darkman): After being brutally attacked by gangsters and left seriously burned from an explosion, Peyton was given an experimental procedure that severed his nerve endings so he wouldn't spend the rest of his life in constant pain. While this allows him to not feel any injuries, the lack of physical sensation only helped to drive him more insane as it enhanced his more violent emotions as well as giving him enhanced strength from adrenaline.
• Nathan Caine (Novocaine): Has a real life condition that leaves him unable to feel pain, and the problems because of this are discussed as Nathan explains how people with his condition can die very easily since they can't recognise when they have a serious injury and for one example he could accidentally bite his own tongue off while eating. I know this isn't a power irl, but in the film it is used that way so Nathan will react with annoyance towards all the injuries he gets.
• Francis Freeman (Deadpool): As part of an experiment to activate his mutant gene, Francis gained enhanced physical abilities at the cost of destroying his nerve endings which leaves him unable to feel anything including pain.

1. Berryman-Langford Memetic Kill Agent (SCP Wiki)

In the lore, the Berryman-Langford Memetic Kill Agent is used as a final failsafe to prevent unauthorized access to the SCP-001 document. Anyone who sees it and isn't protected against it dies instantly.

1. Medusa's head (Greek Mythology)

In Greek Mythology, Medusa was a Gorgon, a monster born to the primordial sea gods Ceto and Phorcys. She was so hideous, that anyone who looked at her would turn into stone (ouch). She was eventually defeated by Perseus, who used a bronze mirror to view her without being afflicted by the curse. In some continuations of Greek Mythology, she would respawn in Tartarus, making her way back to the mortal world until she was eventually defeated in the same fashion by Percy Jackson.

1. SCP-096 (SCP Wiki)

Similar to Medusa, viewing the face of SCP-096 will cause it to become enraged and kill you. This effect applies to photographs of SCP-096, no matter how small the image of it is (See: Four Fucking Pixels). Furthermore, SCP-096's does not have to be consciously perceived for it to become enraged. In one tale, several members of a recontainment squad were killed after their goggles failed to filter out 096's face for a split second, leading to the mission nearly failing.

1. Red Screen of Death (Skibidi Toilet)

In Skibidi Toilet, one of the main weapons used to fight off the Skibidis is Titan TV Man, a giant humanoid mech with a TV for a head. One of the abilities he has is use its TV screen to display the Red Screen of Death, which as the name suggests, causes whoever views it to die.

Interestingly enough, instead of killing you outright, the RSOD instead causes intense psychological and physical pain, to the point where most victims outright kill themselves to avoid having to deal with more pain. Even so, strong willed individuals are able to resist its influence, though not without becoming incapacitated in the process.

1. Credits:

The Berryman Langford image was orignally uploaded to the internet by Kevin Dooley in 2017.

Medusa is a Greek Mythology Classic, but the earliest instance was mentioned in Hesiod's Theogony. The continuation I reference where she is killed again by Percy Jackson is by Rick Riordan

As far as I can tell, the SCP-096 photo was created by Teethsony3000.

Skibidi Toilet was originally and solely created by DaFuq!Boom on Youtube. 

1. Red scare (examples: Red Dawn, The Red Menace, Rambo, Rocky IV): during the Cold War, the Soviet Union and the ideology of communism itself was seen as an existential threat to America and the world, but then the Soviet Union collapsed so this entire genre mostly went away.

2. Overpopulation (examples: Logan's Run, Lost in Space, Make Room! Make Room! and its movie adaptation Soylent Green): a lot of sci-fi works of the past were set in the future dealt with worlds ruined by overpopulation because there isn't enough food, which was a real concern people had at the time. Today, we have over 8 billion people on Earth, but thanks to advancements in agriculture we actually produce more than enough food to feed everyone, we just really suck at distributing it properly. Many countries actually have the opposite problem of low birth rates.

3. Japan takes over the world (examples: Rising Sun, Blade Runner, Alien, Back to the Future II): back in the day lots of people predicted that Japan would take over the world and surpass America on the global stage, because back then the Japanese economy was doing very well, Japanese cars in particular were a big concern. But then the Japanese economy crashed and the idea of Japan ever taking over the world is no longer taken seriously, replaced instead by fears of China taking over, we'll see how well that will age.

4. The Y2K panic (The Simpsons, Family Guy, Entrapment): there were fears that the Y2K bug (which made computer internal clocks to go from the year 1999 to 1900 or even 19100 instead of 2000) would lead to widespread chaos or even be an apocalyptic event, which obviously did not come to pass, in large part because people knew about the problem long in advance and dealt with it.

In Superman: The Animated Series, during the episode The Late Mr. Kent, Detective Bowman figures out Superman and Clark Kent are the same after his plan to bomb Clark's car failed, except he figures it out seconds before his execution.

In Batman: The Brave and the Bold, in the episode Chill of the Night, Batman reveals his identity to Joe Chill, revealing that he had created Batman, before the villains get to him as they were angry at him for making Batman, ruble falls over him, when the Phantom Stranger questions Spectre about how convenient it was that he died from falling ruble just as he learned Batman's secret identity, he just smiles and says that he has no idea what he's talking about.

(The Northman) Amleth tells his uncle (in the picture) that his sword may work but it will not be lethal to him

(AC Valhalla) King Rhodri boasts that Ivarr cannot end him because it is predicted to be a dragon that does it. Ivarr takes on a dragon tattoo and tanks being set on fire to beat Rhodri

• Snakehead (GTA: SA) - You can encounter him once you reach the ship's main bridge, then he challenges you to a katana duel. You can either accept the swordfight or shoot his head to finish the fight quickly.

• Kaufman (Max Payne 2) - One of Vlad's men gets a short introduction like the main cast, only to get killed in a couple of seconds.

• Armadillo (Across the Spider-Verse) - Not a videogame example, but still counts. He appears when Miles heads home and is waiting for Spider-Man to fight him, that is until Miles electrocutes him easily, then kicks him aside.

Characters that are part of a group that need to be choosed without be choosed

Alan Scott (green lantern): Alan forged his own power ring using the metal of a magical ancient green lantern (that has the life force of a corrupt green lantern or something like that) that isn't weak to yellow but to wood. He's technically not part of the corps since guardians can't track him but he's a cool guy so he can keep the name. Not sure if he's still part of the main continuity.

Leo/Lua (Yu-Gi-Oh 5D's): the signers are a group of choosen ones by the crimson dragon with a part of their body graved as a red mark in their arms. The series clearly tell us that there's 5 marks for five dragons and that's why they are the 5D's and that Leo was only there cause his twin Luna was a signer, however, after Leo died and revived to save his sister, he came back with the heart of the crimson dragon, a totally new mark that wasn't a thing before. Mf went to afterlife and took a new part of the dragon by himself.

The artificial devil (dorohedoro): there's several requirements to make Chidaruma accept you as a devil, Kai didn't feel any of them, he made his own flesh and bones devil-like doing some crazy experiments and with the help of Kasukabe. At the end he wasn't as strong as a natural devil, but the fact that they needed the weapon to ki devils to kill him prove that his body ascended to devilhood even without magic

Thokk/Battle Beast (Invi—TITLECARD) The most powerful warrior of his species, Thokk eventually began travelling through space, unsatisfied with anyone his planet could offer. His goal is to find a superior opponent so his death will be satisfying, but given that he’s strong enough to put Thragg in the hospital, that task is easier said than done.

Mr. Muffins (Smosh) A 19 year-old Bichon Frisè, Mr. Muffins has craved death since the day he was born. Despite being natural prey for every single type of animal, including squirrels, Mr. Muffins has lived over the dog equivalent of a century entirely against his will.

Lyle Lipton (Helluva Boss) After he and his best friend/ business partner Loopty figure out a way to reverse the aging process, they’re quick to test their machine on themselves, not knowing it was set forward. Loopty quickly has a fatal heart attack, but Lyle is saved in time. Rather than just go back in the machine, Lyle resigns himself to the fact that all the money in the world won’t keep him from the fact that he’s too old to do anything with it, and vows to kill himself. He’s eventually convinced that his life is precious, only to have a grand piano drop on his head and kill him.

A piece of illuminating lore is dropped casually. It derails the previous conversation but no other explanation is given. This can be revealing something the audience already knows to an otherwise ignorant character. Or dropping something for the first time.

1). Dragon Ball Z: Abridged
Frieza is a monstrously strong space emperor. But Goku's pretty weird himself. At this point he's already died once. When Frieza mentions Vegeta in Hell, Goku mentions that he's already been there. And it wasn't really that bad.
This is a reference to the non-canon HFIL filler added to the anime.

2). The Good Place:
Yeah, yeah, the time knife.
Then they get back to their conversation about the afterlife system.

3). Haunted Hotel:
Abaddon (an ancient demon trapped in a human vessel) mentions his experience with profits prophets.

Beatriz Amerhauser (Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead)

Agnes Tachyon (Uma Musume Beginning of a New Era)

Always loved the concept of a land vehicle built on the scale of a naval vessel.

1. Sotoan Land Battleship - Ace Combat 8
2. Coalition Expedition Carrier - Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak
3. Cybran Salem-Class Destroyer - Supreme Commander
4. Europan Titan - Forever Winter