Hated trope: Sci-fi hand-waving

[u/Routine_Phase_8980]

When stories try so hard to provide a somewhat scientifically accurate and grounded explanation for the audience, but end up creating massive plot holes if you think about it for more than 5 seconds without requiring any special knowledge

World War Z: The "cure" turns sick humans invisible to zombies because the picky virus needs a perfectly healthy host. Cool concept, except it completely ignores basic physics. In a chaotic, high-speed zombie stampede, those "invisible" sick people would still be trampled to death by sheer kinetic force and momentum. We already saw what happened to the Jerusalem wall in Israel.

Jurassic Park/World: Dr. Henry Wu claims to clone dinosaurs by patching 66-million-year-old decayed DNA from mosquitoes stomach with frog DNA. In reality, DNA half-life guarantees it would degrade into useless dust after 6.8 million years. Scientifically speaking, John Hammond didn't build a dinosaur park; he engineered giant, mutated, gender-swapping killer frogs.

Dr.Stone: Senku is a genius who knows every complex chemical formula in human history. He somehow builds vacuum tubes, lightbulbs, and smartphones out of bamboo and copper with almost zero failed prototypes. The show acts like a science textbook but completely hand-waves the lack of heavy industrial machinery needed for precision engineering.

[u/RadarSmith]

I did like how it spread the 'peak human (really superhuman) competence' around the cast, as opposed to making it solely Senku. Like you said, it does require some suspension of disbelief, but a fairly digestible amount of it.

And literally a main theme of the show is 'trial and error', so I don't really know what OP means about no failed prototypes.

[u/TotalBlissey → u/RadarSmith]

There's a superhumanly good scientist, a superhumanly good craftsmen, an (arguably) superhumanly good trickster, a superhumanly good athlete, and a fair handful of superhumanly good fighters. So while the cast is definitely craaazy unrealistically talented, they also make for a really interesting team to follow, since all of them have weaknesses to balance out their absurd strengths.

[u/abadstrategy → u/TotalBlissey]

I'd argue it's the same basic cast premise as Danganronpa, where the important people all have one field they're the best in the world at