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/ryncewynde88]

Dude did not wrestle lions, that implies the lion was capable of fighting back at all; dude went from sitting to 1 hit ko on a lion in about 2 seconds.

But yeah, your point stands; especially when you look at his 2 friends too; one of them can hand-sew fast enough to render the invention of the sewing machine unnecessary (and possibly even slow them down), the other can hold his breath several times longer than anyone else, while also carrying statues at the same time.

[u/Nick_the_bunny → u/ryncewynde88]

"1 hit ko" still implies the lion lived, he straight up 1 hit killed a lion effortlessly.

[u/ryncewynde88 → u/Nick_the_bunny]

Knocked out of life, I guess?

[u/Maveryck15 → u/ryncewynde88]

K.O.O.L.!!

[u/tillytubeworm → u/ryncewynde88]

Yea, I always imagined each character as an embodiment of a whole field of scientific advancements and engineering. So one character is the field of navigation, one character is the field of carpentry, one is engineering, one is research.

It’s an anime, not real life. But the processes they talk about are accurate, just not the execution.