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In a martial arts confrontation your enemies will attack you one at a time, the others dancing around threateningly until you have dealt with their predecessor.
All police departments will asign you a partner that is totally incompatable to you.
Medieval peasants always have perfect teeth.
The best place to hide in a building is the ventilation system. No one will think of looking for you there and you can travel to any part of the building through it.
Most lap-top computers are powerful enough to override the communication systems of any invading aliens.
Any lock can be opened quickly with a credit card or paperclip, unless it's the door of a burning building with a child trapped inside.
Dogs will aways reveal the baddies by barking at them.
All shopping bags contain at least one french loaf.
It's always possible to park outside any building you are visiting.
All US 'phone numbers start with 555.
When paying a taxi fare just grab a note at random. This will always be the right fare.
Make-up never smudges ~ even if when worn to bed or underwater.
Power and 'phone lines will always be disrupted by a thunderstorm when there's a deranged killer on the loose.
A man can be involved in a ferocious fight without showing any pain, but will wince when getting his wounds cleaned by a woman.
You can tell when a bomb will explode because they are all fitted with large red read-outs.
If you start a fight in a western saloon, every one else will join in.
Being thrown though a large plate-glass window is not at all harmful.
It is impossible for ten baddies firing automatic weapons to hit the hero.
Action heros are never charged with any offence, no matter how many people they kill, even if they lay waste to vast amounts of property to do so.
A single match will illuminate a room the size of a football stadium.
Word processors never display a cursor.
You never have to use the space-bar when typing long sentences.
Movie character never make typing mistakes.
All monitors display inch-high letters.
High-tech computers, such as those used by NASA, the CIA, or some such governmental institution, will have easy to understand graphical interfaces. Those that don't, have incredibly powerful text-bases command shells that can correctly understand and execute commands typed in plain english.
You can gain access to any information you want by simply typing "ACCESS ALL OF THE SECRET FILES" on any keyboard Likewise, you can infect a computer with a destructive virus by simply typing "UPLOAD VIRUS"
All computers are connected. You can access the information on the villain's desktop computer, even if it's turned off.
Powerful computers beep whenever you press a key or whenever the screen changes. Some computers also slow down the output on the screen so that it doesn't go faster than you can read. The *really* advanced ones also emulate the sound of a dot-matrix printer.
All computer panels have thousands of volts and flash pots just underneath the surface. Malfunctions are indicated by a bright flash, a puff of smoke, a shower of sparks, and an explosion that forces you backwards.
People typing away on a computer will turn it off without saving the data.
A hacker can get into the most sensitive computer in the world before intermission and guess the secret password in two tries.
Any PERMISSION DENIED has an OVERRIDE FUNCTION.
Complex calculations and loading of huge amounts of data will be accomplished in under three seconds. Movie modems usually appear to transmit data at the speed of two gigabytes per second.
When the power plant/missile site/whatever overheats, all the control panels will explode, as will the entire building.
If you display a file on the screen and someone deletes the file, it also disappears from the screen.
If a disk has got encrypted files, you are automagically asked for a password when you try to access it.
No matter what kind of computer disk it is, it'll be readable by any system you put it into. All application software is usable by all computer platforms.
The more high-tech the equipment, the more buttons it has However, everyone must have been highly trained, because the buttons aren't labelled.
Most computers, no matter how small, have reality-defying three-dimensional, active animation, photo-realistic graphics capability.
Laptops, for some strange reason, always seem to have amazing real-time video phone capabilities and the performance of a CRAY Supercomputer.
Whenever a character looks at a VDU, the image is so bright that it projects itself onto his/her face.