![]() You'd be lucky if you end up with only frostbitten ears in such conditions. Apparently, nobody told the authors that the winds at the time could lift an adult man off the ground, and temperatures routinely reached -25C (-13F) with precipitation of 400mm or 32 inches. At one point in the series, when Red Shield ship came to Vladivostok, the heroes transferred to a train. Yet the sky is still bright when they get there, and the only thing to suggest that Southampton is not right next door to London is Kenny's (vague) comment that seeing Big Ben reminds him of how much time they've lost. However, their arrival on foot does suggest that they walked. Kenny has previously mentioned that they have no money, and it's not said whether they walked, hitchhiked or anything else. The scene suddenly jumps from Southampton to London, which means a distance of eighty miles. The show redeems itself only a little, relying mostly on Willing Suspension of Disbelief. It's actually a large modern city and its docks are flat slabs of concrete far as the eye can see. As the ship pulls into harbour, Southampton appears to have green mountains and picturesque brick houses. In S1E31 of Bakuten Shoot Beyblade series, the main characters are ditched in Southampton, England, on their way to Russia for a tournament battle.Although the manga depicts this accurately, in the anime, he actually crosses Indonesia on his return trip instead of the Philippines. The " Koro-sensei Drawing Song " from Assassination Classroom shows Koro-sensei drawing his trademark smile by leaving contrails from Dubai to Hawaii and then back again, passing the Philippines along the way.Instead of rolling hills and chaparral vegetation, it's rendered as vegetation-free desert with broad mesas, more appropriate for New Mexico or Arizona. Appare-Ranman!: The land around Los Angeles looks absolutely nothing like it does in real life.In a commercial for the SNES version of Super Mario All-Stars, the narrator goes on a Mario-craze that includes among other things stating that the capital of Ohio is Mario.Maybe it's because Britain is smaller than the USA, or because it has a higher population density (especially in Southern England), but the British don't regard a place 60 miles away as "near". In the 1980s, in a year when the World Science Fiction Convention was held in Brighton in Sussex, the announcement of it in magazines claimed Brighton to be "near London".Except the bridge is north and east of both locations - quite a bit east, in fact, as in the other side of Manhattan. Postal Service tying in with the release of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 showed Spidey picking up a package at the main post office in Manhattan, swinging past the Queensboro Bridge, and delivering the package to a man at the Ziegfeld Theater. ![]() ![]() The " Junkface" ad from Neutrogena mentions "provinces, territories, and Nunavut", fails to include the border separating Nunavut from the Northwest Territories, and the eastern regions of Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, and Cape Breton are completely absent from the map.Also, for geography that's explicitly fictional but still unrealistic, see Patchwork Map. Artistic License – Space has some examples of this trope, only in space. If the writer intentionally has a character make geography mistakes, then that's a case of Global Ignorance. Compare Television Geography and The Mountains of Illinois. In medieval and older works, this trope is a sign that the story was known in places far removed from where it originated. ![]() This trope may not be obvious to anyone unfamiliar with the locale in question, but anyone who lives there will spot it right away, and when it's bad enough it can destroy the believability of the entire project or at least make the filmmakers look lazy. This is often used in a stereotypical way, since well Viewers Are Morons, the popular image of a country or region's geography is used rather than the actual one. Often the lack of knowledge beyond common National Stereotypes results in a Hollywood Atlas or worse. A show set in suburban Cleveland should not look like Southern California. Lack of knowledge of regional climate or local architecture can also be glaringly obvious. The most common seems to be setting a story in a particular city without consulting a map, thus placing locations that are nowhere near one another quite close by, underestimating the time it would take to get from one to another, and sometimes transplanting whole landmarks from somewhere else entirely. This form of Artistic License can happen in a number of ways. The Nostalgia Chick on the towering cliffs of coastal Virginia in PocahontasĪ writer may want to set a story in a location, but that doesn't mean they want or need to be accurate. ![]()
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