Did Not Do The Research
Basic Information
Did Not Do The Research is what happens when the writer of a story did not pay enough attention to real world facts.
List of Did Not Do The Research tropes
- All Animals Are Dogs
- All Bikers Are Hells Angels
- All Paedophiles Are Child Molestors
- Anachronism Stew
- Annoying Arrows
- Armchair Psychology
- As Long As It Sounds Foreign
- The Asteroid Thicket
- Automaton Horses
- Burn The Witch
- Can You Hear Me Now
- Christianity Is Catholic
- Complaining About Shows You Dont Watch
- Convection Schmonvection
- Cool Clear Water
- Cowboy Bebop At His Computer
- Critical Research Failure
- Dan Browned
- Defcon Five
- Dinosaurs Are Dragons
- Do Not Touch The Funnel Cloud
- Eagleland Osmosis
- Elements Do Not Work That Way
- Eternal Sexual Freedom
- Every Car Is A Pinto
- Every Japanese Sword Is A Katana
- Failed To Pay Shipping Charges
- Fashions Never Change
- Fire And Brimstone Hell
- Fluffy Cloud Heaven
- Gannon Banned
- Going Critical
- Goth
- Global Warning
- Gretzky Has The Ball
- Helicopter Blender
- High Voltage
- Hijacked By Jesus
- Hollywood Style
- I Just Shot Marvin In The Face
- Infrared Xray Camera
- Inspired By
- Instant Messenger Pigeon
- Just Plane Wrong
- Law Of Inverse Recoil
- Loners Are Freaks
- Lost In Translation
- Magical Computer (sometimes)
- Mind Control Device
- Mishmash Museum
- Misplaced Wildlife
- New Age Retro Hippie
- Night Vision Goggles
- Ninety Percent Of Your Brain
- No Arc In Archery
- No Control Group
- No Doorlevers
- Not The Fall That Kills You
- Nuns Are Mikos
- Organ Autonomy
- Pac Man Fever
- Paintball Error
- Parasol Parachute
- Patchwork Map
- Popular History
- Politically Correct History (at least some of the time)
- Ragnaroof Proofing
- Religion Is Magic
- Sadly Mythtaken
- Selective Magnetism
- Shallow Parody
- Shown Their Work
- Small Reference Pools (to a degree)
- Soft Glass
- Somewhere A Palaeontologist Is Crying
- Souvenir Land
- Space Does Not Work That Way
- Still The Eighties
- Television Geography
- They Just Didnt Care
- Thirty Second Blackout
- Torture Cellar
- Totally Radical
- Vacuum Hurricane Kick
- Videogame Geography
- Videogame Historical Revisionism
- Water Is Air
- Weapons Kitchen Sink
- Weird Moon
- White Christmas
- Ye Goode Olde Days
- Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe
- You Fail Biology Forever
- You Fail Logic Forever
Sources
Game and Story Use
- Please, for the love of God, if any of these tropes fit your campaign, then at least make sure that this is because of deliberate design choices instead of ignorance - or you will never hear the end of it from your players.
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