1. A Person Who Has Been Shot Will Automatically Die
Notable Offenders: Pretty Much Every Action Movie Ever Made We've seen enough people get shot in movies that we know how it would go down in real life. Bang, you're dead. Call the Reaper. Tell St. Peter another schmuck is on the way. You've just time-punched your card for the last time pal. It's over, you've reached the kill-screen of life and you've run out of quarters. At least, God forbid, any of us end up on the wrong end of a bullet we can take comfort in the fact it will all be over very quickly. Except it probably won't. What will more than likely happen, if it isn't a direct head shot, is that your muscles will involuntarily spasm and contract as you proceed to go into shock from massive blood loss. Your brain will be freakin' terrified of knowing it will soon cease to be, and will immediately start a slow electro-chemical death, sending your body into further convulsions until you mercifully pass out and end this terror. So thank God for this movie trope calming us all down and soothing our brains that are thankfully inside our skulls and not splattered out on the wall behind us. Because sometimes not knowing is the best available option.
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