14 Outlandish Things in Movies (Which Are Actually Realistic)
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Most of the time in Hollywood, producers make up events and tales that will never happen in real life in terms of making films look more magnificent and engaging. It's difficult to look away from these scenes. But sometimes, it goes the opposite direction. Cracked decided to explore how some near-impossible cinematic sequences would play out in real life.
It's often claimed that truth is stranger than fiction. That's because reality doesn't give a rip whether you believe something is conceivable or not - the thing is there, and you have to deal with it, willingly or not. Things that we merely go along with (or roll our eyes at) in movies happen all the time in real life. These are only a few examples.
There are a few instances in which fictional films depict events that appear to be fictional but are depictions of reality. Take a peek at these 14 bizarre things you'll see in truly true movies:
Bond's Impeccable Tux
![Goldfinger Bond wearing a crisp tuxedo under his wetsuit strains credibility, doesn't it? A Dutch agent did exactly that during World war II. Peter Tazelaar's mission was to sneak two secret agents out of a Nazi-occupied casino - so reality is even more James Bond than James Bond.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/6/6/826266.jpg)
Batman's Shark Repellent
![Batman (1966) Batman breaking out the shark repellent spray is one of the movie's silliest parts. But shark repellents are real. The U.S. military issued chemical shark chasers to servicemen for decades. (It didn't work, but the thing existed.)](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/6/2/826262.jpg)
Source: American Chemical Society
Steve Buscemi Getting Duct-Taped in Space
![Armageddon Steve Buscemi's character is duct-taped to his seat after he loses control. That's exactly what is to be done. NASA's written procedures for dealing with a psychotic astronaut includes binding them using duct tape and bungee cords. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/6/3/826263.jpg)
Source: CBS News
Ash's Mechanical Hand
![Army of Darkness Ash's medieval mechanical hand doesn't look less over-the-top than the chainsaw. But a 16th- century knight had a hand like that. Götz von Berlichingen was fitted with an elaborate iron prosthesis, which allowed him to grip his sword.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/6/7/826267.jpg)
Sources: Blind Squirrel Props, Atlas Obscura
Ethan Hunt's Wire Stunts
![Mission: Impossible Hanging from wires isn't exactly the preferred method to avoid triggering an alarm, is it? Thieves did exactly that to rob a Best Buy in New Jersey. They weren't trying to hack into any computer, though - just to steal computers.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/6/1/826261.jpg)
Pavel Chekov's Accent
![Star Trek Chekov's accent is such a bad caricature, isn't it? walter Koenig just copied his father's speech patterns. His father being a Soviet-bloc immigrant, Koenig gets annoyed when he's told Chekov's accent is wrong.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/6/5/826265.jpg)
Source: Las Vegas Sun
Naboo's Elective Monarchy
![The Phantom Menace So Amidala is a queen who was voted into office? Doesn't George Lucas know how monarchies work? Elective monarchies are historically common. Many hereditary monarchies were originally elective, and a few still exist today. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/6/8/826268.jpg)
Source: The Classroom
Red Skull's Getaway Ship
![Captain America: The First Avenger Red Skull escapes in a plane-rocket-helicopter contraption. That was almost a real thing. The Focke-Wulf Triebflügel never left German drawing boards, as it was designed later in the war.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/6/9/826269.gif)
Sources: Scene on YouTube, Plane Encyclopedia
Breathable Liquid in The Abyss
![The Abyss An oxygenated fluid helps divers reach abyssal depths in the ocean. That isn't a sci-fi thing - it's real. Ed Harris didn't have to actually breathe the stuff - but the poor, panicked rat did.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/7/0/826270.jpg)
Lex's UNIX System
![Jurassic Park It's a UNIX system, Lex goes in front of something that looks nothing like UNIX. That's a real file manager. Named fsn, it works on older versions of IRIX, a UNIX-based system.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/6/4/826264.jpg)
Source: SGI (via archive.org)
Mrs. Lovett's Meat Pies
![Sweeney Todd Murdering people and baking them into meat pies? Who could be such a heartless monster? Italian Leonarda cianciulli was. Leonarda, however, didn't bake her pies with her victims' flesh - only with their blood. The flesh, she it used to make soap. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/5/9/826259.jpg)
Doctor Poison's Mask
![Wonder Woman Doctor Poison's mask gives her an eerie, distinctive look. It's also something she might wear in real life. During World War I, artists and sculptors were commissioned to make enameled, flesh-colored masks for disfigured veterans.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/6/0/826260.jpg)
Source: Smithsonian Magazine
General Ripper in Doctor Strangelove
![Doctor Strangelove Communists poisoning our precious bodily fluids is an exaggeration of Cold War paranoia, isn't it? Nope - that was an actual belief of the American right. Water fluoridation was denounced as a method of Red Warfare by right-wing papers in the 1960s.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/5/8/826258.jpg)
Source: Science History Institute
James Bond's Jetpack
![Thunderball James Bond's jetpack is just another of the franchise's impossible gadgets, right? That's a real, working jetpack. Developed by Bell Aerosystems for the U.S. Army, the Bell Rocket Belt was abandoned because of its underwhelming performance.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/5/7/826257.jpg)
Sources: James Bond 007, National Air and Space Museum