by Hannah MarderBuzzFeedBuzzFeed StaffI'm a Senior Staff Writer based in New York City, where I've been covering classic BuzzFeed-style content since 2020.

A while back, Reddit user Frequent-Sea-8848 asked, "What is something unrealistic that you often see in movies that annoys the hell out of you?" and I know this is a topic y'all get heated about, too. Here are some of the most infuriating things that happen onscreen that are just wildly unrealistic...or straight-up teaching you things you should NEVER attempt IRL.

We also used responses from this Reddit thread.

"Pulling a grenade pin with your teeth. Best case scenario, you lose your teeth."

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—u/Paxperchaos

"Giving injections directly into the neck. Go ahead and hit that carotid artery."

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—u/yooperville

"The idea that if someone has been shot, you just need to remove the bullet and they'll be fine. Removing the bullet isn’t usually going to help, and in a lot of cases, you're just going to make things worse by increasing the risk of bleeding and or infection."

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—u/thatturtletouch

Or even worse, if the love interest removes the bullet/tends to the hero's wounds, then they have sex:

MTV

"Removing the bullet only works if you also happen to have a metal tray to place the bullet in and hear it loudly clink."

—u/nathanherts

"The victim is 90% more likely to survive if the bullet is removed by a beautiful woman who seems petite and fragile but is actually surprisingly tough."

—u/thatturtletouch

"With a complimentary, 'There, that was the last of it.'"

—u/LordMegamad

"Then you grunt while sitting up, holding your hand over the fresh bandages, before initiating a series of intense physical acts with no apparent side effects from the bullet wound."

—u/clocks212

Relatedly, "The idea that you can take a gunshot to the leg or belly area and walk miles on end throughout your adventure without consequences. A gunshot hurts like a bitch and destroys everything it touches inside you. In the lucky chance you don't bleed out, the destruction inside would kill you eventually."

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—u/ma95vs

"Pulling out the sharp object you've been stabbed with. It acts as a plug. Leave it in."

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—u/ImNotTheMonsieurJack

"I was watching one of the older Indiana Jones movies recently. Classics — I love them dearly, and there are several other examples of this in movies. But the way people just eat punches is wild, and the way punches get thrown with zero consequences. If nothing else, Indy should have had two purple softballs for fists by the end."

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—u/MidnightBravado90

"The incredible ability to zoom in on photographs and/or CCTV footage to an almost cellular level and STILL have a crystal-clear image."

Fox

—u/Frequent-Sea-8848

"Jumping down onto a pile of garbage bags. I always think about the sharp objects I have thrown away."

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—u/close_my_eyes

"That literally happened to a friend of mine. He was drunk and jumped onto a pile of garbage bags on a NYC curb and then got up with a gaping gash (like 5 inches long and very deep to where you could see all the fat) in his back. This was right beside Times Square, and an ambulance was literally parked 100m away. One of the paramedics searched the trash bag to see if he could find what my friend had been stabbed with, but they couldn’t tell. They gave him a tetanus shot and patched him up pretty shoddily at the hospital, and the wound ended up getting infected a few days later, and he had to be hospitalized for IV antibiotics. It also scarred so badly that he ended up getting some sort of plastic surgery revision to it several years later. Would NOT recommend."

—u/saltface14

10.

"Shooting the driver of a car and expecting it to stop before it runs you over (without jumping out of the way). That guy is dead; he's not hitting the brakes."

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—u/Casual-Notice

"As someone involved with motorsports and sadly dealing with fatalities, there is a good chance the car will accelerate more. I had a situation with a diver passing from a sudden heart attack and a few other examples, and the right pedal always gets pushed to the floorboards/firewall."

—u/Hawk-Bat1138

11.

"You can easily survive being close enough to a big explosion that throws you through the air and onto the hard ground like a rag doll. You can totally just get up, dust yourself off, and run away with full health intact."

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—u/Capital_Chapter1006

12.

And really just any kind of walking away from explosions in general.

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13.

"Probably the 'drink alcohol to stay warm' myth. Movies make it look like a quick fix in the cold, but alcohol actually lowers your core temperature and messes with judgment. It can make hypothermia worse fast. Rea

41 Absurd Movie Clichés That Defy Reality