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14 People Who Hilariously Failed to do Their Homework About Pop Culture

November 03, 2021

Popular culture is, well, popular. That means that everyone knows at least the basics about it, and even if you don’t, those are easy to find out. And yet, people sometimes fumble it. Wanna see some cases of that? Yes, of course you do. Go ahead, take a look at people failing.

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A British newspaper mixed up Captain America and Captain Planet. In 2007, The Telegraph ran a story about Marvel Comics -calling Captain America Captain Planet. More than once. Well, America is on a planet, isn't it? — Source: The Telegraph

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No, not all fighting game characters know each other. After the trailer for the 2021 Mortal Kombat movie dropped, Jezebel published an article decrying the absence of Chun-Li- famously a character from a different video game. — Source: Jezebel

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Wait, Galadriel has an evil sister? At least that's what London's The Sunday Times said in an interview with Cate Blanchett in 2000. They took this tidbit of information from a humorous, intentionally wrong plot summary they found online. — Sources: The One Ring, The Sunday Times (via archive.org)

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Someone thought the Ghost in the Shell was the main character. 2017's live-action adaptation would have proven even more controversial, had Scarlett Johansson's character been called The Ghost, like the site Movieweb seems to believe in their review. — Source: Movieweb

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Did you know that Rogue was a Mistress of Rewind? Yes, we're also wondering what version of X2: X-Men United the reviewer of The Washington Post saw, to claim that Rogue's power was to make things happen backwards. — Source: The Washington Post

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Mass Effect

Fox News spread mass misinformation about Mass Effect. A Fox News show claimed in 2008 that the game featured full digital nudity and graphic sex. The claims were sure to enrage viewers- particularly those who grabbed the game to, ahem, do their own research. — Source: Wired

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If it has a duck's bill, it's a platypus. End of the story. A book titled The Animated Films of Don Bluth refers to Ducky from The Land Before Time as a platypus. You know about those dinosaur- like platypuses from, uh, Beforeland, don't you? — Source: The Animated Films of Don Bluth, by John Cawley

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A movie ins't a good source of biographical information. Several outlets have reported Pamela Anderson's birth name as Barbara Rose Kopetski the name of the character she played in 1996's Barb Wire. Maybe they saw the movie too many times? — Sources: SFGATE (wrong), Regina Leader-Post (wrong), GQ (about the movie)

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Beavers have horns now, apparently. A review of M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender on The Denver Post calls Appa, everyone's favorite sky bison, a flying six-legged albino beaver. Then again, the reviewer admits to not being paying a lot of attention (which is sunderstandable). — Source: The Denver Post

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The Warner Bros didn't know jack about their own cartoons. Harry Warner used to say, The only thing I know is, we make Mickey Mouse. The people who made Looney Tunes weren't exactly unhappy with the higher-ups' extremely hands-off approach. — Source: The Washington Post

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Tim Burton made every stop motion movie ever, right? When Henry Selick's Coraline came out, several outlets called it Tim Burton's Coraline. Well, it was from the director of The Nightmare Before Christmas - - and everyone knows that was Burton, right? Huh? — Source: Neil Gaiman’s Journal

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Maybe try not to mistake an actor for theircharacter? An IGN article about Season 11 of The Walking Dead says that Princess is played by Juanita Sanchez. But that's the character's name - the actress is named Paola Lazaro. — Source: IGN

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Even Roger Ebert can slip up. Ebert's review of Labyrinth mixed up Toby (a baby, you'll remember) and Hoggle (a dwarf with a huge, grotesque head). — Source: Roger Ebert

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All hedgehogs are the same hedgehog, weguess, A website mocked Shadow the Hedgehog in 2013, thinking he was just Sonic with a different name and a badass makeover to make him cooler. That site was... uh, Cracked? OK, OK, let's move on... — Source: The 6 Most Baffling Video Game Spinoffs

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