Books and Comics
The S in Superman’s insignia stands for Strength.
Um, actually, it stands for Hope.
In C, the proper format is to place the curly braces of a function, loop, or logic statement on the same line as the declaration of the function, loop, or logic statement.
Umm, actually, the accepted format is for the curly brace to occur on a newline.
In Star Wars: A New Hope, the Death Star is used to destroy the planet Hoth.
Um, actually, it destroys Alderaan.
Charmander is Pokémon 001 in the Pokédex of the original games.
Um, actually, Bulbasaur.
In the hit TV show Breaking Bad, Dalton Black and BoJack Horseman worked together to cook methamphetamines.
Um, actually, Walter White and Jesse Pinkman were their names.
In the Hunger Games, the Tracker Jacker is a high-tech grappling hook.
Um, actually, it’s a genetically engineered species of wasp utilized for assassinating enemies of the Capital.
PuTTy is a TELNET client, allowing users to easily share and store files over the internet.
Umm, actually, Putty allows for remote command-line connection to other devices.
In the Harry potter series, Harry Potter is one of the “horcruxes”, a group of people/animals/objects that contain part of voldemort’s soul, through which voldemort can control them.
Umm, actually, the horcruxes just render voldemort effectively immortal for as long as they exist.
In the Halo game series, a forerunner AI construct named 343 Oracle appears numerous times to assist various characters.
Um, actually, it was named 343 guilty spark.
In the hit TV show The Walking Dead, Daryl Dixon is an ex-Sheriff who is known for roaming the post-apocalyptic world favouring a revolver over any other weapon.
Um, actually, Rick Grimes is the ex-sheriff who favours the revolver; Daryl Dixon is known for his use of a crossbow.
In the Inheritance Cycle, known more commonly by the first book in the series, Eragon, Zar’roc is passed down to Eragon through his mentor, Galbatorix, who had been given the sword by Eragon’s father, Morzan.
Um, actually, Zar’roc was passed on to him by Brom, who was both his father and mentor, and who had taken the sword after he killed Morzan in battle.
Javascript is basically a striped-down version of the java programming language, designed to run faster.
Umm, actually, javascript is a web programming language, it is very different from actual java.
In the beginning of the movie “iron man”, tony stark becomes iron man after being attacked and captured by a terrorist group using advanced military technology from a company that rivals tony’s own stark industries.
Umm, actually, the weapons are from stark industries.
The Pokémon Hitmonlee and Hitmonchan are based off of famous actor and Martial Artist Bruce Lee.
Um, actually, Hitmonchan was based off of Jackie Chan.
In “Star Trek The next Generation”, the United federation of planets has many enemies, including, but not limited to, the borg, the romulan star empire, and the klingon empire.
Umm actually, the United federation of planets has a peace treaty with the klingons, and they are currently allies.
There is a company in the Marvel universe called “Maintaining Balance” that specializes in cleaning up after villains and heroes.
Um, actually, the company is called “Damage Control.”
PC Graphics cards are special processor units that allow the main CPU to use additional processing cores to speed up graphics vector calculations.
Ummm, actually, graphics cards contribute graphics-specific RAM, which are specifically designed to assist in calculating vectors.
In the original pokemon movie, ash ketchum is knocked into a coma when he tries to stop mew and mewtwo from fighting, but is revived due to all the pokemon present beginning to grieve for him.
Umm, actually, ash ketchum is turned to stone.
In the game “Portal”, aperture laboratories is overseen by an AI known as GlaDOS, whose name is an acronym for “General-Level Android Device Oversight System”
Umm, actually, GlaDOS stands for “Genetic lifeform and disk operating system”
In the tv show “Star trek the next generation”, “Jean-luc Picard” captain's the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-C, and her crew to explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations, and boldly go where noone has gone before.
Umm, actually, it’s the NCC-1701-D.
Grand Admiral Thrawn is an antagonist of the new republic in the old “legends” star wars literature. Unfortunately, he is now no longer “official canon”.
Umm, actually, thrawn has now appeared in “official” star wars TV shows, and is considered “canon” once more.
Python is a programming language designed to function without the need to compile. When you run a python script it just works, making python one of the most efficient languages for all program sizes.
Umm, actually python compiles itself every time it runs, making it incredibly inefficient for larger programs.
The Millennium Falcon, famously piloted by smuggler Han Solo, is boasted to be the fastest ship in the galaxy, due to its class-1 hyperdrive.
Um, actually, it is class 0.5.
In the popular MMORPG Runescape, level 70 is mathematically half of the maximum level 99 for any skill, experience-wise.
Um, actually, 92 is half of 99 experience-wise.
In the TV show “Adventure time” finn is the last human in existence.
Umm, actually, there are at least 2 other humans, finn’s father, and Ice king’s old girlfriend.