Timeline for Super Spies Reality Check
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| Aug 11, 2016 at 17:53 | comment | added | brichins | Thank you for not including any links to TV Tropes (especially for the wonderful term "plot armor" which I hadn't heard before). I really need to get some things done today and a direct link would've spelled the end of my working day. :) | |
| Aug 11, 2016 at 14:40 | comment | added | Jason K | US soldiers are not taking anabolic steroids, they are tested for that and would get prosecuted under UCMJ. So if they are, it is on their own initiative and at their own risk. About the only PED program I've heard of in the military are amphetamines for alertness, and even they are sorta hush-hush. | |
| Aug 11, 2016 at 12:52 | comment | added | Steve Jessop | "are not well-understood tools for positive enhancement". In short they don't work even remotely like the movies. It would be astonishing if there aren't elite soldiers taking steroids somewhere. But they give you a fraction better performance, not movie physics. Ben Johnson and Lance Armstrong won at sport, they didn't back-flip off a motorbike under machine-gun fire ;-) | |
| Aug 10, 2016 at 14:36 | history | edited | Jason K | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 10, 2016 at 14:07 | comment | added | Jason K | At least the earlier Bond films usually had Bond call in the cavalry at the end. He was more of a recon unit to penetrate a (highly) suspected threat organization, get actionable intel, then waves of color coordinated good guys fought waves of color coordinated bad guys :) | |
| Aug 10, 2016 at 13:58 | comment | added | Kys | "Solo guys just can't do it, no matter how skilled they may be" This more than the fancy gadgets or improbable escapes breaks the reality of spy stories for me. The world is in danger, global war at risk, and they send one guy with a pistol and a dossier to fix it all. | |
| Aug 10, 2016 at 13:50 | history | answered | Jason K | CC BY-SA 3.0 |