Worrying
Worrying
How worried should you be when various things happen to you: [A chart with a scatter plot on which 9 dots are labeled. Each axis has a title and a scale. Reading from the top to the bottom and then left to right along the axis are:] Very worried ...In Real Life Not very worried
Not very worried ...In Movies Very worried
[The labels in the chart from the top:] [This first entry is standing in the middle of a square bracket that points to the two next entires both of which are at the same level:] Chest wound ...on your right side ...on your left side Getting knocked out by a punch "We need to talk." Persistent cough Parking ticket Breaking news Spilling a drink on your shirt Nosebleed

This chart is a visual representation of how worried people should be by various events in real life compared to the same events in movies, based on the likelihood of the event causing serious harm. In effect, it's poking fun at various cliches and the emphasis on dramatic flair, regardless of realism. The chart's Y-axis indicates how worrying an event is in real life (from "not very worried" to "very worried"), while its X-axis shows how worrying the event is in movies. Nine events are shown in the chart, all of them cliches in the medium of film:
The title text expands on the aforementioned breaking news reports. While already overly worrying whenever they occur in movies compared to real life, should the movie's news report cover an event at a hospital (usually an outbreak of some major disease) or a laboratory (a monster escaping, a toxic gas released, an explosion, etc.), these events are universally much more worrisome than any other type of news story since they are guaranteed to be important for the protagonists in short order. In real life, breaking news from such locations may be more likely to be serious, but are still very unlikely to impact the viewer directly.
The comic shows an X-Y plot of events, showing how worried you should be in real life on the vertical axis and in movies on the horizontal axis. The axis goes from "not very worried" to "very worried".
Below is a table listing the coordinates for each event according to how worrying it is. The coordinates have been found by measuring each dot to the two axises and then assuming that the extremes are at 100%.
How worried should you be when various things happen to you: [A chart with a scatter plot on which 9 dots are labeled. Each axis has a title and a scale. Reading from the top to the bottom and then left to right along the axis are:] Very worried ...In Real Life Not very worried
Not very worried ...In Movies Very worried
[The labels in the chart from the top:] [This first entry is standing in the middle of a square bracket that points to the two next entires both of which are at the same level:] Chest wound ...on your right side ...on your left side Getting knocked out by a punch "We need to talk." Persistent cough Parking ticket Breaking news Spilling a drink on your shirt Nosebleed
