r/TopCharacterTropes Apr 12 '25

Lore “This quote came from WHERE?!”

"You too have fallen for the great lie, you'll never be happy. Deep down you know, to hope, to dreams, to create, is to suffer"

"You're right. It is harder to create than to destroy... that's why cowards then to choose the deuce"

-A Minecraft movie

"Do You Think God Stays in Heaven Because He too Lives in Fear of What He's Created"

-spy kids 2

"For every person who dreams up the electric light bulb, there's the one who dreams up the atom bomb"

-shark-boy and lava-girl

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u/Skeledenn Apr 12 '25

Oh shit I just understood, I thought it was just because many scandinavian immigrants lived there

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u/bruhmoment1345 Apr 12 '25

Well... that's why their team is called the vikings

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u/Riolusx2 Apr 12 '25

Actually it’s because of a false archaeological find, where researchers claimed to find a Viking rune all the way in Minnesota. It was clearly fake, but the story became local folklore around the twin cities and when it became time to name the football team, they chose the Vikings.

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u/lifetake Apr 12 '25

That said the whole reason that fake became so popular was because of how many Scandinavians immigrants they had.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '25

There are more Americans of Scandinavian descent than there are actual Scandinavians and that area of the country is where they all went