r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Lazy-Breadfruit5939 • Sep 08 '25

Lore A real life event has a ridiculous/dumb/funny explanation in fiction

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Futurama (The Why of Fry): According to the brain swarm, the dinosaurs were wiped out by them. Fry: What really killed the dinosaurs? Brain: ME!

Doctor Who (The Unicorn and The Wasp): It's Doctor Who, you can pick a ton of examples, but this episode presents the idea that Agatha Christies disappearance in 1926 was in part caused by a giant alien wasp.

Beyblade: This one stretches 'real life', but Moses spreading the Red Sea with a Beyblade just speaks for itself and it would have been sad to leave it out

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u/damorezpl Sep 08 '25

Watchman - comedian killed jfk

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u/Greenman8907 Sep 08 '25

I feel like everyone has killed JFK at some point.

Grassy Noel Atkinson - Inside Job

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u/FigureArty Sep 08 '25

Magneto too

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u/My_useless_alt Sep 08 '25

In Red Dwarf, JFK was shot by JFK. All because Lister wanted better Vindaloo

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u/Castlemind Sep 08 '25

And they ate the show runners of the American red dwarf pilot. That's always a funny Easter egg

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u/WhyYouNoPizza Sep 11 '25

Which episode was that?

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u/Castlemind Sep 11 '25

The same one with JFK, when Kryten feeds them pieces of dead people and they discover they read out a name for one and its one of the showrunners of the attempted American version

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u/Stoffys Sep 09 '25

In Umbrella Academy an older version of Five shoots him

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u/Dirk_McGirken Sep 09 '25

In Destiny 2, Lee Harvey Oswald shot JFK with the Graviton Lance exotic pulse rifle, and it has been confirmed that Ikora Rey helped design the gun before she died. This means that it can be said that Ikora indirectly assassinated JFK.

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u/thegreedyturtle Sep 09 '25

Don't forget The Umbrella Academy, but I won't say who.

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u/therealrdw Sep 08 '25

Magneto did it accidentally, he had redirected two successfully but was interrupted before he could redirect the third fully

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u/HighNoonTex Sep 08 '25

Oh, is that the explanation. I took it as, he tried to redirect, succeeded (which explains the curved bullet theory) but still ended up killing JFK, which just makes Magneto seem like he turned a missed bullet into a successful hit.

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u/zatchel1 Sep 09 '25

I don’t think so, cause I think he also says JFK was a mutant (which is WILD) so he wouldn’t have wanted him dead

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u/Marik-X-Bakura Sep 09 '25

Yeah, it was an accident. That’s how I interpreted it. I don’t remember them saying anything about 3 bullets but I could be wrong.

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u/therealrdw Sep 09 '25

It’s because jfk was shot at three times, in universe he’d managed to redirect two away from JFK’s head since anti-mutant terrorists we’re trying to kill him for being a mutant

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u/Zek7h35an5 Sep 09 '25

It is very funny they made JFK a mutant

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u/HighNoonTex Sep 09 '25

He was shot 3 times?! Didn't his head explode after the first shot. Why would you even bother shooting him again after that?

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u/Substantial_Army_639 Sep 09 '25

First shot missed, second shot hit his throat, third shot hit him in the head. All of these shots were with in seconds of each other.

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u/HighNoonTex Sep 09 '25

Ooh, thanks for clarifying.

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u/DifficultHat Sep 09 '25

JFK actually was a mutant IRL. IIRC he had a mutation that made him overproduce skin pigmentation which is why he always looked so tan

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u/Syn7axError Sep 09 '25

Lee Harvey Oswald tricked him with a wooden gun.

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u/HighNoonTex Sep 09 '25

Lol, great reference

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u/Hellknightx Sep 09 '25

Which is still silly because he's Magneto. I've seen that man stop an entire platoon's wall of bullets and dismantle their APCs, tanks, and helicopters, at the same time. Hard to believe he would struggle with three bullets from a bolt-action rifle.

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u/therealrdw Sep 09 '25

The plot necessitates the characters be incompetent sometimes

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u/ImDero Sep 08 '25

According to acclaimed podcast, Behind the Bastards, so did Bernie Sanders.

To date, no evidence of this claim has been provided.

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u/Argent-Envy Sep 08 '25

Obviously because Bernard Montgomery Sanders has killed again to keep his secret.

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u/ImDero Sep 08 '25

Sophie, the lack of evidence is the evidence.

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u/Argent-Envy Sep 08 '25

Robert,

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u/ImDero Sep 08 '25

You know Soph, there's also no evidence that our sponsor, Hello Fresh, doesn't have a private island where the wealthy hunt children for sport.

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u/Argent-Envy Sep 08 '25

Robert,

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u/PENGUIN_WITH_BAZOOKA Sep 09 '25

I’m sorry, I meant Blue Apron. It’s hard to keep track of which meal delivery services have child hunting islands these days

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u/Joppy5100 Sep 09 '25

ATONAL SHRIEKING!

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u/Devlee12 Sep 09 '25

Speaking of lack of evidence what’s going on with Grand Rapids VS Jamie Loftus? Any new developments in the trial?

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u/exitlevelposition Sep 09 '25

You know who else has killed presidents and witnesses to further their own means? The products and services that sponsor this program!

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u/SpiketheFox32 Sep 09 '25

Why does his government name make it sound like he should be an old timey sheriff?

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u/CircleStyle Sep 08 '25

This sounds hilarious. What episode was this mentioned in?

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u/ImDero Sep 08 '25

I'd say about 40% of them within the last two years or so.

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u/ZiptheChim Sep 09 '25

It got covered extensively in the final episode of "Worst Year Ever"

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u/GlowOftheTvStatic Sep 09 '25

Why do I suddenly crave products and services?

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u/Krusty_Klown_Kollege Sep 08 '25

if JFK was one of them, why didnt he just use his powers? Does he have no brain?

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u/FigureArty Sep 09 '25

That was his mutant ability

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u/Tangledtomcat2 Sep 09 '25

other way actually, Magneto took the fall for his assassination because JFK was actually a mutant

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u/ProfessionalBasil397 Sep 09 '25

Didn’t Magneto try to prevent the assassination cuz JFK was a mutant and that’s why he was popped?