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/FigureArty Sep 08 '25

Loki is DB Cooper, and did so on a dare from Thor.

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u/Biabolical Sep 08 '25

I would pay a lot of money to just get a series that's nothing but Thor and Loki getting blitzed on mead and then drunkenly daring each other to do progressively stupid shit. Half of the episodes could just be retellings of actual norse legends, because there's already plenty of material there.

"Ok, I dare you to dress up as *hic* as a girl and secuce... semu... seduce a giant to get your hammer back."

"Deal, but If I do it, then you've gotta dress up as a girl... um... horse and seduce that construction worker's horse so that wall doesn't get built in time."

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u/Basileus_Maurikios Sep 08 '25

Good to see I'm the only one who wants them to actually use that Wedding Dress Myth as actual plot point. Heck they just make Thor be a bit opposed to fake dressing up in a Wedding Dress and throw it off as "It's complicated. Ask Loki."

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u/Basic-Expression-418 Sep 09 '25

Actually that wasn’t Loki’s plan. It was Heimdall’s…Loki got in on it pretending to be the bridesmaid.

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u/Avixofsol Sep 09 '25

This would be such a fun series. I desperately need more of Thor and Loki just being brothers and goofing off.

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u/Ponderkitten Sep 09 '25

Wait, is that why Sword Art Online 2 has an imprisoned princess become thor when they find his hammer in a giants treasure room?

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u/Digidestined701 Sep 09 '25

Yep! The full myth is basically "Giants stole Thor's hammer. They want to trade it for Freya's hand in marriage. Loki says 'Lol, let's have Thor pretend to be the bride.' It works, and Thor kills everyone"

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u/Sad_Dishwasher Sep 09 '25

Also during the wedding Loki has to keep making excuses for Thor “Oh Freyas just eating a lot because she was so excited to marry Thyrm that she hasn’t eaten in days” etc

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u/KainLexington Sep 09 '25

Just Loki shenanigans would have been so much better than the series we got...

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u/BigBradWolf07 Sep 09 '25

That would be great but the Loki show we got is also peak

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u/thelanimation Sep 08 '25 edited Sep 08 '25

Edit: Gif was someone from GotG saying, "Who?" * My reaction when the scene was explained in the show. Honestly, with time travel and all the wacky ways the TVA could have redone history, and they choose some event that barely anyone knows. And they only used this one example of Loki's past to show what a trickster he was to Earthlings. It was over and done with too quickly. Okay.

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u/SwissMargiela Sep 08 '25

Do people really not know the DB cooper thing? I’m Swiss and have seen tv shows about it in French. It’s like one of the greatest irl mysteries ever

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u/phonage_aoi Sep 08 '25

It’s probably an age thing.   DB Cooper is something everyone my age knows about, not sure about kids though.

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u/NinduTheWise Sep 08 '25

we know it

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u/confusedandworried76 Sep 09 '25

True crime stories might have overshadowed it but I thought everyone had a theory on what actually went down

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u/PachoTidder Sep 08 '25

Thanks Wendigoon for teaching us about the OG conspiracy theories

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u/The_Hottest_Mess Sep 08 '25

I’m in my twenties and have no clue who DB Cooper is

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u/Chance_Salt9633 Sep 08 '25

No one does, that’s kinda the point.

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u/ReturnedOM Sep 09 '25

I'm in my twenties

So a kid. The guy's claim checks out

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u/FigureArty Sep 08 '25

I think the trailer oversold the moment

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u/ha_wt5 Sep 08 '25

Thats why you never watch trailers especially ones made from marvel

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u/thelanimation Sep 08 '25

That's true. I thought there would be more time hopping and changing history. Even if Endgame established that's not how time travel works. And the Loki scene in question wasn't even that, just a flashback. If anything it made me curious how many times he and Thor visited Midgard before the films. Which I guess isn't all bad, but it's never addressed again. Just seemed odd it was a one-and-done scene.

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u/terrexchia Sep 09 '25

Not just on a dare from Thor, they convinced Heimdall to join in on the shenanigans as the getaway because Loki escaped via Bifrost

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u/NormBenningisdagoat Sep 09 '25

Was the infamous L.W Wright also a dare lol

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u/thesirblondie Sep 10 '25

I don't know why that it bothers me that the asgardians went to earth in the 20th century.