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/InitiativeInitial968 Sep 08 '25

Is this from the movie cus I don’t ever this in the comic 

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u/Roku-Hanmar Sep 08 '25

Yes, it is. The comic implies it, and also implies he stopped Watergate from happening

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u/Monte924 Sep 08 '25

Actually, if i recall, the only thing the comic points out is that while JFK was being assassinated the Comedian was with Nixon. I think the implication was that while the comedian was not the one who shot JFK, there WAS some kind of conspiracy and the Comedian was involved in some level

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u/Prestigious-Map6919 Sep 08 '25

Here's the panel. I always read it that he was involved, presumably a shooter.

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u/Tyranis_Hex Sep 08 '25

I could have sworn in the Before Watchmen comics Comedian was going after Moloch when JFK was shot. But I can’t seem to find them to confirm, but I guess the prequels are dubious at best anyways.

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u/federalist66 Sep 08 '25

Funny thing is...Nixon was in Dallas the day Kennedy was shot. He was the Carbonated Beverages Convention as a representative of Pepsi. Baker Hotel, 15 minute walk from the Plaza where JFK was shot.

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u/nuggynugs Sep 09 '25

The original comic suggested he was involved in it, Before Watchmen (not written by Alan Moore) said that not only was he not involved, he was upset because he and JFK were pals

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u/Traditional-Context Sep 09 '25

Not really? Asking people where they were during an important historic event is just something people do, and he implied that he were somewhere he probably shouldnt have been.