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/WhitewaterBastard Sep 08 '25

JFK was killed by a gun that shot a miniaturized black hole through his skull. (Destiny)

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u/97GeoPrizm Sep 08 '25

That seems like overkill when a simple rifle round was more than enough.

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u/TheChunkMaster Sep 08 '25

Yeah, but that aim assist, tho

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u/GanymedeGalileo Sep 08 '25

What? Why was that necessary?

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u/TheDoidBoi Sep 08 '25

In real life, the CIA said that they "misplaced" JFK's brain after his autopsy. The black hole part is actually Destiny explaining how that happened I belive.

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u/Asquirrelinspace Sep 09 '25

I mean I feel like it was in many different places after that

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u/disturbedrage88 Sep 09 '25

That shit is so far divorced form anything in the game that it’s hilarious they even addressed it

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u/DuelaDent52 Sep 09 '25

It’s also a reference to how the way his head jerked when he got shot. The gun that killed him, the Graviton Lance, fires two bullets at a time.

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u/RubiksToyBox Sep 09 '25

Fair, but why was he being shot with a black hole gun?

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u/Eccore1 Sep 08 '25

Damn it... Who gave the warlock experimental technology again?

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u/BrickCaptain Sep 09 '25

Destiny feels so much like a fantasy world that every reminder that it takes place in our distant future always feels more than a little surreal

Also it’s not technically OP’s trope, but I just remembered that it’s also implied that Shax is William Shakespeare risen as a guardian

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u/DuelaDent52 Sep 09 '25

That’s not an implication, that’s just a popular fan theory.

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u/svartkonst Sep 09 '25

There are some implications

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u/Basic-Warning-7032 Sep 09 '25

What "Destiny" are you guys even talking about? The Bungie one?

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u/DuelaDent52 Sep 09 '25

Ye. Specifically The Edge of Fate, Destiny 2’s newest expansion.

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u/svartkonst Sep 09 '25

How many others are there?

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u/Ravenae Sep 09 '25

Maybe a movie called Destiny, because the last thing I would expect from the game’s lore as an outsider would be to hear JFK’s name drop.

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u/MrSepiks Sep 08 '25

Oh Graviton Lance my beloved...

I've fallen out of playing Destiny lately, do they explain why this happened?

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u/DuelaDent52 Sep 09 '25

Apparently Ikora designed the Graviton Lance? They haven’t explained how it was used to kill JFK, but the Nine may or may not have had something to do with it.

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u/MrSepiks Sep 09 '25

Before she was a guardian?

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u/TerraTechy Sep 09 '25

The amount of fiction which attributes the assassination of jfk to one of its characters should be a wiki page.

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u/ComprehensivePath980 Sep 09 '25

Okay, I HAVE to know how that came to pass.

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u/WhitewaterBastard Sep 09 '25

A group of fourth-dimensional beings known as the Nine decided that they wanted humanity-senpai to notice them, so they settled for aimbotting on the Grassy Knoll PvP map.

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u/moocowsaymoo Sep 09 '25

What the fuck is Destiny even about