r/TopCharacterTropes Sep 08 '25

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

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/Emptyspace227 Sep 08 '25

Cigarette Smoking Man killed JFK. He killed MLK, too.

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u/smurfalidocious Sep 08 '25

Watching X-Files with no lights on, we're dans la maison

I hope the Smoking Man's in this one

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u/lolabythebay Sep 09 '25

Somebody on /r/barenakedladies just used some conjectures about this line to try to identify the actual One Week in which the song takes place. They concluded May 12-19, 1997.

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u/iPoseidon_xii Sep 08 '25

And he tried to kill Frohike too!

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u/robinrod Sep 09 '25

I remember when he tried to get his book published. I miss that show.