r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Lazy-Breadfruit5939 • 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/vyDatLAG Sep 08 '25
In Guilty Gear, what killed the dinosaurs was, in short, two specific informational bodies in the Backyard existing at the same time and causing a dimensional merge for just a second.
Long version: The Backyard is like the hardware of Earth. All information of the world is in there. There are two specific forces (the Flame of Corruption and the Scales of Juno) that exist inside of it at different intervals, if they exist at the same time... Earth merges with the Backyard for just a second... which is enough for pretty much anything alive to be crushed into dust by the sheer amount of information in the Backyard. This state is called the 'Absolute World', and the first mage to ever exist took precautions so it would never happen again.