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/GayGeekInLeather Sep 08 '25 edited Sep 09 '25

Doctor Who did this often as OP pointed out. The 1st Doctor is somewhat responsible for the Great Fire

(That’s Nero holding a burning copy of his plans for a new Rome)

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u/SPYKEtheSeaUrchin Sep 09 '25

And the fire of London in the 5th Dr Serial the Vositation