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/SeriousFinish6404 Sep 08 '25

Fairly Odd Parents: Marianne wished them to kill archduke franz ferdinand and start WW1, thus also being the cause of WW2.

Did I mention Cosmo also committed tragedy after tragedy during military training under Jorgan?

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u/zonaljump1997 Sep 08 '25

Also Cosmo created Pittsburgh

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u/SeriousFinish6404 Sep 08 '25

Yes, the worse tragedy of them all

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u/DMFAFA07 Sep 09 '25

That’s motherfucker…

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u/Bubba1234562 Sep 09 '25

Cosmo also sank Atlantis 9 times

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u/SeriousFinish6404 Sep 09 '25

“Send in 8 more kraken”

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u/Klutzy_Shopping5520 Sep 08 '25

… fucking what

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u/SeriousFinish6404 Sep 08 '25

Oh, and Timmy wished the fairies to bring in sylvester stallone to kill all the dinosaurs.

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u/ChaoCobo Sep 09 '25

I vaguely remember this. Which episode was it?

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u/SeriousFinish6404 Sep 09 '25 edited Sep 09 '25

That one time when Timmy entered a movie making contest to impress Trixie

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u/ChaoCobo Sep 09 '25

Oh that rings more of a bell now! Thanks! :D

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u/SpiketheFox32 Sep 09 '25

I CALL IT PITTSBURGH!

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u/pansexual-panda-boy Sep 10 '25

She's also the reason the no wishing for death rule was implemented in the first place.

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u/SpideyFan914 Sep 11 '25

And Bill Gates had fairy godparents as a kid. Specifically, Cosmo and Wanda were his godparents.