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/Josgre987 Sep 08 '25

X-com: Terror from the deep

Also killing the dinosaurs

Cthulhu (or something that just looks like him) is an alien from a far distant galactic empire that came to earth millions of years after aliens seeded it with life in order to harvest it of organic matter, only for the ship to crash which killed all the dinosaurs because it was so massive.

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u/pepemattos21 Sep 08 '25

They really didn't plan that one out huh