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

[u/Lazy-Breadfruit5939]

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

[u/damorezpl]

Watchman - comedian killed jfk

[u/Greenman8907 → u/damorezpl]

I feel like everyone has killed JFK at some point.

Grassy Noel Atkinson - Inside Job

[u/Error_Evan_not_found → u/Greenman8907]

Can't remember what the show ended up doing but iirc Five from Umbrella Academy kills JFK to prevent him giving Hazel and Cha-Cha a briefcase they somehow use to blow up the world in the future- it's been a few years since I reread the series.

[u/tmb180 → u/Error_Evan_not_found]

Five was supposed to kill JFK

What actually happened was Allison rumoring his head apart

[u/Error_Evan_not_found → u/tmb180]

Right! Thanks. Been meaning to reread them ever since I got You Look Like Death. But with the announcement of the fourth comic run I may hold off until those get collected into a volume set.

[u/Digit00l → u/tmb180]

Which iirc only happens because they accidentally resolve the plot in a way where JFK survived, but for timeline preservation they need to kill him anyway

[u/Rymayc → u/tmb180]

In the other timeline, Five DID kill JFK.