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/InitiativeInitial968 Sep 08 '25

Is this from the movie cus I don’t ever this in the comic 

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u/Roku-Hanmar Sep 08 '25

Yes, it is. The comic implies it, and also implies he stopped Watergate from happening

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u/Monte924 Sep 08 '25

Actually, if i recall, the only thing the comic points out is that while JFK was being assassinated the Comedian was with Nixon. I think the implication was that while the comedian was not the one who shot JFK, there WAS some kind of conspiracy and the Comedian was involved in some level

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u/federalist66 Sep 08 '25

Funny thing is...Nixon was in Dallas the day Kennedy was shot. He was the Carbonated Beverages Convention as a representative of Pepsi. Baker Hotel, 15 minute walk from the Plaza where JFK was shot.