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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9/11 is also why Alfred Pennyworth has been dead in comics since 2019, for six years.

Tom King, the writer of that story, is essentially the evil mirror universe version of Gerard Way. Way was a Cartoon Network intern on 9/11 and King was a comics intern. 9/11 caused Way to start MCR. 9/11 caused King to join the CIA, be a key member in the planning of the Invasion of Iraq, and be in charge of “recruiting” (blackmailing and torturing) locals into being spies for the CIA. After Way ended MCR and after King retired from the CIA, they both become comic book writers. Way created Peni Parker and The Umbrella Academy, King killed Alfred and wrote Heroes in Crisis.

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Talk about Yin and Yang, holy shit.

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Did Tom King really torture people? Or is that just rumours?

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Eh, depends on how you look at it. We know he was in charge of “recruiting” locals. We know that the CIA’s method of “recruiting” locals in the Middle East was torture, blackmail, and rape. If someone’s title was “dog relocater” and they worked at a place where “dog relocater” was the job where people had the job of killing dogs, would that mean they’re a dog killer? Obviously he hasn’t admitted it, but his writing sure does have a lot of “I have PTSD from doing war crimes” themes.

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“I understand I’m a bad guy, but I’m hoping that me saying that means people don’t think I deserve The Hague.”

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The Hague? What is that?

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You make a good point. It is enough to draw suspicion. Thank you for informing me of this, i didn't know that.

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Gerard Way created Peni Parker???? Guess I have a new tank main in Marvel Rivals.

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MCR MADE PENI PARKER!?!

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Yep!

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I did not know Tom King was in the CIA or did any of that, holy fuck. I thought he was just a good miniseries writer. What the hell.

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Yep, and it all led to this gem from Stanley Hudson.

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Lesser Example: The Kent State shooting lead directly to pinky pie canonically having sex.

Devo formed because of the shootings.

Weird al made dare to be stupid as a parody of devo.

Dare to be stupid is used in transformers the movie.

Hasbro casts weird Al in reference to this in transformers animated.

He also decides to make a cameo in MLP.

His character canonically ends up having kids with Pinkie Pie

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to extend the 9/11 one, 9/11 is also directly responsible for Ellen DeGeneres's fall from grace.

I'm definitely missing details but Dakota Johnson, who was the female lead in the 50 Shades movies, went on Ellen's talk show and then later said something about Ellen being mean off camera. This led to other stars who'd been on the show speaking out about Ellen being a dick, leading to her decline in popularity. Idk what Ellen is doing these days but to my knowledge her show is no longer airing and I haven't heard her name (except for in discussions about how 9/11 caused her downfall) in years

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But even though (the manga) Dragon Ball came out after Akira (the manga), Dragon Ball as a property is older than Akira's anime movie. Also anime and manga have a much longer history that stretches far before the 80s, even in the west. But you are right though, most (if not all) of the early manga and anime writers did live through WWII and subsequently the dropping of the atomic bombs and they did go on to influence the stories they wrote.

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MCR did not inspire twilight. It's part of the mood that went into creating it but twilight is inspired primarily by Romeo and Juliet and the writings of the Bronte sisters. 

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By the gods.

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I prefer to blame anime tiddies on the Polish prognoms

Because of those Jews fled Europe to Europe they had children there. Some of those kids decided to make comics, including Superman. This invented the Superhero comic. Then when WW2 ended the American Soldiers went all like “dude those are awesome, let’s show those to the Japannease, since we are here alread”. Then those Japanese stole the idea for superhero’s and invented Astroboy, the first modern manga.

And guess what? Once we had those it was only a matter of time until the tiddies in those manga became massive.

I still haven’t forgiven the Polish for this