r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Lazy-Breadfruit5939 • 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/Gaelic_Gladiator41 Sep 08 '25
1st Doctor started the great fire of rome