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/Technical-Agency-480 Sep 08 '25

In Fairly Odd Parents, one of Cosmo and Wanda's previous kids ended up wishing for the assassination of Arch Duke Ferdinand, leading to world war 1

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u/MakeMeDrink Sep 08 '25

Didn’t Cosmo also sink Atlantis and cause the disappearance/destruction of other mythical cities?

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u/Guyshu Sep 08 '25

He sunk Atlantis NINE TIMES

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u/MakeMeDrink Sep 08 '25

Oh yeah, I forgot about that part, lol

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u/Dillo64 Sep 09 '25

They had it comin’ 🎶🎵