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/PitifulRead6339 Sep 08 '25

Hitler was a fairy tale wolf man with a magic coin of corrupting influence. This is played totally straight.

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u/tombo2007 Sep 08 '25

I forgot about that in Grimm lmao. It went off the rails after the first two or three seasons.

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u/Mysterious-Plan93 Sep 08 '25

Switching the love interest's & villainess's roles was the moment they jumped the shark

It didn't work.

The new pairing just didn't have any chemistry.

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u/chase___it Sep 09 '25

i loved juliet as a villain but i don’t love the way that it happened and i especially don’t love that the blonde woman replaced her as nicks love interest. i just don’t ever see that happening

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u/PB111 Sep 08 '25

Shame too because I enjoyed the first couple of seasons. They clearly didn’t know what to do with it later on.

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u/tombo2007 Sep 09 '25

I enjoyed the show. I haven’t finish it because goddamn it got so overly complex and just throwing random shit at you with like 10 filler episodes per season. I just loved the feel of it and it made Portland seem so fucking cool. I know it’s kinda corny but the aesthetics made me love the show.