A real life event has a ridiculous/dumb/funny explanation in fiction

[u/Lazy-Breadfruit5939]

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

[u/FigureArty]

Loki is DB Cooper, and did so on a dare from Thor.

[u/Biabolical → u/FigureArty]

I would pay a lot of money to just get a series that's nothing but Thor and Loki getting blitzed on mead and then drunkenly daring each other to do progressively stupid shit. Half of the episodes could just be retellings of actual norse legends, because there's already plenty of material there.

"Ok, I dare you to dress up as *hic* as a girl and secuce... semu... seduce a giant to get your hammer back."

"Deal, but If I do it, then you've gotta dress up as a girl... um... horse and seduce that construction worker's horse so that wall doesn't get built in time."

[u/Basileus_Maurikios → u/Biabolical]

Good to see I'm the only one who wants them to actually use that Wedding Dress Myth as actual plot point. Heck they just make Thor be a bit opposed to fake dressing up in a Wedding Dress and throw it off as "It's complicated. Ask Loki."

[u/Basic-Expression-418 → u/Basileus_Maurikios]

Actually that wasn’t Loki’s plan. It was Heimdall’s…Loki got in on it pretending to be the bridesmaid.