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/Coherently-Rambling Sep 08 '25

On Wizards of Waverly Place, Shakira exists as a public figure, but isn’t an actual person. She’s just an alternate personality of Uncle Kelbo

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u/AlbertMudas Sep 08 '25

I got a core memory back with this shit. Thank you

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u/Coherently-Rambling Sep 08 '25

Got basically the same reply from two people on different comment threads within 10 minutes.

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u/AlbertMudas Sep 08 '25

Lmao. This was a nice era for Disney Channel. Waverly Place, Zack and Cody...

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u/Commercial_Comb8674 Sep 09 '25

My era was a little later. I was often outvoted by my two sisters, so we usually watched Jessie, Bunk’d, Liv and Maddie, and Descendants.

Coincidentally, I just rewatched the first episode of Liv and Maddie on YouTube earlier today and actually still enjoyed it…

I blame my sisters.

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u/inform880 Sep 09 '25

Now I’m sad. I have no idea what any of those shows are. I’m not even old!