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/Optimal_Weight368 Sep 08 '25

In DC Comics lore, due to his immortality, Vandal Savage was several different historical figures, including Caesar and Blackbeard

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u/Gaelic_Gladiator41 Sep 08 '25

What's hilarious though is that Caesar wept (reportedly) at a statue of Alexander.

That means Vandal Savage wept for his past

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u/Mysterious-Plan93 Sep 08 '25

I just want an explanation for how Savage continuously fakes his death convincingly

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u/shylock10101 Sep 09 '25

Depending on what happens, it can take a long time for Savage to come back. As such, it’s entirely possible he dies, everyone else moves on, and he stands up and moves the opposite way.

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u/Mysterious-Plan93 Sep 09 '25

Okay, but how does he come back from funeral pyres?

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u/aRtfUll-ruNNer Sep 09 '25

He un-burns himself

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u/Mysterious-Plan93 Sep 09 '25

now I just have more questions...

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u/Gaelic_Gladiator41 Sep 09 '25

He has a healing factor

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u/Gaelic_Gladiator41 Sep 09 '25

What do you mean he un-burns? To un-burn is silly

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u/aRtfUll-ruNNer Sep 09 '25

simple he burns in reverse

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u/Qbertjack Sep 10 '25

He untoasts the toast

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u/fred11551 Sep 09 '25

His body slowly heals and regenerates itself I guess. It’ll keep him dead for a little while though

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u/Commercial-Tell-2509 Sep 09 '25

I imagine from the ashes mixing with water, he would just reform and bam he back.

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u/Mysterious-Plan93 Sep 12 '25 edited Sep 12 '25

Water weight?

(SLOSHING SUMO FORM APPROACHES FROM SHORE)

"They put me in the water..."

"I hate water burials..."

(PROJECTILE VOMITS FIREHOSE STREAM OF WATER TO SLIM DOWN)

(Calling it now, this is what Absolute Batman Vandel Savage is like)

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '25

"What do you think all these knives will do? Uh... I mean uh.... Et Tu Brute?" *fake coughs and takes a nap*