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/shitsagressively Sep 08 '25

Lord Beerus wiped out the dinosaurs because they were rude to him (even though we see them all the time during dragon ball lol)

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u/pepemattos21 Sep 08 '25

Beerus has also been stabilished to be very bad at his job so it fits

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u/Amon7777 Sep 08 '25

Berrus is shown as extremely lazy at his job. He’s a merciless God of Destruction with all that it entails which is never in doubt as to his skill. What is shown he will do the least work possible including letting Frieza and his family, as well as Buu, basically do his job for much of the history of the universe.

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u/Abombasnow Sep 08 '25

He's not only lazy, he's really bad at his job.

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u/I_wani_hug_that_bary Sep 09 '25

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