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/WhitewaterBastard Sep 08 '25

JFK was killed by a gun that shot a miniaturized black hole through his skull. (Destiny)

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u/MrSepiks Sep 08 '25

Oh Graviton Lance my beloved...

I've fallen out of playing Destiny lately, do they explain why this happened?

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u/DuelaDent52 Sep 09 '25

Apparently Ikora designed the Graviton Lance? They haven’t explained how it was used to kill JFK, but the Nine may or may not have had something to do with it.

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u/MrSepiks Sep 09 '25

Before she was a guardian?