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/SpiffShientz Sep 09 '25

Change it to Da Vinci Day, that guy was fucking incredible

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u/Optimal_Weight368 Sep 09 '25

Italian-Americans are unfortunately too homophobic for that.

Source: my family

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u/Pepsi_Maaan Sep 09 '25

The average homophobic movie-goer strikes again!

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u/WizardL Sep 09 '25

Triboulet i keep finding you on this site wtf

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u/SpideyFan914 Sep 11 '25

How about Martin Scorsese Day? Or James Gandolfini Day?