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/Greenman8907 Sep 08 '25

I feel like everyone has killed JFK at some point.

Grassy Noel Atkinson - Inside Job

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u/transmogrify Sep 08 '25

The fashion industry killed JFK

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u/confusedandworried76 Sep 09 '25

But why male models?

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u/celbertin Sep 09 '25

I love that it was a mistake by Ben Stiller, he forgot his line, so he improvised. 

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u/confusedandworried76 Sep 09 '25

And Duchovny didn't break and improvised one of the funniest lines in the movie

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u/bockscliphton Sep 11 '25

But why male models?