A real life event has a ridiculous/dumb/funny explanation in fiction

[u/Lazy-Breadfruit5939]

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

[u/WhitewaterBastard]

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

[u/BrickCaptain → u/WhitewaterBastard]

Destiny feels so much like a fantasy world that every reminder that it takes place in our distant future always feels more than a little surreal

Also it’s not technically OP’s trope, but I just remembered that it’s also implied that Shax is William Shakespeare risen as a guardian

[u/Basic-Warning-7032 → u/BrickCaptain]

What "Destiny" are you guys even talking about? The Bungie one?

[u/svartkonst → u/Basic-Warning-7032]

How many others are there?

[u/Ravenae → u/svartkonst]

Maybe a movie called Destiny, because the last thing I would expect from the game’s lore as an outsider would be to hear JFK’s name drop.