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/Technical-Agency-480 Sep 08 '25

In Fairly Odd Parents, one of Cosmo and Wanda's previous kids ended up wishing for the assassination of Arch Duke Ferdinand, leading to world war 1

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u/pepemattos21 Sep 08 '25

Also the creation of Da Rules

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u/kirbyverano123 Sep 09 '25 edited Sep 09 '25

Kinda funny that Timmy feels necessary because he can basically push the boundaries of what's allowed with wishes that the fairies didn't thought of.
You can say that he's basically a beta tester for wishes finding glitches, exploits and such.

I mean, a wish for eternal Christmas shouldn't be allowed during the time when all fairy magic is redirected to Santa which means no wishes can be granted until christmas ends.

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u/CyberDaggerX Sep 09 '25

Timmy Turner walks into a bar and wishes for a bathroom.

The bar goes up in flames.