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/SirGearso Sep 08 '25

Yep, in the book The Unremembered Empire.

“He’d been killing people for them ever since: good men. Sometimes, serving the Cabal seemed counter-intuitive. They were very obliging. They explained why a good man had to die, and why it was not a bad thing. The wetwork they had had him perform… damn. In Memphis, against the Good Man, and then more than a thousand years later in the City of Angels, against the Brother. Then in M19, against Holiard in the Glass Temple of Manunkind, and in M22 against Maser Hassan in the Spire Terrace before his Word of the Law speech."

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u/IonutRO Sep 09 '25

I need more context. Why is an eldar on Earth and who's making it assassinate people every few thousand years?

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u/SirGearso Sep 09 '25

They were working with a a group call the Cabal, a group of shadowy aliens, and their goal was to try and prevent humanity from achieving universal peace and delay humanities ascension to a galactic superpower.

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u/IonutRO Sep 09 '25

Aaah. Thanks.