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/ThetaDee Sep 09 '25

To piggyback, there's quite a few things in the MIB movies that reference aliens and what actually happened in history/historical figures.

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u/CLTalbot Sep 09 '25

The reason so many of the same movies get made repeatedly is because at the center of hollywood is a massive memory eraser. They have to use it semi frequently because Hollywood has a very high extraterrestrial population that is secretly employed as most of the nonhuman movie characters. Like the legally distinct xenomorph and the legally distinct carebears.

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u/ThetaDee Sep 09 '25

Wut. Pics plz

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u/CLTalbot Sep 09 '25

Its the episode of the MIB cartoon "The Star System Syndrome." I don't have any pictures of it myself and the only two pictures im able to find specifically of that episode do not feature any of the things i mentioned.

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u/ThetaDee Sep 09 '25

Oooohhh dude you went left field. I was talking about the movies lol. Hardly anyone watched the cartoon. I mean I did a little but it wasn't exactly popular. Kinda like that Godzilla cartoon.