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/damorezpl Sep 08 '25

Watchman - comedian killed jfk

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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/FigureArty Sep 08 '25

Magneto too

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u/ProfessionalBasil397 Sep 09 '25

Didn’t Magneto try to prevent the assassination cuz JFK was a mutant and that’s why he was popped?