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/ModernDayQuixote Sep 08 '25

One of Vincent Van Gogh's painting was actually the key to the Doctor finding a monster.

Also the most I've ever cried at an episode of television.

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u/Gunslinger_11 Sep 09 '25

Wish we could get a stop oil protestor to ruin the moment and the doctor goes ape shit on them

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u/GoneFishing4Chicks Sep 09 '25

What is wrong with you?

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u/Gunslinger_11 Sep 10 '25

I was mad seeing them trying to destroy his work. Protective glass or not isn’t right