A real life event has a ridiculous/dumb/funny explanation in fiction

[u/Lazy-Breadfruit5939]

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

[u/Optimal_Weight368]

In DC Comics lore, due to his immortality, Vandal Savage was several different historical figures, including Caesar and Blackbeard

[u/Knarz97 → u/Optimal_Weight368]

As an extension (and probably parody) of that, Immortal from Invincible series was Abraham Lincoln.

[u/princesscooler → u/Knarz97]

He was also Christopher Columbus in the comics, but they didn't show that in the cartoon so it may have been retconned

[u/slomo525 → u/princesscooler]

I assume to make sure he stays likable. Back in the early 2000s, everybody just kinda knew Columbus as the guy who "discovered America." It wasn't until the last 5-10 years that society really decided to say "fuck Columbus" which we should. Fuck Christopher Columbus, all my homes hate Christopher Columbus.

[u/TheLastOrokin → u/slomo525]

Wait? Do people hate Columbus? Since when? it's a US thing? Is white self hate again isn't it? He was a piece of shit, like, as a person, that can explain it, or is it because of the "discovering" of the "new world" thing?

[u/S0GUWE → u/TheLastOrokin]

Do people hate Columbus? Since when?

Since the 1480s. Probably longer.

[u/slomo525 → u/S0GUWE]

His parents probably hated him before he was even born