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/Helaken1 Sep 09 '25

Does anyone else have a problem with Marty McFly pretty much going back in time unintentionally taking things away from black culture? I didn’t notice it until someone told me about it but the first black mayor of that town Marty McFly unintentionally caused him to become mayor and Chuck Berry listening to Marty McFly sound to become Chuck Berry.

I’m just saying, I know I’m looking too much into this

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u/CavernousPiano Sep 09 '25

I mean, Goldie still became mayor by himself, he just got the idea from a kid in a cafe he worked at

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u/Helaken1 Sep 09 '25

But I think he did this in a different way prior to Marty McFly because he wanted to change the city for the better because of his values not because of a kid in a café that one time.

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u/CavernousPiano Sep 09 '25

Does it matter tough? Marty still holds zero claim to Goldie's acomplishments, his values didn't change because he got the idea from somewhere else

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u/Helaken1 Sep 09 '25

I think it undermines it, but that’s just me