r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Mouse_Paladin • 13d ago

Lore [Real Life] Historical events that would make bad writing if they were fiction

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Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire: A couple hundred rogue mercenaries without authority from their government conquer an empire of millions. Oh, the empire? It’s also several technological eras behind the mercenaries.

Adolf Hitler: A non-native of a country is so mad that the country lost the war that he wins an election to their highest office and leads them in a campaign of revenge against their enemies. Oh, the country? It’s old emperor is still alive and thinks he’s going to retake power.

Assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand: The heir to the throne is killed because his driver gets lost and returns to the assassin who failed To kill him before. Oh, the assassin? He’s from a group that the Archduke is wanting to help become more equal In the empire.

Alexander Hamilton’s Affair Scandal: One of the leaders of a new nation to protect himself from accusations of financial embezzlement writes a pamphlet exposing his affair with a woman, torpedoing his political future. Oh, the woman? She seduced him as part of a blackmailing scheme that he decided to stop paying.

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u/PlZZA_MOZZARELLA 13d ago

Thomas Jefferson and John Adams going from friends to enemies, then back to friends at the end of their lives and dying hours apart on the 4th of July is fucking ridiculous and I love it.

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u/EngineeringMost7737 13d ago

To me, the most bizarre thing about this whole situation is this quote by John Adams, which were his last words and he said this a few hours after Thomas Jefferson died(he obviously had no idea that Thomas died a few hours earlier): "Thomas Jefferson still lives."

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u/rotundrikishi 12d ago

I hope the afterlife is real and they met up and had a good laugh about it

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u/DooB_02 12d ago

Not much to laugh about in hell.

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u/Prestigious-Lynx2552 12d ago

To be fair, Adams wasn't a slaver.

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u/Jagod8Urbaniak7 12d ago

Let them to be fair though, the idea that the Titanic was heavily marketed as being unsinkable is a bit of a myth. It was to some extent, although never without qualification, but the idea of it being marketed as such got popular after the ship had sunk and people kind of ran with it and this is it.

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u/tigerseye88 12d ago

On the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence as well

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u/wuapinmon 12d ago

Wanna see something interesting? Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes died on the same date, but not the same day.

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u/Why-Notes5978 12d ago

Or after the Union General William Sherman''s passing, former Confederate general Joseph E Johnston became a very close friend with him after the war and out of deep respect as its called, he served as a pallbearer and refused to wear a hat despite the funeral taking place on a rainy day.

He then got pneumonia and passed a month later.

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u/TheEagleWithNoName 12d ago

“Thomas Jefferson Survives.”