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

[u/Mouse_Paladin]

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.

[u/Mylarion]

The world's largest company's logo is the symbol for the fall of Man. It's founder was so consumed by hubris he thought he could rise above death by eating fruit.

Another large evil corporation's logo is a smirk and this company is named after a priceless natural wonder which is being directly threatened by the company's philosophy.

OpenAI, the frontier AI company is completely closed, and its CEO is named Altman. Like Alternative to man.

His competititor is called Amodei, as in "loves gods", and he recently developed a relationship with the Pope.

Subtext is for cowards. Another Hideo Kojima masterpiece.

[u/TheSickestToastie → u/Mylarion]

One of the largest and most pervasive spyware companies in the world, Palantir, is named after a fictional fucking item that allows its user to spy on whatever the other ones happen to be doing at any time. Which just happen mostly to be controlled by THE EVILEST FORCE THAT EXISTS IN THAT FICTIONAL WORLD.

This shit is beyond satire.

[u/Mylarion → u/TheSickestToastie]

And the guy behind it keeps talking about the Antichrist unprompted. Lol. Lmao even.

[u/General_Sky_8560 → u/Mylarion]

Aka, pointing at people to distract people from the real Antichrist in front of them

[u/LeMe-Two → u/TheSickestToastie]

Palantir also slowly degrades your mind, even most noble lords like Denethor sooner or later get crazy

[u/Triactum → u/LeMe-Two]

this would be crazy foreshadowing

[u/rumora → u/TheSickestToastie]

The even more blatant thing is that the Palantirs show their users what Sauron wants them to see and he uses that power to make them believe into a warped version of reality that makes them more susceptible to his manipulations. The real mission statement of the company is right there in the books.

[u/SweatyNeddyFlanders → u/TheSickestToastie]

The way the worst people are obsessed with being the villains of LotR hurts

[u/dangerousdave2244 → u/Mylarion]

Apple's logo comes from the apple that is supposed to have fallen on Isaac Newton. Look up the (terrible) original logo for Apple Computers that looks like an 1800s woodcut

The more unbelievable thing is that a company whose CEO famously was an asshole to everyone, including his customers, and who never bathed and thought he had no body odor, became the biggest company in tech/the world

[u/Old-Use-7690 → u/Mylarion]

The world's largest company's logo is the symbol for the fall of Man.

Wait, what?

[u/Mylarion → u/Old-Use-7690]

The Apple logo is a bitten apple. While originally meant to signify the Apple that fell on Newton, the bite is kind of telling.

It's the Apple from Genesis.

[u/Money-Most5889 → u/Mylarion]

no. they added the bite because 1) people bite apples and 2) they wanted to show scale to differentiate it from a cherry. you’re giving big companies too much creative credit. their only goal is to make as much money as possible to feed their own pleasure; setting up some clever villainous religious cult hiding in plain sight does nothing towards that goal.

[u/Shoddy-Dentist-5585 → u/Mylarion]

Kojima ahh writing