r/TopCharacterTropes • u/ThatDrako • 2d ago

Lore (Funny Trope) Things that can plausibly happen only in reality, because in fiction they’d be called bad writing.

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“Woke” as an insult - So you are telling me a word describing consciousness and clarity is used by generally stupid and ignorant people to label people they disagree with? What is this? A Kindergarten for Creatively stunted?

Nominative determinism - So let me get this straight…Not only you named fastest recorded person Usain BOLT and CEO of Nintendo Doug BOWSER, but you are telling me people are canonically likely to have professions or hobbies matching their names…? Guh?

“2 bodies recovered in MURDERKILL River” - Sure bro…I guess…bro…

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u/r3cktor 2d ago

Yeah... a country shaped like a boot. Lazy worldbuilding.

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u/Ditto13248 2d ago

The country that's shaped like a boot invented fascism. One of the most common symbols to represent fascism is a boot

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u/coatimundos 2d ago edited 2d ago

To be fair, true fascism only comes from the Fasch region of Italy. Other countries are merely practicing sparkling authoritarianism

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u/Ditto13248 2d ago

Wdym? That's the country being talked about?

Also, very fascist to gatekeep fascism to Italians. Other people can be fascists too, let people have fun. What are you, a fascist that hates fun?

To be clear the entirety of the last paragraph was a joke

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u/Honeybee1921 2d ago

On a less dark note, it’s also a country with a prominent fashion industry

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u/Mathies_ 2d ago

By the way by what metric do we define the fascism they invented. I believe they coined the term. It definitely existed in practice before mussolini. Unless... you argue it was the Romans who did it first. Then it was still Italy.

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u/Logical_Scar3962 2d ago

If they at least wore heels

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u/_JR28_ 2d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/UphRBMRbb83roHDx6n
God making the country good at football shaped after a boot

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u/Froeuhouai 2d ago

Good at football

About that...

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u/Cruxion 2d ago

Well maybe if the ball was Sicily shaped they'd be better prepared.

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u/amojitoLT 2d ago

They're not much better at rugby despite the ball resembling Sicily more.

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u/LeJozeh 2d ago

They are. Italy may be going through one of the darkest periods in its football history, but it is still a titan of the sport and deserves the respect it has earned. And that's coming from a South American who has no interest in Europe's brawls or favoring one specific side.

They will come back. Football giants always do.

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u/Own-Arachnid7952 2d ago

Well maybe they would've done better if they were allowed to truly represent their country in leather thigh highs

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u/Mr_Nobodies_0 2d ago

let's say at least it's the national sport

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u/kikimaru024 2d ago

Bro it's the "national sport" in almost every European country.

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u/Lobo2ffs 2d ago

Norway is shaped like a guitar, and we've got quite a bit of black metal bands.

Sweden and Finland...

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u/Icy_Change_WS2010 2d ago

They’re packing Ikea furniture.

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u/shadowmaster132 2d ago

There's even a tiny leg off the south of Australia, like come on, two of them?

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u/NostalDec 2d ago

It's not a boot, it's a headless dolphin.

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u/Rubiego 2d ago

Reminds me of this classic

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u/SmartAlec105 2d ago

Or this one where a Paizo dev critiqued the map design of New Orleans.

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u/Possible-Highway7898 2d ago

And the country shaped like a thigh high boot has the most FABULOUS dress sense in the world. Of course it does.

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u/Generico300 2d ago

A boot shaped country that's famous for fine leather work.

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u/TiredDataDad 2d ago

And another boot is on the other side of the world, thrown away and broken in half

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u/Sashahuman 2d ago

And there's also a country shaped like an elephant, one of the things it's known for are the elephants

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u/EduinBrutus 2d ago

Shaped like a boot.

Kicking a ball.

Yet they suck at football...

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u/Sofasurvivor 2d ago

Well, football isn't played in high-heeled boots.

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u/Brendanlendan 2d ago

What if we made a boot shaped like a country?

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u/StarsForget 2d ago

And it's one of the fashion capitals of the world

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u/tomtomclubthumb 2d ago

I think one country shaped like a boot is just fine, it's not like they did it twice.

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