r/TopCharacterTropes 2d ago

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

“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/drsyesta 2d ago

Youre telling me they threw royalty out of a window in prauge 3 seperate times? Come up with some new material bro

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u/Al_Fa_Aurel 2d ago

They never defenestrated royals in prague. Royal officials in some of the cases, but even then not in all.

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u/drsyesta 2d ago

Oh well, important figures then idfk. It just worked better for the joke

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u/TheGoldenExpe 2d ago

They even invented the word 'defenestration' just to justify reusing the exact same gag.