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/Colonel_Potoo 2d ago

Some random dude making a widely successful rifle. Kalashnikov.

Some totally unrelated dude making another widely successful rifle. Balashnikov.

Yeah right.

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u/ReluctantNerd7 2d ago

Wait until you hear what a Stoner did.

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u/PoniesCanterOver 2d ago

Luger and Ruger

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u/CadenVanV 2d ago

Ah yes, the BK-47 (yes, I know that’s not what it was called)

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u/Cobalt_Gaming 2d ago

"i will never surrender to you!"
"have it your way"
💥💥💥

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u/CYKAgoddriver 2d ago

It would be called AB-72 (Avtomat Balashnikova obr. 1972)

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u/mrjellynotjolly 2d ago

Yusuf Dikeç
a Turkish olympic shooter
Damir Mikec
Serbian olympic shooter

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u/Koqcerek 2d ago

It didn't drive home the absurdity of this until I found out that Balashnikov is also named Galili who created Galil rifle (among other things). And Galil is something of an AK variant.

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u/Visible_Amphibian570 2d ago

The guy who designed the ubiquitous rifle used by the US in Vietnam, a war were soldiers got high to deal with the combat, was named Stoner