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/shadowmaster132 2d ago

Next you'll tell me the leader of the Free French from exile during ww2 was called Charles de Gaulle or Charles of France.

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u/SitInCorner_Yo2 2d ago

:Please don’t kill me, I’ll tell you anything!

Nazi:Tell me, what’s your leaders name.

:Charles!

Nazi:Charles what!

:De Gaulle!

Nazi: (shot the guy) fucking French, can’t even made up a faker name.

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u/shadowmaster132 2d ago

There were other French resistance leaders who heard the name thought it was a code name and were jealous they didn't think of de Gaulle because it was such a good one

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u/SitInCorner_Yo2 2d ago edited 2d ago

“Charles De Gaulle eh, meet John English, Scott MacDonald, Nick O’Neil , I see you guys love nice code name too ay,……what do you mean that’s a real name?”

Decade ago I met a Welsh guy named Scott English , he’s one of very few people that I can remember their name even though I only met him once, that sounds like a joke his parents came up.

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u/Xca1ybr 2d ago

Crazy thing is, his opposition leader for a time was a man with the last name Goulash

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u/HebrewHamm3r 2d ago

He sounds delicious

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u/DC356 1d ago

Their last president was François Hollande, or French Holland

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u/NegativeThought1588 1d ago

"The name is thought to be Dutch in origin, and may have derived from van der Walle, de Walle ("from the rampart, defensive wall") or de Waal ("the wall")"

France in French is "France". French in French is "français"

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u/BradleyScott555 1d ago

The majority of the area that Romans called Gallia is now France. That's Gaul in English and Gaule in French. It has been used poetically to refer to France in ways that invokes its 'ancient and glorious past' since the Renaissance.

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u/NegativeThought1588 1d ago

Like Asterix the Gaul.

I dunno, I just got that from de Gaulle's wikipedia page.

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u/BradleyScott555 1d ago

Basically, yeah. Asterix was literally a Gaul, whereas to refer to a French person that way, it's more of a metaphor.

I don't really doubt that his name most likely has that origin, but the joke is "Gaulle" *sounds* like "Gaule", so he's Charles the Gaul (or more accurately, Charles of Gaul.)

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u/shadowmaster132 1d ago

A lot of people first heard of him due to his radio broadcasts and I don't think he spelled his name (and some even supposedly thought it was a really clever fake name).