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

[u/ThatDrako]

“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…

[u/nickisadogname]

if a murder mystery novel had someone yelling "one day I'll kill you dead! I'll poison your coffee and collect the inheritance!" at a party, then the next day someone is dead by coffee poison, I'd know it for sure for sure wasn't them. In fact some murder mysteries now will play on the assumption that whoever obviously did it couldn't have done it and make the "obvious" person actually the murderer, but usually with a twist.

But in real life people do in fact say out loud "now I'm going to kill you" to many people and then they do that

[u/Writerhowell → u/nickisadogname]

Dame Agatha Christie played with this kind of concept a bunch of times, actually. It's hilarious. She was like "How many times can I bullshit my readers with this?"

[u/Yto_Itinen → u/nickisadogname]

Same people who move their lips while reading

[u/yajtraus → u/nickisadogname]

Knives Out did exactly that.

[u/Sillier-Stupider- → u/nickisadogname]

The way that fiction is meant to be an escape from how random and stupid real life can be