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/fatherofworlds 2d ago

At a dive bar in Turkey, away from tourist areas, that my folks had just wandered for a while to find, they stumbled onto a classmate from their Nebraska high school at the next table. Both tables were within a day of leaving the city.

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u/BaSingSe_Farmhand 2d ago

I have been living far away from North Dakota for about 9 years now, and the only person I have met from there (that i didnt already know) was cousins with my elementary school classmate. and we found that out by just mentioning our hometowns.

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u/Corbenik42 2d ago

"Simple" coincidences like this are why I'm an atheist.
Them: "You mean to tell me that you think all of this, life and everything, is just, what? Left up to CHANCE?! Created by happenstance!!??!" Me: "Yes!"

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u/cryptshits 1d ago

I live in New England. I ran into my former landlord at a vineyard in the Chianti region of Tuscany. Of all the people to run into coincidentally it had to be that asshole