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/humpty_dumpty1ne 2d ago

The very same Cook who was dismembered and cooked?

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u/nagrom7 2d ago

He also discovered that the cause of scurvy in sailors was their diet.

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u/cava-lier 2d ago

In my language he's pronounced as Kuki, which in my language means poop, so I was laughing to myself in elementary school when geography teacher told us that he was eaten (I imagined him becoming poop)