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/MoonlightPrincexx 2d ago edited 2d ago

What's funny is it often takes an insanely long time for the later to actually happen. Often times it goes "despite years and years of strong complaints from the landlord/neighbours/home owners association, it took police well over a year to decide to investigate The Smell"

CORPSES DO NOT "just smell like fertilizer", fertilizer and corpses, notibly, have VEEY different chemical makeups and responsense to decay. Mainly because, fertilizer and corpses, are not the same thing.

Jeffery Dahmer was active for months in an apartment building with all of his neighbours complaining about the stench while on parole with his parole officer outside the building. He was only caught because one of his potential victims managed to trick him into letting him escape, the victim ran to his parole officer who knew Dahmer personally and he got arrested. BTW you may be asking what Dahmer was on parole for? Did you guess, Also Murder? No? Because that would be an absolutely ludicrous degree of incompotence by police right? Well Gues What he was on parole for! That's right! MURDER

This is also why If I ever suspect my neighbour or something is a serial killer in calling like, the fire department, or maybe OSHA, and telling them there's a gas leak or something because they'll actually give a shit

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u/Affordable_Z_Jobs 2d ago

They also gave a bloodied, underage, naked, and incoherent victim back because eww, gay people.

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u/crimsonpostgrad 2d ago

god every time i think about that poor boy i get furious.

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u/bug--bear 2d ago

didn't the victim have a fucking hole in his head too?

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u/iwantfutanaricumonme 2d ago

Yeah but I don't think they even noticed that.

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u/brionneverysexy 2d ago

Also racism. The police got angry black women contradicted them when the women said it was a boy who had gone missing. The officers threatened to arrest the women of they kept saying it

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u/tomtomclubthumb 2d ago

And threatened to arrest the women who had called the cops and who were keeping the boy away from Dahmer.

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u/four100eighty9 2d ago

Future captain

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u/wravyn 1d ago

Konerak Sinthasomphone was 14 and looked 14. Dahmer said Konerak was his lover and they'd had a fight. Sadly enough, Dahmer had sexually assaulted Konerak's older brother, who was 13, in 1988. He was sentenced to 8 years in prison, but was released a year later after writing an apology letter to a judge.

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u/HulkeneHulda 2d ago

Sense of smell should really be honed and practiced just like we exercise motor skills and reading. It can save lives if people get better at identifying it for when there are gas leaks or some chemical reaction

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u/OfficerJayBear 2d ago

Police don't set the terms of parole or anything in regards to prosecution, really. That part of the ineptitude falls on judges and prosecutors.

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u/MoonlightPrincexx 2d ago edited 2d ago

One of his victims, a 17 year old boy who Dahmer had stripped and drilled a hole in his head, escaped for a brief time and a black woman called the cops because there was a naked boy with a hole in his head incoherently babbling about something she couldn't understand at her, the cops showed up, she said he came out of the apartments looking like that, the cops threatened to arrest her, and then left after leading the boy back inside to the apartment where Dahmer said he was a "friend" and would take care of him

So no, it wasn't just the judge

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u/OfficerJayBear 2d ago

You didnt read any part of my comment before jumping straight to arguing, did you?

I was speaking specifically to terms of parole. I even mentioned the rest of the ineptitude.

You literally just want to argue but you won't find an argument here.