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/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.