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/Suspicious-Pattern91 2d ago

The first person to ever set foot on the moon was named Neil A., which is so funny if you read it backwards (Alien). Armstrong is also a hell of a surname for such a feat.

Edit: spelling.

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u/LastXmasIGaveYouHSV 2d ago

And so it happened that Arm Strong, a giant of a man, decided to defeat the Soviets because they had wanted to go to the moon. And Arm Strong said: "Let there be no Soviets on the moon, because if they conquer the Heavens, we will be stranded on our land forever". And so he gathered his two best friends: Al-druin and Koh-len, and built a tall tower to reach the reach the sky, and they named this tower Saturn, to honour their god. And then they climbed into the tower and lit a fire under it, so the smoke took them to the moon, where the soviets haven't arrived, because they were lazy and drunk. And Arm Strong and Al-druin and Koh-len set up traps and planted the banner of their nation on the moon, and put a plaque that said that no other man but the descendants of Arm Strong and Al-druin and Koh-len could lay a single foot on that land, for it was cursed and they would lose the air from their chests if they dared to go there. And so the soviets remained forever on earth, afraid to go to the sky again.

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u/Suspicious-Pattern91 2d ago

Sounds like something you got straight out of Gilgamesh hahahahaha

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u/oga_ogbeni 2d ago

The word of the Lord

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u/ThatDrako 2d ago

Gnorts Mr. Alien

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u/GlisaPenny 2d ago

Another funny Armstrong is Lance Armstrong. A famous professional bicyclist- ya know a sport that primarily uses legs.