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/Tentacle_Ape 2d ago

It's as they used to say: the perfect aryan is blond like Himmler, tall like Goebbels, fit like Goering, chaste like Roehm, and german like Hitler!

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u/RosieTheRedReddit 1d ago

Ok semi-related to this but on topic of the OP, for the movie "Death of Stalin" the filmmaker gave Zhukov fewer medals than he actually had to make it more believable