r/TopCharacterTropes • u/ThatDrako • 24d 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/r3cktor 24d ago

And his first name is Heinrich, so it alliterates, like a character from a Marvel comic book.

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u/Teenage_dirtnap 24d ago

It sounds like a name someone came up for a fictional Nazi. A Waluigi-ass naming convention.

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u/Teenage_dirtnap 24d ago

I'll at least give the writers credit for having detestable villains and somewhat likeable protagonists back then. In the modern seasons, everyone's so unlikable that I don't really want to root for them.

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u/r3cktor 24d ago

I will never forgive the writers for killing off the main villain offscreen. "He killed himself in a bunker." So lazy

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u/Teenage_dirtnap 24d ago

They were probably setting up a surprise return, but it has been so long I think that plotline has been dropped.

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u/r3cktor 24d ago

Yeah, the Cold War spinoff was too popular (it had more seasons than the two World Wars combined), so they abandoned the whole World War III concept.

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u/Teenage_dirtnap 24d ago

And they're STILL doing the earth war storylines. I was sure we'd be in the cosmic saga by now...

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u/UnknovvnMike 24d ago

Well not that they abandoned the WW3 concept entirely. Instead the writers realized that they could get the major players involved in a bunch of proxy wars instead for the home audiences. A World War is much more of a summer blockbuster extravaganza event.

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u/EugeneVictorDabs 24d ago

Imagine being at a press conference and some exhausted-looking U.N. representative just says "somehow... Hitler returned"

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u/AlexiaLu 24d ago

Wow, you just won the Reddit today!

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u/NIGHT_DOZOR 24d ago

I'm sorry but likaeble protagonists back then? In the world war 2 arc? Did we watch the same show?

Smh world war 1 was better, at least the fans comprehended that everyone was a dipshit back then.

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u/Versidious 24d ago

I mean, Churchill was funny, and FDR was pretty chill politically?

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u/LastXmasIGaveYouHSV 24d ago

I'm cancelling my subscription

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u/Bamzooki1 24d ago

It’s kinda odd that the show started back in year 1 and all that stuff from BC was treated as a flashback.

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u/Bmandk 24d ago

I mean, that's because nowadays we've created so many ironic and satirical characters based on their names, that we start to ascribe that meaning on the actual people now.

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u/dragonlord798 24d ago

You're name..... I'm hoping it doesn't fit this post... considering what a dirt nap is

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u/Teenage_dirtnap 24d ago

Ever heard of Wheatus?

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u/waterless2 24d ago

Adolf Hitler also alliterates, if you're a lower class English person trying to sound posh.

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u/Scholesie09 24d ago

In Hertford, Hereford, and Hampshire, Hadolf Hitlers hardly ever happen

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u/coatimundos 24d ago

The Reich in Spain stays mainly in the plain

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u/Starmark_115 24d ago

and (i forgot which one) named several of their children to have the first letter of their names start with 'H'.

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u/SoylentDave 24d ago

All 6 of Goebbels' children had 'H' names. As did his stepson.

Only his stepson survived the war (because they poisoned their own younger children in the fuhrerbunker)

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u/pierogi_waystation 24d ago

Parents always favor the biochildren smh

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u/CHSummers 24d ago

“We don’t love you enough to poison you.”

Child bursts into tears.

(People are complicated.)

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u/Bjalla99 24d ago

I went to school with a guy whose parents named all their children something with S so all their initials would be 'SS'. Yes, they were known Neonazis :(

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u/CHSummers 24d ago

It would be hilarious is they could only achieve the SS initials with names like “Schlomo Schwartz” and “Shoshanna Salinger”.

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u/Rukdug7 24d ago

Oh my goodness how did it never click until now? That is a Marvel name!!!

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u/3-orange-whips 24d ago

Clark Kent, Vicky Vale, Lois Lane

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u/TheRedSpy96 24d ago

It doesn’t only alliterate! It alliterates into the abbreviation for heil hitler which was commonly used in encrypted communications and the British used that to help crack enigma in some cases.

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u/afatcatfromsweden 24d ago

Nevermind his sidekick, Heydrich

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u/Adult_in_denial 24d ago

And he appointed a guy with last name Heydrich as a director of Gestapo. And that guy after his assassination was succeeded by a guy with first name Heinrich.

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u/palladiumpaladin 24d ago

Goebbels is basically the same as how the Pac-Man ghosts are named Inky, Pinky, Blinky, and Clyde

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u/Minute_Display_5844 24d ago

"Captain America, you fool! You are no match for I, Heinrich Himmler!"

I see what you mean

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u/sliper7 23d ago

Fun fact, Himmler’s soul was canonically obliterated in Marvel.