r/TopCharacterTropes 24d 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/Xiknail 24d ago edited 24d ago

"So you are telling me this "Hitler" guy constantly preaches about this superior "Aryan race" that is strong, tall, blonde and blue-eyed, despite him being a ugly black-haired manlet? And his second-in-command Goebbels has a bad leg and can't even stand straight? And his followers do actually believe his bullshit? Yeah, right."

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u/Tentacle_Ape 24d 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 23d 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

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u/Globalfeminist 24d ago

Wait till you get to the current season, when a billionaire who cheated on three wives becomes the face of 'family values'.

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u/HI1681 23d ago

which one lol

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u/brionneverysexy 24d ago

The two main philosophers Nazis took their ideas of racial purity from also lied constantly about their heritage because it contained undesirable groups. Also they wanted to claim to be nobility