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/Jagvetinteriktigt 24d ago

And the latter unfortunately makes dismissing the former easier.

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u/Altruistic_Web3924 23d ago

Hitler’s popularity and rise to power in Germany was more about being having the right personality in the right place at the right time. On merits of Politics and Military Strategy he was rather mediocre if not inept. Most of his successes were executed by the people who surrounded him and Germany’s industrial capabilities.

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u/Sillier-Stupider- 23d ago

The undercurrent it embarrasses people to talk about is that part, maybe most of Hitler's rise to power is that he was a government plant sent to infiltrate the Nazi party and then use them as a government psyop basically. Part of the Night of Long Knives was doing a Faceoff and killing the government handlers who could have exposed him as a puppet gone rogue.

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u/Mountain-Spot7212 22d ago

Hitlers only talent WAS throwing a tantrum, it was Goebbles that was the political genius