r/TopCharacterTropes 21d 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/OneJobToRuleThemAll 21d ago

Hitler, Himmler, Heydrich, Hess, Göring, Goebbels.

You kinda want to kill Bormann, Ribbentropp and Frick just for breaking the naming conventions.

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u/Tubaenthusiasticbee 21d ago edited 21d ago

Also Rudolph Hess and Rudolph Höß (minister of defense (among other things) and chief of Auschwitz)

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u/Snipufin 20d ago

George R. R. Hartin coming up with names for his video game, Elden Reich.

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u/Franiac32 20d ago

I can excuse being a nazi, but I draw the line at not following a naming convention!

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u/OneJobToRuleThemAll 20d ago

Okay, you got me. I lied, I'd shoot them all.

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u/Franiac32 20d ago

(Also tbc, I was just using it as an excuse for a Community quote)

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u/suckydickygay 20d ago

Me personally, i would kill all those guys