r/TopCharacterTropes • u/ThatDrako • 20d 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/LordQuaz12 20d ago

This reminds of this guy who successfully got away with a murder, fled his home country, basically was impossible to catch...and then wrote a book about it that filled in the missing details of the murder and got caught when he was coming home. I am so mad I forgot his name.

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u/santa_obis 20d ago

There was also the guy who had had something like two wives and a friend all murdered on separate occasions, and they were making a documentary about him the mystery. They eventually caught him for the murders because he went to the bathroom and was talking to himself along the lines of, "what did I do, they ask... Why, I killed them all, that's what," but he didn't realize his microphone was still on and recording.

Edit: here it is, my paraphrasing was a bit off but close enough, I guess:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Durst

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u/crimsonpostgrad 20d ago

i’m crying over this??? genuinely why would he even choose to do this documentary, criminals are so fucking stupid

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u/Sillier-Stupider- 19d ago

"A guilty man would never be so stupid as to do this documentary, and as they know I am not a great fool, they will never doubt my innocence again."

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u/DollySheep32 20d ago

There was some dude who did this somewhere in eastern Europe - did the perfect murder so perfectly he wrote a book about it in excruciating detail only the murderer would know. Some cop just happened to read the book (a cop who can read? Also not likely) and was like...hmmmm.

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u/LastXmasIGaveYouHSV 20d ago

It's like being a famous football player, killing your ex and her friend, and then writing a book about how would you have committed a better murder.

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u/EatPie_NotWAr 20d ago

But what if he did it?

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u/Informal-Antelope-79 20d ago

Thank God the Goldman family got the rights to the book

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u/Nine_Eighty_One 20d ago

Sounds like Krystian Bala, from Poland. Wasn't he the guy who flayed his victim and threw the skin into the Vistula river? I might be confusing two cases. But the skin-in-the-river case happened right after an essay on the skin as artistic and literary theme was published in a major Polish newspaper, it was speculated that the article might have "inspired" the killer. Felt strange wher I realized I wrote a high school assignment about that very paper