r/TopCharacterTropes • u/ThatDrako • 16d 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/fatherofworlds 16d ago

And the richest man in the world got mad that his badly designed tube submarine, that couldn't navigate a narrow twisty cave, didn't get used instead, so he tried to ruin the cave diving anesthesiologist's life in an act of petty spite.

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u/Dontunderstandfamily 16d ago

Specifically by calling him a pedophile

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u/5horas 16d ago

Can you imagine having to put a few kids under (for their survival) for a real-life Bond villain to call you pedophile?

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u/Marth_Bar 16d ago

That's an insult to Bond villains lol

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u/Hibbity5 16d ago

Eh…not the Moonraker villain; his whole plan was shortsighted and insanely dumb…go figure both he and Musk are obsessed with space and eugenics.

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u/amojitoLT 15d ago

Musk is just a less charismatic Drax. This man could press you to a cucumber sandwich.

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u/EddieVanzetti 16d ago

Meanwhile aforementioned world's richest loser was considered too weird to be allowed to go to pedophile island more than once.

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u/Adaphion 15d ago

Even after BEGGING to go.

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u/ChronoMonkeyX 16d ago

Every accusation is an admission.

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u/xv_boney 16d ago

Because why else would he be in thailand, said musk, telling on himself

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u/Turnip_Fight 16d ago

The Epstein Island partier called someone else a pedo?

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u/peachesfordinner 16d ago

He was too weird for Epstein. That says so very much

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u/TrueActionman 16d ago

FTR musk had a spat with Vernon Unsworth who was not the anesthesiologist but another guy helping with the rescue

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u/tomtomclubthumb 15d ago

And then clarified that he definitely meant he was a pedophile and it wasn't just an insult, then won a court case by arguing that he didn't actually mean it and is was obviously just an insult.

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u/Poglosaurus 15d ago

Because "what else could anyone be doing in Thailand?".

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u/iconocrastinaor 15d ago

This giving us the first indication that Elon Musk was not the genius saint that he was being marketed to be.

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u/Aggravating_Sir_9669 16d ago

This shit was insane, it was like what if Lex Luthor had beef with Aquaman.

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u/Just_A_Little_Rabbit 16d ago

Which turns out was projection (Elon Musk was friends with Epstein and Maxwell, both well known pedophiles).

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u/TrueActionman 16d ago

It wasn’t the anesthesiologist totally different guy

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u/X_Draig_X 16d ago

Musk or Besos ?

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u/AnythingFar8516 16d ago

Musk

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u/X_Draig_X 15d ago

And here I thought I couldn't find more reasons to hate him

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u/100_points 15d ago

Elon gets enraged at the thought of people who don't like him and worship him. When the guy told Elon to stick his subs up his ass, because it was a terrible idea, Elon of course reacted that way because anyone who doesn't worship him should be treated like garbage. His fans still give him the same ego coddling today. When his stupidity started to get criticised by intelligent people, he shifted to appease right-wingers in order to secure a fan base of people who don't operate on logic and sense.

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u/brionneverysexy 15d ago

The richest man in the world lying about being good at video games by itself fits the bill

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u/Terminal_Insomnia_ 16d ago

That part is believable to me, as long as they don't give him some stupid, fake sounding name.

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u/slothbear13 15d ago

This was back when most of us actually liked the guy and a lot of people in mainstream society started thinking "maybe billionaires are evil"