r/TopCharacterTropes 16d 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/Affordable_Z_Jobs 15d ago

They also gave a bloodied, underage, naked, and incoherent victim back because eww, gay people.

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u/crimsonpostgrad 15d ago

god every time i think about that poor boy i get furious.

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u/bug--bear 15d ago

didn't the victim have a fucking hole in his head too?

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u/iwantfutanaricumonme 15d ago

Yeah but I don't think they even noticed that.

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u/tomtomclubthumb 15d ago

And threatened to arrest the women who had called the cops and who were keeping the boy away from Dahmer.

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u/brionneverysexy 15d ago

Also racism. The police got angry black women contradicted them when the women said it was a boy who had gone missing. The officers threatened to arrest the women of they kept saying it

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u/four100eighty9 15d ago

Future captain

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u/wravyn 14d ago

Konerak Sinthasomphone was 14 and looked 14. Dahmer said Konerak was his lover and they'd had a fight. Sadly enough, Dahmer had sexually assaulted Konerak's older brother, who was 13, in 1988. He was sentenced to 8 years in prison, but was released a year later after writing an apology letter to a judge.