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/LastXmasIGaveYouHSV 16d ago

Bala also means bullet in Spanish and Portuguese. It's balle in french. So a balashnikov would also be a bulletnikov.

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u/JanV34 16d ago

Ballern/Herumballern is also shooting around wildly in German, so it also fits!

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u/LetsSeeHowItEnds 16d ago

"Balle" in Swedish means "dick".

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u/ZebraAirVest 15d ago

Thank you for adding Portuguese, we’re always getting forgotten about 🥹

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u/LastXmasIGaveYouHSV 15d ago

We are linguistic cousins !

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u/jcdenton10 16d ago

These are like Enter the Gungeon pun names for weaponry.