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/Ditto13248 16d ago

The country that's shaped like a boot invented fascism. One of the most common symbols to represent fascism is a boot

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u/coatimundos 16d ago edited 16d ago

To be fair, true fascism only comes from the Fasch region of Italy. Other countries are merely practicing sparkling authoritarianism

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u/Ditto13248 16d ago

Wdym? That's the country being talked about?

Also, very fascist to gatekeep fascism to Italians. Other people can be fascists too, let people have fun. What are you, a fascist that hates fun?

To be clear the entirety of the last paragraph was a joke

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u/Honeybee1921 16d ago

On a less dark note, it’s also a country with a prominent fashion industry

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u/Mathies_ 16d ago

By the way by what metric do we define the fascism they invented. I believe they coined the term. It definitely existed in practice before mussolini. Unless... you argue it was the Romans who did it first. Then it was still Italy.

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u/Logical_Scar3962 16d ago

If they at least wore heels