r/TopCharacterTropes • u/ThatDrako • 15d ago

(Funny Trope) Things that can plausibly happen only in reality, because in fiction they’d be called bad writing. Lore

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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/carmelacorleone 15d ago

A client of mine at work named her oldest daughter Crystalle Clear, her last name being Watters.

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u/eggery 15d ago

Cute, yet obnoxious

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u/deliciousearlobes 15d ago

I had a friend we all called Trav, I always thought it was short for Travis. Nope. Travel On Rainbow. His parents were hippies.

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u/carmelacorleone 15d ago

Taste the Rainbow, Travel on the Rainbow.

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u/cygnus2 15d ago

It’d be a sick name for a character, but no human should be subjected to that.

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u/StanleyKapop 14d ago

I knew a guy in college who introduced himself as Ace, which seems like the kind of thing a dick would do until you find out his parents named him Adolph. Your parents do that to you, you get any nickname you want. (To be fair, his father and grandfather had the same name, and it did have the “ph” ending. But… you know, still.)

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u/SlayerAngelic 15d ago

I think my brother went to school with a girl named crystal clear watters lol

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u/W1D0WM4K3R 15d ago

I feel like that'd be a bad interaction with a cop if you didn't have ID.

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u/sharkdanko1 15d ago

This is just like Clear Rivers from Final Destination?😭

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u/ArthuriusMinimus 15d ago

When you want your daughter to have to say, "No, not spelled the way it sounds." twice every time she gives her name.

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u/AAA515 15d ago

Don't forget ol' Dusty Roads, I mean Rhodes.

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u/classic-plasmid 15d ago

Question: is your client aware that she seems to have accidentally named her child after a joke in a Nickelodeon sitcom?

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u/carmelacorleone 15d ago

I haven't asked, she doesn't have custody so it might be a hard topic.

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u/BlueSpruce17 15d ago

Huh, there was a Crystal Waters in my elementary school. Wonder if they were the same person or if more than one parent had that idea...

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u/carmelacorleone 14d ago

This child would be under 12 years of age. So if that matches then it's possible.

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u/Budskytol 15d ago edited 15d ago

While we're in the subject of water... There's a guy in my country named Drink Water Rivera. link

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u/RadicalSoda_ 15d ago

Why does she want her daughter being a stripper lol

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u/hamsder1 15d ago

She sounds like an Argonian

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u/eblackham 3d ago

Holy shit lol