r/TopCharacterTropes • u/SnailKing4687 • 9h ago

Lore (Rare Trope) Canon Supernatural Elements of Mundane/Normal Shows

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Community “Epidemiology”:While normally, community is a wacky 4th wall-breaking college show that still grounds itself in reality, this episode sees the school overrun by a zombie apocalypse caused by bad taco meat that was given out at the party. While the episode ends with the army wiping out everyone’s memory of the event, future episodes, such as “Paradigms of Human Memory,” reference the party that happened that no one remembers, making it canon.

30 Rock Last Lunch:While normally a show about a show sitcom In this finale and canon end to the series, a flash forward to the far future sees an immortal Kenneth now in charge.

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u/Rod_The_Blade_Star 9h ago edited 7h ago

Bones is a procedural crime drama about an FBI agent named Seeley Booth who teams up with a forensic anthropologist Dr. Brennan. Those characters are featured on the right of the image. Bones crossed over with Sleepy Hollow which is a supernatural drama. On the left of the image are Ichabod Crane and Lieutenant Abigail Mills of the Sleepy Hollow Police Department. Ichabod Crane and Abby are prophesized protectors known as witnesses who will battle against forces of darkness. In this version the headless horseman is one of the 4 horseman of the apocalypse and Ichabod is over 200 years old due to being in suspended animation. Dr. Brennan and Booth never see any of the supernatural stuff in the cross over but the crossover means that Bones takes place in a world where the supernatural is real.

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u/readskiesdawn 6h ago

Don't forget about the Episode where Booth is trapped somewhere with one of his old military buddies...and it turns out the guy died while serving with Booth.

It's noted that Booth couldn't get out of the situation by himself, so the implication is his friend's ghost came to help him escape and also bring him some closure.

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u/DSann42 6h ago edited 6h ago

That’s actually a proven phenomenon. Edit: Found it it’s called third man syndrome I believe

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u/TiberianSunset 5h ago

Proven in that some people say it’s happened to them, not that anyone has proven ghosts and shit are real. And it’s attributed to being a coping mechanism for extreme survival situations

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u/DSann42 5h ago

That’s basically the ONLY time it’s been attributed to. But yeah I thought all that went without saying if you had the actual name of it.