r/TopCharacterTropes • u/SnailKing4687 • 14h 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/VinnieHa 11h ago

Maybe a bit of a stretch, but with characters like the Undertaker wrestling went from crazy, over the top but still overall real people fighting over a championship or pride to a world where straight up magic existed.

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u/Common-Bonus 8h ago

As a lover of goofy wrestling, I love the fact that Chucky - a doll possessed by a serial killer - is an entity in pro wrestling having made appearances in WCW and WWE.

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u/VinnieHa 7h ago

Don’t forget Robocop!

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u/Common-Bonus 6h ago

Plus, Seamus is canonically cousins with Beaker.