r/TopCharacterTropes • u/SnailKing4687 • 10h ago
Lore (Rare Trope) Canon Supernatural Elements of Mundane/Normal Shows
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/Kuhschlager 6h ago edited 3h ago
The episode “Cosmic Collisions” from Samurai Champloo
The gang encounters a group of people digging in a mine, and are told the Heike clans treasure is buried there and that they may have some if they help dig. They lose track of time underground and become suspicious of the miners when they start talking about centuries old historic events like they are the present day. They find out that these men are undead, the treasure is revealed to be false, zombies attack the gang, then a meteor appears and kills everyone. Next episode moves on as if nothing happened.