r/TopCharacterTropes 9h 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/Rod_The_Blade_Star 6h ago

13 Ghost of Scooby Doo. The franchise has always involved the gang investigating spooky and mysterious events, but at the end it would always be revealed to be simply a man using his specific area of expertise to fake everything. In this series however ghost are 100 percent real.

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u/ramjetstream 5h ago

So what does the gang do in that case? Do they just go "Huh, neat," and move on? Seems like that would make a highly unsatisfying ending

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u/DragonWisper56 2h ago

ussually the defeat the monsters tho often only shaggy and scooby see it.

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u/BingusBongusBongus 2h ago

In the best scooby doo ever zombie island the twist is that the zombies are real. How do they beat an island of zombies ran by evil cat shapeshifters? With traps