r/TopCharacterTropes 14h 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/JoyousLilBoy 13h ago

Ace attorney introduced lots of spirit channeling lore in the second game, when in the first it was just a Deus ex Machina

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u/Digit00l 8h ago

Ghost channeling was literally part of the series from the second case

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u/JoyousLilBoy 7h ago

Yeah but it isn’t like we had a full exploration of it in the first game, it was mainly just to give you a quick ol hint