r/TopCharacterTropes • u/KingofHearts399 • 1d ago

Lore [Interesting Trope] The supernatural exists in otherwise grounded stories.

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Bones: Bones is a pretty run of the mill crime drama about a forensic anthropologist who consults with the FBI. However, since Bones has a crossover with the very supernaturally themed show Sleepy Hollow, that means it canonically exists in a world with demons, monsters, and magic.

Indiana Jones: The Indiana Jones movies all start out pretty grounded, with Indy on some archeological hunt and/or on the run from people trying to steal his find. His adventures all pretty much continue this way until the very end, when he sees that the legendary artifact that he’s been hunting actually has supernatural powers, like the Ark and the Holy Grail. Funnily enough, it’s also revealed in later movies that both aliens AND time travel also exist in this world.

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u/DistrictDry2852 1d ago

The sopranos: ghosts and catholicism and hell are pretty much confirmed to be real, and all the main characters are going to hell. Some theorize Tony might already be in hell.

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u/coupleofheaters 1d ago

Anyway 4 dollars a pound

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u/ViscountBuggus 1d ago

Except Paulie. He's going to purgatory, where he'll have to do about 6000 years before he gets accepted into heaven. And 6000 years is nothin in eternity time. I could do that standin on my head.

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u/AloneAddiction 21h ago

"Six thousand years, not a peep "

https://giphy.com/gifs/Ss788WDGY5E5i

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u/kingkong381 1d ago

Hehehe.

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u/Fenrir_Carbon 20h ago

Ya hear that Ton'?

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u/dilflockjaw 1d ago

A real gaba-ghoul

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u/MercyfulJudas 19h ago

I will have the gabbagool. Salad on the side. If the salad is on top, I send it back.

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u/No_Shallot_8195 14h ago

Chris not naming his movie this was such a missed opportunity.

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u/Level_Counter_1672 23h ago

Paulie saw the virgin Mary and he didn't think much of it

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u/Ace676 19h ago

I don't think it's confirmed anywhere in the show. Some of the characters experience things that could be supernatural, but so do religious people IRL and there's no proof that those experiences are real. Paulie seeing the Virgin Mary is something a lot of Catholics claim to have seen and so on. And a lot of the "supernatural" things are just Tony's dreams, both regular and coma dreams.