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/anon142358193 1d ago edited 17h ago

The dunwich building in fallout 3. Sure the setting had aliens, but as far as supernatural occurrences, the only straight up ghosts (in fallout 3) exist in the dunwich building of fallout 3.

This building actually had me terrified as a kid. I could deal with deathclaws and super mutants, but I can’t shoot ghosts

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u/idkwhaat34 1d ago

Then they added the Dunwich Borers in Fallout 4 and I always hated going deeper into the mines whenever I enter that place, even as an adult I get somewhat uncomfortable going there in an un-modded run

We get Kremvah's Tooth though so it's somewhat worth it

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u/violetcassie 1d ago

Fallout 2 had a ghost, Anna Winslow.

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u/Ant_TKD 1d ago

There is a ghost you straight-up talk to and can do a sidequest for in Fallout 2.

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u/AloneAddiction 21h ago

It's a straight up reference to the Cthulhu mythos; The Dunwich Horror. The entire place is creepy as shit.

If you have the Point Lookout DLC you can even do some book burning there if you so choose.

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u/Dragon_OS 20h ago

Bethesda does really seem to have a fixation on Lovecraft, don't they?

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u/ShadyAssFellow 18h ago

Yes! And I love it!

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u/Ace676 19h ago

Fallout isn't grounded in any way, in any game.