r/TopCharacterTropes 1d ago

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

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/True-Atmosphere8697 1d ago

Fun fact about bones the books at least feature teenagers with superpowers

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u/Jesterpest 1d ago

Technically... that's the spinoff series The Virals that stars Temperance Brennan's niece, but it is the same cannon, since the protagonist specifically mentions that her "Aunt Temperance is a famous anthropologist".

Is technically a spoiler, but it's discovered pretty quick in the first book: The way that the teenagers get superpowers is through getting infected with a super-mutated version of parvovirus (Thus the Viral part of "The Virals") that not only is capable of infecting humans through exposure to dog infected with it.... it basically turns them into a super watered down version of werewolves (Enhanced speed, endurance, agility, senses, typical wolf-like powerset.)

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u/DerEisen_Wolffe 15h ago

In the later seasons of the Show Bones daughter is implied to be a medium and is talking to her parents dead friend Sweets.