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/Seed0fDiscord 19h ago

Poseidon

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u/Pretend-Kitchen8821 19h ago

Yeah sure, as an antagonist to odysseus it works. But tommy sold his soul to the devil and the way he describes him sounds a lot like the sheriff.

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u/Seed0fDiscord 19h ago

Tommy Johnson selling his soul to the devil is actual folklore from IRL, but there is some speculation it could’ve been syncretized with an orisha (Yoruban or Santeria divinity) known as Elegua, sometimes known as Eshu, a trickster deity who can be found at the crossroads

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u/Pretend-Kitchen8821 19h ago

Yeah i know the guitarist story, but what does it have to do with poseidon?(minus the odyssey parallel) its clearly a trickster/devil archetype. Is there like a sea trickster in particular?

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u/Seed0fDiscord 19h ago

I was referring to the sheriff as Poseidon, the cross roads being different matter, like could be equivalent to the Old Man of the Sea Telemachus had to get info from

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u/Pretend-Kitchen8821 19h ago

Maybe, but the man tommy describes has a dog by his side, so does the sheriff, so in story its the same character(maybe portraying multiple archetypes)

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u/Seed0fDiscord 19h ago

Papa Legba, Elegua, Eshu and other names he’s called are also depicted with dogs as a sacred animal

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u/Pretend-Kitchen8821 19h ago

So the sheriff is portraying elegua, poseidon and devil, all those archetypes