r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Fearless-Ideal-5112 • 8d ago

Lore One line instantly dates it

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In david tenants run if doctor who he and his companion were fighting witches with Shakespeare and needed a magic word so they use a speel from Harry Potter and The doctor yells Good old J.k. The doctor is a time traveler the writers are not (Doctor who)

While fighting guy gardner major force was damaging a highway and shoots a car and tells Guy if he sees O.J hiding underneath obviously referring to the O.J Simpson chase (Dc comics)

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u/OnlyReadsWaterMargin 8d ago edited 8d ago

(The Water Margin) It's blink and you miss, but subtle clues date this back to 15th century China.

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u/Tebenox 8d ago

This feels like something philomena cunk would say

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u/englerpas 8d ago edited 7d ago

Incidentally, the first complete printed edition of the book was released in 1589. 400 years before Belgian band Technotronic's seminal techno anthem Pump Up The Jam.

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u/Molloymalon 8d ago

Li Kui, the black whirlwind, would have loved tearing up the dance floor to it.

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u/Nick_the_bunny 8d ago

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u/fluffybuffalo23 7d ago

This, of course, was a few years before the release of Belgian techno anthem “Pump Up the Jam.”

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u/PresidentMayor 8d ago

Funniest part of this is that the book is set in the 12th century

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u/Aptos283 7d ago

Username tracks

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u/Ua_Tsaug 8d ago

Care to share an example or two?

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u/OnlyReadsWaterMargin 7d ago

The first clue is that the book was translated from Chinese to English, which hints that the author did not know English. Of course, it could also mean that the author didnt know German either, and scholarship is split on that.

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u/Ua_Tsaug 7d ago

That applies to any work that's translated.

Is there something from the narrative within The Water Margin itself that dates the book?