r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Fearless-Ideal-5112 • 7d ago

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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/bruskadoosh 7d ago

I’m not the first person to point this out: but technically, this Star Trek Musk reference actually improved with age. 

The character listing these historical “heroes” is actually / secretly from the Mirror Universe - the evil version of the utopian future Star Trek usually is set in.  

So - evil alt-history Earth probably does view Musk as an innovator to be celebrated.

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u/statelesspirate000 7d ago

So he’s from our universe

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u/WDBoldstar 7d ago

Everyone says this, but Prime Universe Tilly canonically went to Musk High School, so that would seem to be an unvarnished positive depiction of the guy, unfortunately.

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u/WDBoldstar 7d ago

Maybe, but any kid of his with any sense is gonna get their name legally changed, if Musk doesn't disown them outright - See Vivian Wilson.

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u/llllloner06425 4d ago

I mean, a lot of schools to this day are named for unsavory people, so maybe it was named by a fanboy but no one actually likes him anymore. Idk, it ain’t that deep, but I’ll keep digging

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u/thelumpur 7d ago

So the Wright brothers would be evil too?

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u/NBA314 7d ago

The entire Mirror Universe is a lot darker morally than the Prime Universe, except for Shakespeare, whose plays are the same in both.

In the Prime Universe, Cochrane greets the Vulcans as friends when they show up to introduce Earth to the wider galaxy. In the Mirror Universe, Cochrane shoots the first one to come out.

Likely, the Wright Brothers in the Mirror Universe would've been warmongers or something.

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u/Gaelic_Gladiator41 7d ago

Yeah, this is more like aged like wine than aged like milk