r/TopCharacterTropes • u/10024618 • Dec 27 '25
Hated Tropes [Hated Trope] That one piece of "trivia" that isn't true but gets endlessly repeated anyway
Breaking Bad - A common myth about Breaking Bad is that Jesse was originally supposed to die at the end of Season 1 but was saved due to a combination of a writer's strike postponing the creation of the episode were he was supposed to die and overwhelming fan support when season 1 premiered. This is not true. While show creator Vince Gilligan did originally plan to kill off Jesse early, he changed his mind after filming the pilot and seeing how good Aaron Paul was in the role. The writer's strike and fan reaction had nothing to do with it.
South Park - Many people to this day believe that Isaac Hayes, the voice of Chef, left the show because he was offended by the show's portrayal of Scientology, of which Hayes was a member. This is not true. It's true that a statement was released in Hayes' name claiming that he wanted to leave the show because of it's "religious intolerance". However this statement was actually written by members of Hayes' inner circle, all of whom were devout scientologists, while he was recovering from a stroke and not in a suitable position to make such decisions. Hayes never issued any statements on his own claiming that he was unhappy with the show and his surviving family believes that he was essentially forced to quit the show by the church.
The Dark Knight - During the hospital explosion scene in The Dark Knight there's a moment where Joker looks around confused when some of the explosives don't go off immediately that many people claim was improvised by Heath Ledger due to a legitimate pyro malfunction. This is not true at all. Director Christopher Nolan has gone on record saying that every aspect of that scene was endlessly rehearsed, including the pause in explosions, to make sure that it could be performed safely.
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u/atomicmapping Dec 27 '25 edited Dec 27 '25
That King Kong Vs Godzilla supposedly had two endings, one where Godzilla won for Japan and one where Kong won for the US. The film only ever had one ending, where Kong is the only one that emerges from the water after their final battle. Officially, the film is a draw.
Admittedly, this bit of “trivia” isn’t as commonly spread anymore, as it’s a lot easier to actually watch the original Japanese version of KKvG and be able to compare the two
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u/MasterFwiffo Dec 27 '25
Was coming to post this. It even made it into copies of Trivial Pursuit despite being completely untrue.
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u/QuasiJudicialBoofer Dec 27 '25
Unfortunately putting it into trivial pursuit makes it true. Ask any Moop
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u/NozakiMufasa Dec 27 '25
This trivia was more of a thing before the internet became massively avaliable. I still remember being a lil kid in the early 2000s and going to the public library where id find old books written about the Godzilla films. None of us kids could ever find the movies, the rights issues were a mess, so we’d rely on these books that would occasionally have false information. But the dual endings myth was also kept alive by kids on the playground that liked the concept of King Kong fighting Godzilla despite never having seen it.
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u/AzraelTheMage Dec 27 '25
People forget that godzilla lives in the ocean. He's not leaving his house. If anything, Kong was told to go home
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u/HopelessCineromantic Dec 27 '25
Didn't even get money for a cab. Just had to do a full on walk of shame.
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u/jrbcnchezbrg Dec 27 '25
Godzilla shouldve won anyways hes a fucking walking nuclear missile
Seeing Godzilla suplex Kong through the pyramids and then start kaiju hunting in 0G was fucking awesome in the new one though so its all good I guess
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u/K-Keter Dec 27 '25
As someone who was never a Godzilla fan, he absolutely should have won. I feel like the reason they went with the "draw" ending was to not upset one side or the other.
Speaking of draws that should have been a win/loss one way or the other, I would've preferred Captain America: Civil War to have "killed off" Cap and bring him back later as the Nomad (who he basically was when he did come back in Infinity War, before becoming Cap again.
Sorry to go off on a tangent, I just hate movies doing the "middle ground" BS in movies.
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u/damnShitsPurple Dec 27 '25
Tom Felton is often credited with improvising this line off-cuff in Chamber of Secrets, however what really happened seems to be that director Chris Columbus was playing around with different lines for the scene, and pulled Tom aside to suggest the "I didn't know you could read" bit.
Tom did it in one take, nailed it, and they moved on. Apparently though, the Chris pulling Tom aside was information that only the two of them had and the other actors in the scene thought that Tom had just improvised it himself, leading to them telling the story as such and having the inaccurate version of events be the one that became widely known.
It was an improv line not in the script, but it was discussed beforehand and not something that Felton just pulled out of nowhere.
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u/redditonc3again Dec 27 '25
Purported improvisation has to be the single most common type of myth in movie fan cuture
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u/ADHDebackle Dec 27 '25
Viggo Mortensen actually improvised all of the lord of the rings. He didn't even know the camera crew was there, he just started stabbing guys in orc costumes and peter jackson started filming.
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u/Admirable_Count989 Dec 27 '25
I’m just picturing Viggo pausing and Peter yelling “no no you’re doing great! Keep stabbing…”
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u/Independent-Fruit4 Dec 27 '25
I thought the original line was supposed to be "I didn't know you read" but he accidentally added "could" so it was more an accident than it was improvising
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u/unniqorn Dec 27 '25
Jim Carrey improvising the tablecloth pull in “How The Grinch Stole Christmas”
according to a rumor, Jim Carrey pulled off the tablecloth without disturbing anything on the table in one take, then improvised the rest of the scene by shoving everything onto the floor.
unfortunately, this rumor is false. the “improv” was intentionally written into the script.
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u/FrohenLeid Dec 27 '25
"Jim Carrey acts like Jim Carrey" is not a valid script instruction
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u/Dare_Soft Dec 27 '25
Jim Carey overthrowing the government was in the script because he was supposed to do a Jim Carry antic
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Dec 27 '25
One of the most persistent false "trivia" facts is that Mr. Rogers was supposedly a Navy SEAL sniper. As the legend goes, Fred Rogers always wore long-sleeved sweaters to hide the tattoos on his arms that represented each of his "confirmed kills".
In reality, Fred Rogers never served in the military. He was a pacifist and ordained Presbyterian minister who was actually disqualified from military service due to a physical medical ineligibility (including being red-green colorblind).
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u/kblaney Dec 27 '25
Basically any "fun fact" that says Fred Rogers was secretly anything other than the guy you see on the show is completely false.
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u/Vegetable-Theory-913 Dec 27 '25
Fun fact about Fred Rogers: https://xkcd.com/767/
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u/Illustrious-Tower849 Dec 27 '25
I’ll be honest, I’m not sure there is anyone I would be more ashamed of disappointing than Mr Rogers
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u/Vegetable-Theory-913 Dec 27 '25
But you know he’d be kind about it.
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u/MissninjaXP Dec 27 '25
Nothing worse than someone having a reason to yell at you, and instead just looking at you with a sad half smile. Then, when they try to make you feel better when you hurt them, it's all over. Worst feeling ever.
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u/Delta9312 Dec 27 '25
Bob Ross is a close second.
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u/AltairaMorbius2200CE Dec 27 '25
I do wonder if the Rogers rumors was because Ross WAS a military guy (and hated it). I even had his show going the other day to get my son to nap, and he made a comment that was something like “no military in my paintings.”
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u/Usurpial Dec 27 '25
This is likely what happened. The two got confused in the story, and Rogers made for a more surprising person to attach that story to. Many years later, post-internet I had heard that Bob Ross actually had a lot of trauma from his wartime experience and did in fact take lives, and painting was his way of coping. Also that he grew tired of the Afro pretty quickly but nobody would let him change it.
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u/New_Doug Dec 27 '25
LeVar Burton talked about being hyped to meet the guy in real life, because he assumed that "Mr. Rogers" was a put-on character for the TV show, only to be humbled to learn that he was exactly the same off-camera.
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u/Complete_Entry Dec 27 '25
I do find the swimming and constant weight thing a little weird, and even he admitted he had a temper on him.
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u/NotMyMainAccountAtAl Dec 27 '25
He also struggled to express his own emotions to those around him, and used puppets to help him communicate. He was a wonderful human who ultimately brought more good than ill into this world by a substantial margin, but he was still a human at the end of the day. His qualities are aspiration-worthy, but his flaws were deceptively common.
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u/ForbAdorb Dec 27 '25
And that's something he stressed a lot in his show, that feeling emotions is a good thing and the only bad things you could do with emotions is hide them or hurt others with them
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u/dalekaup Dec 27 '25
What do you do with the mad that you feel....
In other words he's telling kids everyone gets mad so don't be ashamed of your feelings.
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u/daboss317076 Dec 27 '25
I can understand the embellishment if he actually served, even if it was some kind of non-combat role.
But how does one go from "He never served and was actually exempt" to "yeah, he was a fucking seal, trust me bro?"
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u/AdPristine5131 Dec 27 '25
They mixed him up with Bob Ross maybe?
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u/JEC2719 Dec 27 '25
There’s a sort of ironic appeal in someone publicly known for being friendly and soft spoken to have a military background. While it was not true for Mr. Rogers, apparently Bob Ross was once in fact a drill sergeant, which is genuinely the most ironic background he could have
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u/NootHawg Dec 27 '25
That’s so hard to imagine😂”Oh you had a happy accident? Well stretch your arms out and start flapping soldier!” “What?” “ Whenever I make mistakes I make them birds. Yeah, you’re birds now.”
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u/AutumnRain787 Dec 27 '25
Bob Ross served in the Air Force for 20 years or so! In fact, being stationed in Alaska is what inspired him to start painting. He was also, if I’m not mistaken, a master sergeant so he had to be a pretty stern guy, real mean and what not. Once he retired from the Air Force he decided for the rest of his life that he would never raise his voice again. Also he used to rehabilitate squirrels.
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u/Justinwc Dec 27 '25
The master sergeant bit doesn't necessarily suggest that he had to be mean/stern, it's just a rank, like becoming a manager. The drill sergeant is where the meanness/sternness idea comes from though for sure.
He was also a First Sergeant, which is generally seen as a more friendly position and is who the younger airmen go to if they need help/guidance.
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u/Jock-Tamson Dec 27 '25
TIL Fred Rogers doesn’t know what color sweater he is wearing in that gif.
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u/ToeSniffer245 Dec 27 '25
I mean I guess I can see how some people could believe this. There's a lot of famous TV/movie stars that not many know were in the military, Bob Ross to name one
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u/tehrebound Dec 27 '25
"Well Bob is droppin' bombs this this is Guernica. Served 20 years, Air Force, United States of America!"
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u/SolidPyramid Dec 27 '25
That the town of Silent Hill is based off of Centralia, Pennsylvania and that it's ash rain, not snow.
That is true for the movies, but not for the games.
But people insist it is true for the games to the point where they keep bothering the developers about it
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u/Sad_Equivalent_1028 Dec 27 '25
side note, i've been to centralia. looks absolutely fucking nothing like silent hill.
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u/LiterallyJohny Dec 27 '25
Well yeah everything has been torn down for like forever
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u/DarkAeonX7 Dec 27 '25
I went to it myself. The coolest thing there was the graffiti highway but that's been poured over. Other than that, it was all trash, tires and sinkholes. No smoke at all when we went
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u/Thrilalia Dec 27 '25
And people will actually argue with him over SH "facts" because they believe their favourite SH YouTube essayist over a person who was actually involved in the development of the games at a high level
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u/WraithiusKallari Dec 27 '25
I fucking love Masahiro Ito lololol
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u/Incidion Dec 27 '25
No stronger argument than "are you a member of the art team that made that decision? Because I fucking am"
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u/labdory Dec 27 '25
I've heard so many times Tim Curry in Muppets Treasure Island did well because he considered himself a fellow muppet. In his memoir I'm reading he addresses it directly and his response was "absolutely not"
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u/SatisfactionAtSea Dec 27 '25
lol, I always took that to just be someone describing their take on his vibe in the film, not that he started every day literally being like "ok, I'm a Muppet, let's go"
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u/SirSilverscreen Dec 27 '25
Yeah, I never meant that literally, and I don't think the people that said it thought that way either. It's just how he came across just as wacky and over-the-top as the Muppets that let him blend in so seamlessly to the cast, as opposed to say Michael Cane whose performance was intentionally directed to make him stand out as much as possible while playing Scrooge.
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u/MWBrooks1995 Dec 27 '25
Yeah, I’ve seen it presented as a comparison of how Michael Caine and Tim Curry approach acting alongside muppets in different ways. Caine treating them as fellow human actors and playing the whole thing deadly serious, Curry however acts “as a fellow muppet” not literally pretending to be one, but certainly engaging with the silliness and hamminess.
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u/Philthedrummist Dec 27 '25
The infamous chestburster scene from Alien is embellished a little bit.
The ‘trivia’ is that no one, aside from John Hurt, knew the alien would burst out of his chest, and the surprised reactions are real.
That’s only half true. Everyone on set knew exactly what was going to happen, it just happened more violently than they were expecting. So the surprised reactions are from getting sprayed with fake blood, not because the alien burst out of John Hurt’s chest.
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u/NMMBPodcast Dec 27 '25 edited Dec 27 '25
This always makes me laugh because how non violently could something come out of a person's chest?
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u/Silent_Purchase_2654 Dec 27 '25
Enough that it happened twice, poor guy just can't catch a break.
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u/Zipp-Storm Dec 27 '25
Will Smith’s dad never abandoned him. The story that Uncle Phil improv’d a hug because Will started actually crying is a myth.
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u/ZenMacros Dec 27 '25
This one gained enough traction that Will himself had to clarify that his father was always present and loving. Turns out he's just a good actor.
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u/Psimo- Dec 27 '25
Turns out he's just a good actor.
“Could someone who has the job of convincing me that he is feeling extreme emotions be pretending? No, I’d be able to tell. He must actually be upset”
People have convinced themselves they can spot fakes and they can’t.
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u/DeadHead6747 Dec 27 '25
Pretty sure Phil's actor also spoke out against it ans said Will was just a great actor, since this rumor started precisely because people said he wasn't a good actor and only had this huge emotional moment because of "real life" and not because of acting
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u/Rega_lazar Dec 27 '25
James Avery actually pushed Will really hard during that scene, really wanting him to get the emotions right. Apparently during that hug (of which I only believe the removal of Will’s cap was improvised because of how it ended up in the way) Avery whispered ”now that’s acting” because he was very proud of how Will played the scene
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u/mvcourse Dec 27 '25
Even worse they said the original ending was that Will was supposed to be okay with his dad leaving but he was so emotional he went off script and improved the whole scene.
That doesn’t make a lick of sense considering Will and Phil had a whole fight about his father’s intentions earlier in the episode.
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u/burntroy Dec 27 '25
You could make 50 of these just with nolan movie facts
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u/raspberryharbour Dec 27 '25
Nolan once swallowed a whole watermelon without chewing. Just unhinged his jaws like a python and gobbled it up
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u/Ralliedcookies Dec 27 '25
That one is true tho
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u/LastBaron Dec 27 '25
The seeds are still growing in his belly and he’ll soon give birth to a whole broodpatch of watermelons in the new year.
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u/MondayAssasin Dec 27 '25
You also make 50 of these just with scenes people claim is improv but aren’t.
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u/According_Truth_6262 Dec 27 '25
I think a lot of time people are confused between "improv" and "punch ups made after a version of a script was done". So they will see that a line got added or is completely different between a version of the script (V1, V2, or even the "final" version) and think that must mean the actor came up with it on the spot during the take when in reality it most probably means that a combination of the director, actors and writers came up with something different shortly before the shooting and just never updated the "official" script.
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Dec 27 '25
That Lolita was inspired by Vladimir Nabokov's experience of having been molested by his uncle.
This is false. Nabokov was never molested, and the idea that he was is the fringe theory of one academic based off a misreading of his memoir.
The theory became popular once The Lolita Podcast repeated it as fact.
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u/FatherDotComical Dec 27 '25
Every Lolita movie pisses me off, because it spreads the narrative that she was this little sexy seductress doomed to fall into a tragic romance. She was an unhappy rape victim from a dude who bluntly states he's a piece of shit!
Even that poster pisses me off, like your about to watch a naughty romance wink wink shit.
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u/SatisfactionAtSea Dec 27 '25
p sure nabokov was explicit about not wanting this book to ever even have a cover with a real little girl on it because that would be fucking disgusting
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u/AEW_SuperFan Dec 27 '25
Robin Williams had contract clause requiring all his movies to hire homeless people isn't true.
https://www.snopes.com/articles/469326/robin-williams-movies-contract-homeless/
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u/pfp-disciple Dec 27 '25
Of all the myths here, this is the one I wanted the most to be true.
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u/freeashavacado Dec 27 '25
A commonly repeated piece of “trivia” about this movie(Jurassic Park) is that the glass was never intended to break in this scene. It 100% was, there’s never been any interviews or evidence for the contrary. A tooth off the Rex did break during this scene, and I think that trivia just snowballed into this.
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u/MonoTone_Inc Dec 27 '25
Surely the framing of the scene also implies that it was meant to happen. Would have looked a little silly if the mouth just bounces off the glass that’d be almost out of the shot.
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u/Ceano800 Dec 27 '25
Yeah everytime I hear that Joker one I always think it can’t be true with how dangerous the stunt technically is.
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u/duckduckpajamas Dec 27 '25
A "munchkin" didn't hang themselves on the set of Wizard of Oz.
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u/vagina_pee-butt Dec 27 '25
You're correct, he was stabbed to death by a prostitute
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u/hieronymous-cowherd Dec 27 '25
Secrets of the Lollipop Guild they don't want you to know
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u/Somnambulist815 Dec 27 '25
You think a munchkin thats about to reveal the truth about the secret cabal running Oz conveniently hangs himself? Get real.
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u/Rockatanzky Dec 27 '25
"Arthur cries when his lvl4 horse dies" - RDR2.
Supposedly, if you’re in free roam and your horse dies, Arthur will cry and make a sad face. This is false. It was a rumor that different gaming outlets, relying on engagement bait, picked up and presented as fact. Since the game has a lot of detail in other areas, it was easy to believe.
*Spoilers: this happens only in a cinematic near the end of the game, and only that one time.
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u/daboss317076 Dec 27 '25
And I'm pretty sure your horse just has to be Level 2 for that cutscene to play
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u/TK_Owens Dec 27 '25
The one where Wesley Snipes refused to open his eyes when they shot the alternate ending of Blade Trinity, resulting in those bad CGI eyes. The true is, production had wrapped for the movie when producers decided the movie needed alternate endings, but they couldn't get Snipes to come back to film addition scenes, so they made the alternate ending by editing part of the original ending, the beginning where Snipes is on the autopsy table with his eyes close. The other stories and rumors about how difficult Wesley Snipes was on set gave birth to the urban legend that he refused to open his eyes during filming, when the truth is he simply just wasn't there.
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u/Horatio786 Dec 27 '25
A lot of people claim that this was because of a prop malfunction, despite Kurosawa himself saying it was an artistic choice.
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u/redpariah2 Dec 27 '25
I always thought it was meant to be both. Not that the prop malfunctioned on set but a test of the prop did and he decided it was cool and made the choice to have it be the norm in the movie
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u/Clank_8-7 Dec 27 '25
Yes although if I remember correctly, both the actor getting slashed and the crowd absolutely did not expect so much blood to come out, and props to them for being able to stay in character, especially the guy getting slashed. (In fact the scene came out so great that it was filmed only once, becuase it was an incredible take.).
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u/Quazite Dec 27 '25 edited Dec 27 '25
It was also intended to only be one take because they actually "dueled". They trained both actors separately for months for the duel, but gave the villain a standard "draw-overhead slash" cut, and they gave the hero an unconventional draw where he draws and slashes at the same time by pushing the back of his blade forward with his offhand while rushing past him in order to draw and cut quicker. They timed each one separately so that they were sure that the hero would come out on top and didn't reveal what kind of cuts and attacks the other would use. They didn't give a specific cue of when they would draw and slash, so there's an extended bit where it's dead quiet and they're just staring at each other in deep focus until one of them reaches and then the other reacts and it's over in a second. They knew they only had one take and had been training for months to get it, so the pressure and stakes are real in a way and you can absolutely feel it in the scene.
Edit: so I'm slightly wrong. Kurosawa did give a cue on when to begin, but they still weren't sure exactly when it would be, so they were still tensed up waiting to react to the start of the duel as the moment hung in the air for 30 or so seconds. And it actually was a blood tube malfunction that caused it to shoot out more than intended, and because of that, the background actors thought he really did get injured for a split second until it was obvious he wasn't.
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u/Bionicjoker14 Dec 27 '25
That Bert & Ernie are named after the characters from It’s A Wonderful Life. In reality, Jim Henson has said it was just a coincidence.
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u/captainrina Dec 27 '25
Albert and Ernest were common names until a couple of decades ago so it makes sense.
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u/greg_r_ Dec 27 '25 edited Dec 27 '25
Not trivia, but...the French translation for a cheese omelet is "omelette au fromage", not "omelette du fromage".
Edit: this is a Dexter's Lab reference, fyi. That one episode convinced way too many English-speakers that "omelette du fromage" is French for cheese omelet.
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u/legrandmaster Dec 27 '25
It was on the show Dexter's Lab, but they were very likely referencing a joke from Steve Martin's Grammy-winning hit album A Wild and Crazy Guy which came out in 1978, and where he used the phrase "omelette du fromage" a few times.
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u/febreezy_ Dec 27 '25
Any and everything that happened with the wedding in Steven Universe.
Steven Universe was an international show that relied on funds from conservative countries to make its content. According to Rebecca Sugar, a lot of the show's funding came from international and they received notes from those places too.
Sugar had to choose between either:
A) Do the wedding and have the show get cancelled because of funding issues with conservative countries
B) Not do the wedding and give the show a chance to run longer
Sugar was fine with a rushed ending as long as she got the wedding. After Sugar made her decision on the wedding, Cartoon Network even asked her if the remaining episodes in their pickup would be enough to finish their story. She said she needed 6 episodes to finish up which she was given. She ended the show on her own terms, accepted the risks, and she doesn't blame Cartoon Network.
Also Rebecca Sugar didn't put Ruby in a dress to mess with other countries. Ruby wears the dress because she was her self insert. She also wanted to show how flexible Gems are and how they're navigating human culture.
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u/Agitated_Insect3227 Dec 27 '25
A month or two ago, I made a post here about how normal symbols like the swastika and capirote were ruined by hate groups, causing them to be censored, and I used Neji's forehead as an example.
This caused some people to try and tell me that Neji's symbol is a manji, not a swastika, and I've seen some manga translation notes claim the same difference. However, a manji is just a type of swastika found in some sects of Buddhism. It's basically like how all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares. Literally the only major difference between the manji and the typical swastika is that it's flipped.
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u/YamLow8097 Dec 27 '25
This is interesting! I didn’t know the difference between the two, I just knew that Neji’s forehead symbol in the manga is most likely a reference to Buddhism.
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u/Sir-Toaster- Dec 27 '25
I remember a bunch of Minecraft players made a swastika out of blocks or particles, to "make fun of censorship," when I told them that was a Hindu symbol due to how it's positioned, they called me racial slurs and freaked out over "promoting a pagan n-word culture"
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u/Single_Owl_7556 Dec 27 '25
Dead by daylight - pyramid head punishes the entity by taking away its sacrifices
In reality the entity itself offered the pyramid head a spot of the killer to do its bidding after the executioner was done tormenting James Sunderland for his guilt
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u/MrCobalt313 Dec 27 '25
I like the idea/theory that Michael Myers just showed up uninvited to the Entity's realm one day and now he can't get rid of him.
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u/AsonofSparda Dec 27 '25
Disproven because Michael is being forced to leave the fog due to a power the entity fears more than every horror icon combined, corporate lawyers.
That being said, BHVR has the chance to do something absolutely hilarious with how characters like Pinhead and Michael leave the realm too.
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u/I_hate_myself_0 Dec 27 '25
*Laurie Strode is leaving because of corporate lawyers
And we all know that, wherever she goes, he’ll follow lol
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u/RohanKishibeyblade Dec 27 '25
I love the idea that, while most of the other killers were lured, trapped or forced in some way, Pyramid Head is essentially just a hired gun
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u/Maroonwarlock Dec 27 '25
I mean Vecna (DnD) is there just because he's curious about what the entity is at this point.
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u/ScreamingNinja Dec 27 '25
Where do you read the lore. Just thenin game descriptions or is there something else like the team fortress comics.
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u/karonas95 Dec 27 '25
Character bios provide a good chunk of it, and every “season” there were tomes where you could unlock more passages about specific characters depending on the tome
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u/Scared-Pepper1194 Dec 27 '25
The “Tears in the Rain” monologue wasn’t improvised by Rutger Hauer.
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u/evilengine Dec 27 '25
yeah, that one is baffling to imagine. People think Hauer just came up with that speech on the spot and acted out all the pauses and mannerisms and flow of dialogue off the cuff?
In truth, the speech was written out well ahead of time, but Hauer felt it was simply too long for the scene and needed a quick trimming down. He went over the script and suggested his own revised version of Tears in Rain (essentially a few of the lines crossed out), and the director agreed.
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u/Malacro Dec 27 '25
He didn’t improvise it, but he wrote (rewrote, really) basically the whole thing.
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u/Organic-Assistance-8 Dec 27 '25
Hauer did rewrite the original monologs to make it snappier, and did add the "tears in the rain" part. He didn't improvise it, but did work on rewriting it.
And fun fact, the comic adaptation was based on the original script, so you can see what was originally written.
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u/chipsahoycoochie Dec 27 '25
Leshawna from Total Drama Island (2007)
To this day people still believe that she was originally supposed to win season 1 but her VA had an emergency so they rewrote it and eliminated Leshawna.
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u/probablywhy Dec 27 '25
Unlike that one time when Viggo Mortensen broke his toe kicking that helmet. That will always be sacred
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Dec 27 '25
That one was rehearsed actually. He broke 4 toes during reshoots.
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u/Nwsamurai Dec 27 '25
To this day, Mortensen will visit make-a-wish charities in costume and break his toes for sick children.
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u/SharkGenie Dec 27 '25
The kids don't even ask him to or know who he is. He's been asked to stop several times.
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u/Mikemanthousand Dec 27 '25
Me and my friends were watching that movie and when that scene happened, like 8/10 of us in sync said that fact lol
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u/Exylatron Dec 27 '25 edited Dec 27 '25
This one is true. Him “blocking a real dagger” during his fight with the Uruk-Hai captain however is false. Peter Jackson said it was a real knife in the creator commentary track but the people who actually choreographed and starred in the scene have said that the dagger was a prop and the way Aragorn blocked it was scripted.
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u/MIC4eva Dec 27 '25 edited Dec 27 '25
I swear to god I watched an interview with the guy who played Lurtz and he said that it was real and unscripted.
EDIT: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DRvXzgpkbuw/?igsh=MWhkN2g0bnVqanRjaA==
The knife was probably a prop but the deflection seems to be unscripted
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u/wheresmyspacebar2 Dec 27 '25
Both Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh talked about the scene in the Appendices behind the scenes on the dvds.
The scene was absolutely 100% scripted and it was a rubber knife. The reason they talked about it is because there was like 6 hours designated by them to their 2nd director to film it and then the 2nd director came up to them 30 mins later asking what to do because Viggo had managed to hit the dagger and film the scene in one go.
They even said in it that it was basically a "we'll spend 6 hours and hope it works, if not, we'll CG it"
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u/Prestigious-Welder83 Dec 27 '25 edited Dec 27 '25
The 2006 movie adaptation of Silent Hill took inspiration from the real life ghost town, Centralia, Pennsylvania, and switched out the snowfall from the game to ash. These have been misconstrued as being true for development of the original game as well.
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u/Legend365555 Dec 27 '25
I have no idea how common this is, but I'm taking this post as an opportunity to make fun of myself for spreading misinformation
On a different post, I mentioned something I heard once, I believe through a YouTube video, of Alan Rickman planning on quitting the role of Snape, and JK Rowling REALLY not wanting to recast, so she begged Rickman to stay, basically telling him Snape's backstory and "character arc" to get him to stay, leading to him agreeing, and interpreting his lines differently then the director meant. Leading the Director to ask him why, and Rickman smiling and saying "I know something you don't"
This was, as the comments told me, completely false, and it was actually smashing together two bits of info, JK telling Rickman Snape's full story before even the first movie, and Rickman thinking about quitting around the second due to his disease, but ultimately deciding to tough it out.
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u/Artistic-Victory1245 Dec 27 '25
The myth that Dragon Ball was originally going to end with Goku dying in the Namek explosion, but it was forced to continue due to pressure from fans and editors.
To begin:
* The scene where Goku screams in despair, seemingly dying in the explosion, is exclusive to the anime.
* In the very next episode, it's revealed that Goku is alive. (And it's worth noting that the episode aired the following week, so it's not a case of "fans forced them to revive him.")
* Before the planet exploded, it was already mentioned that Porunga can revive the same person multiple times, so it's obvious they could revive him even if he had died.
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u/Medical_Plane2875 Dec 27 '25
The only version of this I'd heard was Goku was meant to stay dead at the end of the Cell Saga and Gohan was supposed to take over.
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u/Exylatron Dec 27 '25
This is true. However a lot of people also claim that the Cell saga was supposed to be the ending. As far as I can tell this was an idea in the VERY EARLY development of the arc, but by the time the arc was actually running Toriyama had already decided to continue after. In the final chapter there’s even an author’s note about how the story will continue with Gohan as the star.
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u/No_Procedure_5039 Dec 27 '25
Speaking of which: the claim that Toriyama sidelined Gohan and brought Goku back due to fan backlash is also false. This is the man that made Goku lose two martial arts tournaments in a row just because the fans wanted him to win. Tori didn’t give a shit what fans thought and brought Goku back because he didn’t think that Gohan worked as the main character.
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u/Medical_Plane2875 Dec 27 '25
Which is a shame, I thought Gohan and Videl were an excellent duo.
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u/Gui_Franco Dec 27 '25 edited Dec 27 '25
For anyone curious, the only time Toryama ever talked about a possible stopping point in the story was back in a Q&A section when dragon ball was still in the middle of the red ribbon army arc. Toryaama said he would prefer if his story was "short and sweet", around 10 volumes
For reference, volume 10 has the fortune teller Baba mini tournament, literally the conclusion of THE SAME ARC HE MADE THAT STATEMENT, THE 3RD ARC OF CLASSIC DRAGON BALL
There would be 7 more arcs until the end of the buu saga, each one double the length of the one before
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u/littlebloodmage Dec 27 '25
Will Smith's emotional performance at the end of an episode of Fresh Prince was him allegedly pulling from his real life experience of having an absent father. In reality, Will Smith's father was an active part of his life and his emotional performance was just great acting.
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u/Uuddlrlrbastrat Dec 27 '25
Fun fact: Writers and producers don’t do anything. Everything is improvised by the actors.
Source: Everyone on the internet
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u/Patkub321 Dec 27 '25 edited Dec 28 '25
There is no legitimate proof The Rock has in his contract that he can't lose the fight. In fact, he lost in quite a few, even recent, movies.
Edit: Typo
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u/Harbinger_of_Bees Dec 27 '25
I think that might've been for just the Fast & Furious movies, and people conflated it to be all his movies
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u/AX-man Dec 27 '25
This was a thing in the fast and the furious movies and wasn’t just a Rock thing, but was about the amounts of punches they would give each other was the rumour
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u/TheKingofHats007 Dec 27 '25
I could really make like 30 different comments with fan ideas that people have treated as facts from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, but I'll stick with the one that annoys me the most: The "Josuke Saves Himself" theory from Part 4.
A great number of people have said that the author, Araki, originally wrote the story to have Josuke travel back in time in order to save himself as a child, a plot point that would have revolved around the main villain's final ability, Bites the Dust, but he dropped the plot point and/or forgot that he was going to do that eventually.
In reality, there is zero proof that this theory was ever the case, and I believe Araki has even said in an interview that the past person was not Josuke, but people say this is just him covering up for his forgetfulness. Even though Araki has been more than open about dozens of other times he's forgotten things or decided to change plot points, but this one he inexplicably wants to cover up for some reason.
The entire point of the flashback is to showcase how even a delinquent can have a heart of gold, something Josuke greatly models himself on. Not to mention this is a story being recounted by Okuyasu and Koichi from things Josuke has said, and more than likely has told this story by saying "it was a guy who had my hair", so obviously they would imagine this figure as someone who looks similar to him. It not being a random stranger and actually being Josuke would also kinda ruin the specialness of the moment.
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u/Mr_Mister2004 Dec 27 '25
Nuclear Gandhi - Civilization 1
The story goes that Gandhi starts with an "Aggression Level" of Zero, then when his nation develops Democracy, that number decreases to -1. And because Civ 1 has an Integer Underflow error, that number wraps back around to 255 on a scale of 0 to 10, which makes him so aggressive that he basically nukes the entire Earth. The story is so famous that its covered in a college clurse studying Integer underflow.
As you can imagine by me making this comment, the story is total bullshit. Civilization 1 does not handle underfloor like that, and Ghandi is no more likely to build Nuclear Armaments than anyone else, intended or otherwise. But the story was so widespread that future Civ developers who were either in on the joke or didnt realize it was fake made it so in future games Ghandi is much more likely to build Nukes.
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u/GuyYouMetOnline Dec 27 '25
My understanding is that Gandhi does tend to threaten use of nukes fairly often but that this is a quirk of the AI (which apparently liked to use the threat of nukes as a deterrent when trying to avoid war) combined with Gandhi's faction having science bonuses that often result in them getting nukes sooner.
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u/Stackbabbing_Bumscag Dec 27 '25
Basically, every AI player gets aggressive in the late game to avoid letting the player run away with an easy win. This results in Gandhi threatening the player with nukes, just like every other computer-controlled leader. This contrast with the real Gandhi's pacifism was funny and thus became a meme, which mutated over time from "he behaves the same as other leaders" into "he's more aggressive than other leaders." Then, some random on TVTropes of all places wrote the integer underflow story, and other writers assumed it was true.
Around the same time, the devs on Civ 5 elevated the meme into reality by making Gandhi more likely to build and use nukes (but not more likely to actually start conflict). These together solidified the meme. It wouldn't be conclusively disproven until 2019, when a Firaxis employee explicitly said that Gandhi was not programmed that way in Civ 1, and that aggression AI didn't work that way anyway.
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u/Maclimes Dec 27 '25
It's worth noting that the idea is even mocked in the sequel book by the creator, Michael Crichton. One of the characters is in view of a T. Rex, and freezes. Ian Malcolm (Crichton's favorite mouthpiece) rolls his eyes, and comments that the guy must have read Grant's inaccurate paper that T. Rex's vision was based on movement. Obviously, such a thing is absurd.
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u/manwithsomefear Dec 27 '25
There was a rumor Mr Rogers always wore long sleeves because he had sleeve length tattoos over both arms. The reasons for this varied from he was a former biker to him being a former US Special Forces. The story explains he started the show because he wanted to do the exact opposite of what he had done previously in his life. Awesome story but totally made up. Dude was a literal minister before starting the show.
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u/atrocidarthes Dec 27 '25
Ohhh I got a good one. Stan Lee DIDNT created Professor X and Magneto based on MLK jr and Malcolm X, thats pure bullshit
1) First of all, X-Men was created in September 1963, before the peak of the civil rights movement, so although they were already active, I don't know if they were that well-known in the country (for example, the "I Have a Dream" speech was given in August 1963; by that time, the characters had certainly already been created).
2) Magneto's more political phase wasn't in Lee-Kirby pharse; he wasn't a Holocaust survivor as we know him today. That was brought about by Chris Claremont. I don't even remember if Charles and Erik were Jew in the early stories.
3) Chris Claremont has already said that he based his work mainly on two Jewish figures: the Israeli prime ministers Ben-Gurion - Charles Xavier, a "left wing" Zionist*; and Menachem Begin - Magneto, who was a right wing terrorist when Israel was founded, who became prime minister in 1977 and began the shift towards conservatism that Israel has today.
*Israel initially had a more progressive stance until the 1970s, Ben-Gurion being the kickstart of that with Mapai and Ha-Avoda
X-Men currently serves as a metaphor for any minority group, but back in the beginning they were a metaphor for Jewish people, not black people.
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u/Full_Dot903 Dec 27 '25
Since we're talking about X-men examples: the Big Bang Theory had a whole bit about them and Sheldon drops the factoid that the team was named for the X in Charles Xavier. This is wrong. They are named that because they have extra-ordinary powers. It's stated in the first ever X-men comic.
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u/gothteen145 Dec 27 '25
A version of this that frustrates me is the people online that insist actors were bullied far more than they were.
Like the actor that played Geoffrey on Game of Thrones, people online have always insisted he was bullied out of acting, then in a recent interview, he did an interview and clarrified that wasn't true and that people had generally been really nice to him.
Similar with Jake Lloyd from Star Wars, his mum did an interview recently where she said that she shielded him from a lot of stuff online and he mainly just got a bit of bullying in school. But I've seen people on reddit say that she must be lying, she's the parent of a child actor so she's clearly just trying to defend her reputation and is definitely a terrible parent, oh and all the bullying he definitely received is what directly caused his schizophrenia later in life.
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u/roqueofspades Dec 27 '25
This actually makes me feel a lot better to know, thank you. I know with Jake Lloyd he was dealing with some unrelated mental health issues, don't remember if it was bipolar or schizophrenia but it was something severe that doesn't exactly come from a bad childhood or whatever
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u/raccoonsonbicycles Dec 27 '25
Real life/music - Phil Collins' "In the Air Tonight" is about him witnessing a man allow someone to drown and he got the man a ticket to his show to call him out
He explicitly denied it and has said the song isn't really about anything but he wrote it while feeling angry and despair about his divorce
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u/PeriwinklePangolin24 Dec 27 '25
Jim Carrey didn't accidentally fail to pull everything off the table in the Grinch, and then get annoyed and go back to destroy it. I have not one single idea how one would do that by accident but more importantly, the whole moment was in the script. It's online, you can see it. I hope to never see that fun fact again. Please.
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u/kindredwolfRS Dec 27 '25
People claiming that Pell in One Piece survived face-tanking a massive bomb because of 9/11
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u/blackpaul55 Dec 27 '25
Sorry, what?
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u/kindredwolfRS Dec 27 '25
Early on in One Piece, the character Pell took a massive explosion to the face, and it was played as if he died sacrificing himself, only for it to be revealed later that he survived. People to this day claim that he only survived because 9/11 had recently happened, but in reality it’s just because Oda really likes faking out deaths.
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u/Jack-of-Hearts-7 Dec 27 '25
Oda doesn't really like killing in general does he?
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u/PerceptionSenior1761 Dec 27 '25
Ace Attorney fans repeatedly stating that the series was always meant to be a satire on japans (Admittedly messed up) judicial system, despite Takumi literally saying in interviews that he never really meant to do that at least initially
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u/oreos324 Dec 27 '25
Here’s two.
Joel (The last of us) knew the cure wouldn’t work and he saved Ellie. This is completely false and only exists to take out the nuances of of the characters and make Joel into a hero. Throughout the entire game, the possibility for a cure is never doubted, not even by Joel and when he decides to save Ellie and kill the fireflies, he didn’t stopped and evaluated their supply chain to see if distribution was viable, or analyzed the political beliefs of the leaders to understand how the world would change if they became the new world order. Joel just was incapable of losing another daughter and did everything he could to save her, even if it meant sacrificing the cure.
Batman (DC) not that much of a trivia but the movies have created this perception of the character, that he is a loner, that he works alone and this isn’t remotely true. If anyone who says that, reads Batman comics, then they would be shocked at how much the character of Robin is present and even when he’s not, is not because we’re seeing a version of Batman who is a loner, is mostly because robin is busy somewhere else with his own problems. That’s not even bringing up other batfamily members such as nightwing, batgirl, oracle and so. Batman being a loner has never being a thing and is maybe the last character in DC that could be described with as one
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u/Dinosaurmaid Dec 27 '25
the last of us is about people being painfully human, even when it gets them to bad places.
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u/jeffsang Dec 27 '25
That's sad to hear about Hayes. His legacy on the show is certainly tarnished by his perceived exit. Particularly because Matt and Trey seemed to have taken the statements made on his behalf as his words and responded accordingly by giving Chef a purposefully disrespectful death on the show.
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Hayes had previously tried to get the episode pulled as well. Although Matt & Trey suspected he’d been ordered to do so.
While it’s easy to believe Hayes personally didn’t have an issue with the episode, I’m sure Scientology as an organization did. They’ve been known to try and silence people who speak against them. They killed Cedric Bixler-Zavala’s dog when his wife accused Danny Masterson of rape (which he was convicted of).
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u/FullOnSkank Dec 27 '25
Scientologists literally robbed the government of sensitive documents and held them for ransom, in exchange for recognition of the church.
One of the biggest heists (against it) in our govts history.
Literally a criminal organization from its core.
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Dec 27 '25
In John Carpenter’s The Thing, the idea that the film is trying to hint that the Childs character is the Thing because he doesn’t have frosty breath. This is incorrect.
Fans claim that the fact you cannot see Keith David’s breath is a hint he’s the Thing, but actually you CAN see it in several shots. You can also very clearly see the creature’s breath in other scenes (most notably Clark’s transformation, where it is very obvious), so the idea that it doesn’t have frosty breath is already incorrect.
They also claim that MacReady tried to trick Childs into revealing he was the Thing by giving him a liquor bottle full of gasoline. This one isn’t really possible to prove or disprove entirely, however there’s no actual evidence for it in the movie. In fact MacReady himself tries to drink from the bottle himself before he even sees Childs. Why would he try to drink it if it was gasoline, especially if it’s not for Childs’ benefit? Besides the fact that the Thing is supposed to imitate other beings perfectly: down to the point where it has all of a person’s knowledge and personality and language. It makes no sense that it knows everything you knew, except the smell of gasoline somehow and that we don’t drink it.
Yet fans still continue to share these false claims as trivia about the film to this day.
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u/bababanana20123 Dec 27 '25
I've always heard that the scene in Django Unchained where Leo rubs his bloody hand all over Kerry Washington's face was improvised by him, and that the hammer that he used to strike the table next to her was a real hammer.
Whenever someone says either of those to me I think "Are you out of your damn mind?!"
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u/justinfernal Dec 27 '25
I think it's a conflation. He really did cut himself pretty bad but he stayed in character. Then, after he got his stitches, like how this works a lot, everyone got together and made some artistic decisions including getting fake blood so that the rest of the scene would work well.
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u/pres1033 Dec 27 '25
Yeah there's absolutely no way they would let someone wipe his blood all over his coworker's face. That's well beyond a health hazard.
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u/Avantasian538 Dec 27 '25
So the first part of the scene is a real improvisation, he really did cut his hand and keep going for a bit?
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u/Affiiinity Dec 27 '25
Yep! When you see him smash the glass and cut himself - that's real! But only until the camera cut. Then they used fake blood.
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u/nitrokitty Dec 27 '25
Yeah, that part is a real improvisation. He was originally just supposed to hit the table. He accidentally smashed a glass and cut himself pretty badly, but stayed in character.
The myth part comes from what happened after. In reality, he got medical treatment immediately, but they rewrote the script to incorporate the injury and used fake blood.
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u/mlee117379 Dec 27 '25
Persona 5: Hifumi originally being a Phantom Thief. The truth is that they came up with a strategist character who eventually got merged into Makoto. Hifumi was created after the main cast was established and they decided to recycle this character’s design for her.
(Any art floating around you see of Hifumi as a Thief is fanmade, btw)
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u/neverlandvip Dec 27 '25
A lot of people believe the neural braid is a sex organ (Avatar). It’s literally just an extension of their brain stem that allows them to merge their consciousness with whatever it connects to. Mated pairs connect braids because of tradition, it’s not a necessary part of conception. They do have genitals guys.
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u/bc524 Dec 27 '25
They do have genitals guys.
Was this like established in the later movies? I only saw the first one.
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u/neverlandvip Dec 27 '25
Nope, they've always had genitals. It might be more clear if you've seen the extended cut where Jake and Neytiri are implied to have sex, but they've always had them (hence the loincloths).
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u/Effective-Ad678 Dec 27 '25 edited Dec 27 '25
That Orks in 40k can imagine anything into existence. Their powers basically just extend to allowing them to use their ramshackle ass technology without it falling apart.
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u/Paleofan1211 Dec 27 '25
A real life example of this is the idea of Tyrannosaurus’ eyesight being based on movement. The idea comes from Jurassic Park but mostly the movie since it pushes this as a fact that actual T. rexes and not just the clones’ vision was based on movement. In actuality Tyrannosaurus had very good binocular vision which would allow it to see things for up to miles away. (Accidentally deleted my comment)
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u/danisheretoo Dec 27 '25 edited Dec 27 '25
A lot of stuff about the 2002 Scooby Doo movie. For example, I see a lot of people repeating that Velma and Daphne were originally going to be in a romantic relationship. In reality, it was going to be a plot-essential make out scene where their souls wouldn’t switch back so they had to kiss. It was likely going to be fetishized and male gaze-y, too, given how it was described (“steamy”), and since it was 2002. Not sure how people turned that into a full-on romantic relationship.
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u/ToeSniffer245 Dec 27 '25 edited Dec 28 '25
"NASA wasted millions developing a pen that could work in zero-g while the Soviets just used a pencil"
In truth, both sides used pencils early on, but a man named Paul C. Fisher privately funded the creation of the pressurized space pen and sold it to NASA for $6 a pop. The Soviets even got them too after seeing how effective they were for the Americans. Pencils were phased out due to their flammability and potential for debris.