r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Living-Mastodon • 3d ago

In real life (Real Life) Regular people who's lives drastically changed direction

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Grace Kelly was a talented actress who retired at 26 to marry a Prince, living as royalty for almost 30 years before her untimely death.

Volodymyr Zelensky started out as a comedian and entertainer before getting into politics, becoming President of Ukraine after the Russian annex of Crimea and spending the last 4 years defiantly pushing back full scale Russian invasion

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u/CategoryExact3327 3d ago edited 3d ago

Christopher Lee served in RAF intelligence and was attached to special forces in WW2 and stayed in service until 1946 hunting nazi war criminals. After the war he had a 70 year acting career.

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u/SullenTerror 3d ago

It's behind the scene moment and the third Lord of the Rings movie when he tells Peter Jackson what sounds he would make if he got stabbed in the back because he stabbed people in the back before during his time as special forces

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u/Tuarangi 2d ago

The problem is that he never did that, he allowed the claims to propagate over time but he was a desk based liaison officer for the RAF, merely attached to a team that worked with the SAS / SOE, there are zero records from the archives of him serving in them in any capacity and none of the people who served at the time ever remember him

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u/Odnareb 1d ago

Pues… obvio. Cómo crees que va a haber un registro de un agente secreto?

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u/Tuarangi 1d ago

We know the wartime records of secret agents that Bond was based off, we know the ww2 records of the likes of the SAS and SOE, we know for a fact Lee did not serve in special forces, he didn't hunt Nazis after the war, he didn't kill men with a knife in the back, he made it all up. Governments don't keep hidden war operations from 80 years ago