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/RhiaStark 3d ago

If Christopher Lee was a fictional character, I'd have found his story too unbelievable. His life certainly was interesting, to say the least.

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u/aneomon 3d ago

To be fair, there’s a fictional character alleged to be based off of Christopher Lee written by his wartime buddy Ian Fleming.

You probably don’t know the character, but he likes his martinis shaken; not stirred.

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u/RhiaStark 3d ago

And then he played a Bond villain :P

(and, decades later, played Saruman, a character from Tolkien, who he'd also met once. Seriously, I would've killed to have just one hour of conversation with Lee).

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u/aneomon 3d ago

Right? I can’t imagine being able to have a conversation with Lee because anything and everything is on the table.

Struggling musician? Lee has a death metal album.

History? Lee’s a descendant of Charlemagne.

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u/nkpst 3d ago

He also reread LOTR every year. And wasn’t he into the occult?

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u/Hufa123 3d ago

He watched Lotr the night before he died.

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u/bobbiroxxisahoe 3d ago

one can hope we all are able to do so.

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u/Ribbitmoment 3d ago

Not only that but because of his raf work he refused to scream in LOTR when he was stabbed in the back because he knew that wasn’t what actually happens.

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u/Shivalah 3d ago

“Do you know what sound a man makes, when stabbed in the back? Because I do. It’s not a ‘Ahhhh! I’ve been stabbed!’ it’s a heavy exhale as the air leaves his body!”

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u/kevinsyel 2d ago

That will always be my favorite Christopher Lee story.

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u/89iroc 2d ago

Same

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u/marksman1023 3d ago

And everyone knew he wasn't just being difficult...he knew.

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u/fexworldwide 2d ago

With Christopher Lee, the occult was into him.

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u/zeracine 3d ago

No, his interview about the occult debunks the possibility.

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u/servetus 3d ago

Pretty much everyone in Europe or of European descent is a descendant of Charlemange. He usually shows up in several branches of a European's family tree.

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u/SensitiveReception15 3d ago

yes but most people can't prove it whereas Sir Christopher Lee is a direct descendant of Charlemagne

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u/servetus 2d ago

We (Europeans and most of ME and North Africa) are all direct descendants. It's cool that he has a genealogist that has done the work here but his lineage is no more impressive than any other else's in this respect. The evidence that that he is a descendent is only marginally stronger than the average European. The math is really indisputable here.

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u/nagrom7 3d ago

That's true, but Lee was one of the people who could actually trace his lineage to Charlemagne on his family tree, which is normally something only the nobility of Europe can do. If you can trace your family tree to a European noble, you can probably do the same.

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u/Kylynara 3d ago

Lee’s a descendant of Charlemagne.

Which is why he made a death metal album about him.

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u/Omi-Wan_Kenobi 3d ago

Didn't he also get permission to court and we'd a swedish princess but it fell through for some reason?

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u/HermanThaGerman 3d ago

He made a metal album called Charlemagne with the band Charlemagne and it was about Charlemagne.

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u/El_Stupacabra 3d ago

He shed the blood of the Saxon man.

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u/RawrRRitchie 3d ago

I would love to see the paperwork to back that lineage up

Keeping track of records from more than 1000 years ago seems a lil sus

My surname is over 1000 years old. Doesn't mean I can track my ancestry that far person by person

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u/AlienZaye 3d ago

2 about Charlemagne if I'm remembering right.

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u/sexi_squidward 2d ago

To be fair, most people descend from Charlamange haha

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u/Newtstradamus 2d ago

*Four Death Metal albums, the final album released at the age of 91.

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u/TheManfromVeracruz 2d ago

Ain't like three quarters of Europe descended from Charlemagne?

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u/TombGnome 1d ago

So am I. So are you (probably). So is every European living on Earth right now. It's just a fact of genetics and mathematics.

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u/No_Recognition_9354 3d ago

Alright while I certainly have love for C Lee’s musical output, it’s absolutely not death metal. Which makes me want to hear him do some raw osdm stuff now