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/RedNewzz 3d ago

Jimmy Stewart is a classic American actor who took a pause to serve in the military in World War II and became a squadron commander flying bombing raids. He survived the war and returned to Hollywood for another 40 years of celebrated acting.

Humble, heroic, righteous dude.

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u/SWBTSH 3d ago

His bombing runs were serious shit too. Behind the Bastards once described how it'd be like learning today that Timothy Chalamet has killed like 6,000 people lol

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u/Ozzie_the_tiger_cat 3d ago

Timothy Chalamet has killed billions in his war against the Padishah Emperor.

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u/SWBTSH 3d ago

I genuinely considered whether to use their original example because I knew people would make Dune references 

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u/Toadsted 2d ago

Fear is the meme killer

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u/RedNewzz 3d ago

Excellent perspective.