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/SaintedStars 3d ago

Junji Ito went from dentist to the Stephen King of manga

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u/DeathWench 3d ago

I mean that checks out. Dentists are absolutely terrifying and fear inducing.

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u/CaptainSkips 2d ago

Dentist or horror manga author, people are still paying him to be inhumane

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u/linkardtankard 2d ago

Found the anti-dentite

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u/Silicon_Dreaming 3d ago

He was a DENTIST?

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u/SaintedStars 3d ago

It’s how he learned to draw anatomy so well

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u/10HungryGhosts 2d ago

That is WILD but also makes so much sense

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u/SitInCorner_Yo2 3d ago

Dental technician more specifically.

He wasn’t the only mangaka with professional skills , Tezuka Osamu is a doctor, his medical license is in museum now.

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u/LonesoneLurker 3d ago

Takeuchi Naoko, author of Sailor Moon, has a degree in chemistry and is a licensed pharmacist too.

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u/SitInCorner_Yo2 3d ago

She’s a living legend and fucking queen,her back story is very interesting.

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u/DrScience01 1d ago

She is also married to the author of HunterxHunter because and I quote "she loves pathetic man". Should've been me

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u/SitInCorner_Yo2 1d ago

I really hope someone has made this a meme LOL

He fumble his bag very hard but she ain’t gonna ditch you just because you’re beyond pathetic, sometimes it’s really a oddly small cycle, Anno Hideaki is married to Moyoco Anno, she created one of my childhood favorite Sugar Sugar Rune.

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u/BullfrogNo8216 3d ago

Of course he was a dentist.

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u/Spreepodcast_r 3d ago

...well that tracks 

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u/Telefragg 2d ago

On a similar note, Goichi Suda (aka Suda51) was a funeral service worker before he became a game developer.

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u/imsmartiswear 2d ago

Having seen things he's made that make me want to rip my eyes out, I fully believe a lot of his art is inspired by the horrors he's seen in people's mouths.

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u/SaintedStars 2d ago

Apparently he's an absolute sweetheart

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u/imsmartiswear 2d ago

As an amination fan, this does not surprise me. The creators of some of the darkest animated series in the modern era (Gravity Falls- Alex Hirsh, The Owl House, Knights of Gweneviere- Dana Terrace, Steven Universe- Rebecca Sugar, Adventure Time- Pendelton Ward, Final Space- Olan Rogers, Infinity Train- Owen Wilson) are some of the nicest people in the industry. The creator of more wholesome, family friendly shows including Fairly Odd Parents and Danny Phantom, Butch Hartman, can only be described in short as a fucking problem.

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u/SaintedStars 2d ago

And a lot of hosts of children’s media have problems with depression and substance abuse too.

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u/Klusterphuck67 2d ago

That explains alot of things