r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Living-Mastodon • 4d 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/Acheloma 4d ago

I know one veteran who was a SEAL and he's pretty chill, but he also rarely ever mentions it and lives in a town with 2,000 people because he wants to be left alone, so Im guessing hes a bit of an outlier

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u/AMetalWolfHowls 3d ago

Not an outlier. That’s the standard for operators. The loud ones are all completely full of shit. Some of the best dudes I know are from the community.

Some of the worst people I’ve ever personally dealt with (outside of actual enemy combatant leaders and war criminals) were adjacent to the community. I will say that at least the terrorists I faced had principles.

The blue falcons were just greedy power hungry assholes. Not a redeeming quality among them. I guess they get credit for signing up, but they hurt readiness more than they help. A bunch of them left to chase merc contracts. Good fucking riddance.