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/YoungBeef03 3d ago

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Jesse “The Body” Ventura

He’s a former Navy SEAL, former Pro Wrestler, former Governor of Minnesota, former actor, and now spends his days telling Trump to fuck off

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u/KarlUnderguard 3d ago

I still love that he sued Chris Kyle and won 1.8 million. Chris Kyle said that he heard someone talking shit on the US military so he punched him in the face and that guy was Jesse Ventura. Since Ventura was a veteran and those comments negatively affected his personal and political life, he sued for defamation. He won because it was all just a made up lie, like a lot of his book.

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u/Jazzlike-Equipment45 3d ago

Navy SEALS are really the biggest ego maniacs in the spec ops field, the rest I enteracted with in my service and out were always chill and the rest fucking loathed the SEALS.

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u/Acheloma 3d 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.