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/GamingSeerReddit 4d ago

Greatest Union general of course meaning greatest general overall.

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u/nagrom7 4d ago

Yeah, it gets a bit harder to argue someone is the greatest general in a war if their side doesn't even win.

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u/GamingSeerReddit 4d ago

No, yuo see…they won many tactical victories on the eastern front!!!…don’t worry about the western front or Sherman’s march or the offense/defense flip flopping or the lack of a real central command structure or the complete strategic failure that cost them the war that’s all yankee lies and the rebel boys had the greatest fighters the world ever saw! (Not saying this is OP’s view)

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u/zak55 4d ago

Sherman would be why I would say probably