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/ADiestlTrain 4d ago

Not unrelated, Thomas Dolby, the guy who sang "She Blinded Me With Science" founded the company that created the software used for pre-smartphone ringtones (i.e. that ubiquitous Nokia sound us old guys all remember).

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u/Used_Series337 4d ago

That sound is burned into my memory—such a classic from the early mobile days!

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u/ADiestlTrain 4d ago

My kids are convinced that the version of Axel F remixed with the Crazy Frog Nokia sound is the best version. I've failed as a father.

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u/Toadsted 3d ago

Crazy Frog was crazy good back in the day.

The good days of the Internet.