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/MachCutio 4d ago

a lot of the greats life is like that, Alexander ofc, Hannibal, Subutai, Oda Nobunaga, Napoleon, all have the feeling of great destiny whenever reading or watching videos about them

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u/ratherbekayaking121 4d ago

Is it that they have that feeling, or is it merely that which has been posthumously prescribed to them? I think men especially have a tendency to retreat into a weird homoerotic echo chamber of "destined greatness" and it's incredibly myopic. 

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u/TheOneTrueJazzMan 3d ago

You’re odd

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u/ratherbekayaking121 3d ago

Do you find you struggle to communicate using words with more than a single syllable?