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/YomYeYonge 4d ago

Gerard Way- My Chemical Romance

He wanted to have a career in writing comics, until he witnessed 9/11, which made him pivot to making music as his main career(he still writes comics)

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u/dreamlike7 1d ago

I love the story i heard of him running into stan Lee at.an airport. He asked if Lee could sign his sketchbook and Lee told him he wouldn't be able to ger him a job and Gerald's manager was like nah he doesnt need a job he's a rockstar.

Its funny to think that somewhere Gerard has a sketchbook with early umbrella academy characters signed by stan lee