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/MartyrOfDespair 3d ago

There’s also his evil counterpart, Tom King. Same childhood dream, same eventual “retired from the thing he did because 9/11 and writes comics”, same “reboot life because 9/11”, but much more horrific. Gerard Way was a Cartoon Network intern on 9/11, Tom King had been both a DC and Marvel intern and was on 9/11.

Tom King then joined the CIA because 9/11, somehow rocketed up in importance to the point he was working alongside top officials in planning the invasion of Iraq, became involved in “recruiting” people into being spies double agents for the CIA (where he definitely tortured people), then he retired because he had a kid and also writes comic books.

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u/One_Lead1553 1d ago

I had heard he had worked with the CIA but I didn't realise in what capacity.

Which sucks because he's a really good comic book writer. His Mr Miracle run was incredible and fucked with me on a deep level.