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Originating in the Lord Byron quote "Tis strange — but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction," later fine-tuned into "The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense," attributed to Tom Clancy. No matter how weird, freaky, or squicky fiction gets, there will be something in Real Life that is even weirder, freakier, or squickier. When such a thing is reported to other people, it will include a "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer because Reality Is Unrealistic and we really cannot, or do not want to, believe it is real. Can be subject to Values Dissonance as well; anything one culture takes for granted about itself can look quite strange from the perspective of another culture that isn't used to the same assumptions. When such a thing is adapted to fiction, the producers will be sure to insist on their story's realism. These adaptations are usually just Very Loosely Based on a True Story, and so the original real thing probably still fits this trope. Poe's Law is when it is difficult to prove, without a smiley or other blatant evidence of sarcasm, whether something — religion, Fandom, politics, even pizza toppings — is serious or a parody, because no matter how crazy a parody might sound to the parodist, there's an actual person there saying something similar to the parody. Rule 34 — "If it exists, there is porn of it" — is a subtrope of this. Not to be confused with Stranger Than Fiction, which is a movie. A subtrope of Truth in Television and of Ripped from the Headlines. |
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The film The Magdalene Sisters depicted the plight of girls sent to live in convents as washerwomen for the crime of being pregnant out of wedlock — or even for being accused of being "flirtatious"; many inmates were still virgins. The film actually toned down the habitual violence the girls endured under the nuns' hands and also showed the girls speaking to each other and forming friendships — in reality, both were forbidden... | |
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50/50 (2011) is based on the screenwriter's own experiences with cancer in his twenties. In real life, his best friend (Seth Rogen - who essentially plays himself in the film) got the news while he was in the toilet. They left this out of the film. | |
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An episode of House ("Alone") also references the Whitney Cerak and Laura Van Ryn case mentioned in the CSI: NY entry. | |
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. makes a Running Gag out of wondering who names the various doomy things the team keeps finding, but in the case of the Demon Core, the answer is 'reality'; it's named after a plutonium core used in the Manhattan Project's experiments. The real object got its name because it fatally irradiated two scientists in two separate criticality incidents. | |
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In the musical 1776, John Adams warns that if they strike down the paragraph in the Declaration of Independence denouncing slavery, "posterity will never forgive us!" What was actually said (by John's cousin Samuel) was "There will be a trouble a hundred years hence! Posterity will never forgive us!" The writers admitted they left that out because no one would believe Adams would be that scarily accurate. | |
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal goes out of its way to disprove this, using a variant on the proof that there is no greatest positive integer. Basically, take the strangest thing that exists in reality, then add a monkey dressed as Hitler to it to get something even stranger, yet fictional. | |
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Moby-Dick is one of the great classics of American literature and the grandfather of the action/suspense novel. However, it pales in comparison to the events surrounding the destruction of the whaleship Essex, which inspired it. Check out its entry at the other wiki. | |
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Cracked.com is practically in love with this trope as much as boobs, writing humorous articles on true stories and facts that seem utterly ridiculous half the time even though it's real. | |
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Frank Abagnale's last escape could never have been included in Catch Me If You Can due to being even less plausible than tunneling out of a landing airplane. That solitary cell in federal prison? He allegedly conned his way out by pretending to be an undercover FBI agent. | |
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The Supernatural episode "No Exit" features the ghost of the United States' first documented serial killer, one H.H. Holmes. Holmes's actual exploits — which included building a "murder hotel" whose guests sometimes didn't check out — can be read about in Rick Geary's Treasury of Victorian Murder series and in Erik Larson's book The Devil in the White City. And yes, his tomb was sealed in concrete. | |
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One of Final Fantasy VII's major twists resembles the case of Whitney Cerak and Laura Van Ryn, as mentioned in Live-Action TV. | |
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The film Changeling ran into this trope. It was, in fact, based on a true story, but nobody would believe it... when it was, in fact, not exaggerated in the slightest. So writer J. Michael Straczynski added sources to the script and such, to prove it was real! Not only that but many of the more bizarre and freaktacular parts of the serial killer's exploits were left out, as they distracted from the main story. During a DVD extra, Clint Eastwood noted that if it were fiction, no one would believe it. | |
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Anyone watching The Way, Way Back might wonder who in their right mind would name a water park "Water Wizz". They did. | |
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Band of Brothers: The second episode shows Malarkey bumping into a Kraut soldier who is from a nearby town to him (but with German ancestry, hence why he's in that army). In reality, they were from the same town and had worked across the street from each other. Presumably this was changed because the coincidence was too unbelievable. Buck Compton is shown throwing a grenade at a soldier, and it explodes as soon as it hits the soldier's chest. Not only did that happen in real life - Buck had been a star baseball player - but in reality, it was the soldier's head that got hit. Guarnere is shown getting news of his brother's death when he accidentally puts on someone else's jacket and finds a letter in the pocket. It seems like a Contrived Coincidence but he swore it really happened. What's more is that he read the letter while sitting on the toilet - which the miniseries changes to him watching a movie with the rest of the men. |
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The character of Amon Goeth from Schindler's List was actually nicer than his real-life basis. Despite already being portrayed as a sadistic monster who can't feel empathy, tortures and kills prisoners just For the Evulz, and shoots children, Steven Spielberg deliberately toned down his inhumanity because he thought audiences wouldn't believe just how ridiculously monstrous Goeth really was (he had a torture dungeon underneath his house, fed live inmates to his dogs, would randomly shoot people from his window every day just for the hell of it, singled out crowds of children to be executed en masse, and is believed to have personally killed over five-hundred people and sent thousands more to their deaths).note And even then, some critics still thought that his pointlessly horrific villainy was "unrealistic". | |
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I, Tonya has Shawn Eckardt, who was Tonya Harding's bodyguard and arguably the reason the attack on Nancy Kerrigan happened. The man is so outrageously egotistical that he claims to be an international counterterrorism and securities expert in an interview on live TV. Then, during the end credits, actual footage from Shawn Eckhardt's real-life interview plays and the viewer realizes that if anything, the movie toned down his level of delusion. | |
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Law & Order gets its plots from somewhere. Such as the case of Colleen Stan. One of the better "we can't make this shit up" examples might be "Hands Free", where the detectives believe an eccentric crossdresser is responsible for the body that's shown up in pieces in trash cans all over New York City. Based strongly - yes, down to the crossdressing - on the case of Robert Durst. |
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A game in the Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney series uses the Whitney Cerak and Laura Van Ryn case as well. Of course, this case brings in actual mediums to talk to the dead, which is what drives the surviving sister to murder. | |
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When The Angry Video Game Nerd reviewed various Game Boy accessories, he said he was going to make up a bunch of fake ones as a joke to stick in at the end of the episode (a common practice of his), such as a Game Boy attachment that picks up dog poop. However, he ultimately decided not to bother, because nothing he could come up with was weirder than the very real (though unreleased) Pedisedate — a Game Boy attachment intended to be used by hospitals that would administer sleeping gas to children about to go in for surgery while they played. | |
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Six Feet Under has the evil corporation Kroehner that is progressively buying up all the funeral homes in the area, and using dirty tricks to fight anyone who won't play along. In the real world, they would be shut down pretty damn quick for violating anti-trust laws and anti-competitive behavior, right? Not really, they are based on a real corporation whose reach is even greater than that portrayed. And whereas Kroehner eventually gets destroyed by the SEC, their real-life counterpart lives on, seemingly untouchable. | |
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In Singin' in the Rain, Cosmo says of film star Lina Lamont: "She can't act, she can't sing, she can't dance. A triple threat." Now who in Real Life would build a musical around a Hollywood star who couldn't sing, dance or act? That would be the producers of a musical revue titled Two's Company, which opened on Broadway the same year Singin' in the Rain was released. What critics had to write about Bette Davis' leading performance resembled the movie's put-down of its fictional actress. This is also a reference to a Hollywood executive's first impression of Fred Astaire: "Can't act. Can't sing. Balding. Can dance a little." | |
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The writers of Leverage note several times in episode commentary that many of the villains on the show are heavily inspired by real-world events. In fact, they've commented that they needed to tone down some of the cartoonish villainy some CEOs display, as people wouldn't believe it. | |
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Stranger Things has an in-universe example. In season 2, Nancy and Johnathan, in an effort to find justice for Nancy's friend Barb who was killed by a monster in the first season, try to expose the government conspiracy that involves psychic powers, monsters, and alternate dimensions. The reporter they go to actually does believe them but points out that no matter how much proof they have, it will be trivially easy for the government to "disprove" it because no one will want to believe it. They have an epiphany and decide to "water it down," turning it into a simpler conspiracy about a chemical spill and a cover-up. The only way the government would have been able to disprove the fake story would be to tell the truth, so instead they just let all the guilty people get properly punished. | |
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Fawlty Towers: John Cleese based Basil Fawlty on Donald Sinclair, an eccentric and irascible Torquay hotelier whom he had observed during a stay in his hotel during a Monty Python's Flying Circus shoot. Among the things Sinclair did to the Monty Python troupe was loudly berating Terry Gilliam's table etiquette, throwing Eric Idle's briefcase out of a window because he believed it contained a bomb, expressing disbelief that Michael Palin had pre-booked the TV to catch a show, and starting a loud argument in the reception with Cleese when he requested a taxi. Years after the success of the show, Sinclair's widow contacted the newspapers to complain about the depiction of the character based on her husband, claiming that Cleese had unfairly exaggerated Sinclair's eccentricity, incompetence, and foul temper. Far from salvaging her husband's reputation, all it did was provoke a lot of independent witnesses (including Sinclair's own children) to also contact the papers with a lot of anecdotes about Sinclair. All of these accounts suggested that, if anything, Cleese had actually downplayed how irritable Sinclair was. His widow kept silent after that. | |
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The Sherlockian is based on the death of Richard Lancelyn Green, hailed in life as the world's foremost expert on Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle and owner of the world's largest collection of Doyle's writings and memorabilia, who was in the process of building an argument that a collection of Conan Doyle's papers being sold for auction were stolen from Doyle's daughter when he was found dead in his locked home in what was either a murder over said stolen papers or a suicide faked to look like a murder via the use of a boot lace and a wooden spoon in order to frame an academic rival. Nearly everyone who's ever written about the case has remarked that it sounds like something the great detective himself would have investigated. | |
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According to the showrunner Craig Mazin, when making the Chernobyl miniseries, they actually had to tone down the drama at some point in order to avoid the viewers accusing them of upping the drama. | |
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Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita is a retelling of the life of Eva Perón, a poor actress who rose to become the powerful First Lady of Argentina, and nearly Vice President, before a young death. The story ends here, possibly because of what happens next — the widower president is overthrown, remarries a nightclub dancer, is elected back to power, makes this wife Vice President then dies, causing the politically ignorant nightclub dancer to become president, who then falls under the spell of a sinister mystic, she is then overthrown and the country goes to war with Great Britain — would make for a somewhat zany epilogue. | |
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Criminal Minds: Many of their stranger episodes have been based on actual events. note See that page's entry on Ripped from the Headlines for the sleep-destroying list of episodes based on real crimes. As it turns out, serial killers and sadists often have severe mental issues and do things that seem like the work of Pulp Magazine villains. Like building death courses in meat packing plants, keeping their victims chained for years in their basement, centering their crimes around bizarre obsessions and signature murder rituals, and taunting the authorities with Criminal Mind Games. | |
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Some viewers of Good Night, and Good Luck. believed that the film gives an excessively over-the-top portrayal of Senator Joseph McCarthy. In fact, all of McCarthy's appearances are archival footage of the man himself. | |
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Pain & Gain had several Not Making This Up Disclaimers. They actually happened although slightly differently than shown. One of the criminals grills the severed hands of their latest victims just outside their hideout, waving to their neighbors. In real life, it was a different character and it was the hands, feet, and skulls. No one saw him, but he still did it just outside their hideout. They also try to return a chainsaw after it gets jammed in the victim's hair when they try to dismember her body. It still had her hair and some skin lodged in the teeth. In real life, they returned the first chainsaw since they forgot to put oil in it and it broke. The second one got caught in the victim's hair and they said, "Fuck it," and used a hatchet. Their first victim, who miraculously survived their attempts to kill him, was actually arrested for unrelated Medicare fraud immediately after testifying in real life. This scene wasn't in the movie, likely because not even a "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer could convince people that someone had that many things happen to them. | |
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Hacksaw Ridge actually downplays how far Desmond Doss would go to save his fellow soldiers - one such absent moment is that while Doss was being carried away in a stretcher, he jumped out and crawled to an injured man! | |
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Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan does this retroactively. The story concerns the largest ship afloat, the Titan which ignores iceberg warnings, and as a result, hits one 400 nautical miles off the coast of Newfoundland one night and sinks, killing most of its passengers. 14 years later, the RMS Titanic would manage to almost perfectly recreate the Titan's fate in even stranger conditions: it was on her maiden voyage instead of her third, on a clear night instead of dense fog, they got distress signals out but the closest ship couldn't hear them (their only radio operator was asleep) and the ship managed to survive several hours after her own designer thought she would go down. | |
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