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* A modern variation happens in ''Film/TheRocketeer'' when the HOLLYWOODLAND sign was partially destroyed in the climax and leaving just the word HOLLYWOOD.
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** According to Genesis, women endure painful childbirth, humanity in general works for a living, and everybody eventually dies because Adam and Eve ate fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, but God evicted them from the Garden of Eden before they could eat fruit from the Tree of Life so that they would not have to live in that state forever.
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** According to Genesis, women endure painful childbirth, humanity in general works for a living, and everybody eventually dies because Adam and Eve ate fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, but God evicted them from the Garden of Eden before they could eat fruit from the Tree of Life so that they would not have to live in that state forever. The snake which tempted Adam and Eve to sin is condemned to lose its legs and crawl on its belly.
** For murdering his brother Abel, Cain is condemned to become a wanderer because the soil will no longer bloom. He builds his own city and probably became the first king on Earth.
** For murdering his brother Abel, Cain is condemned to become a wanderer because the soil will no longer bloom. He builds his own city and probably became the first king on Earth.
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** Mount Etna quakes and spews fire occasionally because Zeus threw it on top of Typhon, [[AndIMustScream trapping the latter under it for all eternity]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' had three episodes that had its characters transplanted into different times and places with their punchlines being origin stories for famous landmarks.
** "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbDoofDynasty Doof Dynasty]]" takes place in Ancient China and tells us that the Great Wall of China was made from the remains of a giant mechanical Terracotta warrior.
** "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbExcaliferb Excaliferb]]", which takes place in medieval times, has a brief gag in which Ferb transforms himself into a gorgon to turn giant meatlings into stone, and they all topple over forming Stonehenge.
** "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbPhineasAndFerbAndTheTempleOfJuatchadoon Phineas and Ferb and the Temple of Juatchadoon]]", the RaidersOfTheLostParody episode, "teaches" us that the Panama Canal was formed by the destruction of the titular temple by a corn colossus.
** "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbDoofDynasty Doof Dynasty]]" takes place in Ancient China and tells us that the Great Wall of China was made from the remains of a giant mechanical Terracotta warrior.
** "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbExcaliferb Excaliferb]]", which takes place in medieval times, has a brief gag in which Ferb transforms himself into a gorgon to turn giant meatlings into stone, and they all topple over forming Stonehenge.
** "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbPhineasAndFerbAndTheTempleOfJuatchadoon Phineas and Ferb and the Temple of Juatchadoon]]", the RaidersOfTheLostParody episode, "teaches" us that the Panama Canal was formed by the destruction of the titular temple by a corn colossus.
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Interestingly, paleontologist Stephen J. Gould also termed "just so stories" certain stiff explanations by evolutionary biologists about traits that they consider they were necessarily outcomes of natural selection and must be adaptations, like "chins must have been selected by evolution because they ultimately fit this or that result", instead of being just neutral byproducts that have no effect on the fitness of an individual and simply happened to evolve without being selected out.
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* Negat's story in ''Webcomic/OrderOfTales'' explains how Dorlish wood, an important part of Webcomic/{{Overside}}, came to be.
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* ''Film/Transformers2007'': Optimus Prime's Main/OpeningNarration gives us a brief history lesson on how the [=AllSpark=] created Cybertron and its inhabitants:
-->"Before time began, there was... the Cube. We know not where it comes from, only that it holds the power to create worlds and fill them with life. That is how our race was born."
-->"Before time began, there was... the Cube. We know not where it comes from, only that it holds the power to create worlds and fill them with life. That is how our race was born."
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'''Jason:''' Because Hades had very poor social skills and thought, "Dating... abduction.. same thing, right?"
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'''Jason:''' Because Hades [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Hades]] had very poor social skills and thought, "Dating... abduction.. same thing, right?"
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** [[SeaSerpernts Jormuntide]] is said to be a sage who was wrongly accused of a crime and thrown into a whirlpool, and returned as this dragon Pal to seek revenge on those who wronged him. Likewise, Jormuntide Ignis is said to be a warrior who was wrongly accused and thrown into a volcano, returning as a fiery draconic Pal to exact revenge on his convicters.
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** [[SeaSerpernts [[SeaSerpents Jormuntide]] is said to be a sage who was wrongly accused of a crime and thrown into a whirlpool, and returned as this dragon Pal to seek revenge on those who wronged him. Likewise, Jormuntide Ignis is said to be a warrior who was wrongly accused and thrown into a volcano, returning as a fiery draconic Pal to exact revenge on his convicters.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Palworld}}'': The [[MonsterCompendium Paldeck]] has a few of these for the entries of some Pals.
** [[CreepyCrows Cawgnito]] are crow-like Pals that [[AcrophobicBird cannot fly]] and instead wander on the ground. According to the Paldeck, Cawgnito once soared the skies freely, but lost a contest to [[BrutalBirdOfPrey Galeclaw]] and thus abandoned the skies to live a quiet nocturnal life.
** [[SeaSerpernts Jormuntide]] is said to be a sage who was wrongly accused of a crime and thrown into a whirlpool, and returned as this dragon Pal to seek revenge on those who wronged him. Likewise, Jormuntide Ignis is said to be a warrior who was wrongly accused and thrown into a volcano, returning as a fiery draconic Pal to exact revenge on his convicters.
** [[CreepyCrows Cawgnito]] are crow-like Pals that [[AcrophobicBird cannot fly]] and instead wander on the ground. According to the Paldeck, Cawgnito once soared the skies freely, but lost a contest to [[BrutalBirdOfPrey Galeclaw]] and thus abandoned the skies to live a quiet nocturnal life.
** [[SeaSerpernts Jormuntide]] is said to be a sage who was wrongly accused of a crime and thrown into a whirlpool, and returned as this dragon Pal to seek revenge on those who wronged him. Likewise, Jormuntide Ignis is said to be a warrior who was wrongly accused and thrown into a volcano, returning as a fiery draconic Pal to exact revenge on his convicters.
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* ''WebAnimation/Snowdrop2013'' is a "Just So" Story detailing the origin of snowflakes. The titular Snowdrop, a blind pegasus filly, carved the first snowflake from her [[SwissArmyTears frozen]] [[BodyToJewel teardrop]], in a tribute to the season of winter and to the stars she could never see.
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* ''WebAnimation/Snowdrop2013'' is a "Just So" Story story detailing the origin of snowflakes. The titular Snowdrop, a blind pegasus filly, carved the first snowflake from her [[SwissArmyTears frozen]] [[BodyToJewel teardrop]], in a tribute to the season of winter and to the stars she could never see.
* ''Literature/TheCalfOfTheNovemberCloud'': The Dorobo hunter tells young Masai Konyek a story on why the Sun shines so brightly and the Moon is crescenth-shaped:
-->"After the moon is full, the rain will come. Do you not know that in the beginning, after the sun and the moon were married, they quarrelled, and struck one another? And because the sun was ashamed, and did not wish the people to know he had been fighting, nor allow them to see his bruises, he hid behind the clouds, and sulked. And while the rain was falling he made up his mind to shine so brightly, no man would be able to look upon him without half closing his eyes. But the moon was less perturbed, and even appeared with a piece bitten out of her cheek, and continued to shine soft and pale as before."
-->"After the moon is full, the rain will come. Do you not know that in the beginning, after the sun and the moon were married, they quarrelled, and struck one another? And because the sun was ashamed, and did not wish the people to know he had been fighting, nor allow them to see his bruises, he hid behind the clouds, and sulked. And while the rain was falling he made up his mind to shine so brightly, no man would be able to look upon him without half closing his eyes. But the moon was less perturbed, and even appeared with a piece bitten out of her cheek, and continued to shine soft and pale as before."
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-->''Then Tak looked upon the stone and it was trying to come alive, and Tak smiled, and wrote All things strive. And for the service the stone had given, he fashioned it into the first Troll, and delighted in the life that came unbidden.''
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** Garth Greenhand's children founded some of the noble houses of the Reach and introduced skills like beekeeping and winemaking.
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** WordOfGod claims that the mythical ancestors of the noble houses are just myths. The true story of how the nobles rose to prominence will never be known.
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** The Children of the Forest used the Hammer of the Waters spell to stop the invasion of the First Men. The first time it was used it destroyed the land bridge known as the Arm of Dorne (it is now known as the Broken Arm). The second time was only successful in flooding The Neck and turning it into a swamp. It does not explain how the plant and animal life adapted into their new aquatic environment.
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** The Children of the Forest used the Forest's Hammer of the Waters spell (used to stop the invasion of the First Men. The first time it was used it Men) is what destroyed the land bridge known as the Arm of Dorne (it is now (now known as the Broken Arm). The second time was only successful in flooding Arm) and what flooded The Neck and turning turned it into a swamp. It does not explain how How the plant and animal life adapted into their new aquatic environment.environment is not explained.
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* The ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros'' segment "The Cold-Blooded Penguin" is essentially an origin story as to why there are penguins in the Galapagos.
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* In ''Film/TheProphecy'', Gabriel (the angel of Death) claims to Daggett that the indentation on a person's upper lip is created when he tells them a ''secret'' and then puts his finger there and says "Shhh".
