History Main / RealEventFictionalCause

* ''ComicBook/DeathVigil'': {{Implied}}. While Bernadette and Seraphim are expositing to Clara the significance of the [[TomeOfEldritchLore Codex]], Bernie mentions that the last known translation was kept in the Library of Alexandria, "and that problem was taken care of a long time ago."

* ''Film/TheHuntForRedOctober'': The movie adaptation implies that Captain Marko Ramius defecting to the United States with ''Red October'' was partly the cause of UsefulNotes/MikhailGorbachev's rise to power, as a result of the incident discrediting the more militaristic party officials who were backing UsefulNotes/KonstantinChernenko's leadership (the original novel was published in October 1984, months before Gorbachev took power).

* In ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'', the UsefulNotes/Covid19Pandemic was apparently caused by magic fortune cookies, whose fortunes therein are all destined by universe/fate-altering entropy to come true once the consumer eats the cookie. The enslaved old man being forced to make the cookies, in an attempt to get someone to investigate the factory where he's imprisoned and free him, made some of the fortunes says "Investigate this cookie factory or a virus will take over the world." Considering he's still stuck there by the time of the episode...

* In ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'', the UsefulNotes/Covid19Pandemic was apparently caused by magic fortune cookies that are all destined by universe/fate-altering entropy to come true. The enslaved old man being forced to make the cookies, in an attempt to get someone to investigate the factory where he's imprisoned and free him, made some of the fortunes says "Investigate this cookie factory or a virus will take over the world." Considering he's still stuck there by the time of the episode...

* In ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', the UsefulNotes/Covid19Pandemic was caused by [[spoiler:Randy Marsh]] drunkenly [[BestialityIsDepraved having sex with a pangolin]].

* ''In ''Anime/{{Suzume}}'', the Great Kantō earthquake of 1923 was caused by the Great Wyrm managing to fully emerge from a [[PortalDoor door]]. While the Wyrm was subsequently bound with the Keystones, the door itself was buried in rubble deep beneath Tokyo and remained open.

* ''Series/{{The Sandman|2022}}'': The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encephalitis_lethargica#Pandemic_of_1915%E2%80%931926 1916 - 1926 Encephalitis lethargica pandemic]] was caused by a sorcerer summoning and binding the AnthropomorphicPersonification of Dream.
* The ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "The Thirty-Sevens" had UsefulNotes/AmeliaEarhart and her crew be found on a planet by Captain Janeway and her crew, having been frozen in a deep sleep for four-hundred years.

** The episode "Hassle in the Castle" concerns Timmy exploring Cosmo and Wanda’s castle in his fishbowl and bringing to life portraits of their past godkids to ask how they got into the Hall of Fame. Except he accidentally pulled kids from the Hall of Infamy, the worst of which, Maryann, is mentioned by Wanda to have abused their magic to take out Archduke Ferdinand and plunge the world into its first World War (leading to EpilipticTrees about how Da Rules’ ThouShaltNotKill policy was involved).

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': As [[TheAhnold Jorgen Von Strangle]] recalls every disaster that [[TheDitz Cosmo]] was responsible of, he mentions the destruction of Pompey, the sinking of Atlantis and transforming the once "high-tech gleaming utopia" of Xanadu into a PollutedWasteland that Cosmo quickly christened "UsefulNotes/{{Pittsburgh}}".

* ''Film/TheHuntForRedOctober'': The movie adaptation implies that Captain Marko Ramius defecting to the United States with ''Red October'' was partly the cause of UsefulNotes/MikhailGorbachev's rise to power, as a result of the incident discrediting the more militaristic party officials who were backing UsefulNotes/KonstantinChernenko's leadership.

* The Wiki/SCPFoundation has many of these, which usually double as [[HistoricalInJoke Historical In-Jokes]]:

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Moana}}'' depicts the [[https://historydaily.org/disneys-moana-depicts-an-actual-event-in-polynesian-history Long Pause]], when Polynesians suddenly stopped sailing for roughly 2000 years after the colonization of Samoa and Fiji. According to the movie, this was caused by Maui stealing the [[CosmicKeystone Heart of Te Fiti]], the source of the creator deity's power. Monsters and demons started to roam the seas looking for it, making navigation dangerous.

* On the other hand, ''Literature/TheLastAmericanVampire'' claims the Roanoke colony was wiped out by a vampire among them. Protagonist [[PublicDomainCharacter Henry Sturges]] is one of [[spoiler:three]] survivors, counting the vampire in question, who turned Henry.

* [[EnsembleDarkhorse Goro Majima]] of the ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' series inspired the tax hikes that led to Japan's bubble economy bursting in the late 80s after rescuing a politician from a mugging and getting a little too into a conversation on taxes.

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* In ''Devilish Romance'', there's a [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/supernatural/devilish-romance/episode-41/viewer?title_no=2529&episode_no=41 demon who buys young musicians' souls]] and makes them world-class talents, but in exchange, [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/27_Club their lives end at the age of 27.]]
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* Creator/IsaacAsimov's "Literature/KidStuff": The elf from [[Myth/KingArthur Avalon]] says the country is in the Atlantic Ocean, hidden using psychic powers. When the UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic crashed into the island, it took the focus of the whole population to make the island [[PerceptionFilter look like an iceberg]].

* Several historical events in ''Series/{{Grimm}}'' are connected to [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent Wesen]] activities, including the rise of Hitler (who was a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Blutbad]]), Pogroms and witch hunts to be anti-Wesen campaigns and the worship of Wesens as gods in Ancient Egypt.
* ''Series/TheDefenders2017'': According to Chaste member Stick, the eruption of Mount Vesuvius and destruction of the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum was caused by The Hand in order to cover up their activities at mining the black substance from dragon bones buried near the cities.
* In ''Series/Babylon5'', it's revealed that the reason UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper was never caught is because he was [[Recap/BabylonFiveS02E21ComesTheInquisitor kidnapped by the Vorlons]].