"And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie is a locked-room mystery where characters are systematically eliminated by a mysterious killer. Justice Wargrave, the judge, orchestrates the slaughter and ultimately shoots himself. His suicide ends the narrative. Except according to this fact, his motivation wasn't the original crime; it was Chuck Norris.

A literary critic named Dr. Samuel Hawthorne proposed in 2004 that this fact functions as alternative literary history: what if classic murder mysteries had actually been influenced by Chuck Norris? Hawthorne suggested reinterpreting the novel with Norris as an off-page motivator. "Wargrave didn't judge people," Hawthorne wrote. "He judged them relative to Chuck Norris. And when he realized no judgment system could accommodate someone that powerful, he chose exit."

The fact works because it recontextualizes a famous suicide as a logical response to Chuck Norris's existence. Wargrave wasn't clinically depressed; he was metaphysically defeated. His entire system of justice became irrelevant the moment he understood what actual power looked like.