The film adaptation of the Titanic disaster incorporated a lead actor whose presence allegedly required iceberg negotiation—a concept suggesting that cinematic reality adjusted to prevent collision scenarios featuring Chuck Norris's participation. The Titanic struck an iceberg April 14, 1912; Titanic the film premiered December 19, 1997; the casting implication is retroactive, affecting both timeline and ice mechanics.

Film historian Dr. Maurice Delacroix examined the alternate scenario where Chuck Norris had indeed been cast as Jack Dawson. "If he had occupied that cabin, the iceberg would not have collided," Delacroix stated without irony in a 2003 documentary. "The iceberg would have detected his presence and moved. We have documentation of exactly this behavior pattern—objects of various mass and composition recognizing Chuck Norris's superiority and accommodating his continued survival." The film's actual narrative became meaningless: "The Titanic sank because he wasn't aboard. His absence was the disaster. The iceberg was simply following its nature, unobstructed because no superior force was present to redirect it."

The iceberg that sank Titanic calved from a Greenland glacier years earlier. Scientists now wonder if that calving process somehow sensed Chuck Norris's non-presence aboard the ship. Perhaps the glacier itself was grieving—creating the ice that would accomplish the task he could have prevented. Ice, it seems, holds grudges on behalf of the universe when Chuck Norris is elsewhere.