It’s been pronounced that was (incorrectly) but that’s not how it’s spelled and that is where the Mandela Effect comes in. Most people would swear that’s how it’s spelled. I’ve seen the reaction of quite a few when they looked closely and realized the truth.
I blame Austin Powers
Jaws’ girlfriend had big, white, perfect teeth, unlike him–that’s why he was so attracted to her. That was the gag.
I blame this one on the inversion by Meat Loaf.
I have to disagree on that particular point, because what @Johanna and I are saying is that there was never an instance of “people collectively misremembering” anything about Mandela. So, why would you call an instance of “people collectively misremembering things” a name related to Mandela?
Yet you do acknowledge that there might have been “one or two isolated ignoramuses” who were unaware of Mandela’s release from prison, and who, as a consequence, misremembered Steve Biko’s death as Mandela’s. How many of such people would it take, according to you, to justify the description of people collectively misremembering things? To me, the “collective” label doesn’t imply that everyone shares in; it’s enough that the number of people who report misremembering along these lines is not negligible.
That makes a bit more sense, though Peter Gabriel’s song “Biko” ought to have clarified it. I’m afraid the problem is that Africa is peripheral to the minds of most Americans.
(I wrote something that was counterfactual here, which I have deleted)
That she was imperfect like him, (with metal teeth, sort of 
) and not like Drax’s other perfect playboy and chippendales’s models-as-crew, was why he was attracted to her. And it was why he turned on Drax during the space station battle, the fact neither of them fit Drax’s Dr Strangelove vision for the rebuilding of humanity.
She was “plain.” In the Hollywood movie definition of plain, meaning that she wore glasses and had her hair in pigtails. (Actually, of course, she was just as gorgeous as any of Drax’s supermodel crewmembers). I never saw braces on her. Her “imperfection” was already obvious enough, if you knew how to read the visual code.
Yep. Many ‘Mandela Effects’ can be explained by people simply conflating two similar things, as in this, conflating the Fruit of the Loom logo with a standard Thanksgiving cornucopia. People thinking the rich Monopoly dude has a monocle when he doesn’t? Conflation with Mr. Peanut. Mandela supposedly dying in prison? Conflation with Steve Biko.
Sure, but people still make mistakes, and sometimes many people make the same mistake at the same time. So even if you don’t believe there is anything supernatural or multiverse-y about people confusing Biko’s and Mandela’s death, you can still acknowledge the observation that a sufficiently large number of people made that mistake to make it a notable occurrence that’s worthy of its own name.
Plus, people being ignorant and uncaring about distant countries with different cultures and problems is, unfortunately, the norm.
Conflation of Jif Peanut Butter with Jiffy Baking Mix and Jiffy Pop popcorn
Correct. She had nice teeth. No braces. You can see it here (unless, of course, the entire universe was remade just to confound us – but I think not): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL3RnXY2FYA
I have no doubt that it’s because of Charles Laughton’s portrayal of a gluttonous Henry VIII in the 1933 movie The Private Life of Henry VIII. I’ve never seen it myself, but I know it influenced my mother’s image of the King. There’s no scene where he’s gnawing on a turkey leg, evidently, but he does get sloppy eating a chicken:
In the 1969 tv series “Storybook Squares,” the children’s version of “Hollywood Squares,” Soupy Sales played Enerry VIII, and his costume included a turkey leg. So that image has been engrained for a while!
Again we have an example where the imagined element fits logically with the complete picture. Her high braided pigtails, combined with her glasses, are two elements that fit the stereotype of an akward, nerdy young woman, a stereotype with which braces might be associated as well. Not to mention that braces would be well-matched with Jaws’ metal teeth, as mentioned above.
A turkey leg would be pretty bizarre; then again, he did do that portrait with the huge freaky skull in the foreground…
In the movie franchise, Kirk did once say “Scotty, beam me up.” It was the one where the landed the ship in San Francisco, and the irony is that he wasn’t being beamed “up”. He was being beamed horizontally.