History BeyondTheImpossible / Literature

* ''Literature/EastOfTheSunAndWestOfTheMoon'' is the [[TitleDrop place the The wife has to search for]] in order to find her husband. It's implied to be an allegory for finding a nonexistent place through ThePowerOfLove.

* ''Literature/VillainessLevel99IMayBeTheHiddenBossButImNotTheDemonLord'': The fact that Yumiella is Level 99. It is so inconceivable that one of the first issues Yumiella had to deal with is to prove to the school she really was that level as many students and teachers assumed she cheated on the test somehow.

* ''LightNovel/TheLongingOfShiinaRyo'': The battle was over and the good guys had won, but when Shin-tsu saw [[spoiler:his best friend falling to an imminent death on the other side of the warehouse]] there wasn't much he could do. So he [[BigDamnHero defied reality to reach her and take the impact in her place]].

* ''LightNovel/LogHorizon'': A justified case. "World Class Magic" is described as "magic that changes the laws of the world". In other words, one of the laws governing this setting allows for the changing of other laws. [[spoiler: Shiro's contract that transforms landers into adventurers is described as this kind of magic.]]

* In ''LightNovel/TheUnexploredSummonBloodSign'', the Unexplored-Class Materials are the [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Anthropomorphic Personifications]] of the laws of the universe, which even gods must follow. They are the reason why, for example, the gods of Myth/NorseMythology are doomed to die during Ragnarok. Additionally, when all of them are brought together, [[spoiler:they have the power to oppose and counteract the [[GodIsEvil White Queen]]. However, when an army of Unexplored-Class were summoned to fight the White Queen in the Secret War, she managed to defeat them all. Not only that, but she made them submit to her, effectively gaining total control over the entire universe]]!

** In ''Literature/{{Jingo}}'', Captain Carrot Ironfounderson recounts an incident where he and some other watchmen were chasing a criminal named Daceyville Slopes, nicknamed "The Man with the Reinforced Comb". Slopes's dandruff is so severe that he uses it as a defensive tactic.
---> Carrot: "We'd have got him last year, but he shook his head fast and got away while we were trying to dig out Nobby."

* ''Literature/OldPossumsBookOfPracticalCats'': "He breaks the law of gravity..."

** Nynaeve's main passion is Healing, up to and including inventing her own spells for it.: One of them [[spoiler:heals [[FateWorseThanDeath severing]]]].

** In ''Literature/{{Jingo}}'', Captain Carrot Ironfounderson recounts an incident where he and some other watchmen were chasing a criminal named Daceyville Slopes, nicknamed "The Man with the Reinforced Comb". Slopes's dandruff is so severe that he uses it as a defensive tactic

** In ''Literature/{{Jingo}}'', Carrot recounts an incident where he and some other watchmen were chasing a criminal named Daceyville Slopes, nicknamed "The Man with the Reinforced Comb". Slopes's dandruff is so severe that he uses it as a defensive tactic
*** "We'd have got him last year, but he shook his head fast and got away while we were trying to dig out Nobby."

* Nora and Maya from DarthWiki/{{Crushed}} look so good in their swimsuits they can make Nigel, a blind man, have a NoseBleed.

* ''Script/TheCreepyTeenYears'': Mmmeee0 once converted all the adrenaline in his Body into THC. Adrenaline is a Hormone and THC is only produced in Plants. From a Chemical standpoint, the two are nothing alike.

* In Lucian's ''Literature/TrueStory'' the people of the Moon are at war with the ''people of the Sun''. The narrator not only survives going to the sun, he doesn't seem impressed by it at all. Every word of the story like that operates on logic such as "Aristophanes is a wise and truthful man".

*** From the same book Vimes manages to [[spoiler:survive hosting [[EldritchAbomination the Summoning Dark]]. While he isn't the first to do so (though those that have are few and far between), the fact that he suppressed the [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge berserker rage it causes]]]] is stated by everyone who knows about Dwarf curses to be impossible.

* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': Hilariously lampshaded in ''Literature/{{Changes}}'', when Harry returns to his apartment and finds his AxCrazy FairyGodmother the Leanansidhe lying in wait for him. She then reveals herself by [[ChairReveal dramatically swiveling around in his armchair]] [[RightHandCat while petting Harry's pet cat Mister]]. Harry, for his part, [[SkewedPriorities starts internally freaking out about how exactly]] she managed to swivel around in an armchair that wasn't actually built for it and yet didn't break it.

** In Game of Thrones, [[spoiler:Bran enters Hodor's mind, something that Jojen says no one else can do]].

* In the ''Literature/HaloEvolutions'' story ''The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole'', if the ONI officer reviewing Cole's life is correct, [[spoiler:Cole SURVIVED by executing an in-atmosphere slip-space jump (which should not be possible with UNSC technology), and is most likely finally living a life of peace far outside UNSC or Covenant space. [[EarnYourHappyEnding He deserves it.]]]]
* In ''LightNovel/TheUnexploredSummonBloodSign'', the Unexplored-Class Materials are the [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Anthropomorphic Personifications]] of the laws of the universe, which even gods must follow. They are the reason why, for example, the gods of Myth/NorseMythology are doomed to die during Ragnarok. Additionally, when all of them are brought together, [[spoiler:they have the power to oppose and counteract the [[GodIsEvil White Queen]]. However, when an army of Unexplored-Class were summoned to fight the White Queen in the Secret War, she managed to defeat them all. Not only that, but she made them submit to her, effectively gaining total control over the entire universe]]!

* ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'': Mandalorian battle armor zigzags this trope DependingOnTheWriter. Canonically there are only three materials that can resist lightsabers: cortosis, phrik and beskar. Everything else offers no resistance in normal quantities (blast doors and other very thick things at least take some time to melt through). [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Mandalorian]] smiths have exclusive knowledge of working beskar or "Mandalorian iron" and can use it to construct lightsaber- and everything else-resistant armor. However, beskar is rare and expensive, so some Mandalorians have to settle for plating, lower-quality alloys, or mixing beskar and traditional armor pieces, [[ArmorIsUseless often to mixed results]].

** BlackMagic is universally held to [[DrunkOnTheDarkSide corrupt the user]], usually so [[JumpedOffTheSlipperySlope quickly]] and [[DrunkOnTheDarkSide irreversibly]] that the White Council summarily executes every practitioner it finds. However, one member of the Senior Council, the Blackstaff, uses eponymous artifact to NoSell this core law of magic and use Black Magic freely without corruption. It's possible that Harry's knowledge of the theory [[LiesToChildren is less than perfect]] (it's happened before in his study of magic), but the Blackstaff is TheDreaded to monsters vastly older and nastier than Harry -- and for good reason.

* In "The Double Shadow" by Creator/ClarkAshtonSmith, a prideful wizard casts an unknown SummoningRitual with his an apprentice and a mummy servant, confident that he can deal with whatever arrives. He gets a LivingShadow that does {{nothing|IsScarier}} but approach them very, very slowly, [[NoSell ignoring]] everything they try to use against it -- until the mummy, which was reanimated to be a loyal, {{fearless|undead}}, utterly mindless automaton, starts screaming in terror and despair when the shadow gets close.

* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': Hilariously lampshaded in ''Literature/{{Changes}}'', when Harry returns to his apartment and finds his AxCrazy FairyGodmother the Leanansidhe lying in wait for him. She then reveals herself by [[ChairReveal dramatically swiveling around in his armchair]] [[RightHand while petting Harry's pet cat Mister]]. Harry, for his part, [[SkewedPriorities starts internally freaking out about how exactly]] she managed to swivel around in an armchair that wasn't actually built for it and yet didn't break it.

*** From the same book Vimes manages to [[spoiler:survive hosting the Summoning Dark. While he isn't the first to do so (though those that have are few and far between), the fact that he suppressed the [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge berserker rage it causes]]]] is stated by everyone who knows about Dwarf curses to be impossible.

* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'': A really big moment when a character [[HeroicSacrifice takes a killing blow]] from Kayaba Akihiko to save Kirito, while paralyzed. Even Kayaba couldn't believe that happened, and he ''made'' the game.

** A more specific example is when Anakin lands the disintegrating remains of Grievous's flagship, basically meaning he's trying to land something that is about half a kilometer long (after it breaks in half), that has lost its main engines, and is a spaceship that is not designed to be in an atmosphere. The Novelization flat out states that such a task is impossible. He does it.

** In ''Discworld/{{Thud}}'', the head of the [[VegetarianVampire Uberwald Temperance League]] has somehow learned how to roll his w's, apparently overcompensating for an after-lifetime of speaking in VampireVords.

** Ronnie Soak from ''Discworld/ThiefOfTime'' somehow managed to milk an alligator.

*** From the same book Vimes manages to [[spoiler:survive hosting the Summoning Dark. While he isn't the first to do so (though those that have are far and few between), the fact that he suppressed the [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge berserker rage it causes]]]] is stated by everyone who knows about Dwarf curses to be impossible.

* In the ''Literature/{{Suggsverse}}'', most of the characters possess power beyond omnipotence, which is impossible by the logic and definition of it. And that's not even scratching the surface of the impossible things the Suggsverse can do.

* In the ''Literature/{{Suggsverse}}'' book series by Creator/{{Lionel Suggs}}, most of the characters possess power beyond omnipotence, which is impossible by the logic and definition of it.

** Bloody Stupid Johnson's creations include a letter sorter that sorts every letter that will ever be written in every possible timeline[[note]]He found pi's "three and a bit" messy, so he made the flywheel of the sorter with a diameter-to-circumference ration of exactly three[[/note]], a triangle with three right angles (on the Disc, which is noted for being a ''flat planet''!), and a building that's BiggerOnTheInside.

* ''Literature/EastOfTheSunAndWestOfTheMoon'' is the [[TitleDrop place the The wife has to search for]] in order to find her husband. Its implied to be an allegory for finding a nonexistent place through ThePowerOfLove.

** Bloody Stupid Johnson's creations include a letter sorter that sorts every letter that will ever be written in every possible timeline, a triangle with three right angles (on the Disc, which is noted for being a ''flat planet''!), and a building that's BiggerOnTheInside.

* ''Literature/WarriorCats'' Despite Scourge when [[spoiler: he rips out ALL NINE OF TIGERSTAR'S LIVES AT ONCE]]. A cat is supposed to be temporarilly dead once killed only to revive later. To take out all nine at once is unprecedented.

* ''Main/CastlePerilous'' does this with MediumAwareness. ''Castle Spellbound'', can be said to be the moment [[RealityIsOutToLunch reality gets so out of whack]] it breaks the rules of narrative cohesion.