History Main / BeyondTheImpossible

*** FYI, land speed records are firmly set in the three-digit range using specially designed rocket-propelled vehicles. Peter breaks 1,000 in a ''station wagon''.

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* The active medium in lasers employs a so-called 'population' inversion', where the some of the particles in the material are at a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_temperature ''negative'' temperature]], which is ''hotter'' than any positive temperature.
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Do not confused with RuleOfCool (where the WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief is stretched because the example is cool) CrazyAwesome (which is characters that are effective because of their mudane craziness, though [[CrazyEnoughToWork they may be the only ones crazy enough to try]]) or {{badass}} which is Rule Of Cool personified. This trope is about events not the characters involved in them.

->''"Go [[TropeNamer beyond the impossible]] and [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveSupernaturalPowers kick reason to the curb]]! [[BadassCreed That's how Team Gurren rolls!]]"''

[[folder:Real Life]]
* The active medium in lasers employs a so-called 'population' inversion', where the some of the particles in the material are at a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_temperature ''negative'' temperature]], which is ''hotter'' than any positive temperature.
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->''"Go [[TropeNamer beyond the impossible]] and [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveSupernaturalPowers kick reason to the curb]]! That's how Team Gurren rolls!"''

Distinct from UpToEleven in two respects. 1.) There is no 'topping' involved; topping the previous maximum is not necessarily the motivation. 2.) The action is ''literally'' [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin beyond the impossible]] instead of being one step higher than the current best. For example: Alice punches Bob and he steps back from the force. UpToEleven, Alice punches Bob [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom across the room]]. Beyond The Impossible, Alice punches Bob ''backwards in time''. The former is just a stronger punch while the latter has nothing to do with strength.

No, no it's not. This trope is for actions and events that defy the limits set within a series. In RealLife they just wouldn't work, but the rules of fiction are somewhat... [[TheoryofNarrativeCausality looser]], i.e. whatever the author laid down when constructing it. Someone who, for instance, gains the power to fly when no one else can is not this trope; that is AppliedPhlebotinum or FunctionalMagic or some other trope defining the character's power. LikeRealityUnlessOtherwiseNoted is a good thing to keep in mind when adding examples; aspects of the fictional reality not covered by the author's rules are covered by real life. For the example to count it has to be '''impossible''' according to the internal logic of the story.

In short, whenever someone 'touches the untouchable' or 'breaks the unbreakable',[[note]]''[[Memes/TengenToppaGurrenLagann ROW! ROW! FIGHT DA POWAH!]]''[[/note]] they are going Beyond The Impossible.

[[GurrenLagann Do the impossible! see the invisible!]]

Do not confused with RuleOfCool (where the WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief is stretched because the example is cool) CrazyAwesome (which is characters that are effective because of their mudane craziness, though [[CrazyEnoughToWork they may be the only ones crazy enough to try]]) or {{badass}} which is RuleOfCool personified. This trope is about events not the characters involved in them.

This could done by the CrazyAwesome, who ignores the rules, or the IdiotHero, who doesn't know them. Thus, going beyond the impossible can be AchievementsInIgnorance. Just as easily, however, it could be a calculated endeavor by AwesomeByAnalysis trying to subvert the rules. [[Administrivia/TropesAreFlexible These are just examples, there could be others.]]

This could done by the CrazyAwesome, who ignores the rules, or the IdiotHero, who doesn't know them. Thus, going beyond the impossible can be AchievementsInIgnorance. Just as easily, however, it could be a calculated endeavor by AwesomeByAnalysis trying to subvert the rules. [[TropesAreFlexible These are just examples, there could be others.]]

!!InUniverseExamplesOnly:

In short, whenever someone 'touches the untouchable' or 'breaks the unbreakable',[[note]]''[[Memes/TengenToppaGurrenLagann ROW! ROW! FIGHT DA POWAH!]]''[[/note]] they are going BeyondTheImpossible.

* ''{{Foxtrot}}'', a universe grounded in real-life phytsics, has the Humbler, a Hummer BlandNameProduct that is implied to '''have a bigger gravitational mass than Earth'''.

* ''{{Garfield}}'' [[http://www.garfield.com/comics/vault.html?yr=2005&addr=050401 ate a pizza]] ''before'' it arrived. He has "friends high up in the delivery business".

In short, whenever someone 'touches the untouchable' or 'breaks the unbreakable',[[note]]''[[TengenToppaGurrenLagann ROW! ROW! FIGHT DA POWAH!]]''[[/note]] they are going BeyondTheImpossible.

In short, whenever someone 'touches the untouchable' or 'breaks the unbreakable',[[hottip:*:''[[TengenToppaGurrenLagann ROW! ROW! FIGHT DA POWAH!]]'' they are going BeyondTheImpossible.

Distinct from UpToEleven in two respects. 1.) There is no 'topping' involved; topping the previous maximum is not necessarily the motivation. 2.) The action is ''literally'' [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin beyond the impossible]] instead of being one step higher than the current best. For example: Alice punches Bob and he steps back from the force. UpToEleven, Alice punches Bob [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom across the room]]. Beyond The Impossible, Alice punches Bob ''backwards in time''. The former is just a stronger punch while the later has nothing to do with strength.

In short, whenever someone 'touches the untouchable' or 'breaks the unbreakable',[[hottip:*:''[[TengenToppaGurrenLagann ROW! ROW! FIGHT DA POWAH!]]'' they are going Beyond The Impossible.

A violation of InternalConsistency and will not exist in stories with NegativeContinuity because a story needs strong internal consistency and continunity in order for either to be broken. WrongContextMagic is a subtrope where characters pull out magic abilities that don't fit into the local rules. Contrast MagicAIsMagicA, when even supernatural elements have rules that cannot be broken.

!!Examples:

No, no it's not. This trope is for actions and events that defy the limits set within a series. In RealLife they just wouldn't work, but the rules of fiction are somewhat looser, i.e. whatever the author laid down when constructing it. Someone who, for instance, gains the power to fly when no one else can is not this trope; that is AppliedPhlebotinum or FunctionalMagic or some other trope defining the character's power. LikeRealityUnlessOtherwiseNoted is a good thing to keep in mind when adding examples; aspects of the fictional reality not covered by the author's rules are covered by real life. For the example to count it has to be '''impossible''' according to the internal logic of the story.

A violation of InternalConsistency and will not exist in stories with NegativeContinuity because a story needs strong internal consistency and continunity in order for either to be broken. Contrast MagicAIsMagicA, when even supernatural elements have rules that cannot be broken.