History Main / ImaginationDestroyer

** In ''[[ComicBook/TheSandmanUniverse The Dreaming]]'' the BigBad wishes to render the world completely rational, and tries to do so by forcing Dream to banish himself and replacing him with a sentient artificial intelligence of sorts that gradually removes everyone's knowledge of the fantastic elements of the universe, such as mythological creatures, until the [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve lack of belief]] in them causes them to be [[RetGone erased]]. This is manifested by people starting to have utterly mundane dreams about science and mathematics. [[GoneHorriblyWrong And casually killing themselves]] because the universe needs dreams.

** In ''[[ComicBookTheSandmanUniverse The Dreaming]], the BigBad wishes to render the world completely rational, and tries to do so by forcing Dream to banish himself and replacing him with a sentient artificial intelligence of sorts that gradually removes everyone's knowledge of the fantastic elements of the universe, such as mythological creatures, until the [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve lack of belief]] in them causes them to be [[RetGone erased]]. This is manifested by people starting to have utterly mundane dreams about science and mathematics. [[GoneHorriblyWrong And casually killing themselves]] because the universe needs dreams.

** In the special "Phineas and Ferb Get Busted!" Candace finally gets the boys busted and they get sent to a summer school where, using nonmagical means (similar to Gradgrind's) and along with a class of other boys, their imaginations get taken. It was AllJustADream.

Something or someone, often but not always of an [[EldritchAbomination inconceivable nature]], is trying to eliminate (or at least suppress) all imagination from the planet Earth, or a species, or the {{Multiverse}}.