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1Events in Comics that are not possible. '''only list examples that fit the description'''
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3* ComicBook/RedHulk raised Thor's hammer by jumping into space. Also punching out The Watcher, killing the Grandmaster (who is explicitly immortal) and choking the Silver Surfer (who doesn't need air).
4* ''Comicbook/GreenLantern'':
5** The Guardians of the Green Lantern corps made sure that it would be physically impossible for a Lantern to kill one of them. When [[spoiler: Hal Jordan kills Krona]] they are shocked and afraid.
6** Bleez was TheStarscream ''before'' she regained her intelligence. While the other Red Lanterns are growling, "Kill, burn, stab, eat, hate, rage" she was going "Kill... Atrocitus....". In other words, while wearing a ring that turns its host into a mindless berserker, she held onto enough intelligence and focus to choose a specific target.
7** Simon Baz using his Green Lantern ring to bring his sister's husband out of a coma. B'dg explained that Green Lantern rings cannot cure illness or bring back the dead, '''but Baz does the former anyway'''. B'dg is astonished and flat out states that even [[LivingLegend Hal Jordan]] couldn't have done that.
8*** Then, [[LampshadeHanging remembering that incident,]] he then goes even further in ''ComicBook/GreenLanterns'' Issue 3 and decides to TakeAThirdOption, choosing to ''and succeeding'' in [[spoiler:curing the Red Lantern Bleez of her rage - implying by default that he ''broke'' the connection with the Red Ring, which is emphasized by her declaration that she can't hear its "noise" in her head any more - ''and'' in the process manages to heal her body so thoroughly that ''her previously-destroyed wings grow back completely intact''. He does this using a ''Green'' Lantern Power Ring and entirely by himself, despite the fact that by all previously-established rules in the comics, none of it ''should'' be possible without also having someone there wielding a ''Blue'' Lantern Power Ring.]] Why or how he's even able to do this is completely unaddressed, other than [[HeroicResolve he very much wanted to.]] Even ''Saint Walker'' couldn't accomplish this feat, as his ring morphed into a Blue Lantern ring while performing its healing attempt in an alternate timeline.
9*** For this reason, and other oddities such as the Emerald Sight, Simon's RedBaron at the end of the Johns run is 'the Miracle Worker'.
10** In general, the Earth Lanterns are particularly prone to this:
11*** Hal managed to affect yellow in ''Secret Origin'' back when that was technically impossible, resurrected Coast City complete with sentient energy constructs, briefly overcome his Parallax possession without even knowing what it was to reignite Earth's sun before his death, successfully killed [[spoiler: Krona]] despite the fact that the rings were hardwired by the Guardians to be unable to do that, willed himself back from the dead as a Black Lantern and summoned Nekron to take on Volthoom before banishing him again, came back from the dead through sheer force of will (not for the first time), later forged his own Lantern Ring from his raw Will as he began to merge with the Spectrum after overuse of Krona's Gauntlet (also granting him a DeadlyUpgrade that allowed him to curbstomp a Parallax-powered Sinestro and obliterate War World), despite the fact that that was supposed to be impossible for any non-Guardian (though Ganthet, with an amused smile, just remarked that he was amazed it had taken Hal this long to prove them wrong), which served as a SoulJar so he could come back ''again'' with the help of White Lantern Kyle Rayner, Ganthet, and Sayd. There is a ''reason'' this guy is acknowledged as the ''greatest'' of the Green Lanterns.
12*** Kyle Rayner, meanwhile, is acknowledged by Hal as the Greatest Lantern full-stop, being the only being to master all seven shades of the spectrum barring Volthoom (and unlike Volthoom, managed to do it without going nuts and finding all kinds of new uses for it), becoming the first White Lantern. Again, this is supposed to be impossible - while some Lanterns can wield two colours at a time, managing all seven is supposedly this trope. Except for Kyle. It's implied that it was for this reason that Ganthet picked him all those years ago to be the Torchbearer, despite the fact that Kyle was meant to be TheClosestThingWeGot. He even goes beyond the Source Wall and returns, with the Life Equation. And even long before this, he had a reputation for accidentally and entirely subconsciously creating flawless sentient constructs derived from his subconscious, as seen in the original ''Circle of Fire'' arc.
13*** Guy Gardner repeatedly manages to control the Red Rings and retain his rationality, even dual-wielding a Red and a Green (he grumpily describes himself as the Christmas Lantern). This is despite (or perhaps because of) his HotBlooded nature, even without a bath in the blood lakes on Ysmault. No one's entirely sure how, though it may have something to do with the fact that he's potentially a great Blue Lantern, and capable of accessing the Blue Ring's constructs and weapons even without a Green around.
14*** John Stewart managed to put Mogo back together, albeit with a little help from Mogo himself, after an EarthShatteringKaboom. He also, briefly, recreated the entire Xanshi system, and the construct only collapsed when the ring gave out.
15* Italian comic ''Comicbook/{{Sturmtruppen}}'' where the EpicFail of its firing squad tries to execute a prisoner. They managed to miss him and hit the wall behind him while he was holding their rifles pressed directly against his '''chest.'''
16* ''Comicbook/CaptainAmerica'': Breaking Captain's vibranium shield is usually defined as Beyond The Impossible. The few who have done it tend to have "omnipotent" on their resumés: Doctor Doom with the power of the Beyonder, the Molecule Man (who described it as weirder than either Thor's hammer or the Silver Surfer's board), Thanos wielding ComicBook/TheInfinityGauntlet, or Odin's big brother, the Serpent. Ultron apparently did it too in Comicbook/AgeOfUltron, though we never see how and it all gets changed by time travel in the end anyway. Considering this was Cap's shield AFTER it was rebuilt in Comicbook/FearItself and further reinforced with magical Uru metal, this REALLY says something...but then again, it's ULTRON.
17* ''Comicbook/DoctorStrange'' is known for doing this on occasion, such as when he faced the demon Arioch, who had the power to [[ImaginationBasedSuperpower literally become as strong as he wished to be]]. Strange's solution? Just [[PowerParasite steal that ability from him]].
18** Another famous instance was when he actually died in battle, so his spirit merged with [[AbstractApotheosis Eternity]], overpowered [[TheGrimReaper Death herself]], returned to life, and won the fight.
19** [[EldritchAbomination Dormammu]] once tried to [[RetGone erase Strange from existence]]. He brought himself back.
20* In the ComicBook/BrightestDay Mera uses her hydrokinetic powers to pull the whole tide away from the shore. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by her sister Siren.
21* ''ComicBook/MarvelZombies'': [[spoiler:Galactus]] is eaten by the zombies and while this sounds impossible, [[PhysicalGod considering who this guy is,]] you have to remember [[ZergRush the kind of tactics the zombies use.]]
22* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':
23** Superman once famously lifted a book that had an infinite number of pages, and thus infinite mass. He also picked up a guy who weighted the same as "eternity".
24** In ''Comicbook/KryptonNoMore'', he and Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} fly way faster than light, even though the narrator notes that it should be impossible.
25** In ''Comicbook/WarWorld'' Clark is astonished when he sees the titular weapon satellite is bigger than a star. He can hardly believe something artificial could be so big.
26--->'''Superman:''' It's Warworld! I've spotted it — only a couple of light-years away! It's about to pass in front of that white dwarf star and... and... Great Rao — It's not possible! Nothing artificial could be that huge! Warworld didn't pass in front of the star — It passed behind it! And the dwarf star's overwhelming gravitational pull had absolutely no effect on it!
27** Later in that storyline Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} goes missing, and Superman is determined to find her. He pours on the speed... to the point he shatters the barriers of the reality. Again, he cannot believe it. The Spectre was even called into the fray because of the sheer impossibility of this feat.
28--->'''Superman:''' In sanity's name, what have I done? Supergirl couldn't have traveled this far — It's impossible!
29** Batman, of all people, points out 'Beyond the impossible' is kinda the Kryptonian's default setting. While talking to an injured Kal-El, Bruce refuses to admit the diagnosis that Kal won't recover. He bases his conclusion on this. Kal not only does the impossible, he makes it look easy. No way he is going to die of an injury this way. Of course, Bruce is proven right...
30* ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'': Red Lanterns die if they take their power rings off. However, in ''ComicBook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'' [[spoiler:Supergirl]] does something no one had ever done before: she took her Red Lantern Ring off and survived, even though it was supposed to be impossible.
31* ''ComicBook/ContestOfChampions2015'': The contestants are kept in crystalline prisons until their summoners have use of them. When Ares is put in one of these, he manages to break out, to everyone's shock. Of course, Ares is a full-on god.
32* Doctor Manhattan's origin story in ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' involves Jon Osterman, an ordinary human, getting disintegrated and then putting himself back together particle by particle just by sheer force of will, though it takes him months or years.
33* ''Comicbook/LaffALympics'': Shaggy's yodelling can attract several pigs including a piggy bank.

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