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11	->''"Go beyond the impossible and kick reason to the curb! That's how Team Gurren rolls!"''
12	-->-- '''Kamina''', ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann''
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16	"[[ThisCannotBe That's impossible!]]"
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19	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 (i.e., whatever the author laid down when constructing it) are somewhat... [[TheoryofNarrativeCausality looser]]. Someone who, for instance, gains the power [[{{Flight}} 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.
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21	In short, whenever someone "touches the untouchable" or "breaks the unbreakable"[[note]][[MemeticMutation Row, row, fight the power!]][[/note]], they are going Beyond the Impossible.
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23	This could be done by the IdiotHero, who doesn't know the rules. Thus, going beyond the impossible can be AchievementsInIgnorance. Just as easily, it could be a calculated endeavor by AwesomeByAnalysis trying to break the rules. [[Administrivia/TropesAreFlexible These are just examples, there could be others.]] Often times, one will cry out HowIsThatEvenPossible after seeing such a thing.
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25	If you're looking for the old definition, "a series tops itself over and over," go to SerialEscalation.
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27	This trope is about events, not the characters involved in them. Do not confuse with RuleOfCool (where the WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief is stretched because the example is cool), nor badass, which has a multitude of meanings.
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29	For someone who fails at something in an extreme way, see EpicFail. If someone scores a 12 out of 10 or a negative score or anything like that then you'll want BrokeTheRatingScale or FMinusMinus.
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31	Compare the various ScrewThisIndexIHaveTropes, which are more about breaking ''social'' rules than ''physical'' ones.
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33	A violation of InternalConsistency and will not exist in stories with NegativeContinuity because a story needs strong internal consistency and continuity 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.
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35	Named for one translation (of many) of one of Kamina's (many, many) catchphrases from ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann''; not named for anything that happens after [[Film/TheImpossible a disaster film set during the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami]].
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37	Any real-life examples would either be highly subjective or beyond comprehension, so limit all examples on this page and subpages to '''Administrivia/InUniverseExamplesOnly'''.
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40	!!Example Subpages:
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42	[[index]]
43	* BeyondTheImpossible/AnimeAndManga
44	* BeyondTheImpossible/ComicBooks
45	* BeyondTheImpossible/FanWorks
46	* [[BeyondTheImpossible/LiveActionFilms Films — Live-Action]]
47	* BeyondTheImpossible/{{Literature}}
48	* BeyondTheImpossible/LiveActionTV
49	* BeyondTheImpossible/TabletopGames
50	* BeyondTheImpossible/VideoGames
51	* BeyondTheImpossible/{{Webcomics}}
52	* BeyondTheImpossible/WesternAnimation
53	[[/index]]
54
55	!!Other Examples:
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57	[[foldercontrol]]
58
59	[[folder:Advertising]]
60	* The Dos Equis ads featuring Advertising/TheMostInterestingManInTheWorld lists many impossible accomplishments. This trope is the whole point of the character.
61	** He gave a pep talk so inspiring both teams won.
62	** He tells us that he can slam a revolving door.
63	** He can also speak French in Russian.
64	** He's a LoverNotAFighter, [[OxymoronicBeing but he's also a fighter]], so don't get any ideas.
65	** He once parallel parked a train.
66	** He is forbidden from walking through cemeteries, [[NoodleIncident because of that one time where he raised the dead.]]
67	** His sense of taste is so refined that to him, nothing TastesLikeChicken; not even chicken.
68	[[/folder]]
69
70	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
71	* ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2005/04/01 ate a pizza]] ''before'' it arrived. He has "friends high up in the delivery business".
72	* ''ComicStrip/{{Foxtrot}}'',
73	** This is a universe grounded in real-life physics, has the Humbler, a Hummer BlandNameProduct that is implied to '''have a bigger gravitational mass than Earth'''.
74	** Jason the omninerd wants to go back in time by exceeding the speed of light. How? [[DrivesLikeCrazy By asking his brother Peter, of course.]]
75	--->'''Jason:''' I've seen how you drive on the freeway.\
76	'''Peter:''' You're talking ''nine'' digit numbers. I've only flirted with ''four''.
77	** In another comic, Jason records Peter eating a plate of spaghetti and catches it in a few frames, or about ''one thirteenth of a second'' and Peter's '''disappointed''' by it.
78	** In one strip has Roger [[http://www.foxtrot.com/2012/07/0701/backlit/ managing to have fire erupt]] underneath a grill during his usual attempts at grilling due to putting the charcoal on upside down. Jason even lampshaded this.
79	--->''(Roger attempts to light the grill, only for it to barely smoke when he lights it)'' \
80	'''Roger:''' Dang it... ''(picks up charcoal, which is burning on the bottom)'' I put the stupid charcoal in upside down.\
81	'''Jason:''' ''(observing the flames burning through the bottom of the grill)'' For anyone else, I'd declare this impossible.
82	* ''ComicStrip/BeetleBailey'':
83	** If the General has a headache and Sergeant Snorkel '''ORDERS''' you to fire a cannon quietly, then you ''fire'' it quietly.
84	** Beetle is slower than everyone else even when parachuting down from a plane.
85	** Lt. Fuzz is so reluctant to jump to parachute down that he stays hanging on a cloud.
86	** On one occasion, Beetle and Sarge have followed a road that goes nowhere and are in fact standing on air a little beyond a cliff.
87	** Among the geographical features that were at one time featured regularly, there's a particular river that's so fickle and constantly changing its course that the soldiers have to make an effort to avoid it when setting up their tent in one strip. They think they're safe when they reach higher ground, but the river follows them anyway because it doesn't know water can't run uphill.
88	** Killer peeks through a knothole at some women at a swimming pool. Next, people are wondering how he managed to get his head stuck on the other side of the hole, which is just the size of his neck (his neck being drawn as very thin as usually). When someone says it's impossible, Beetle says that "''he's'' impossible."
89	* ComicStrip/BigNate: Nate getting [[https://www.gocomics.com/bignate/2004/07/04 detention]] during summer vacation! [[https://www.gocomics.com/bignate/2006/06/24 Twice]]!
90	* A ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' comic strip has Snoopy about to jump into a pool with Lucy who promptly tells him to stop, and he changes direction midair. Not even ''he'' knows how he did that.
91	[[/folder]]
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93	[[folder:Films — Animation]]
94	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'' states Rapunzel's power comes from her hair, and if it's cut then her power will be gone forever. This is even demonstrated when the BigBad cuts one lock and it reverts to normal hair. ThePowerOfLove enables her to break that rule, if only once.
95	* In ''WesternAnimation/OverTheHedge'', RJ gives Hammy, a hyperactive squirrel, an energy drink in a last-ditch attempt to trap the crazed housewife and exterminator inside the laser-defense system they set up in the housewife's yard. Hammy becomes hyperactive and activates the system...and casually walks past the laser beams as they slowly shoot across the yard. That's right, Hammy just ''went faster than the speed of light''.
96	* In ''WesternAnimation/Madagascar3EuropesMostWanted'', Vitaly the tiger was renowned for jumping through increasingly smaller hoops. In his prime, he was even able to jump through a simple ring without any difficulty. During the climax, [[spoiler: he's able to jump in-and-out of a keyhole while carrying Marty and putting his clown wig on him all within a blink of an eye]].
97	-->'''Marty''': "I am impressed!"
98	* In Disney's ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood1973'', there's a subtle one that's not even noticed in-universe, but is nevertheless impossible. Prince John ties the snake Sir Hiss into a knot around a pole -- while holding him with both hands and without ever letting go with either. It happens too fast for the viewer to see the details.
99	* In ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut'', when Kenny goes to Hell, there's a sign that says Hell has 900 billion people in it. Not that many people have even existed. Maybe they were counting animals and/or aliens? Even ignoring this, the show said that Mormonism was the right religion. Mormons actually believe that only the truly wicked go to Hell and not because they weren't Mormon. Even if ''that'' wasn't the case, "[[Recap/SouthParkS7E12AllAboutMormons All About the Mormons]]" called Mormonism dumb over and over and said it was a ScamReligion. Hell having that many people is absolutely incomprehensible from any perspective.
100	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'', Ned says that Springfield borders Ohio, Nevada, Maine, and Kentucky, a [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield geographical impossibility.]]
101	* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity'': The door's shut down, you're stuck on the human side with no children at all to make scream... Mike and Sulley scare an entire squad of police officers, creating such an epic scare that the door is blown off its hinges, and the scream canisters suffer from ExplosiveOverclocking as they all are filled far beyond capacity.
102	* At the climax of ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'', Kuzco and Pacha are racing against Yzma and Kronk back to the palace. The heroes have a clear lead over the villains, who fall down a ravine after getting hit by a storm cloud. But when Kuzco and Pacha make it to Yzma's lab, ''somehow'', she and Kronk made it there first, despite the setbacks against them. This should be impossible, and it is, as no proper explanation is given besides plot and joke reasons.
103	-->'''Kronk''': Well, you got me. (pulls down a map of the chase) By all accounts it doesn't make sense.
104	[[/folder]]
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106	[[folder:Jokes]]
107	* Some [[YourMom Yo Mama]] jokes have a punchline where the subject is fat/ugly/stupid enough to violate real life logic. For example:
108	-->"Yo momma is so fat, she jumped in the air and got stuck!"\
109	"Yo momma is so ugly, when she looks in the mirror, her reflection ducks!"
110	* The ''Website/ChuckNorrisFacts'' are built around Chuck doing things that are impossible, like dividing by zero, or [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus expecting the Spanish Inquisition]], or going back in time to [[{{squick}} father himself]], or counting to infinity twice in the time it took him to build the log cabin he was born in right after causing the big bang with a roundhouse kick... Oh and God owes him five bucks.
111	[[/folder]]
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113	[[folder:Manhwa]]
114	* ''Manhwa/WitchHunter'': Like Tasha's Song of Moirae, Ryuhwan can access a powerful, albeit weaker, form by allowing a large amount of mana to enter his body. ''Unlike'' Tasha's though, he can enter this state without being driven insane but can only use it in a limited amount of time before his body [[HeroicRROD rebounds from the strain.]]
115	[[/folder]]
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117	[[folder:Music]]
118	* The first movement of Music/LudwigVanBeethoven's ''Pathetique Sonata'' has ''128th-note'' chromatic glissandos. The third movement of ''Moonlight Sonata'' has a "Presto Agitato" (read: damn fast) tempo and 16th-note arpeggios, nearly impossible to play by human hands. Some pieces composed after he went deaf are literally unplayable.
119	** In the same vein, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6utk2nFjpXA Circus Galop]]" by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc-Andr%C3%A9_Hamelin Marc-André Hamelin]], which is playable if you can find two people whose thumb-and-pinky stretch is 13 or 14 inches. In fairness, Hamelin wrote the thing for self-playing piano, and it is not ''meant'' to be performed by wetware.
120	** Near the end of the middle section in Modest Mussorgsky's "The Hut of Baba Yaga", the left-hand pattern changes from 16th-note triplets to what are notated as ''64th-note'' tremolos. It is assumed that these should merely be played as fast as possible.
121	* Music/ShawnLane's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhTHxkIllvU guitar playing]] and Music/{{Buckethead}} figuring out how to play a song that Shawn wrote to specifically NOT be playable. Shawn Lane made a recording by playing one note at a time on a guitar and then stitching them together impossibly fast, at impossibly wide intervals, that he was sure no human could play. Buckethead, [[AchievementsInIgnorance thinking it was a legit recording]], then proceeded to figure out how to play it for real and IN REAL TIME.
122	* Tim Miller falls into a similar category for different reasons. He doesn't often play impossibly fast, he just plays lines that come from a system he developed and thus are harmonically near-impossible to conceive of for guitarists who aren't him. It does indeed hit the ear incredibly strangely. [[note]]Shawn Lane notably is still the fastest guitarist in terms of notes per second played in a controlled fashion. Some guitarists can play more notes per second, but they can't maintain rhythm while doing it. Theoretically speaking, some of his work is impossible to play until anyone else develops the same level of controlled speed. [[/note]]
123	* Robert Schumann's Piano Sonata No. 2 in G minor infamously tells the pianist to play faster in the coda of the first movement, whose base tempo is already "so rasch wie möglich" (as fast as possible).
124	* Subverted by the opening chord to Music/TheBeatles' song "A Hard Day's Night." It took more than 40 years for audio analysis technology to reproduce it because of the key discovery that some of the sound was not made by a guitar.
125	* Conlon Nancarrow composed music involving complex mathematical ratios and impossibly fast tempos specifically designed to be unplayable by humans. (For instance, one piece has two different simultaneous tempos in the ratio ''e'' : π.) He realized them by means of custom-made player piano rolls.
126	[[/folder]]
127
128	[[folder:Podcasts]]
129	* It's impossible for two objects to occupy the same physical space simultaneously. In ''Podcast/TheAdventureZoneBalance'', [[spoiler:the [[BigBad Hunger]] is hundreds if not thousands of ''planar systems'' occupying the same space simultaneously, creating a ludicrously massive and powerful EldritchAbomination held together by the stolen power of the tool used to create reality. When the bonds that hold it together are cut, its component parts have to be manually put back into place by ThePowersThatBe, who note that it'll probably take centuries to get everything right.]]
130	[[/folder]]
131
132	[[folder:Puppet Shows]]
133	* ''Series/TheMuppetShow'': In one ''Pigs in Space'' sketch, the artificial gravity is turned off, and Miss Piggy is ''still'' too heavy to float.
134	[[/folder]]
135
136	[[folder:Roleplay]]
137	* ''Roleplay/TheDigimonEpicsDevilsAscent'' has Sir Percival/Magnamon, The Knight of Miracles. His shtick is doing the impossible.
138	* ''RolePlay/{{Planeocracy}}'': ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam The Big Zam's]]'' I-Field neutralizes the attacks of [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Lyle]] and [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration Katina]]... until Cherudim went Trans-AM and Lyle fired a concentrated sniper rifle/rifle bit shot at the field's generator. Now, keep in mind the I-Field neutralizes beams. It punched through.
139	* ''Roleplay/ANewAge'': The Sky Worm. The largest size a creature can be in D&D is Colossal. The Sky Worm was as large as ''four colossal creatures in a line.''
140	* ''Roleplay/BleachBlazingSouls'': Heroism, the [[RankScalesWithAsskicking King of Hollows]], ripped right through a shield made out of [[MadeOfIndestructium Sekiseki-stone]] and the connected barrier it created.
141	* ''Roleplay/PolyhistorAcademy'': one of the background characters, Charlemagne(no, not that one) beat and surpassed the literal embodiment of perfection, something, by definition, was impossible.
142	[[/folder]]
143
144	[[folder:Theatre]]
145	* In Creator/EugeneIonesco's play ''The Lesson'', The Student nonchalantly mentions having memorized the answers to an infinite amount of multiplication questions, [[ItRunsOnNonsensoleum to explain how she can multiply ten-digit numbers when she doesn't know how to count past 17]].
146	[[/folder]]
147
148	[[folder:Toys]]
149	* At one point in the ''ComicBook/{{Bionicle}}'' comics and books, Jaller sets Mantax [[ManOnFire ablaze]] ''[[WaterIsAir on the ocean floor]]''. ElementalRockPaperScissors is important in the series, so it's {{Hand Wave}}d with the [[AWizardDidIt Wizard Did It]] rule; he has power over fire, and if he wants fire underwater, ''he can do that'' (not easily, but still...). Further [[JustifiedTrope justified]] by Greg on an online Q&A when he pointed out that it's [[RealityIsUnrealistic possible to have fire underwater.]] It just takes either certain chemicals or a lot of energy.
150	* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'': The Alternity are overpowered enough to give VisualNovel/{{Demonbane}} a run for their money, with weapons that can shoot you before you were born, weapons that can warp reality, and weapons than can shoot you in the past, present, future and other dimensions ''at the same time''. Megatron's Tesseractal Swords are blades of infinite length. "Physical space is not an obstruction." They also have the ability to perceive reality on a higher-dimensional scale and can detect any changes in space-time immediately when they occur to reverse the damage caused by them.
151	[[/folder]]
152
153	[[folder:Visual Novels]]
154	* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight''
155	** The guy who would become [[spoiler: Servant Assassin created Tsubame Gaeshi,]] a sword technique that twists dimensions so that he can strike from three directions at the same time. He did this by... swinging his sword. A lot. And kept doing it with utter determination until '''reality essentially gave up''' and granted him what he wanted, [[spoiler: partial access to "[[AnotherDimension multi-dimension refraction phenomenon]]", known also as the '''Second Magic''']]. In his own words, he simply had nothing else to do. Saber's reaction to this story makes it very clear that this is as insane in-universe as it sounds like in real life.
156	** Heracles has three. he's been trapped by [[spoiler: Enkidu, Gilgamesh]]'s chain used to ensnare divine opponents; the more divine the foe, the stronger the chains hold. Since Heracles is a demigod in good standing with the gods (an A-ranked divinity), the chains are impossible to break. When [[spoiler:Ilya is mortally wounded]] he breaks them ([[ShownTheirWork then again, he already broke a chain that not even the gods could break in the myths, so it's nothing new for him]]). Secondly, he [[spoiler:keeps himself manifested with sheer willpower past his own death, long enough for the blinded, dying Ilya to feel him standing there and die peacefully]]. Third... Remember Assassin's impossible technique? In his life, Herakles ''topped it'': when used with an axe-sword, Herakles' Nine Lives is ''nine attacks from nine directions at the same time'', with all the power and speed granted by Herakles' [[SuperStrength unmatched strength]], and when used with bow and arrow it's ''[[MoreDakka one hundred arrow shots]]'' (thankfully, as Berserker he can't do this anymore).
157	** Gilgamesh drinks from the holy grail, which is the Nasuverse, ''isn't even a cup so much as it is a formless eldritch abomination which is all the world's evil made manifest.'' His reaction? "All the world's evil? It'll take at least three times as much to harm me."
158	** At the end of the ''Fate'' route, where Shirou and Saber were in love, Saber is returned to the moment she was summoned, which is just a few minutes before her death. [[spoiler:She wants to know if she will ever see Shirou again. Merlin says that she will not; the afterlife simply doesn't work that way. However, Merlin says that if she is able to [[IWillWaitForYou wait for Shirou forever]], and [[IWillFindYou Shirou is able to seek her forever]], despite both of them knowing it is impossible, then ''maybe'' there is a chance. After Shirou's eventual death, they are indeed reunited in Avalon. ]]
159	--->...If you want to meet again, two miracles must occur; One must wait continuously, one must pursue endlessly...\
160	They must realise that it is impossible to succeed, yet at the same time be capable of enduring patiently.
161	* ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'' [=EP6=]. Lambda says that [[spoiler: Bern was originally a piece in a game that the Game Master made {{Unwinnable}}. (Lambda did not explicitly say whether the game was of the UnintentionallyUnwinnable or the UnwinnableByDesign variety.) The Game Master then abandoned Bern as a piece and left her to fend for herself. Bern eventually ended up winning the game anyway]and gained the title of Witch of Miracles. The mentioned game [[EpilepticTrees may or may not have been Higurashi.]] While this does explain her cruelty, it's no excuse for it.]]
162	[[/folder]]
163
164	[[folder:Web Animation]]
165	* ''WebAnimation/BattleForDreamIsland'':
166	** There is a video called "Vote Yoylecake" where Bubble tries to kill Blocky. [[RuleOfFunny She successfully pops him.]]
167	** In BFB 20, Blocky makes fun of the sun, somehow turning it into an ice cube.
168	* Charlotte of ''WebAnimation/MakingFiends'' can Hold her breath For 9 Hours...
169	* ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'':
170	** Tex [[OnceKilledAManWithANoodleImplement ripped Jimmy's skull out of his head and beat him to death with it.]] [[spoiler: Though Season 14 reveals that this trope was only invoked and the memory is fabricated. Tex wasn't the reason Jimmy died. [[GrandTheftMe Church]] was though.]]
171	--->'''Tucker:''' How do you beat someone to death with their own skull? [[HowIsThatEvenPossible That doesn't sound physically possible.]]\
172	'''Church:''' That's exactly what Jimmy kept screaming. \
173	'''Jimmy:''' [[DescriptionCut This doesn't seem physically possible!]]
174	** In Season 3, Lopez is [[LosingYourHead reduced to a head]]... and yet manages to build a robot army for O'Malley. And also operate a machine gun turret!
175	--->'''Sarge''': How was he pullin' the triggers?\
176	'''Simmons''': [[RuleOfFunny He's very determined.]]
177	** Discussed in ''[[WebAnimation/RedVsBlueTheRecollection Revelation]]'' episode 19,
178	--->'''Church:''' Heeyy. Is it possible for [[spoiler:a memory fragment out of an artificial intelligence program enclosed inside a robotic body]] to piss its pants? Because I'm pretty sure I just did that.
179	** ''[[WebAnimation/RedVsBlueTheRecollection Relocation]] Part 3'': Grif's analysis of his sister surviving being under ice for three hours and coming up both totally fine ''and'' pregnant.
180	* ''WebAnimation/IfTheEmperorHadATextToSpeechDevice'': Ultramarines manage to capture Magnus. To elaborate: a hundred or so {{Super Soldier}}s are sent to ''literal hell'' where [[EverythingTryingToKillYou everything is trying to kill them]] to kidnap the second most powerful psyker in the world (the first is a PhysicalGod), an omniscient being capable of burning them or destroying their minds with a mere thought, and they go with their DeflectorShields off, meaning that there are daemons invading their ship all the time. And they don't kill Magnus. They ''bring him back alive''. The Emperor deliberately sent them on an ImpossibleTask thinking they would fail so the rest of the chapter would stop acting so insufferably smug.
181	* Sometimes, this trope happens in ''WebAnimation/AnimatorVsAnimation''.
182	** Lampshaded with Ethan in ''Animation VS Pokémon'' when he challenges SC to a Pokémon battle, telling him that they must take the fight to a place where the normal rules don't apply.
183	** Meta example: in the ''Animation VS Minecraft'' shorts, fans are quick to point out when the rules of Minecraft are broken, even if it doesn't really matter or otherwise wouldn't be noticed.
184	** Averted in "Roller Coaster", where at the end, the minecarts suddenly obey Minecraft physics perfectly, dropping off the edge of a ramp instead of flying.
185	** "Note Block Battle" has ''two'' examples, both played for laughs. First, at the beginning, Blue makes a Potion of Musicality using a note block, which does not exist in Minecraft. And at the end, Green uses a charged trident to turn a note block into an electric guitar and starts jamming on it.
186	* ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'' features clashes between fictional characters, some of which are ridiculously strong, but there are a few fights where the combatants are so ludicrously powerful that the show's M.O. of calculating their best feats simply isn't possible.
187	** The fight between Franchise/TheFlash (Wally West) and [[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics the Archie Comics version of Sonic]] has two opponents who take speed to truly reality-breaking levels, including but not limited to: Wally causing the concept of Death itself to die and outrunning the Speed Force (y'know, the source of his powers), and Sonic moving during frozen time through nothing BUT raw speed and scooping water into a ball and throwing it as if it were a solid chunk of matter before the physics of displacement could take effect. [[spoiler:Wally's victory over the blue blur, in spite of the latter's [[StoryBreakerPower ridiculous abilities]] including ''literal'' PlotArmor is treated as an achievement to such]], as noted by Wiz in the analysis:
188	--> '''Wiz''': Personally, I was expecting the opposite result. Against almost anybody else, [[spoiler:Archie's version of Sonic]] is practically unbeatable. But across a greater percentage of scenarios, [[spoiler:Wally]] just happens to be the exception.
189	** The result of [[Webcomic/OnePunchMan Saitama]] VS Franchise/{{Popeye}} boils down to this: [[spoiler:Although Saitama is ridiculously, ''ludicrously'' strong, his power boils down to applying some arbitrary, but measurable, amount of force with his punches (which have been stated even by Saitama himself to not be truly infinitely strong). Meanwhile, Popeye's strength is such that the laws of physics, logic, and reality simply do not apply to him: there's no equation that can calculate the TNT equivalent (or whatever unit of measurement you want to use) of feats such as hitting a shark so hard it turns into several small fish, BreakingTheFourthWall and punching out the cartoon's animator in real life, or surviving God Himself turning off the universe.]]
190	** In "Hercules VS Sun Wukong", both deities had feats that could be interpreted as them bearing the weight of the entire infinite universe on their shoulders. Because of this, their strength was deemed impossible to calculate and they were treated as equal in this category.
191	** In "Trunks VS Silver", Silver the Hedgehog was found to be able to keep up with the aforementioned Archie Sonic, having shown similar feats of incalculably fast speed. [[spoiler:This was one factor in his victory over Trunks, as while he also has ludicrous SuperSpeed, it's still shown to have a theoretical upper limit; ''Dragon Ball'' characters' feats of [[MoveInTheFrozenTime moving in stopped time]] are attributed to these abilities explicitly being unable to affect beings with stronger Ki than the user, rather than pure, reality-breaking speed like in Archie Sonic comics.]]
192	* In ''WebAnimation/BattlefieldFriends'', while there are some instances of RuleOfFunny such as people screaming while being shot at and acting as if the game was real, they're still normal people playing the game and still play by the game's rules... and then there's [[ColonelBadass Colonel]], a seriously obsessed ''VideoGame/{{Battlefield}}'' player who has played the game for god knows how long and is good at everything. So good in fact, he blatantly breaks several game mechanics. Some of these actions include...
193	** Surviving out of bounds of a map and [[BigDamnHeroes bringing Engineer and Recon back to safety]], even though staying out of bounds for 10 seconds would kill them instantly.
194	** Unlocking a bipod for his '''knife''', and then a bipod ''for'' his bipod.
195	** Capturing the enemy base even though that's the only location that cannot be captured in Conquest.
196	** Killing the [[ItMakesSenseInContext Megalodon shark]].
197	** Killing the enemy commander, who isn't even on the map.
198	** Using the Invincibility Star from ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' in ''Battlefield 4''.
199	** Headshotting enemy players across different maps.
200	** Pulling a motorcycle out of a ammo box.
201	** And the most absurd of them all, playing ''VideoGame/Battlefield4'' and ''VideoGame/BattlefieldHardline'' '''''at the same time'''''!
202	[[/folder]]
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204	[[folder:Web Original]]
205	* ''Literature/TheImpossibleMan'''s inexplicable power has no respect for physical rules.
206	* ''Website/SCPFoundation'':
207	** SCP-682's CompleteImmortality frequently goes beyond just an AdaptiveAbility and breaks the laws of reality to keep it alive. In one of the Foundation's attempts to terminate it, they reduced it to 1% of its body by changing the fundamental natural constants. It recovered and even seemed to ''enjoy it''. Another time, they used a pair of bookends which cause the story contained between them to manifest in reality to create a creature to fight SCP-682 called "The Generally Nice, Friendly Thing That Can And Will Kill SCP-682 Permanently if it So Much As Spots That Damn Lizard". [[NoSell SCP-682 killed it]].
208	** SCP-523's containment room is to be destroyed in the event of [[ApocalypseHow an XK-class]] ''end-of-the-world'' scenario. Why? Because ''it could make things worse''.
209	* ''Website/NotAlwaysRight'': A customer in a bookstore asked for assistance. All they knew about the book they wanted was that "[[http://notalwaysright.com/employee-of-the-year/821 It had a nondescript cover.]]" ''The employee found it for them anyway!''
210	* [[http://andersson.elfwood.com/ A series of pics (Several NSFW)]] about a [[QuirkyBard bard]] who seems to be unable [[InterspeciesRomance to keep his pants up]] take it to the illogical extreme in one pic. That the bard has left a bunch of HalfHumanHybrid offspring isn't this. The fact that one of his baby-mamas is a rock [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eDzxEr_gjpg/UAc9BXO-MBI/AAAAAAAAAMY/cSSnCNUkR54/s1600/Rock-Bard-Axe.jpg definitely is.]]
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214	* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4QbgpcDIjw&t=35s Keeping a Secret in Ace Attorney]]'' by WebAnimation/DebastianSebeste has Trucy Wright [[NoSell successfully able to hid that she broke a vase]] from [[LivingLieDetector Apollo]] and [[TheEmpath Athena]] by speaking through her ventriloquist dummy Mr. Hat. They especially consider by the two lawyers to be impossible as Mr. Hat should still be speaking with Trucy's voice.
215	* LetsPlay/{{Kurtjmac}}:
216	** Walking to the Far Lands, without mods or assistance
217	** Any Mod/Admin who uses Mcbans. Now Look up Notch. The List is longer than Minecraft chat can display.
218	* ''WebVideo/HardlyWorking''. [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/5571563/hardly-working-twitters-down Tweeting about Twitter being down]]. This causes a double take, a 'that's impossi-!' and an EarthShatteringKaboom. It's ambigious whether the exclaimation was Twitter being down or tweeting about it.
219	* ''WebVideo/HeroHouse'' gives us Ant-man's camping skills. He can provide electricity through simple twigs and leaves. Not to mention a hot tub.
220	* ''WebVideo/BadCallTV,'': In one episode [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN4vN0unPmI an internet porn addict]] (who is suing Apple for not selling their computers in Safe Mode, thereby [[InsaneTrollLogic enabling his porn addiction]]) somehow manages to look at porn on a 1st generation iPod and even ''an Apple II,'' once all of his other Apple devices have been confiscated. For context, neither of those devices is physically capable of displaying internet porn. Apple [=IIs=] predate widespread use of the internet and lack the hardware to display detailed images, much less video, while the original iPod could only hold audio files.
221	* One of ''Creator/TwoSetViolin'''s running jokes is a TheGhost named [[ParodySue Ling Ling]] who regularly practices the violin ''40 hours a day'', among other things.
222	* In ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u6EjPqESB4 Rolling a NATURAL 1 in Dungeons and Dragons]]'', the player manages to roll a ''zero'' on a twenty-sided die.
223	* PlayedForLaughs by ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'' who casually surfs the web, watches Website/YouTube videos, and plays modern-day PC games... ''on a Platform/{{Commodore 64}}''.
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